Process Safety Expert
Resume:
Mr. DILIP K. DAS, P.E., FAIChE
Design And Safety, LLC
KANSAS CITY, MO 64119, USA, Rev 07/16/2026
Work: 816-***-**** www.designandsafety.com Email: *********@*****.*** ABSTRACT
Mr. Dilip K. Das is a consulting engineer in Process Safety and Process Design, and is the Principal Consultant of Design and Safety, LLC, and also serves as non-employee part-time Principal Consultant of ioMosaic Corporation, Houston, TX. He is a recognized expert in DIERS (Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems) technology with over 50 years of experience in process design and mechanical design of process equipment, and more than 30 years’ experience in Emergency Relief System design. He retired as a Principal Engineer at Bayer CropScience's Kansas City Plant and is the current Chair of the SuperChems Technical Steering Committee. He is a past Chair/Director of AIChE (Kansas City Chapter). He is the co-author of three books in Chemical Engineering, a contributing author in 3rd International Symposium on Runaway Reactions, Pressure Relief Design, and Effluent System, 2005 and the second edition of Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems, author of numerous technical articles, and a holder of US patent. He has undergraduate education in India & Pakistan having placed first in the university in both and securing gold medals in chemical engineering. He graduated from University of Washington, Seatle, WA (MSChE) and has a diploma in AI in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He is a Fellow of AIChE, and a registered professional engineer in MO, and TX.
Objective: To work from home-office in Kansas City, MO, USA as a part-time consultant in process safety or process design or teaching in the area of process design and process safety. WORK HISTORY
DESIGN AND SAFETY, LLC 2016- Present
Principal Consultant
Emergency Relief System Design, Falling Film Evaporator Design, experimental data development, simulation using SuperChemsTM Expert for emergency relief system design, Chemcad for process design, evaluation of relief system design packages, solving unique emergency relief system problems, part-time consulting work from home-office. 2
ioMosaic Corporation 2016 - Present
Houston, TX
Principal Consultant, non-employee, working part-time from home-office in the area of process safety.
BAYER CROPSCIENCE, Kansas City, MO 1997-2016
The U.S. subsidiary of Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany, with total NAFTA sales over $1.2 billion and business units in the Crop Protection, Garden and Professional Care, and Animal Health markets.
Principal Engineer/Pressure Safety Specialist (2001-2016), Pressure Safety Specialist (1997-2000) Relief system design using DIERS (Design Institute of Emergency Relief System) technology using such experimental apparatus as VSP (Vent Sizing Package), ARSST (Reactive System Screening Tools), and ARC (Accelerating Rate Calorimeter), and software like SuperChemsTM, CHEMCADTM, and PreVentTM. Process modeling, energy optimization and design of specialty equipment such as the falling film evaporator. Supervise the work of one senior engineer and a chemist.
• Improved the ERS (Emergency Relief System) design capability of the department to the world class level by procuring SuperChems, E-ware, Code-ware, VSP, RSST, Win-Vent
(Deflagration)
• Made a number of contributions to improve the in-house ERS (Emergency Relief System) program: Developed design method of controlling surface temperature of equipment exposed to external fire using sprinkler water, developed the method of identification of vessel flow model and flow regime characterization, calculation of pressure drop and flooding in packed column, correction of relief valve inlet line pressure drop, improvement of SuperChems.
• Contributed to the energy management of the plant through a team environment.
• Personal Professional Development
Got registered as a Licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. Published a number of technical papers in the national and international meeting of DIERS group, and the AIChE local chapter. Served as Chairman of the local chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
• Development of Colleagues
Trained four colleagues at Bayer and three engineers at Jacobs Engineering. Also assisted two technicians of Process Development in getting the appropriate training.
• Running the Extra Mile
Responded to calls for help outside the normal scope of work, sometimes at weekends. Helped colleagues in mathematical modeling and simulation. Served as a technical source of process engineering, heat exchanger design, and simulation. Served as a consultant in Operational Excellence program. Received “work horse”-award and Special Recognition award.
