Process Engineer Senior
Resume:
Daniel Allan Smith
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Cell: 409-***-**** Email: *****************@*****.***
Education: BS in Chemical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1990 (GPA 3.2/4.0)
Summary: Process Engineering with over 30 years of experience in the oil/gas refining, pulp and paper, and petrochemicals industries. Familiar with the conceptual design and operation of most process equipment including instrumentation and safety devices in industry.Extensive Process Safety and conceptual design experience.
July 2024 – Current
Engineering and Inspection Services, Beaumont, Tx
Title: Senior Process Engineer
Prepare man power estimates for job proposals
Review projects to ensure design and environmental standards are met
Review and update company policies and procedures for process and environmental standards
Review an existing steam system for a temporary and new steam boiler at a polyethylene plant
Design new foam water spray system for fire mitigation on field storage tanks
July 2023 – Mar 2024
Anotech, Houston, Tx
Title: Project Engineer at Total Refinery in Port Arthur, Tx
Develop Capital Projects
6 projects for Benzene emissions mitigation regarding federal and state statutes
June 2022 – June 2023
PLC Construction, Liberty, Tx
Title: Senior Process Engineer
Pressure relief system evaluation and design
Equipment design and evaluation
Refinery system consulting including conceptual design and troubleshooting
Experience:
May 2021 –July 2022
Texas International Terminals, Galveston, Tx
Title: Board Operator, Logistics Coordinator
Qualified for board operator and outside operator positions with refinery
Coordinate and monitor crude and product barges to the refinery
June 2013 – Feb 2020
ReCon Engineering, Sulphur, La
Title: Senior Process Engineer
Pressure relief system evaluation
Refinery system consulting
December 2012 – June 2013
LyondellBasell Chemical, Lake Charles, La
Title: Senior Process Engineer
Process improvement projects
Environmental compliance projects
August 2012 – December 2012
ConsultNet at Invista Chemical in Orange, TX
Title: Senior Process Engineer
Update and validate relief valve calculations, ensure compliance.
February 2005 – June 2012
Contracting with S&B Engineering and Chicago Bridge & Iron
Major Companies: Motiva Enterprises, Valero Energy, Reficar (Cartegena, Columbia), BASF, Eastman Chemical, and British Petroleum
Title: Senior Process Engineer/Design - Refineries, Plants, facilities.
Participated in projects ranging from $25K through $4B.Worked either individually or in a group on all aspects of project development from initial concept/screening through start-up.
Duties for all projects include: development or redlining of P&IDs and PFDs, developing or verifying process flows and all utility requirements, design of all new equipment, analyzing existing equipment to determine adequacy for new service conditions, hydraulic analysis including general pipe routing, sizing pressure relief devices (includes ASME Section VIII, non-coded vessels, and atmospheric storage), leading or participating in PHAs, reviewing bid tabs from vendors, and set up compliance programs to meet the requirements of CFR 1910.119.
Reviewed many systems for potential expansion. Reviews included numerous capacity steps to show where equipment or pipe would need to be replaced due to flow limitations. This includes both batch processes and continuous processes. A complete review of the utilities is always a major part of these reviews.
Utility systems studied and reviewed include: plant and instrument air, nitrogen, water, oily water sewers, process sewers, cooling water, chilled water, steam (including all generation from fired boilers to waste heat boilers), electricity generation (includes both steam turbine and gas fired turbines), fuel gas (includes internally generated system and purchased fuel systems), oxygen, and hydrogen. These system reviews have included hydraulic studies when necessary.
Quality assurance has also been a major role in projects including verifying calculations, proofing written documents, verifying pipe specs, ensuring applicable codes and standards are met with the design and proposed operating strategy, and making sure that all monitoring and reporting systems are in place. One very important part of this is ensuring all management of change documentation is created.
January 2001 – October 2004
ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Beaumont, Texas
Title: Senior Process Engineer
Preparation of process design specification packages, member of the safe operating committee, lead and/or facilitate HAZOPs, review and approve plant MOCs (management of change documents) for facility or operational changes. Additional duties included accident investigation along with root cause analysis.
