Robert Frey, P. E.

*** ******** **** *****, ***** Saint Clair, PA 15241 • H: 412-***-**** • C: 412-***-**** ad3cfu@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS

A Chemical Process Engineer with over 25 years of progressive and diverse experience and applied expertise in the chemical process industries, focusing on various technical and applied aspects of chemical process engineering. A track record of solving plant operating problems by first applying scientific principals/techniques to improve plant operations. Ideal fit in a leadership position with an emphasis on either process engineering, instrumentation, process control, or process development. Specific Areas of Experience and Knowledge Include:

• Technical Team Leadership

• Engineering Project Management (Design and Construction)

• Pilot Plant Supervision (High Pressure Laboratory-organic peroxide development)

• International Experience (European and Asian)

• Process Engineering

• Automation and Process Control

• Instrumentation - Design Engineering

• In-Plant/Manufacturing Experience

• Process Modeling and Simulation (ASPEN, B-JAC, Exchanger design and rating)

• Generation of Process Flow Diagrams

• Generation of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams

• Generation of Equipment Specifications

• Process control (DCS/PLC Configuration)

Unit Operations and Process Competencies:

• Start-up and Commissioning of Numerous Chemical Processes

• Tenter BOPP(Bi-axially oriented Poly-propylene) Film Plant

• C5 Hydrocarbon Resin Plant

• Delayed coking process

• Batch and Continuous Distillation Columns

• Batch Reactors

• Filtration Operations (Funda and Mott)

• Bulk Solids Handling

• Continuous Crystallization and Centrifuge Operation

• Rising and Falling Film Evaporators

• Coalescers

• Horizontal Wiped Film Evaporator

• Process Vacuum Pumps

• Vacuum Process Steam Jets

• Chemistry: air oxidation of cumene and other substrates to synthesize Organic Peroxides, Polymerization of hydrocarbon streams to synthesize hydrocarbon resins. CAREER EXPERIENCE and KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

S&B Engineers and contractors- Canonsburg, PA October 2022- September 2023 Sr. Process Engineer- Performed process calculations for a hydrogen plant. Styropek

Process Safety Engineer (Monaca, Pa) –responsible for PSM initiatives on the plant site April 2022- October 2022t

UPMC-Greeter/Screener- Presby MUH hospitals May 2021-November 2021 Responsible for greeting/screening visitors to hospitals Volunteer- stroke gym Mercy Hospital – March 2021- covid outbreak Worked with patients and therapists to rehabilitate patients Robert Morris University

Part Time Faculty Chemistry instructor August 2021- December 2021 AECOM (contractor to NETL dept. of Energy) 2018-2021 Sr. Safety Specialist V (Pittsburgh, PA)

Responsible for conducting safety reviews on new and existing pilot plant processes at the NETL site. Seadrift Coke LLC 2016-2017

Sr. Process Engineer (Seadrift, TX)

Responsible for process engineering initiatives which reduce mill costs, increase product quality, and improve overall production efficiency. Work includes, process problem solving/troubleshooting for process improvement, development,

(running plant trials performing lab work) to optimize the process and justify capital expansion. Naphtha Treater Optimization Plant trials – Supervised laboratory work and executed plant trials to demonstrate the optimum feed configuration to obtain optimum removal of H2S and mercaptans from the Naphtha byproduct Stream for the Naphtha Treater.

BASF – Catalyst Division 2015 –2016

Sr. Project Engineer (contract position) (Iselin NJ) Responsible for the relocation of skid mounted process units (pilot plants used to measure catalyst activity and process yield) to a new laboratory. Work included coordination/supervision of outside and internal contractors, providing detailed schedules and coordinating the relocation with research operations. Work also involved leading Pssrs (pre-start- up safety reviews) for each of the pilot plants to ensure during the start-up of the relocated unit there were no safety concerns.

GEORGIA-PACIFIC- Building Products- Chemicals Division 2014 – 2015 Sr. Process Engineer (Columbus, OH)

Responsible for process engineering initiatives which reduce mill costs, increase product quality, and improve overall production efficiency. Includes process engineering and economic feasibility studies, PHA studies, process problem solving/troubleshooting for process improvement, development,(performing lab work) to optimize the process and justify capital expansion, project work (preparing scopes of work for capital projects). EASTMAN CHEMICAL (Formally the Resins Division of Hercules Inc.) 1983 – 2014 Chemical Process & Process Control Engineer/Lead Program Team Leader (Pittsburgh, PA) 2001- 2014 Interfaced with Operations, Sales, and Technology to bring closure to Technical Programs. Responsible for process engineering initiatives, which reduce mill costs, increase product quality, and improve overall production efficiency. Function includes process engineering and economic feasibility studies, process problem solving and troubleshooting for process improvement, development (running plant trials, performing lab work) to optimize the process and justify capital expansion, project work (preparing capital projects, supervising design and construction activities).

• Development and Start-Up of a Proprietary Separation Process - Performed pilot plant work at vendor’s facilities and provided detailed process design (generation of process flow diagrams) using Aspen, generation of equipment specifications, and participated in commissioning and start-up of new processing unit. LVPMRs win ASI's Readers Choice Award 2013

• Reactor scale-up Experience- demonstration of cracking technology and feed stream purification -Experience scaling up reactors from lab to pilot plant. Designed gas phase pilot- scale cracking reactor (plug flow design), involving matching residence times or space times with lab reactor and providing enough heat flux or temperature to the gas phase or reactants. Final design was a four-pass shell and tube exchanger with reaction on the tube side and utility or hot oil on the shell side. Intent of work was to crack the molecule (feed impurity) to smaller species and then easily separate by distillation from other feed monomers to purify the feed stream. Entire process was demonstrated at a pilot plant rented out by Eastman in Waltham, MA.

