Engineer Process

CHRIS ABDULJABBAR, Ph.D.

*** * **** **, *** B, Houston, TX, 77006 832-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Chemical Process Engineer

A highly regarded, well-qualified, accomplished, dedicated, and results-oriented Chemical Process Engineer with experience over 5 years of EPC and design focusing on refinery operations and Chemical Plants. Resourceful, analytical and detail-driven with capabilities in completing multiple projects with competing deadlines. Aggressive in identifying and resolving inefficient operational processes. Seeking to become a part of a dedicated team with equal standards of delivering excellence as a Chemical Process Engineer.

Core Competencies

Bio Process Batch Processes API (520,521,2000,510) ASME VIII Capital Project Implementations Capital Budgets LNG and Cryogenics Design Tools Pump Sizing Energy Balances Environmental Control Devices Equipment Sizing Equipment Design Distillation Columns Hydraulics Calculations CIP Systems Material Balance Feasibility Pipeline Sizing P&IDs Piping Systems and Specs FEED Process Design Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) Process Optimization HAZOP PHA Complete Conceptual Process Studies HTRI EDR Heat Exchangers TEMA HYSYS Aspen Plus PI Historian.

Professional Experience

EPIC Systems Inc., Saint Louis, MO 1/2015 – 2/2016

Sr. Process Development Engineer

Develop/implement new processes and refine existing ones for optimal manufacturing productions and improving yields to ensure QA and cost reductions. Devise test methods to assess production processes while validating new processes and highlighting improvements. Design/execute multiple chemical projects including chemical, petrochemical, pharma, food and beverages, oil, and gas; Develop PFDs, P&IDs, equipment lists, equipment designs, and data sheets on equipment modifications to enable process changes for new development.

Key Project:

Esterification Condensation Process for Capryllic Esther C9, C10, C11 adipic ester; $6.5M Project Capital Costs

•Lab-scale experiments of esterification reactions; two reversible reactions carried out in a vacuum batch reactor.

•Reactions Data fitting (identify the Reaction Order, Reaction Constant, and the Activation Energy. Three reaction systems, MCT, DIDA, and TMP C9, were analyzed.

•Optimized and tuned the pilot plant unit. Scaled up calculations for the reaction (reactor) unit and condenser.

•Processed simulations using Aspen Plus and HYSYS. Mass/energy balance for the optimized process flow diagram.

•Studied processes development with aid of ASPEN, PI Historian.

Ambitech Engineering, Saint Louis, MO 4/2014 – 12/2014

Senior Process Engineer (Contract)

Supported project manager in projects planning, and developing/tracking project schedules. Completed lines, utilities, and cycles according to existing criteria. Conducted: hydraulic calculations for control valves; relief load and PSV calculations; equipment lists, and utility consumption preparations. Active participant in HAZOP meetings. Prepared utility distribution diagrams; finalized line lists. Worked with liquid phase reactors, pumps, compressors, vessels, filters, tower internals, several packages, and heat exchangers. Performed vendor data checking, TBA preparations, and implemented final data into relevant PIDs and other items as required.

Key Project:

•Designed a new line of detergent with more than 2000 CP, including PFDs, P&IDs, batch materials, heat balance batch reactors, plate frame heat exchangers, high viscosity pumps sizing/calculations, and walk-in-the-field activities.

•Designed an expansion utility natural gas pipeline including PFDs, P&ID, HYSYS simulations, hydraulic calculations, and line lists.

•Designed drain system for multiple chemical reactor units including PFDs, P&ID, pumps sizing, line list and specs; designed corrosive chemicals distillation columns including Aspen Simulations, condensers/re-boiler sizing, and line sizing including two-phase flow.

•Completed refinery PSVs sizing and hydraulics calculations (included multiple scenarios.)

Aspen Technology, Houston, TX 7/2012 – 3/2014

Senior Business Consultant- Engineering

Completed Aspen Engineering Suite Professional Simulations including HYSYS, Aspen Plus, EDR. Flare Net, fired heater, preheat optimization, and capital cost estimations. Managed/supervised three junior-level Process Engineers and coached them on software rollouts. Directed software evaluation support, business benefit case analyses, feasibility studies/proposals. Interacted with clients on sales, marketing, and technical presentations.

