YOGENDRA KUMAR

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Farmington Hills, MI 48335

248-***-****(Home), 313-***-****(Cell)

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QUALIFICATIONS:

A highly conscientious, detailed minded, research oriented and computer proficient Chemical Engineering Professional who through his hard work and result oriented approach has built an excellent reputation for quality and in-depth knowledge in Process Engineering, Plant design, Production, Plant Operation, Project Management, Plant Safety, Chemical Analysis, Quality Control and Environmental Compliance related to Organic Chemicals, Ethanol Manufacturing, Crude Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Plants. Have sound experience and in-depth knowledge in process engineering & operation of industrial and wastewater treatment plants, have sound experience in Industrial Pretreatment Program, Pollution Prevention (P2) Programs, Brownfield development program, Septage Waste Programs, inspection and assessment of industrial, commercial and hazardous waste facilities, inspection and regulatory compliance of underground storage tanks, management of hazardous waste programs, NPDES permitting, storm water permitting for MS4, industrial and construction sites, SPC plan, ICP plan, regulatory compliance of contaminated sites, management of municipal and hazardous waste landfills, CERCLA and SARA regulations, waste recycling programs and compliance related issues of federal, state and local government regulations to protect the environment. Have sound experience Benzene NESHAP, LDAR programs, air emission calculations, title V permit compliance, NESHAPS and MACT Compliance. Experienced in MAERS, TRI, SARA Title II compliance reports, Title V permit negotiations with environmental agencies, and DOT regulations. Have sound experience in OSHA Regulation, incident Investigation, OSHA logs, Behavior Based Safety(BBS), Safety Audits, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Management of Change (MOC) programs.

EXPERIENCE:

07/2007- Present : Refinery Engineer, Marathon Petroleum

Company, Detroit, Michigan

• Conducted performance monitoring of refining process units through daily material and energy balance with the help of unit performance monitors. Prepared daily, weekly and monthly report for unit performance.

• Managed Title V permit, Benzene NESHAP and MACT compliance.

• Negotiated Title V permit with Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and EPA.

• Prepared MAERS, TRI, SARA Title II compliance report for submitting to environmental agencies

• Supervised hazardous waste program, and waste recycling program. Have sound experience in CERCLA and SARA regulation.

• Managed storm water program and NPDES permit

• Managed wastewater treatment plant operation

• Conducted environmental audits and supervised environmental training program.

• Supervised Stack testing to comply with the Title V permit requirements

• Prepared and submitted semiannual and annual compliance certification report to MDEQ and EPA required by the Title V permit.

• Prepared annual budget for energy and raw material consumption and capital projects and presented to the management for approval.

• Developed and implementing capital projects ($4million).

• Conducting plant troubleshooting made engineering calculation for the existing equipments and processes and new projects.

• Provided support to maintenance and operation departments on technical issues. Lead area teams and conducted HAZOP studies for the new projects and also for existing processes.

• Conducted process calculations for sizing of process equipments such as heat exchangers, reboilers, distillation columns, absorption columns, safety valves, relief valves, rupture discs pumps, blowers, piping, cooling towers. Prepared specification sheets for process equipments and instruments.

• Reviewed and updated PFD’s $ P&ID’s for existing processes and new projects

• Evaluated process equipment s such as distillation columns, absorption columns, heaters, heat exchangers, reboilers.

• Analyzed process data for process improvements and cost reduction.

• Lead energy reduction programs and conducted monitoring of overall refinery daily energy consumption.

• Coordinated with contractors and negotiating project contracts.

• Prepared operation manual, safety manual, and operator training manual.

• Provided training support to operation and maintenance.

• Have sound experience in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access.

• Presenting technical papers in conferences and also presented monthly, quarterly, and yearly progress reports and technical reports to local management.

• Have sound experience in; Process Safety Management (PSM), Management of Change (MOC) and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA).

• Managed BBS program, OSHA audits, safety training, OSHA logs and day to day safety inspection.