Part of Beaumont Area Engineering Organization (BAEO) serving the 2ExxonMobil chemical plants in Beaumont. The Beaumont Chemical Plant includes an Ethylene Unit, Paraxylene Unit, Cyclohexane Unit, two Ethylene Cracking Units, and Specialty Chemical Units. The Polyethylene Plant includes three high-pressure and three low-pressure polyethylene units, each with compounding facilities.
Experience estimating capitol & operating costs, economic analysis, flow sheet development, equipment selection and process simulations.
Major projects include (plus numerous smaller projects and studies):
1.Installed new above-ground process sewer for environmental compliance. ($10M)
2.Ethylene Compressor Wheel replacement and upgrade including new dry gas seals. ($3M)
3.Control room consolidation to combine 2 existing control rooms into one. Most tie-ins performed with the units still in operation. ($3M)
4.Installed new liquid ring compressor system to recover tank vapors in tank farm area. ($2M)
5.Paraxylene piping revamp and exchanger replacement for improved heat integration. ($2M)
September 1999 – January 2001
SchmArt Engineering, Beaumont, Texas
Title: Process Design Engineer
Primary duties involved the development of calculation methodologies for the analysis of overpressure of process equipment and storage tanks (all sizes from 1000 gallon to 200,000 barrel). This also included developing models for inlet and outlet hydraulics for relief devices and overall flare header analysis. The calculation models covered liquid, vapor, and two-phase flow.
Additional responsibilities included proposing possible mitigation strategies for inadequately protected systems. Some of the major facilities that I serviced are Cytec in New Orleans, LA, DuPont in Victoria, TX, Bayer in Orange, TX, Huntsman in Port Arthur, TX and Austin, TX, Equistar in Baytown, TX, Murphy Oil USA in Superior, WS, and Sunoco in Philadelphia, PA.
October 1997 – August 1999
Imes Engineering, Lake Charles, LA
Title: Process Engineer
(Located at Lyondell facility in Lake Charles, LA) Responsible for developing mitigation strategies and project specification packages for operating systems deemed to be “inadequately protected” from a pressure protection survey made of the plant. Mitigation techniques included equipment/pipe replacement, modification, and/or more detailed analysis of the existing system. It was necessary to work closely with the Project Coordinator to ensure that items specified met all applicable codes (internal and external) and that installation/fabrication critical paths were clearly identified.
December 1992 – October 1997
Walk, Haydel, and Associates, New Orleans, LA and Lake Charles, LA
Title: Process Engineer
Provided in-plant engineering service for BP refinery(Belle Chasse, LA) for heat integration project and off-sites PSM study for tank farm area.
Participated in PSM studies for Witco (Gretna, LA), and Citgo Refinery and Cit-Con Lube Oil (Lake Charles, LA). Developed calculational procedures and methodologies using spreadsheets. Developed BASIC model to simulate depressurizing of a distillation column system. Also developed mitigation strategies for systems in which safety device protection was missing or deemed inadequate.
Lead process designer for Cyclohexane expansion project for Chevron Chemical in Port Arthur, TX. Primary duties included verifying vessel sizing, provide detailed hydraulic analysis, marking up P&IDs, and providing a detailed heat and material balance.
June 1990 – December 1992
Shell Offshore, Inc.
Title: Facilities Engineer
Health, Safety and Environmental (HS&E) Group – Review projects to ensure that internal HS&E standards are met, track DOT regulated pipelines offshore, and perform internal safety audits at operating facilities. Also wrote DOT pipeline manual for Yellowhammer Gas Plant (Mobile Bay, Ala.).
Gas Plants Group – Develop mitigation strategies for facility inadequacies determined by internal safety audits. Participate with troubleshooting daily operating problems.
Facilities Engineering Group – Responsible for developing monitoring and mitigation plans for scale and corrosion at the East Bay production field and the Cognac platforms.
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