Manager Engineer

Bharthwaj Anantharaman, Ph.D.

US Permanent Resident

**** ******** **** **, *********, TX 77479

Email: ***************@*****.***, Home Phone: 713-***-****, Cell: 713-***-****

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2000 – June 2005

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, June 2005

Thesis: Reaction Mechanisms for Catalytic Partial Oxidation Systems - Ethylene Epoxidation

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice, June 2002

Certificate in Financial Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2003

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, July 1996 - May 2000

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering

Honors and Awards

Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Summer Fellowship – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, June – August, 2004

Cambridge Science Foundation, Travel Award, 2003

MIT Presidential Fellowship – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2000 - May 2001

Career Summary

Dr. Bharthwaj Anantharaman has expert engineering consulting experience. In his 16 years of expert engineering consulting experience, Dr. Bharthwaj has consulted with Engineering companies (KBR and CBI), outside vendors and manufacturers (Air Products, BASF, Koch-Glitsch), and also academic university (MIT) as a research investigator while pursuing doctoral studies. He has also consulted at the prestigious Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Bharthwaj Anantharaman has financial background from the prestigious MIT Sloan. He has provided his expertise on NPV (Net Present Analysis), Economic Analysis and capital decision making on big capital projects. He has also offered operational leadership as a Process Manager on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects in Cameron LNG and SADARA Chemicals. He has led FEED projects in Golden Pass LNG, Ras Tanura Integrated Project and Kellogg Ammonia projects. He has led pre-FEED projects for Alaska LNG and ExxonMobil Scarborough LNG. As a process manager, he has supervised process engineers on delivering Process Simulations, Heat and Material Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams, Line Sizing and Hydraulics, Relief Valves & Control Valve sizing. As a Process Champion, he has acted as a liaison with Air Products licensor, UOP Licensor, BASF licensor and external vendors. He has OPERATIONAL PLANT experience, startup/commissioning of ammonia / urea plant at Pequiven, Venezuela. He has REVAMP experience for Ammonia plants at PEMEX, Mexico.

With a PhD Degree, he has played the role of a Technology Manager for Ammonia/Syngas, LNG Technology, Coal Gasification and Organic Chemicals. He has a US patent award in LNG, patent application in Urea and more invention disclosures. He has given technology and commercial presentations in Gas Processors Association, Nitrogen and Syngas, and Fertilizers Association of India. He has published technology papers in Hydrocarbon Processing and World Coal. He has kinetic modeling experience in MIT and in coal monetization group at KBR. Overall he has 16 years of experience as a Chemical Engineer.

Work Experience

Manager Process Engineering, Chicago, Bridge & Iron Inc., Houston, TX, 2013- 2016

Project Experience

oCameron LNG Liquefaction EPC Project, 2014 – 2016

Area Lead for Liquefaction, Refrigeration and Gas Treatment Units for 13.8 MTPA LNG liquefaction facility at Hackberry in Louisiana.

Managed and Supervised Process Engineers on Process Simulations, Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (PIDs), Heat and Material Balance (HMB), Line Sizing and Hydraulics, Relief Valves and Control Valves sizing for Cameron EPC

oAlaska LNG Liquefaction pre FEED Project, 2016 – Current

Overall Process Lead for Liquefaction, Refrigeration and Gas Treatment Units for 20.1 MTPA LNG liquefaction facility at Nikiski, Alaska.

Study and Optimization Process Manager for the Alaska project using APCI C3-MR Technology

oGolden Pass LNG Liquefaction FEED Project, 2013 – 2014

Liquefaction, Refrigeration and Gas Treatment Units for 15.6 MTPA LNG liquefaction facility at Golden Pass near Sabine Pass in Texas.

Area Lead for Liquefaction Unit for Golden pass project using APCI C3-MR Technology and GE Frame 7 Gas turbines

Principal Process Engineer, Kellogg, Brown and Root Inc., Houston, TX, 2007- 2013

Project Experience

oRas Tanura (SADARA) Integrated Project, Specialty Chemicals, FEED and EPC for Saudi ARAMCO / Dow, 2008 – 2011

Process Lead and Area Lead for TDI, PMDI and Pygas Hydrogenation Units for SADARA Chemical Complex to produce ethylene, propylene, aromatics, and chlorine.

oEXXONMOBIL Scarborough Floating LNG Feasibility Study, 2007 – 2008

Study Lead for Conceptual Engineering for 6 MTPA Floating LNG Plant in 900 m water deep in Scarborough, NW Australia.