• Responsible for incident investigations, JSA, emergency response and safety training.

6/2005 – 07/2007 : Environmental Engineer, DTE Energy Services,

River Rouge, Michigan

• Managed all the permitting activities related to Title V air permit, wastewater discharge permit, hazardous waste permit and NPDES permit.

• Coordinated with City of Detroit, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Environmental Protection Agency on all aspect of permitting, inspection and environmental issues.

• Conducted air testing of stacks to comply with the permit requirements, submitted permit application to agencies for renewal.

• Prepared and submitted semiannual and annual compliance certification reports to environmental agencies (MDEQ & EPA) required by Title V permit. Participated in permit negotiations with environmental agencies (state and EPA).

• Prepared MAERS, TRI and SARA title II compliance reports and wastewater compliance reports for submitting to agencies.

• Managed Benzene NESHAP and LDAR programs.

• Implemented MACT compliance program. Developed an environmental team at DTE for tracking the environmental performance of the plant.

• Participated in environmental audits conducted by agencies, DTE, and implemented the corrective measures.

• Coordinated with environmental contractors and environmental consultants regarding environmental projects.

• Presented environmental papers in conferences and company meetings.

• Implemented waste recycling programs and managed hazardous waste and universal waste programs. At DTE I also developed, SPC and ICP plans for the complex.

• Managed and successfully completed environmental projects ($15million).

• Experienced in Coke Oven Batteries environmental regulation, environmental compliance, and permitting issues. At DTE Energy participated in title V permit negotiation with state for increasing the plant capacity from 1.3 million tons of dry coal charged to 1.36 million tons of dry coal charged.

• Managed BBS program, OSHA audits, safety training, OSHA logs and day to day safety inspection.

• Responsible for incident investigations, JSA , emergency response and safety training.

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1/94 - 6/2005: Sr. Asst. Chemical Engineer Industrial Waste Control

Division (IWC), DWSD, City of Detroit, MI

• Conducted assessment, inspection and enforcement of industrial and commercial facilities and hazardous waste facilities.

• Issued Industrial waste water discharge permit to industrial and commercial facilities, negotiated wastewater discharge permit with industries.

• Issued notice of violation to industries for wastewater pollutant exceedances.

• Conducted research to develop and implement various pollution prevention programs for FOG reduction, silver recovery from wastewater, commercial carwash wastewater, salvage yard runoffs, storm water, and wastewater from MP&M facilities.

• Developed environmental fact sheets on Formalin, Antifreeze, Radiator Shops, Salvage Yard, Solvents, Household Cleaners, and PCB & Mercury.

• Reviewed various regulatory programs proposed and promulgated by EPA and prepared a monthly report on the status of these regulations for the Industrial waste Control Division staff. The programs that I have reviewed were Metal Products & Machinery (MP&M), Centralized Waste Treatment, Industrial Laundries, Iron and Steel Manufacturing, Landfills. Pretreatment streamlining, Pulp & Paper and Coal mining.

• Assisted the DWSD-IWC management in the MDEQ/EPA Strategic Goals Program (SGP) for the metal finishing industries and MDEQ Metal Finisher Pollution Prevention Initiative.

• Represented DWSD-IWC management in the monthly meetings of the Detroit River RAP Pollution Prevention Action Team.

• Coordinated with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) on issues related to Industrial Pretreatment Program and various other programs targeted to reduce mercury PCB’s, and other hazardous pollutants in the waste water.

• In Coordination with DWSD and MDEQ developed waste recycling program for industrial and commercial facilities. Participated in environmental committee of MDEQ as DWSD representative for the development of Local wastewater discharge limits for industrial discharges to DWSD wastewater plant (POTW).

3/1993-12/1993: Process Engineer, Spartan Metal Finishing Company,

Detroit, MI

• Evaluated the wastewater plant and metal finishing operations for expanding the capacity of the plant.