Key Project:

•Simulation modeling for big projects (refinery, rigorous Cryogenic Process Design (APCI & C3MR), Cryogenics, Gas Gathering facilities, chemical plant, and flare networking), for major oil/gas companies including Chevron, Shell, BHP, HESS, Carrera Gas, and Ascend Chemicals.

•Ammonia, Urea, Ammonium Nitrate Plant (Fertilizers Complex Plant). Integrated Historian data with HYSYS models using Aspen Online Modular for natural gas compressors.

•Fired heater design and simulations for preheat refining distillation columns for Chevron, Houston, TX.

•Optimized two reaction unit’s condensers down-time, and reduced the shutdown time at the Lubrizol Chemical Plant in Deer Park, Texas, by predicting the exact time to schedule steaming or cleaning for the heat exchanger when the exchanger tube is clogged by fouling deposits (dependent on linking historian data with EDR software.)

Ch2Mhill, Houston, TX 6/2011 – 4/2012

Chemical Process Engineer

Coordinated process engineering reports, studies, designs, calculations, P&IDs, equipment sizing, specifications and reviews/approvals of vendor submittals. Assisted the process teams on projects starting from conceptual engineering through detailed engineering and start up. Completed relief scenario evaluations (PSV sizing), and system design APIs (520,521,2000), and ASTM VIII. Prepared data sheets of equipment specifications or clearly define differences (clarifications or exceptions list) to customers. Prepared/updated equipment lists for conceptual designs. Participated in client and project team meetings to establish project objectives and to coordinate and/or resolve design issues.

Key Project:

•Utilities Design Engineer, Bio-Ethanol Production from Cane, Confidential Client, 12/2011, (Process Water Treatment RO system Design, Cooling Tower Design, Hot water balance, Cold Water Balance, Chilled Water balance (Chiller), Glycol System, Plant & Instrumental Air Distribution. (Included HYSYS 7.3 & ASPEN Simulation, PFDs, UFDs, P&ID design/development, and equipment list preparations with data sheets.

•Process Design Engineer, Portland, Honeywell Ground Water Treatment, Portland: (P&ID development, material balance, equipment sizing, purchases, and vendor selections.

•Reduced process and utility water costs and pumping costs by designing an alternative utility water station dependent on the ground water (wells water) as the water resource; included RO systems, Strippers Units, Ion-Exchangers, material balance, equipment sizing, vendor selection, and water boiler feed water for a Bio-Ethanol Project, for BP in Florida.

Additional Professional Experience includes as a Lab Technician with Fugro Consultants, Inc., 2004 – 2011, and a Process Engineer for the Department of Energy in Iraq.

Education & Professional Development

•University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Degrees are evaluated by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), and Career Consultants International (CCI).

•Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2009

•Master of Science, Biochemical Engineering, 2005

•Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Units Operations, 2002

•Intern: Haditha Refinery, Mid West Iraq (2003). Process Operation Intern Engineer on cracking/reforming units.

License, EIT: Texas Board of Professional Engineers (No. 47786)

Continuing Education & Training

HASC - Basic Plus 19 Lubrizol (facility training) Field Awareness Safety Training Refsys (Refining Tool Simulation), FCC. Hydrotreater, Shift Reactor, Assy Curve and Crude Properties Evaluations: Aspen Tech Training, 2012 EDR (Shell & Tube, Air Cooler, Fired Heater, Fin-Plate): Aspen Tech Training 2012 Aspen Plus Distillation Column Troubleshooting & Optimization: Aspen Tech Training, 2012 Aspen Simulation Workbook (linkage between HYSYS and MS Excel) training, 2012 Upstream (Hydraulics, Olgas, Pipsim, Black oil): Aspen Tech Training 2012 Flow Assurance Simulation Modeling (Multi-Phase Flow for NG pipe lines, pipeline pigging calculations), 2012 Aspen Properties, and Fluid Package Selection, 2013

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