Engineer Chemical Engineering

Hossein Pirzadeh

C: +1-346-***-**** E: ********.*@*****.*** 14900 Memorial Dr., Apt#333, Houston, TX 77079

Process Engineer

Professional with more than 12 years of experience in engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of oil & gas and petrochemical industries in process development with adherence to standards. Recognized for enthusiasm and commitment to excellence.

Areas of Expertise

Dominance to process engineering in oil (Wellhead facilities, production units and refineries) and gas (Refineries, pipelines and compressor stations) and petrochemical (Methanol, urea and ammonia, PE / PP, ABS / Rubber and GTL) and familiar to most technologies and licenses.

Dominance to process engineering of utility and offsite units (Water treatment, waste water treatment, steam and power generation, fuel gas / fuel oil, tank farm, air separation unit, instrument air / plant air / nitrogen production unit, sour water stripper unit, sour gas sweetening, …)

Sizing and improvement of equipment (Reactors, towers, compressors, pumps, heat exchangers, vessels, drums, instruments (control valves, relief valves, flow meters…) and piping / pipeline sizing (hydraulic calculation, valve selection…))

Preparing of all process documents required for Basic, FEED, Detail Engineering (Design basis, BFD, PFD, P&ID, process description, control philosophy, cause and effect matrix, heat and material balance, data sheets, …)

Dominance to process simulation software (Hysys, Aspen Plus, …)

Conversancy to HAZOP and SIL study

Dominance to codes and standards (API, ASME, NACE, …)

Professional Experiences

Thinkxpert Co. (March 2014 up to April 2018), Iran

Project: Marjan methanol production (5000 TPD)

Duty: Project / Process engineer and responsible for developing detail engineering which licensed by Haldor Topsoe (Including P&IDs, relief valve and flare sizing, rechecking all pipe sizing, control valves and PSV sizing, hydraulic calculation due to change in plot plan for all pumps, design of all COC and POC ponds, …). Detail engineering of Air Separation Unit (ASU) which is mandatory to start the methanol unit, in this case. Also design of all common facilities required for ASU (Cooling towers, LIN/LOX tanks…). Detail engineering of utilities e.g. water treatment package to supply DM/RO water for methanol / ASU plants. Hydraulic calculation of methanol product export line to berths, participate in detail design of steam reformer under licensed of ITT. Feasibility study to check OPEX and CAPEX and IRR to achieve to the best price of product.

NDEC Co. (November 2011 up to March 2014), Iran

Project: Methanol production of Middle East Kimiye-Pars (5000 TPD) and Jam petrochemical co. phase II (ABS and Rubber) and Pardis petrochemical co. phase III (Urea and Ammonia)

Duty: Project / Process engineer and responsible to develop detail engineering under license of Haldor Topsoe and Tecnimont (Including P&IDs, relief valve and flare sizing, rechecking all pipe sizing, control valves and PSV sizing, hydraulic calculation due to change in plot plan for all pumps, design of all COC and POC ponds, …). Also participate in design of gas station, closed loop cooling system, water treatment package, HAZOP study. Revising of basic plot plan totally to attain to better equipment arrangement.

Hossein Pirzadeh

C: +1-346-***-**** E: ********.*@*****.*** 14900 Memorial Dr., Apt#333, Houston, TX 77079

SARV Co. (July 2011 up to March 2012, part time), Iran

Project: Ghome GTL (1000 BPD and 10000 BPD)

Duty: Senior Process engineer and responsible to prepare and develop the basic engineering of process and utility units including steam reformer, synthesis reactors, fractionation (Produce of gasoline and gas oil, … from wax), storage tanks, steam and power generation, water and waste water treatment units, ASU. Also preparing of all process documents e.g. PFD, P&ID, data sheet, process description, utility consumption list, …