• Designed a wastewater treatment plant for treating the chrome waste from the plant

• Assisted operation and maintenance in troubleshooting of the wastewater and metal finishing problems and training of operators and maintenance personnel.

• Conducted all the environmental assignments related to waste water discharge permit compliance, wastewater sampling, coordinated with City County and State government on environmental issues.

• Managed the hazardous waste program and compliance related issues with state government.

1992-1993: Manager (Process Engineering & Environmental) PT Intan Vijaya Chemical Industries, Jakarta, Indonesia

• Conducted; process engineering, design, project management, startup and commissioning of grass root ethanol plants.

• Have in-depth knowledge of all aspects of ethanol manufacturing & regulatory compliance. Have successfully completed two (2) ethanol projects. The ethanol production capacities for both projects were 20 million gallons per year each and the raw material for ethanol production was sugar cane molasses.

• Experienced in independently working on the ethanol projects.

• Experienced in independently dealing with consultants contractors on all issues of the ethanol project management.

• Have sound experience in fermentation, distillation and yeast propagation for production of ethanol.

• Have sound experience in wastewater treatment of effluent from ethanol plants and have access to the wastewater treatment technologies of Bacardi (USA) Sulzer (Germany) and Anamet (France).

• Have experience in air permit compliance and reporting, air emission calculation, NSR review, environmental reporting, environmental audits, environmental training.

• Have experience in ethanol production from various feed stocks such as sugar cane molasses, sugar beet and corn. Have worked in India, Sweden, and Indonesia in operation, project, and process engineering of large size ethanol plants with diverse feed stocks such as sugar cane molasses, sugar beet, and corn. Have experience in developing byproducts from ethanol waste and fermentation.

• Designed, developed, operated, commissioned and prepared PFDs, PIDs, heat and material balance flow sheets, equipment and instrument specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping isometrics for the plants that produced acetaldehyde, ethanol, formaldehyde, and thermosetting resins, such as urea-formaldehyde, phenol;-formaldehyde, melamine-formaldehyde.

• Designed and conducted sizing calculations of heat exchangers, distillation and absorption columns, evaporators, centrifuges, pumps, blowers, compressors, filter press, crystallizes, reactors, thickeners, clarifiers, cooling towers and piping systems, relief valves, safety valves, rupture discs, control valves.

Designed heat recovery equipments such as condensers, heat exchangers. Experienced in

process engineering calculations to predict heat losses from process equipments. Experienced in designing of steam tracing for the process piping.

• Experienced in calculation and estimation of thermal efficiency of boilers, heat exchangers, evaporators.

• Experienced in calculation and estimation of thermal efficiency of boilers, heat exchangers, evaporators, gas fired furnaces, incinerators, condensers etc. Experienced in selection, sizing and trouble shooting of steam traps. Experienced in designing and optimization of cooling towers, evaporators, gas fired furnaces, incinerators, condensers etc.

• Experienced in selection, sizing and trouble shooting of steam traps.

• Experienced in designing and optimization of cooling towers.

1989-1992: Manager (process Engineering & Environmental Kanoria

Chemicals Industries, Ankhleshwer, India

• Conducted; process engineering, design, project management, startup and commissioning of grass root ethanol plants.

• Have successfully completed one (1) ethanol project. The ethanol production capacity for the project was 40 million gallons per year and the raw material for ethanol production was sugar cane molasses.

• Experienced in independently working on ethanol projects and dealing with contractors.

• Have sound experience in Fermentation, Distillation and yeast propagation for production of ethanol.

• Have experience in air permit compliance and reporting, air emission calculation, environmental reporting, environmental audits, environmental training. Have experience in ethanol production from various feed stocks such as sugar cane molasses, sugar beets and corn. Have worked in India, Sweden, and Indonesia in operation, project, and process engineering of large size ethanol plants with diverse feed stocks such as sugar cane molasses, sugar beet, and corn. Have experience in developing byproducts from ethanol waste and fermentation.

