Engineer Chemical Engineering

Andrew Gary Kelo

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Focus: Chemical Engineer Product Engineer Quality Engineer

The Ohio State University – Columbus, Ohio

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, May 2017 Major GPA 3.4 Dean’s List

Strengths Competencies Technologies

Project Management

Problem Analysis

Technical Communication

Quality Control

Project Planning & Analysis

Procedure Development

MS Windows & Office Suite

ChemCAD SOLIDWORKS

Data Analysis

Experiment Design

Experiment Analysis

Python Matlab

Professional Experience

Continental AG – Marysville, Ohio May 2015 to Present

World’s leading conveyor belt testing laboratory; tests and services belts distributed by company and subsidiaries as well as belt samples sent from 3rd party mining operations.

R&D Co-Op

Contributed to complete scope of product testing; communicate with supervisor and development engineers to complete new and unfinished testing projects; accumulate and provide results enabling engineers to determine belt specifications as well as design conveyor parameters; create new testing procedures utilized throughout lab.

Major contributor to development and implementation of fabric testing procedures (as lab assumed capability for fabric testing as well as belt testing); procedures standardized fabric testing to determine functionality within belts; initiative currently utilized by company worldwide in fabric testing settings.

Collaborate effectively with lab team comprising full-time lab manager, quality assurance associate and 4 other co-ops; testing includes (but not limited to) tensile and elongation testing, longitudinal immersion studies and flame testing.

Operate under ISO and ASTM standards as well as SAP and Kanban parameters; strategically utilize ISO standards to develop new testing procedures to accumulate information on splice shear strength.

Demonstrated knowledge of issue tracking and resolution through repair of modulus machine; worked with engineer and determined replacement of hydraulic actuator valve and rewrote test program to resolve data collection issues.

Requested by supervisor to return post-co-op to train new co-ops.

Projects

Improvement of the Supercritical CO2 Extraction Process – Apeks Supercritical January to May 2017

Project Details: Worked with Apeks Supercritical through a partnership with The Ohio State University on a project to better understand and improve supercritical CO2 extraction

Modeling and Simulations Expert: Design and draft a procedure for the modeling and simulation of the extraction process based on an understanding of the main mass transfer resistances of the process.

Demonstrated project planning and scheduling, as well as team leadership skills to complete project goals within the allowed resources of the group: Regularly created and revised project goals and scheduling to ensure that all tasks were completed on time and were possible within the scope of the project.

Essential Oil Extraction via Steam Distillation May 2017 to Present

Ground up experimental design and testing on the effects of pre-treatment on the extraction of essential oils using steam distillation.

Spearheaded equipment acquisition, construction, and operation

Unit Operations:

Plug Flow Reactor Kinetics: Operated and collected experimental conversion data from tubular PFR.

Defined reactor specific parameters; compiled complete technical report on results of experiment.

Gas-Solid Fluidization: Operated and accumulated experimental fluidization data from pilot scale GSF column.

Defined bed specific parameters such as minimum fluidization velocity; compiled complete technical report on experiment results.

Fractional Distillation: Operated 12-stage fractional distillation column to separate ethanol from water.

Collected experimental data on effect of reflux ratio, and feed tray on column efficiency; defined specific operating parameters to maximize separation of ethanol

Conducted ChemCad simulations to verify experimental results and to scale up to and industrial level

Compiled complete technical report on results of experiment.

Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger: Operated and collected experimental data from pilot scale shell and tube heat exchanger

Tested effects of shell and tube side flow rates on performance of heat exchanger; determined specific heat transfer coefficients for heat exchanger and qualified effects of fouling on these coefficients

Defined specific operating parameters to maximize efficiency of heat transfer; compiled complete technical report on results of experiment.

Microfluidics Cell Adhesion: January 2014 to May 2014

Collaborated with four team members to build microfluidics device to test adhesion of yeast cells to channel walls with different saline solutions.

Nanotechnology Design Project: January 2014 to May 2014

Designed theoretical lab on chip device to detect presence of HIV-1 protease in blood samples.

Professional Organizations

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)

Sigma Alpha Pi National Society of Leadership and Success

Pi Sigma Theta National Honors Society

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