Stress Engineer Piping

ANTHONY LAM

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Houston TX, *****

T: 832-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin

B.S. in Mechanical Engineer – December 1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

10/2017 – Present Lyondellbasell Company

Principal Piping Engineering & Fixed Equipment Reliability Engineering

20 years of Piping Engineering experience in projects for the Oil and Gas Refinery, Petrochemical, and Piping engineering team leader in several successful projects.

·Determines methods and solutions for complex piping engineering stress analysis problems and selects the most efficient & fitness for service and economical manner in meeting the objectives.

·Perform piping system thermal flexibility analyses in accordance with ASME piping codes, standards and industry practices.

·Collaborate with designers, engineers, and the construction team to optimize pipe routing and support design.

·Verify field conditions, constructability of designs, and assist in resolving problems during field construction.

·Provide accurate detail piping design per project requirement in accordance with scope, budget, and schedule as assigned by discipline lead.

·Construction inspections for correctness and completeness for piping layout and pipe support installations prior to plant start-up.

·Work closely with clients, plant personnel and vendors while completing Project.

7/2013 – 10/2017 FLUOR ENTERPRISES, INC.

Principal Piping Engineering (Reliance Refinery & Sasol Project)

Extensive Piping Engineer and Skid experience in projects for the Oil and Gas Refinery, Petrochemical, and Power Generation industries and Piping engineering team leader in several successful projects. The projects involved the engineering and design of process plants including LNG, FCCU, crude, delayed Coker, hydrocracking, gas/oil separation units, and pipelines and offshore platform. Experience includes detailed engineering and design, construction / field support, and field assignments. Knowledge of ASME B31.3, B31.4 & B31.8, other codes and industry standards and a variety of computer programs including pipe stress analysis programs CAESAR II and AUTOPIPE.

·Evaluated piping nozzle loads on various types of equipment including API and ANSI pumps, turbines, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors, pressure vessels, shell and tube heat exchangers, air coolers, fired heater, and storage tanks.

·Redesigned piping layout and designed pipe supports, constant and variable spring supports, complex expansion joints, shock arresters, and other engineered items to meet piping allowable stresses and equipment nozzle load requirements.

·Evaluated local stresses at pipe support attachments.

·Performed wind and static seismic loading analysis, piping modal analysis, flange design calculations, and static heat transfer calculations in large diameter refractory lined pipe and vessels.

·Sufficient knowledge of piping materials to guide staff in the preparation of piping and valve specifications and subsequently ensure purchase to required standards. Develop excellent people management skills such as leadership, team, interpersonal, coaching, mentoring and supervisory skills and including the ability to plan, set goals, and manage time, priorities, resources and accountabilities, schedules and cost.

1/2011 - 7/2013 MUSTANG ENGINEERING, LP.

Lead Pipe Stress Engineering (Western Gallup Refinery & Noble Energy Project)

·Piping engineering team leader in several successful projects in detail design for Oil & Energy plant.

·Responsible developing a plan and schedule for designing piping system so that system can be

effectively and efficiently analyzed.

·Perform pipe stress analysis of piping systems involved in Western Gallup Refinery & Noble Energy project.

·Performs stress analysis on the assigned critical piping systems using Caesar II & PDMS & Smart Plant Review and CADWorx program.

·Perform Pipe Support Strength determination and failure analysis check.

·Perform and oversee all Piping Stress Analysis, assuring compliance with all applicable codes

Pertaining to piping systems and strain sensitive equipment.

11/2007 - 12/2010 OIL & GAS SOLUTIONS, LLC

Lead Piping & Mechanical Engineering (FLEX & Excelerate & Conoco-Phillips, LNG Project)

·Piping engineering team leader in several successful projects in FEED/Detailed Design for Offshore Oil & Gas Platform, FPSO and LNG.

·Creates FPSO stress models as per latest piping isometric drawings and performs stress analysis

calculation for the assigned critical piping systems using Caesar II & PDMS program.