• Designed, developed, operated, commissioned and prepared PFDs, PIDs, heat and material balance flow sheets, equipment and instrument specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping isometrics for the plants that produced acetic acid, ethanol, acetaldehyde, acetic acid ethyl acetate formaldehyde, pentaaerthritol.

• Designed and conducted sizing calculations of heat exchangers, distillation and absorption columns, evaporators, centrifuges, pumps, blowers, compressors, filter press, crystallizes, reactors, clarifiers, cooling towers and piping systems, relief valves, safety valves, rupture discs, control valves thickeners clarifiers, cooling towers and piping systems.

• Experienced in project management bidding, preparation of proposals, tendering, inviting quotations, analyzing quotations and negotiations. Experienced in project planning, scheduling and project control. Experienced in conducting project feasibility studies and preparation of feasibility reports for new projects and for projects for improvement of plant performance.

• Experienced in selection and maintenance of process such as: pumps, blowers, compressors, heat exchangers, clarifiers, centrifuges, reactors, filter presses, pipe and pipe fittings. Skilled in maintenance of glass-lined, rubber-lined and FRP-lined tanks, reactors and pumps. Experienced in preparation of equipment and instrument specification sheets. selection and evaluation of chemical plants. Experienced in preparation of operating manuals safety manuals, startup and commissioning manuals.

1986-1989: Manager Production Vam Organic Chemicals, Gajaraula,

India

• Conducted; process engineering, design, project management, startup and commissioning of grass root ethanol plants.

• Have successfully completed two (3) grass root ethanol projects. The ethanol production capacities for all the three projects were 30 million gallons per year each and the raw material for ethanol production was sugar cane molasses.

• Experienced in independently dealing with consultants contractors on all issues of the ethanol project management.

• Have sound experience in Fermentation, Distillation and yeast propagation for production of ethanol. Have sound experience in wastewater treatment of effluent from ethanol plants and have access to the wastewater treatment technologies of Bacardi (USA) Sulzer (Germany) and Anamet (France), air permit compliance and reporting, air emission calculation, NSR review, environmental reporting, environmental audits, environmental training.

• Have experience in ethanol production from various feed stocks such as sugar cane molasses, sugar beets and corn. Have worked in India, Sweden, and Indonesia in operation, project, and process engineering of large size ethanol plants with diverse feed stocks such as sugar cane molasses, sugar beet, and corn. Have experience in developing byproducts from ethanol waste and fermentation.

• Designed, developed, operated, commissioned and prepared PFDs, PIDs, heat and material balance flow sheets, equipment and instrument specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping isometrics for the plants that produced acetic acid, ethanol, acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate acetic anhydride,.

• Designed and conducted sizing calculations of heat exchangers, distillation and absorption columns, evaporators, centrifuges, pumps, blowers, compressors, filter press, crystallizes, reactors, thickeners clarifiers, cooling towers and piping systems, relief valves, safety valves, rupture discs, control valves.

• Experienced in project management bidding, preparation of proposals, tendering, inviting quotations, analyzing quotations and negotiations. Experienced in project planning, scheduling and project control. Experienced in conducting project feasibility studies and preparation of feasibility reports for new projects and for projects for improvement of plant performance.

• Experienced in selection and maintenance of process equipments such as pumps, blowers, compressors, heat exchangers, clarifiers, centrifuges, reactors, filter presses, pipe and pipe fittings. Skilled in maintenance of glass-lined, rubber-lined and FRP-lined tanks, reactors and pumps.

• Experienced in preparation of equipment and instrument specification sheets. Experienced in process and technology selection and evaluation of chemical plants. Experienced in preparation of operating manuals safety manuals, startup of process data. and commissioning manuals.

1982-1986: Plant Manager Petrocarbon & Chemical Company, Haldia,

India

• Designed, developed, operated, commissioned and prepared PFDs, PIDs, heat and material balance flow sheets, equipment and instrument specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping isometrics for petroleum coke calcinations plant (rotary kiln process)

• Managed a unionized work force of 700 personnel, including senior managers, middle management staff and operators.

