Chemical Engineer

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, AR

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering - Graduated May 2017

GPA: 3.2

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt – January 2018

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sustainability Research Assistant

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (May 2017 – Present)

Aggregated fifty years of weather data into hourly model input files for pork production simulation

Designed and implemented graphical output web page for a poultry production simulation

Designed denitrification and decomposition program with process control elements

Process Engineering Co-op

Martin Operating Partnership, Smackover, AR, (August 2015- May 2016)

Designed, built, and calibrated a sour water stripping tower system

Used CHEMCAD software to model refining processes

Oversaw catalyst change out of HDS and reformer tubes reactors during turnaround

Chemical Engineering Assistant

Process Dynamics, Fayetteville, AR, (January 2013)

Oversaw reactors and performed data analysis on results of the effluent

Assisted head chemical engineer in calculations and process designs

Took off-gas samples and preformed gas chromatography analysis

ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Sour Water Stripping Tower Pilot Plant

Worked with a team to design, construct, and operate air fed sour water stripping towers

Ran quantitative tests on stripped water and preformed data analysis to assess the tower efficiency and unit KPIs

Used design parameters and chemical results to determine if the project could be scaled up for implementation as a refinery unit while complying to PSM procedures

Integrated Farm System Model Rewrite

Lead designer of modularized denitrification and decomposition program for larger model integration

Used well document biochemical reactions to create denitrification and decomposition simulator

Designed process control module to regulate boundary conditions for biochemical simulation

Reactor Catalyst Change Out

Created specifications and managed contractors during turnaround

Worked with contractors to load catalyst layers based on outages and calculated weights

Weighed, handled, and processed spent catalyst for shipping and storage using EPA and Department of Transportation standards

Pork Simulation Weather Data Aggregation

Independently accumulated weather data from 1960-2015 and transformed the data into hourly values for simulation calculation

Took MERRA weather files from NASA website and wrote a MATLAB program to generate hourly weather values

Used NOAA daily temperature data and wrote a MATLAB program to interpolate the daily values into hourly values

Refinery Process Computer Simulation

Independently programmed refinery conditions and specifications into CHEMCAD simulation software

Programmed vacuum and atmospheric distillation column systems to model refinery output

Created new fluid specifications for crude oil components from specifications and analysis from gas chromatograph data

Reformer Tube Change Out

Monitored and oversaw the change out of reformer tubes and loading of reformer catalyst during turnaround

Tracked tube temperature dynamics to determine which tubes needed to be changed out during turnaround

Oversaw new catalyst loading during turnaround and shipped off unwanted catalyst storage using EPA and Department of Transportation standards

COMPUTER SKILLS

CHEMCAD, MATLAB, Aspen Plus, JavaScript, HTML, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

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