·Routing of piping systems as per P&ID’s in areas like Cold box, and Plant interconnecting piping,

compressor area piping and storage area piping.

·Perform Pipe Support Strength determination and failure analysis check.

·Solve piping flexibility problems regarding excessive restraint forces, pipe displacements, ASME B31.3 code stresses and allowable nozzle forces (stationary and rotating equipment nozzles).

·Stress check of numerous check print isos and signoff isos.

·Prepare necessary stress analysis documentation to be submitted to client for checking and approval.

·Responsible in addressing comments, resubmitting revised stress analysis calculation and preparing technical explanations until client’s acceptance of stress reports.

·Prepares technical explanation/response on client or engineering consultant’s comments on piping materials, piping design and other related concerns.

8/2005 - 11/2007 SBM ATLANTIA

Pipe Stress Engineer (FPSO Frade & ThunderHawk Project)

·Performed stress analysis with CAESAR II for the given Piping & Pipeline stress package systems e.g. API 610 Pumps

·Checking the loads on the equipments nozzles including, (pumps, heat exchangers, towers & heaters), using vendor’s allowable loads or the appropriate code.

·Conduct calculation on additional information and necessary verification as per project stress criteria i.e., flange leakage calculation, trunnion verification, PSV reaction force calculation, etc.

·Evaluating impact loads on the safety valves.

·Marking up of supports on the isometrics of the noncritical and critical lines.

·Responsible in checking and revising piping engineering model with regards to project standards,

applicable codes (i.e. ASME, API, NORSOK etc.) and client requirements

·Preparing calculation reports of the critical lines analyzed by the CAESAR II.

3/2004 - 8/2005 BECHTEL CO.

Pipe Stress Engineer (Reliance Project)

·Supporting and analyzing of critical lines, including lines connected to (heaters, compressors, pumps & heat exchangers), using CAESAR II.

·Checking the loads on the equipments nozzles including, (pumps, heat exchangers, towers & heaters), using vendor’s allowable loads or the appropriate code.

·Design pipe support and perform stress analysis to produce construction drawings

·Review customer designs, calculations and drawings for accuracy and standard compliance

·Preparing calculation reports of the critical lines analyzed by the CAESAR II.

12/1999 - 3/2004 GE AERODERIVATIVE POWER CO.

Mechanical Reliability Engineer

·Perform globally consistent field issue identification, reliability methodologies and resolution(pumps, compressor, vessel, and turbine)

·Support maintenance and reliability on LM6000, LM2500, GE10 Turbine Generator Packaging for petrochemical and refinery industries.

·Responsible for improving the reliability of plant static equipment and rotating equipment.

·Perform root cause analysis on rotating/static equipment.

·Evaluates system design of LM6000, LM2500+, GE10

·Responsible for technical integration of a fail-safe device and gas generator into an overall system.

·Review mechanical drawings & specifications.

·Supporting LM1600 Design with Mechanical Lead Engineer.

·Produce all the design calculations required to prove the operation, functionality and fitness for

purpose of the new designs.

·Prepared equipment specifications, system descriptions & procedures, system flow diagrams/process & instrument diagram (P&ID’s).

·Responsible for ship units on time by providing accurate and timely responses and/or resolutions to Sourcing and Production related to technical issues.

·Guidance to engineering when choosing parts

1/1996- 11/1999 THE BOEING COMPANY – NASA

Integrated Thermal Analyst on Space Station (SINDA and TRASYS)

·Flight Element Passive thermal design and verification

1. Define induced thermal environments

2. Define passive thermal requirements for flight elements and components

3. Perform analysis and verification of Flight Element and lower level ORUs passive thermal

control

4. Validate and correlate thermal models

·Verify Thermal & Environmental Control Subsystems (TECS) performance as installed in end-items, cargo elements, and on-orbit stages

·Define the inter-element and inter-subsystems interfaces for TECS

·Define subsystem software requirements and integrate software with TECS

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