• Negotiated project contracts for plant expansion, modification, and negotiated union contracts.

• Managed facility environmental compliance and environmental programs for wastewater discharges, wastewater treatment, air compliance, hazardous waste programs, environmental reporting, environmental audits, environmental training hazardous waste compliance and coordination with environmental agencies on regulatory compliance issues.

1977-1982: Superintendent Production, Union Carbide India Ltd.,

India

• Designed developed, operated, commissioned and prepared PFDs, PIDs, heat and material balance flow sheets, equipment and instrument specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping isometrics for the plants, that produced pesticides such as carboryl sevin and pesticide ingredients such as alpha naphthol, Methyl Isocyanate, chlorine, and other chemicals.

• Experienced in production of pesticides such as carboryl sevin and pesticide ingredients such as alpha naphthol, Methyl Isocyanate, chlorine, and other chemicals. Studied new chemical processes to determine their feasibility for production and cost.

• Made engineering evaluation of novel pollution abatement and control programs from standpoint of technical and economical feasibility.

• Designed special equipment for carrying out standard unit physical operations. Conducted economic feasibility studies of newly developed processes and products, including projection of data obtained from bench or pilot plant scale in order to determine attributes and facilities of full scale industrial plants. Experienced in; Process Safety Management (PSM), Management of Change (MOC) and Process Hazard Analysis.

• Designed and conducted sizing calculations of heat exchangers, distillation and absorption columns, evaporators, centrifuges, pumps, blowers, compressors, filter press, crystallizes, reactors, thickeners clarifiers, cooling towers and piping systems, relief valves.

• Designed heat recovery equipments such as condensers, heat exchangers. Experienced in

process engineering calculations to predict heat losses from process equipments. Experienced in designing of steam tracing for the process piping. Experienced in calculation and estimation of thermal efficiency of boilers, heat exchangers, evaporators, gas fired furnaces, incinerators, condensers etc.

• Experienced in project management bidding, preparation of proposals, tendering, inviting quotations, analyzing quotations and negotiations. Experienced in project planning, scheduling and project control. Experienced in conducting project feasibility studies and preparation of feasibility reports for new projects and for projects for plant performance improvement.

1970-1977: Assistant Works Manager, Nuchem Plastics, India

• Designed, developed, operated, commissioned and prepared PFDs, PIDs, heat and material balance flow sheets, equipment and instrument specification sheets, preliminary scope design, plant layouts and piping isometrics for the plants that produced formaldehyde, hexamine, urea-formaldehyde resin, phenol-formaldehyde resin, melamine-formaldehyde resin.

• Managed a unionized work force of 200 personnel, including senior managers, middle management staff and operators.

• Negotiated project contracts for plant expansion, modification, Also negotiated union contracts.

• Designed heat recovery equipments such as condensers, heat exchangers. Experienced in

process engineering calculations to predict heat losses from process equipments. Experienced in designing of steam tracing for the process piping.

• Experienced in calculation and estimation of thermal efficiency of boilers, heat exchangers, evaporators, gas fired furnaces, incinerators, condensers etc. Experienced in selection, sizing and trouble shooting of steam traps. Experienced in designing and optimization of cooling towers.

• Managed facility environmental compliance and environmental programs for wastewater discharges, wastewater treatment, air compliance, hazardous waste programs, environmental reporting, environmental audits, environmental training hazardous waste compliance and coordination with environmental agencies on regulatory compliance issues.

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

6/1989-8/1989

Perstorp AB, Sweden

Formaldehyde plant operation and troubleshooting

3/1982-4/1982

Union Carbide Corporation, South Charleston, WV

Alpha Naphthol plant process design and operation

1970

Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India

BS Chemical Engineering

1965

University of Agra, India

BS Chemistry

IMMIGRATION STATUS:

U.S. Citizen

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Member American Institute of Chemical Engineering

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Business Application. Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, UNIX Database.

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