Engineer Quality

ROHAN S. BAKANE

#***, **** ******** ******, *****: 361-***-****

Houston, TX 77056 Email: ************@*****.***

SUMMARY

• Over four years of experience in project management and forecasting, project oversight, environmental

permitting and facility compliance.

• Responsible for state and federal air quality compliance under EPCRA, CERCLA, (40 CFR 304, 40 CFR

355) for 325 MBD capacity Valero Port Arthur Refinery at Port Arthur, TX.

• As a site engineer was responsible for maintaining TCEQ compliance for air upsets under 30 TAC

§101.201, and maintenance startup and shutdown emissions under 30 TAC §101.211 for Valero Port

Arthur Refinery.

• Responsible for Investigation Reports for air upsets, analysis to prevent recurrence, preparing Initial and

Final STEERS Notifications for TCEQ submittal under 30 TAC §101.201, and also supported TCEQ

request for information as needed.

• Supported Title V Deviation report preparation, permit applications, waste water discharge applications by

providing data and compiling reports, worked with team members on ongoing projects as needed.

• Responsible for preparing EI for onsite facilities, preparing PBRs, Permit Amendments, Title V Deviation

reports.

• Familiar with filing Permit by Rule Permits under 30 TAC § 106 for different emissions sources.

• Responsible for preparing year 2005 Emissions Inventory for the City of Corpus Christi, to be submitted to

the TCEQ as part of Ozone Non-Attainment Program.

• Helped prepare power point presentations for Operations personnel at Valero Port Arthur Refinery on

Environmental training.

• Worked for over five years on various projects facilitating data gathering, report and presentation

development.

• Experienced in statistical analysis, like cluster analysis, point source contribution function, wind rose plots,

time series analysis of air pollutants for Corpus Christi Urban Airshed.

• Experienced in operation of Ozone and fine particulate matter monitoring equipment.

• Experience with analytical methods used for analyzing mineral dust by X-ray Fluorescence (XRF).

• Knowledge of CAA, CAAA, CWA, NEPA regulations.

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full time position as Environmental Engineer/Air Quality Engineer with opportunities for wide-ranging

experience and professional development.

EXPERIENCE

Environmental Engineer, Air Consulting and Engineering Solutions, Houston, TX Oct.2006-Current

• Site Environmental Engineer at Valero Port Arthur Refinery, Port Arthur, TX

o As site engineer was responsible for maintenance of state regulatory compliance under 30 TAC

§101.201/211, and federal compliance under CERCLA, EPCRA reporting requirements for air

upsets for the year 2008 for Valero Port Arthur facility.

o Was responsible for data collection and investigation report preparation, analysis to prevent

recurrence, for follow-up STEERS(TCEQ) & LEPC reporting under 30 TAC §101.201/211,

preparing Title V Deviation Report support data, weekly, monthly and annual EHS metrics.

o Was responsible for submitting Consent Decree applications for Acid Gas flaring events to EPA.

o Familiar with investigation reports for follow-up reporting to TCEQ via STEERS report and

knowledge of follow-up with TCEQ in case of an Notice of Deviation (NOD) or Notice of Violation

(NOV)

o Emissions reduction of approximately 75 tons, by reducing the number of reportable air upsets for

2008 by 5 reportable air upsets. Provided flaring emissions information of reportable as well as

non-reportable air upsets on a weekly/monthly basis to ‘Flare Reduction Committee’.

o Responsible for complete reduction of number of NOVs due to late submission to TCEQ for the

year 2008 by scrupulously following deadlines.

o Updated the internal PERS database as part of Information System Development to incorporate

STEERS report number. This helped the Environmental report information to be extracted from

one single database. Incorporated ready availability of reportable air upsets, to get a quick count

of reportable air upsets, so that this information can be sent to the Corporate headquarters once

a week. This information system change helped save 1-2 hours of wok time spent extracting

reports from different databases.

• Environmental Engineer at ACES Houston

o Did an Air Quality Modeling project using both ISCST3, ISC-AERMOD to assess the ESLs for

Rohm and Haas Facility at Deer Park, Houston, TX.

o Developed emissions estimation work sheets for different kinds of Storage Tanks, emissions

estimation for minor process changes, degreasers and other onsite facilities, so that this

information can be used for Permits or Emissions Inventory for facilities

o Was responsible for site data collection for MSS permitting for different facilities like Valero,

OXEA, Bayer, CPChem, ISP Texas City, and Noltex Houston.

o Worked on emissions estimation for MSS activities and altering existing sheet to incorporate

clearing emissions for atypical equipments.

o Worked/Filed PBR permits for different kinds of sources under TAC § 106, preparing EI for

facilities, supporting MSS permit application by working on data, or Permit Amendment

Applications.

o Was responsible for a $ 75,000 project of estimating emissions for different sources in City of

Corpus Christi as part of a report submission for Ozone Non-Attainment to TCEQ and City of

Corpus Christi.

o As part of the Emissions Inventory for City of Corpus Christi, visited onsite facilities like Naval Air

Station, TxDOT to collect data. Was responsible for estimating emissions from Military Aircraft for

the first time using exhaustive data collection and estimation tool like EDMS.

Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A & M University-Kingsville Jan.2003-Aug.2006

• Responsible for calculating the emissions inventory for Corpus Christi urban airshed for the year 2002 for

Oil and Gas Area Exploration Source using EIIP 1999 Volume II Chapter 10. Estimating Air Emissions

from Oil and Gas Field Production and Processing Operations, methodology.

• Compared the emissions inventory, classified by SCC codes, with the EPA AIRS data classified using

TIER1, TIER2 and TIER3 using relational database like Access.

• Monitoring of Ozone using Dasibi Ozone Monitor, fine particulate matter TEOM monitoring machine,

chemical speciation of fine particulates using XRF in Corpus Christi Urban Airshed.

• ISCST3 Air Quality Data Modeling for the Corpus Christi urban area using 1999 annual emissions, and

optimization of monitoring station locations.

• Short term emissions modeling of Pyrotechnics using ISC-AERMOD air quality model.

• Setup and running of CALPUFF dispersion model for better characterization of Pyrotechnic emissions.

• Worked on “GIS-based Spatial Allocation of Area and Non-road Air Emissions for the Corpus Christi

Urban Airshed”.

Engineer-Civil in SHREEJI CONSTRUCTION CO., Mumbai April 2002-Nov. 2002

Responsibilities:

• Management of site staff and sub contractors, daily, sub-contract implementation.

• Ordering of Material and Plant hire.

• Project forecasting and reporting to customers.

• Assisting Site Manager.

Synergy Relationship Management Services Jan. 2002-April 2002

• Customer support professional in back end services.

• Dealing with logistics of customer relations.

• Involved in creation of a RDBMS for customers in the mailing centers.

EDUCATION

Texas A & M University-Kingsville, Texas, U.S.A.

M.S. in Environmental Engineering, January 2003-August 2006 G.P.A: 3.7/4.0

University of Mumbai, V.J.T.I, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, September 2001 G.P.A: 3.5/4.0

SKILLS

Systems: DOS, UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS

Languages: PASCAL, C, C++, FORTRAN

Database

Programs: Access, SQL

Software: Microsoft Project 2003, AUTOCAD 2000, MATLAB, STATISTICA, Origin Pro, GIS-ArcInfo,

ISCST3, ISC-PRIME, ISC-AERMOD, HYSPLIT.

Analytical: Strong background in Air Quality Modeling, Air Quality Data Analysis, Air Quality Monitoring

Equipment – Dasibi Ozone monitor and TEOM Fine Particulate monitor and Chemical

Speciation machine XRF.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Fundamentals Air Quality & Pollution Control, Air Quality Modeling, Environmental Management & Policy,

Environmental Monitoring & Measurement, Environmental Management Systems, Fundamentals of

Solid/Hazardous waste, Fundamentals of Water Quality Engineering, Industrial Ecology, Environmental

Informatics, Physico-chemical Treatment of Water & Wastewater, Chemical Principles and Environmental

Engineering, Environmental System Modeling, Environmental Risk & Management of Risk, Unit Processes in

Wastewater Treatment System.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

“Modeling Analysis of the Impact of Firework Emissions on PM2.5 Levels in Corpus Christi, Texas”

• Characterized the source emissions of Pyrotechnic displays for Corpus Christi Urban Airshed.

• Estimated the emissions due to burning of Fireworks for Corpus Christi urban area.

• Used C programming to create my own input data files of 5 minute spacing.

• Characterized the upper boundary layer using Radio sounding data from Corpus Christi International

Airport for the firework episode period of 2002-03 New Year’s Eve.

• Used ISC-AERMOD to simulate the 12 hour simulation period and prove that approximately a third of the

emissions were caused by Pyrotechnic displays.

“Ozone Real Time Monitoring Project in Corpus Christi, Texas”

• Learned the calibration and setup of Ozone monitor.

• Collected monitoring data for Ozone from a monitoring site in Corpus Christi, Texas.

• Measured 1 hour averaged ozone values for 1 week for 24 hours.

• Investigated the factors/correlations responsible diurnal variation, using mobile sources data.

“GIS-Based Spatial Allocation of Area and Non-Road Air Emissions for the Corpus Christi Urban Airshed”

• Spatially allocated the 1999 and 2002 pollution sources of point, area, non-road and biogenic.

• Characterized the contribution of sources towards the pollutants.

• Calculated a change from 1999 to 2002 among the sources spatially.

PRESENTATION

• Presented Poster, R. Bakane and K. John "Modeling analysis of the Impact of Firework Emissions on

PM2.5 levels in Corpus Christi, Texas." At the 24 th Annual American Association of Aerosol Research

(AAAR) Conference held on October 17-21, 2005 at Austin TX.

• Presented Poster, R. Bakane and K. John “Modeling analysis of the Impact of Firework Emissions on

PM2.5 levels in Corpus Christi, Texas.” At the Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology

(CREST) - Research on Environmental Sustainability of Semi-Arid Coastal Areas (RESSACA)

Conference held on April 12-15, 2005 at San Antonio.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA)

American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Scientific American Book Club

AVAILABILITY: Immediately and willing to relocate.

REFERENCES: Available on request

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