• Example of Vision
Converted the current in-house program into Visual Basic from an outdated language through an outside contractor thereby making the program manageable by younger engineers. 3
• Peer Respect
Received unsolicited compliments from many colleagues, nationally and internationally.
• Promoted to Principal Engineer
• Received Special Recognition Award (2005) for developing economic benefit, working above and beyond expectation, and teamwork.
IMES ENGINEERING, Baton Rouge, LA (1996 -1997)
Senior Staff Engineer.
Relief system design and header analysis, and special projects including trouble-shooting of distillation columns.
CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION
Staff Engineer, St Gabriel, LA (1988 – 1996)
Process design, PSM/HAZOP studies, trouble-shooting, plant engineering, production supervision, simulation (CHEMCAD, ASPEN), systems engineering, project management, contractor supervision and start-up.
• Received “Outstanding Contributor” award for developing new operating parameters through simulation of a distillation column, which resulted in the savings of $64,000/year of utility cost without any capital investment.
• Received “Outstanding Contributor” award for of a filter press modification, saving $224,000 in equipment cost.
• Developed equipment to salvage short membranes in a Reverse Osmosis system, saving
$407,000.
• Designed plant scale agitator system for dyestuff reactors, reducing batch cycle time.
• Received a patent for developing a fail-safe, non-return dip tube for adding a chemical to a reactor.
• Received a free license of CHEMCAD simulation for helping them to develop relief sizing based on DIERS.
Principal Process Development Engineer, Toms River, NJ. (1984 – 1988) Process engineering and design, pilot plant design and installation, generation of scale-up data, translation of laboratory and pilot plant data into the design of commercial plant or modification of existing plant in the dye-stuffs and chemical division, systems engineering, cost control and project management.
• Discovered flaw in the phosgene scrubbing column, and suggested modification. RHôNE-POULENC Inc., New Brunswick, NJ (1980 – 1984) Senior Project Engineer
Process design, simulation, systems engineering, cost control, energy management, and contractor supervision.
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STAUFFER CHEMICAL Company, Dobbs Ferry, NY (1975 – 1980) Senior Process Engineer
Translation of laboratory and pilot plant data into the design of commercial plant, process design, and simulation (ASPEN,
CHEMCAD, B-JAC).
• Developed program for designing falling film evaporator, and successfully applied the program to design a unit which worked well.
C F BRAUN & Company, Alhambra, CA (1973 – 1975)
Senior Chemical Engineer
Development of P&ID, equipment sizing, and bid evaluation in the engineering of chemical plants and refineries.
APV Engineering Co Ltd, Calcutta, India (1967-1969) Chemical Engineer
Process and mechanical design of pressure vessels such as heat exchanger, distillation columns, reactors followed by inspection of fabrication at the workshop. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & AFFILIATION
• Licensed Professional Engineer currently in TX, MO
• Previously licensed in LA, NJ, and NY
• Trained in Expert System in Process Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers since June 2011.
• Named in Marquis Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition
• Chairman and Director, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Kansas City Chapter, (2001-2004)
• Chairman, SuperChemsTM Technical Steering Committee, (AIChE/DIERS). SuperChemsTM is world-class dynamic simulation software for emergency relief system design since 1999.
• Selected as Adjunct Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City
• Selected by AIChE as an instructor to teach How to Prepare for PE Examination in Chemical Engineering, and DIERS BASIC COURSE IN ERS DESIGN.
• Free Licensee of CHEMCADTM and SuperChemsTM
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EDUCATION, ACADEMIC AWARDS, AND HONORS
Certificate in Expert System in Process Engineering, MIT, USA MSChE, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA BChE (Honors), Gold Medalist, Placed First in the university, Jadavpur University, Chemical Engineering, India.
