Chemical Engineering Assistant

Saurabh Chaudhari

Houston, TX, ***** ******************@*****.*** Mobile:832-***-****

SKILLS

• Industry: Operations analysis, Working procedures in chemical plant, Health, and safety,Oil & Natural Gas.

• Analytical: Predictive Modelling, Data Analysis with R, Data Analysis with Python, Data Architecture, SQL Infrastructure

• Programming language and tools: MATLAB, C++, Aspen, R, SQL,Tableu,Excel,Python EDUCATION

Rice University, Houston TX Aug ‘16-Dec ‘17

• Masters in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, (LIT) Nagpur University, India Aug ‘12- May ‘16

• Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

• Advanced Solution Thermodynamics

• Industrial Catalysis in petrochemical Industry

• Linear and Multiple linear regression in R

• Chemical Reaction Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Process Engineer Summer Intern, Synergy Process Systems (SPS), Pune May ’17-Aug ‘17 Responsible to perform process analysis, process improvement,assist project engineers for improving refinery operations.

• Troubleshooted fractionation operation by identifying the problem of impure black Gas oil (FCCU feed) coming out of CDU.

• Reduced the stripping steam rate by 1000 lb/hr which resulted in getting pure translucent green gas oil,increased the overall crude oil throughput by 15%

• Effectively interfaced with groups across the company including site manufacturing and technical groups, other process engineering support groups, project engineering, and business and engineering management.

• Applied concepts like heat transfer, vapor-liquid equilibria, mass transfer and thermodynamics to assist design engineers.

• Studied thoroughly PFD’s, Heat and Material Balances, Equipment datasheets and assisted senior engineers in process studies.

• Studied Crude distillation unit (CDU), its process flow diagram,provided technical support by calculating furnace efficiency. Process Analyst, Co-op, Mae Rim, Sodium Dichromate Plant, India Feb ‘15-Jul ‘16 Responsible to work closely with operations, maintenance, and finance to develop and execute process improvement project.

• Designed and fabricated ion adsorption column using 4-Vinyl Pyridine resin as adsorbent for removing CR(VI) ions.

• Improved the quality of bi-product sodium sulphate by removing 60% CR(VI) ions impurity.

• Extensively Studied Process flow diagrams (PFD), piping and instrumentation diagrams for Sodium Dichromate Plant.

• Categorized system performance indicators to facilitate substantial improvement of processes within the plant.

• Collaborated with logistics planning teams and field managers to ensure resource alignment in supply and operations planning Research Assistant, National chemical Laboratory (NCL), India May ‘14- Aug ‘15 Responsible to analyze and process data on extraction of gas hydrates, formulate computational model to fit the gathered data.

• Developed a MATLAB model for simulating Methane-water system under Gas hydrate forming condition.

• Used the model to predict the solubility of methane gas in water, the model was 85 % accurate

• Managed the quality control data from chemical manufacturing plant and carried out comparative statistical analysis ADDITIONAL PROJECTS

In Class Project-Linear regression model in R Sep ’17- Dec ‘17

• Analyzed effect of price reduction across different categories of consumer packaged goods based on 5 years sales data for super market, uncovered the correlation effect among 90,000 kinds of products by collaborative filtering.

• Produced forecast for surge demands in hurricane season with multivariated linear regression. In Class Project- Chemical Reaction Engineering Aug ’17- Nov ‘17

• Utilized MATLAB to simulate dynamic behavior of non-isothermal continuous reactor at different operating conditions.

• Proposed solutions to improve system efficiencies and reduce total expenditure. Research Proposal, Rice University, in class competition on novel business ideas in catalytic processes Dec ‘16

• Placed 2nd, Silver award for presenting a research proposal on catalytic conversion of Shale gas to propylene. Research Assistant, LIT, Nagpur, India Jul ‘15- Apr ‘16

• Successfully synthesized Graphene-SnO2 nanocomposite using Novel in situ Ultrasonic method.

• Developed the nanocomposite for photocatalytic degradation of harmful industrial waste and achieved 70% degradation of Methyl Blue.

Analyzing Global Commodity Trade Statistics in Python Aug’16-Oct’16

• Utilized method of reflections (Hidalgo & Hausmann, 2009), in order to evaluate countrie’s economy and productivity.

• Concluded that most diversified countries produce most of the products and most complex proucts are produced by only diverse countries.

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