Chemical Process Engineer

working in an EPC company as a chemical process engineer

• Control system inspection.
• Process documents check and review.
• Economic and technical feasibility studies in areas related to bitumen processing industry.
• Blown Bitumen plant design and equipment test.
• 10” pipeline implementation supervision.
• Material and equipment supply supervision.
• Bitumen storage tanks design.
• Provide basic information regarding the plant design.
• Process documents check and control.
• Provide initial information for plant design.
• Collaboration with Consultant Company regarding plant design.
• Prepare contract documents and evaluate tenders for the process aspects of industrial construction
• Conduct research into the development or improvement of chemical engineering processes, reactions and materials
• Collaborated within a multi-disciplinary Bioscience team.
• Established an experimental set up for testing kinetic model for Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol fermentation pathway.
• Tested possibilities of growth for a unique type of microorganisms during ABE fermentation.
• Improved microorganism growth rate having optimised growth medium operation conditions.
• Produced design and mathematical calculations.
• Analysed reaction equipment and cracking furnace conditions.
• Pivotal member of Research and Development team; prepared and reviewed process description documents for olefin plant.
• Maintained knowledge of designs for olefin cracking furnace based on Technip and Linde license.
• Maintained knowledge of different types of industrial pumps
• Prepared analytical reports and presentations to report finding and results.
• Gathered, analysed and delineated research data into understandable terms and applicable formats.
• Monitored compliance with global industry standards, including, American Petroleum Institute (API) and Iranian Petroleum Standards (IPS).

Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
M. Sc. in Process Systems Engineering, University of Surrey, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Guildford, United Kingdom

Project Title: “Experimental Work towards the Improvement of a Kinetic Model for Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Pathway”
Advisor: Professor Harvey Arellano-Garcia

Sep 2008 - June 2013
B. Sc. in Chemical Process Engineering, Azad University of Tehran, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Tehran, Iran

Project Title: “The differences between Technip Co. and Linde Co. in olefin process for their cracking furnace”

Advisor: Dr. Homayoun Hassani Bidarouni

July 2013 – Sep 2013 Falat-Ghareh Industrial Complex
PFD and P&ID

Nov 2012 – Jan 2013 Falat-Ghareh Industrial Complex
Simulation of process units with hysys software

MEMBERSHIPS:
Associate member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (AMIChemE).

PUBLICATIONS:
Asal Rahimsalehi, Claudio Avignone-Rossa, Harvey Arellano-Garcia, Experimental Work Towards the Improvement of a Kinetic Model for Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Pathway, Proceeding of the 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-ESCAPE 27, Barcelona, Spain, October 1st – 5th