B.Sc. (Honors), Placed First in the University, Rajshahi University, Chemistry, East Pakistan. Intermediate Science: Placed 3rd in Rajshahi University, E. Pakistan. TRAINING
1. Heat Exchanger Design, The Center for Professional Development 2. Fouling of Heat Transfer Equipment, The Center for Professional Development 3. Heat Exchanger Simulation Course by HTFS, Canada 4. B-JAC Heat Exchanger Design Course – B-JAC Inc. 5. Industrial Membrane Technology, The Center for Professional Development 6. ASPEN Basic Training (Steady state & Batch) – ASPEN Technology 7. Analytical Troubleshooting, Kepner-Tregoe
8. Emergency Relief System Design Using DIERS Technology (AIChE) 9. Chemical Process Relief Design Seminar – Dr. Joseph Leung 10. Thermal Hazard Evaluation and Pressure Relief Design, Dr. Georges Melhem, Arthur D. Little
11. Advanced Consequence Analysis, Dr. Georges Melhem, Arthur D. Little 12. Relief System Design Course, Dr. Hans Fauske, Fauske Associates 13. CHEMCAD Basic Training Course, Ben Horwitz– Chemstations Inc. 14. CHEMCAD Dynamics Training Course, John E. Edwards – Chemstations Inc. 15. SuperChems Expert Training, Mr. Daniel Nguyen, ioMosaic 16. Analysis of PRV Stability in Relief Systems, Dr. Georges Melhem, ioMosaic AWARDS & HONORS
1. Outstanding Cost Improvement Award – 1992, Ciba-Geigy Corporation 2. Outstanding Cost Improvement Award – 1994, Ciba-Geigy Corporation 3. Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 4. Received Honorary Doctorate from Hate-Buster Association (Inter-faith Organization), Liberty, MO
5. Received Free License of CHEMCAD from Chemstations Inc., Houston, TX 6
6. Received Free License of SuperChemsTM Expert from ioMosaic Corporation, Salem, NH
7. Fellow of AIChE, June 2011.
PUBLICATIONS
1. “Chemical Engineering for Professional Engineers' Examinations”, McGraw-Hill. ISBN# 0-07-050640-X,
2. “Chemical Engineering License Review”, Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1996. ISBN# 1-57645-000-7
3. “Chemical Engineering License Problems and Solutions”, Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1996. ISBN# 1-57645-037-6
4. “EIT Chemical Review”, Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1996. ISBN# 1-57645- 023-6
5. Emergency Pressure Relief System Design, AIChE/Wiley is in the process of publication.
6. Dip Pipe Apparatus – A Fail-Safe Non-Return Tube, US Patent # 5236013 (1993) 7. “Allowing for Process Upset Conditions in Piping System Design”, Plant Engineering, March 2, 1978.
8. “Analog Studies of Non-linear Processes”, Graduate thesis, University of Washington. (1971).
9. “Design of Thermosyphon Reboiler by Personal Computer”, International Conference, Calcutta, India (1987).
9. “Sizing Relief Devices in Runaway Reactions”, AIChE Environmental Conference, Baton Rouge (1995).
10. “Good Engineering Practice of Instrumentation for A Relief Valve and Rupture Disk Combination”, Spring DIERS Meeting, 1999.
11. “Quantitative and Qualitative Method of Determining Flow Regime”, Spring DIERS Meeting, 2000.
12. “Comparison of Omega Method & SuperChemsTM in Relief Sizing Involving Vertical Down Flow Pipe”, Fall DIERS Group Meeting, Boston, 2000. 13.“Estimation of Physical Properties of Non-standard Compounds Using SuperChemsTM”, Fall International DIERS Group Meeting, Boston, 2000. 14. “SuperChemsTM How To: Adding A Compound to Database”, Spring DIERS Group Meeting, 2001.
15. “A Comparison Between NFPA 68/69 In terms of Design Pressure”, Spring DIERS Meeting, 2001.
16. “In Case of Fire, Break Assumptions”, Chemical Engineering, February, 2004 17. “A Heuristic Approach of Calculating Spray Water Flux Needed to Avert Fire Induced Runaway Reactions”, Third International Symposium on Runaway 7
Reactions and Pressure Relief Design, Cincinnati, OH, 2005. 18. “A Heuristic Approach of Calculating Spray Water Flux Needed to Avert Fire Induced Runaway Reactions”, Process Safety Progress, Volume 25, No. 3, September 2006.
19. Electrostatic hazards in pumping non-conductive fluid in lined pipe, DUG Fall Meeting, 2008
20. How to set design pressure and temperature of equipment from pressure safety considerations, DIERS User Group Meeting, Spring, 2009. 21. Scrubber Design – Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling System, 2nd edition, DIERS (CCPS), 2010.