• Resin Cooler Process Controls Upgrade - Installed a new control system around resin cooler, allowing for faster startups. Control system implemented two feed forward control loops to anticipate load changes and allow for faster startups, resulting in a cost savings more than $100K/year. Robert Frey, PE 2

• Installation of an SIS system (Safety Instrumented system) on polymerization reactors After using an ARSST

(ADVANCED REACTIVE SYSTEM SCREENING TOOL) and learning that the reactor could not be relieved adequately by any size relief area, the eventual solution was the installation of an SIS SIL2 control system, based on a LOPA analysis, to dump a kill chemical into the reactor to retard or stop the reaction should a temperature excursion occur.

• Hot Oil System Upgrade - Upgraded hot oil system at C5 polymerization unit to a synthetic heat transfer fluid

(Dow Therm Q) suitable for high temperature application. Plant had previously used turbine oil as their heat transfer medium. Although less expensive initially oil would break down and polymerize, resulting in poor performance. Cost savings to change over to new oil more than $100K/year.

• Start-up and Commissioning of Solution Blender - Included preliminary process design, developing a Process Control Description for the PLC, interfacing with Kingsport and operations, developing a commissioning schedule for the new equipment, developing work instructions and training manuals for the operators, loop check-out and start-up of the equipment. The startup was a success in that all products were delivered on time within specification with no safety incidents occurring as a result of the new blender start-up ($4M Capital Expansion)

• Gibbstown Process Automation Projects - Supervised design and construction activities of Process Automation Projects at Gibbstown, NJ Plant, ranging in capital cost from $75K to $300K per project.

• Yan-shan Hydrocarbon Resin Plant - Developed Process Flow Diagrams for proposed $30M Yan-Shan, China Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin Plant. Involved collaborating with personnel at Middelburg, Netherlands, and serving as lead process engineer/interface between Operations, Technology, and Engineering.

• Participated in a plant team that identified $250K/yr. in cost savings by more efficiently operating the resin Finishing Units, Jefferson Hydrocarbon Resin Plant.

• Participated in a three-man Hercules team sent to our customer to identify and recommend cost saving opportunities of $377K/year.

• Led a Jefferson plant effort to identify cause of lost hydrogenation solvent at the hydrocarbon finishing unit, resulting in $655K/yr. cost savings.

• Led a plant effort and implemented a process change, resulting in a cleaner final peroxide product at Gibbstown Plant, saving $15M in potential lost revenue.

• Supervised activities (operators/experiments) in high pressure lab for development of proprietary material. Plant Process Engineer (Organic Peroxide Division) 1992 - 1994

(HERCULES INC., Gibbstown, NJ)

Responsible for process engineering initiatives, reducing mill costs, increasing product quality, and improving overall production efficiency, including process engineering and economic feasibility studies, process service to maintain current operations, development (running plant trials, performing lab work) to optimize processes, and project management

(preparing capital projects and supervising design/construction activities).

• Debottlenecked the DiCup® reactors at Gibbstown by withdrawing water (acid catalyzed condensation reaction) to maintain a constant catalyst concentration. The reactor trial at Gibbstown led to a minor modification of the original procedure and within 3 days of operation a 40% reactor throughput increase was demonstrated worth an annual increase in 2.4MM lbs. of Product or $3.5MM in new Gross Profit.

• Purifying of DiCup®through Mother Liquor washing

• Business was getting complaints of high salt level in their peroxide DiCup® product

• Mother liquor stream represents a huge recycle stream with no purge so the salt accumulates in the stream and is finally sent to the product stream where it raises the salt level of the final product.

• A plant trial was conceived-based on lab work to purge the salt from the recycle stream by water washing the salt from the mother Liquor stream to determine if that would lead to a cleaner salt free peroxide product.

• The lab work was successful and a plant trial was proposed &implemented (MOC) which was so successful that the plant manager extended the trial beyond the trial period.

• Process Control Engineer 1983 - 1992

Responsible for specification/installation of distributed control systems and instrumentation within new/existing facilities. Included process engineering, project preparation, system inspection (factory acceptance tests), database and control configuration design, instrument specifications, and startup assistance. Experienced with the following vendors and operating systems: Westinghouse (WDPF), Foxboro (I/A and Spectrum), EMC Controls (D/3), Allen-Bradley PLC's, TI/Siemans PLC's, Onspec Control Software, DEC operating systems (VMS & RSX-11M/M-PLUS). Robert Frey, PE 3

PROCON INTERNATIONAL INC., Des Plaines, IL 1982 - 1983 Instrumentation Engineer - Specified process instruments for the petroleum industry. OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Niagara Falls, NY Summer, 1981

(Formerly Hooker Chemical Company)

Masters Intern Student, Process Control Division

Responsibilities included improving existing facility for isomer separation by examining various design alternatives and associated control strategies. (Masters Thesis)

EXXON ENTERPRISES, Florham Park, NJ Summer, 1979/1980 Engineering Intern, Solar Thermal Systems Division Responsible for process calculations/dynamic modeling of solar energy hot water systems. EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts (Thesis Topic: Distillation Control)

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University

• Green Belt Certified, Six Sigma

• In-Depth PHA Training for PHA Resources, DuPont June 2014 Affiliations:

• Registered Professional Engineer (DE,.PA and NJ)

• Officer of Wilmington AIChE Section, 1988-90

PUBLICATIONS

"Controlling Thermally Linked Distillation Columns", Robert M. Frey, M.F. Doherty, J.M. Douglas, M.F. Malone,I&EC Process Design & Development.(1984, 23, 483)`

"Help Us Save Our Pumps-Problem Solving Ideas", Robert M. Frey, Control (January 2001, Vol. XIX, No. 1, pg. 90)

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