Satyajit Verma, Ph.D., P.E. (Texas) Principal Chemical Engineer

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Team-spirited Chemical Engineer with a wealth of experience in polymers, petrochemical, LNG, and oil refining industries specifically in the areas of process and equipment design, process and product development and pressures relief systems. A result-focused mentor who actively participated in API 520, API 521, and API 2000 pressure relief sub-committees and published several technical papers at conferences. Seeking a staff or contract position with an operating or EPC company as a Chemical Process Technical Lead.

Areas of Expertise include:

High Density Polyethylene

Polyacetals

Process Simulations

Polymer processing

PFD, P&ID Development

Process Development

LNG Production

Product Development

Relief Systems

Statistical Analysis

Equipment Specification

Technical Documentation

Professional Experience

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING Houston, TX 5/2018 to PRESENT

Independent consulting for polyacetal, polyethylene, LNG petrochemicals process technology, process and equipment design, PFD, P&ID and HMB development and safety and emergency relief systems.

KBR ENGINEERING Houston, TX 10/2019 to 5/2020

Technical Professional Leader - Process

Pre-FEED design of all inbound and outbound tankage for a SABIC Petrochemical Complex (Ethylene Cracker, Propane dehydrogenation, High Density Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Ethylene Glycol units); Pre-FEED for the relief valves for Amine Recovery and Sour Water stripper Units in PEMEX Refinery.

BECHTEL OG&C Houston, TX 8/2011 to 4/2018

Principal Process Engineer

Functionally responsible for training, coaching, auditing, revalidating. Process documentation in compliance with API, ASME regulatory standards. Workshare with Bechtel’s New Delhi office.

Key Projects:

LyondellBasell Corp (LaPorte, TX): monitored the daily activities of junior engineers in Houston and New Delhi offices in PFD development, design and specification of safety systems and provide them on-the-job training and coaching as necessary.

Supervised the calculation and documentation of pressure relief valves, de-pressuring valves, and process safety time calculations for a one billion pounds/year grass root high density polyethylene plant.

ExxonMobil (Bayport, TX): spearheaded the revamp of a Catalytic Hydrodesulphurization (Hydro-treating) unit for audit and revalidation of the safety relief system and HIPPS.

Chevron Wheatstone Australia LNG Project: directed functions pertaining to design and sizing of utilities and fuel gas systems, instrument air, hot oil system with staged start-up, Membrane Nitrogen Generation System, Liquid Nitrogen System, Nitrogen blanketing of atmospheric tanks, low pressure, and high-pressure fuel gas systems for a $12B LNG plant.

URS CORPORATION (now AECOM) Houston, TX 12/2008 to 7/2011

Senior Consulting Engineer

Solve complex technical problems, process calculations, equipment design, and specifications.

Key Projects:

Confidential Client’s Polysilicon Plant in Michigan: prepared sizing and specifications documents for relief valves. Created a template for sizing PSVs per API STD for use by all process engineers.

ConocoPhilips Alaska Project: focused on process calculations and P&ID development for the compression of natural gas produced from several low-pressure gas wells.

JACOBS ENGINEERING Baton Rouge, LA 7/2006 to 12/2008

Principal Engineer

Meet client’s expectation through the delivery of high-quality process solutions within time restraints.

Key Projects:

ExxonMobil (Baton Rouge, LA): Reconciled problems from a safety audit of 16 heat exchangers in the Catalytic Cracking unit through the design of a relief system.

Championed the front-end engineering design package for an MEA scrubber tower utilized to sweeten sour gases collected from various refining units within the facility prior to sending them to high pressure burners.

~ ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE ~

Senior Process Development Engineer, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Corpus Christi, TX

Developed solvent free manufacturing technology for polyacetal.

Scale-up from pilot plant to commercial plant, Reactor screw design.

Collaborative research work with colleagues in Germany and Japan.

Senior Product Development Engineer, Allied Signal Corporation (ExxonMobil Corp.), Baton Rouge, LA

Evaluated catalyst for ethylene polymerization on HDPE loop reactors using Philips and Solvay Technology (Slurry Polymerization) in the plant.

Developed new blends of mineral (talc and mica) filled high density polyethylene. Developed new blends of HDPE and Nylon to improve barrier to gasoline for automotive gas tank applications.

Pilot Plant evaluation of blow molding, extrusion grades of HDPE, HDPE blends and their evaluation at customer sites.

Assistant Professor (Mechanical Engineering Technology), Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX

Taught Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Statics, Heat Transfer, Material Science of Non-metals

Education & Training

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Baton Rouge, LA

Master of Science, Chemical Engineering LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Baton Rouge, LA

Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Kanpur, India

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