Arman Energy Maad Co. (April 2011 up to November 2011), Iran

Project: Bandar-Abbas gas condensate refinery (360000 BPD) including licensed and utility of offsite units consisting of CDU / VDU, NHT, CCR, ISOM, GOHT / KHT, LPG, SRU (licensed by Axens, Haldor Topsoe, KTI …), steam and power generation, water and waste water treatment units, air / nitrogen production units, tank farms, flare, …

Duty: Process engineer and responsible to prepare and develop the detail engineering of process and utility units including process documents e.g. P&ID, utility consumption list, relief valve and flare sizing, recheck all pipe sizing, control valves and PSV sizing, hydraulic calculation due to change in plot plan for all pumps, negotiation with vendors to ensure their design is complying with project specifications, attendance in vendor’s clarification and kick of meetings, …

ITOK-IRAN Co. (September 2007 up to March 2009, full time- March 2009 up to November 2011, part time), Iran

Project: LAVAN oil refinery expansion and upgrading (50000 BPD) including licensed and utility of offsite units consisting of new crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units (CDU & VDU) and modification of existing crude atmospheric distillation unit and revamping of existing hydro treating and catalytic reforming unit and install new licensed units (HNHT, CRU, LNHT, Isomerisation, HDS (GO, VGO,Kerosene (Under license of Axens)), SRU, TGTU and sulphur solidification (Under license of Siirtec Nigi)), steam and power generation, water and waste water treatment units, air / nitrogen production units, tank farms, flare, SWS, acid gas absorption, FG/ FO units

Duty: Process engineer and responsible to prepare and develop FEED and detail engineering of process and utility units including process documents e.g. P&ID, utility consumption list, relief valve and flare sizing, recheck all pipe sizing and material, control valves and PSV sizing, hydraulic calculation due to change in plot plan for all pumps, negotiation with vendors to ensure their design is complying with project specifications, attendance in HAZOP /SIL study …

NDEC Co. (February 2009 up to March 2010), Iran

Project: Esfahan oil refinery (South part) expansion project (300000 BPD) including licensed, utility and offsite units.

Duty: Process engineer and responsible to prepare and develop the detail engineering of RFCC and PRU units under license of Axens including process documents e.g. P&ID, utility consumption list, relief valve and flare sizing, recheck all pipe sizing, control valves and PSV sizing, hydraulic calculation due to change in plot plan for all pumps, negotiation with vendors to ensure their design is complying with project specifications, …

GNEC (Oil & Gas Department) (June 2006 up to September 2007), Iran

Project: 5th, 6th and 9th Iranian gas trunk line (IGAT-V, IGAT-VI and IGAT-IX) including gas compressor stations and pipeline.

Hossein Pirzadeh

C: +1-346-***-**** E: ********.*@*****.*** 14900 Memorial Dr., Apt#333, Houston, TX 77079

Duty: Process Engineer and responsible to prepare and develop the detail engineering of gas stations and pipeline including process documents e.g. pipeline hydraulic calculation, surge analysis calculation, P&ID (Compressor stations and inside compressors and gas turbines), utility consumption list, relief valve and flare and cold vent sizing, recheck all pipe sizing, control valves and PSV sizing, cause and effect matrix, pig launching and receiving procedure, valve station, MOVs and ESDVs, leak detection system, pressure reducing station, …

Education

2001-2003: M.Sc. in chemical engineering, Shiraz university (Thesis Subject: “Absorption tower simulation and design of gas dehydration unit by TEG”).

1996-2001: B.Sc. in chemical engineering, Amir Kabir university of technology (Thesis subject: “Crystallization pressure vessel design, manufacturing, installation and commissioning”).

Publication

“Simulation of gas-cooled catalytic methanol reactor”, 8th Iranian chemical engineering congress.

“Enhancement of natural gas dehydration in a tray absorber”, 9th Iranian chemical engineering congress.

“A sequential modular approach to steady-state flow sheeting of the dehydration plant of a commercial gas refinery”, 1st national Iranian gas congress and the international conference on modeling, simulation and applied optimization.

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