Study Lead for Black & Veatch Prico process and the ExxonMobil HPXP process.

oChevron All Electric LNG Feasibility Study, 2007 – 2008

Study lead for Economic & Technical Feasibility for All Electric Drive LNG.

oGORGON LNG EPC for Chevron, 2008 - 2010

Area Lead for DOMGAS unit for 3 X 5 MTPA LNG GORGON project on Barrow Island located offshore Western Australia.

Technology Licensor Experience

oKBR Ammonia Technology for Grassroots Plants

Process Lead for Basic Engineering Packages as a Licensor for Ammonia / Syngas / Urea clients

Ammonia FEED Projects: Jaypee Fertilizers India Limited (JFIL), Bangladesh Chemicals Integrated Complex (BCIC), Iowa Fertilizers, Ohio Valley Resources (OVR)

oKBR Ammonia Technology for Revamps / Retrofits

Process Lead for capacity expansion and energy minimization of existing AGRIUM plant in Borger, Texas; PEMEX plant in Veracruz, Mexico; and SAFCO plant in Saudi Arabia

oKBR Coal Gasification Technology

Kinetic Modeler of Transport Reactor Integrated Gasifier

Process Lead for proposals for Coal Gasification projects

oKBR Olefins Technology

Proposal Lead for Synfuels Technology

Study lead for data analysis of reactor data for partial oxidation

Operational Plant Experience

oStartup / Commissioning for Pequiven Ammonia Plant in Venezuela, 2013.

oPlant Experience and Data Collection at PEMEX Ammonia Plant in Mexico, 2012

Process Simulation / Software Skills

oASPEN

oHYSYS

oPro-II

oMATLAB

oSIMULINK

oCOMOS

Leadership Skills

oProcess Manager for Cameron EPC, Golden Pass FEED, Alaska LNG pre-FEED

oPrincipal Process Engineer for SADARA

oStudy Lead for He Rejection & N2 Removal in LNG Plants

oResearch and Development Lead for Kinetic Modeling of Coal Gasification Reactor

oPrincipal Technology Lead for PEMEX Ammonia Plant Retrofit Study

Technology Patents and Publications

oUS Patent: “US 201******** “, METHOD FOR NITROGEN REJECTION AND/OR HELIUM RECOVERY IN AN LNG LIQUEFACTION PLANT.

oCOS and CS2 Formation and Sulfur Oligomer Distribution in Claus Reactors, Presented at GPA 2011, San Antonio, TX.

oCoal Gasification Technology for Ammonia Plants, Fertilizers Association of India, New Delhi, India, 2011. Nitrogen & Syngas Conference, Greece, 2012.

oEconomics of Coal to Liquids Plant in Asia – A Case Study, Published in Chemical Engineering World, 2012.

oCoal Gasification Technology for Liquid Fuels Production, Published in Hydrocarbon Processing, 2012.

oCatalytic Partial Oxidation Systems: Application to Ethylene Epoxidation, Book publication, VDM Verlag Publishers, 2009.

Process Development Engineer, Novellus Systems Inc., OR, 2006 – 2007

Process engineering and R&D of PECVD thin film deposition of low-k dielectric Silicon Carbide, Silicon Nitride, and TEOS on semiconductors using Novellus VECTOR.

Applications Engineer, KLA-Tencor, CA, 2006

Wafer defect inspections and root-cause analysis for CMP, Etch, Deposition, M1-Mns of patterned FEOL and BEOL wafers by dark field laser technology using KLA PUMA 9000

Financial Associate, Deutsche Bank, NY, 2005 – 2006

Financial derivatives trading of stock options in oil & gas and petrochemical industries

Ph.D. Research Fellow, MIT, 2000 – 2005

Reactor modeling of surface chemistry and catalytic reactors for industrial ethylene epoxidation; Modeling interaction of surface chemistry reaction mechanisms and transport processes for process yield & selectivity optimization; Computational chemistry for estimation of thermochemical and rate parameters of surface reactions; Economic analysis of process equipments in catalytic reforming of biomass.

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