22. Emergency Vent Sizing for Reactive Materials for Chapter 3.5 Outlines-Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling System, 2nd edition, DIERS Fall meeting
(2010), Reno, NV
23. A Case of Mistaken Interpretation of Calorimetric Data and How to Avoid It, DIERS Spring Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada (April, 2013). 24. The Art and Science of Simulating a Runaway Reaction Scenario without Experimentally Developed Calorimetric Data, DIERS Spring Meeting (2014) 25. Overpressure Protection by System Design, DIERS Fall Meeting (2014), Global Congress on Process Safety, Spring (2015)
26. Relief Sizing for Reactive Materials: DIERS BASIC COURSE outlines, DIERS Fall Meeting (2015)
27. Introduction to ARC 254 VariPhi NETZSCH and Determination of Kinetics Parameters, DIERS Spring Meeting (2016)
28. Introduction to NFPA 68 & 69: Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting and Containment, DIERS Spring Meeting (2016)
29. The Physics & Metaphysics of the Sensitivity of Calorimetric Instruments & Human Senses, DIERS Fall Meeting (2016)
30. Handling Slurry in Emergency Relief System (ERS) Design, DIERS Spring Meeting (2017)
31. The Physics & Metaphysics of the Sensitivity of Calorimetric Instruments & Human Senses, Process Safety Progress, Wiley Interscience (2017) 32. Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems, Second Edition, Contributing author, CCPS, AIChE, New York, NY, USA (2017) 33. Streamlining ERS Design for Reactive Systems, DIERS Spring (2018) 34. The Contingencies of Distillation Column for ERS Design with Special Reference to the Location of Relief Device, DIERS Spring, Karlsruhe, Germany(2019) 35. Phase Separation in Effluent Handling: Introduction to its Impact in Effluent Handling Cost, DIERS Fall (2019)
36. Understanding MAWP and Its Relationship with Design Pressure & Design of Vessel at High Pressure, DIERS Fall (2020)
37. The Art and Science of Sizing Fusible Plugs to Protect the Jacket Side of a Jacketed Vessel during an External Fire Exposure, DIERS Spring (2021) 8
38. Nuances on Rupture Disks, DIERS Fall (2021)
39. An Intuitive Enquiry into the Basics of Isoconversional Kinetics, DIERS Spring
(2022)
40. Improvements and Drawbacks of ASME XIII over ASME VIII UG-140, DIERS Fall
(2022)
41. Epistemology of Joule-Thomson Effect, DIERS Spring (2024) 42. An Introduction to von Misses Stress, DIERS Fall (2024) 43. Piping System Design and Testing, DIERS Spring (2025) 44. Nuances of HAZOP, DIERS Fall (2025)
45. Basics of Polymerization, DIERS Spring (2026)
Finally, a book entitled Emergency Pressure Relief System Design comprising 11 chapters and 14 appendices authored by Dilip Das is due to be published in 2026 by Wiley/AIChE. Visit amazon to see the details about the book.
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY
(1) 1999 – Present: Chair, SuperChemsTM
Technical Steering Committee, DIERS (AIChE)
(2) September 2001- May 2004
Chairman & Director, AIChE, Kansas City Chapter, Kansas City, MO
(3)September 2000 – May 2001
Vice-Chairman, AIChE, Kansas City Chapter, Kansas City, MO
(4) 2000 - Present
Member, Hate-Buster Association- an Inter-faith Organization to promote religious tolerance.
(5)1992 – 1996
Science Fair Judge, AIChE, Baton Rouge Chapter, LA
(6)1977 – 1978
Technical Secretary, AIChE, Tappan Zee Chapter, New York
(7)1992-1996
Server, Soup Kitchen (An organization to serve food to the homeless), La Vincent De Paul Mission, Baton Rouge, LA
(8)1990-1995
Chaperon, Boy Scouts of America, Troop 505, Baton Rouge, LA [Took driving test and got license to drive a bus, and drove buses to take scouts to camping.] 9
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