Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Project Director

Luis Granados

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The Woodlands, TX 77382

Tel: 832-***-****

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

I am an engineer and career manager with a record of success in managing large projects in the oil, gas, electricity, petrochemical, and steel industries.

Have high standards of ethics and will not cut corners when dealing with the facilities' safety and the workers' welfare.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Director of Engineering.

LG Engineering Corporation 2016 to present

Managed the engineering department of an EPC doing FEED and Detailed Engineering Design for utility companies: gas, water, and steam. Design of compressor stations, (reciprocating and centrifugal), pumping stations (centrifugal, piston, diaphragm, progressive cavity, etc.). Selection of gas turbines for single and combined cycle)

Performed the quality controls audit for major nuclear power generation facilities for SMUD- California

Reactor Safety Analysis using Relap V

Thermal Hydraulics analysis using Paret

Neutron Distribution Analysis using Disnel

Optimized industrial processes using Machine Learning and Neural Networks.

Configuration of generation packages with Gas turbines GE and Siemens.

Root Cause Failure Analysis using PRA and Risk Matrix.

Finite Element Analysis for Structural and Thermal Design.

Hydraulics simulations for pumps, compressors, and piping.

Finite Element Analysis using ANSYS Fluent and NX for CFD .

SCADA and DCS for pipelines and water systems

Senior Design Engineer

General Electric Corp - July 2012 to 2016

Designed mechanical equipment and components for a novel technology on coal gasification.

Design of a pump to move slurry at high pressure, design of combined cycle gas turbines_steam turbines fir the IGCC configuration

Designed mechanical and electromechanical components for the oil, gas, and power generation ICCG. Performed Finite element Analysis and thermal analysis for mission-critical equipment.

Designed Positive Displacement Pumps (Posimetric pump), Progressive cavity, diaphragm pumps, and slurry pumps.

Designed proppant injection pumps for hydraulic fracturing (fracking)

Instrumentation and Process Control for reactors.

Gas turbine Aero-derivatives, Non-Destructive testing examination of gas turbines and other rotary equipment

Steam turbines, IGCC combined cycle

Project Manager

Curtiss-Wright, Inc - June 2011 to July 2012

Supervising the construction of cumbersome pressure vessels for refineries, petrochemical, and power generation facilities for Ecopetrol, Mississippi Power (Southern Co.) Sasol, CHS, etc.

Steam turbines condensers and cooling water systems, Rotary and reciprocating compressors

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Willbros Engineering - Amarillo, TX - February 2011 to Jun 2011

Working to upgrade wastewater draining system for Schafer Compressor Station (El Paso)

Replacing a blowdown tank for high-pressure hydrocarbon liquids to an atmospheric AST using a restrictive orifice at Amarillo Compressor Station (El Paso now Kinder Morgan).. SCADA using RTU and PLC’s.

Project Engineer for SOTO 1- Gazprom Project in Venezuela

Valerus Inc - December 2010 to February 2011

Gas processing plant for Venezuela's PdVSA. This is a 200 MMSCFD gas de-ethanizer and de-propanizer for Natural Gas Liquids built by Russia's Gazprom in Venezuela

Project Engineer, OKC

Enogex Inc - August 2010 to November 2010 on three gas gathering expansions each about 35MMSCFD. Under a contract for Oxford International to provide temporary services. SCADA and DCS for natural gas pipelines (midstream)

Technical advisor.(Consultant)

Entrion, Inc - February 2009 to May 2010

Performed Root Cause Failure Analysis on mechanical and electrical equipment located on three offshore platforms in Singapore owned by Ensco, Inc.

National Oilwells-Varco (Baylor); six generators failed almost simultaneously.

Analyzed harmonics response from the structure to the generators, prepared a FMEA and FMECA.

Set up a fault tree diagram using PRA (Probabilistic Risk Analysis)

Reviewed the quality program of NOV Baylor on the failure of six offshore platforms before the Macondo case. Performed analytical studies on the resin used to form the generator poles with DSC (differential scanning calorimeter) and helped to solve the problem.

Senior project engineer

Universal Ensco - 2007 to 2009

in charge of large natural gas liquids pipelines and natural gas pipelines including sizing of the pumping station, compressor stations, heater, flares, dehydration units, control valves, and pressure vessels.

Compliance: 49CFR195, 49CFR 192 and FERC.

Pipe simulation, flow assurance, transient analysis, stress analysis, meter stations, etc.

Stress analysis on nozzles, pipe connections, and structural analysis of the meter stations' frames and support for Boardwalk, LLP, Oneok Inc, Enterprise LLP, and National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago.

Coordinated the activities for 51-meter stations for Boardwalk

Stress analysis on meter station structures for Boardwalk

Surge analysis on meter stations for Boardwalk

Pipe analysis, using steady state and transient conditions for Oneok, Inc, Enterprise, LLP

Flare analysis for Oneok, Inc, Enterprise, LLP, natural gas liquids projects

Pump selection and location for Oneok, Inc and Enterprise, LLP, projects

Re-designed a gas processing plant for NGC of Trinidad & Tobago.(National Gas Company of Trinidad & Tobago)

Senior Project Engineer

Spectra Energy - 2006 to 2007

Analysis of a new underground gas storage facility in PA called Steckman Ridge

This is an 18 Billion cubic feet gas storage plant located in Bedford county PA

Recommendation on the diesel gas engine and compressor station, pipe analysis, environmental analysis, FERC, DOT, 49 CFR 192 and 49 CFR 19 (verification and compliance).

Engineering Manager (EM)

Beta International Corp, Houston, TX - 1987 to 2007

Manage a local EPC in Houston doing business all over the world in the areas of oil/gas (upstream + downstream), energy, mining, government, and municipalities.

-Designed and retrofit heat transfer equipment including X-changers, furnaces, cooling towers and process equipment (unitary process), according to TEMA, ASME and API.

-Selected and installed modular electric power plants turbo and diesel-electric Caterpillar for production units (Petro Amazonas, Ecuador).

-Replacement of compressor stage blades on LM series gas turbine using Chromalloy vapor deposition for our customer (Etevensa, Peru)

-Feasibility study for a combined cycle (Rankine+Brayton) power plant in Chile.

-Supply and demand forecasting analysis for an electric utility company in Houston Texas

-Terminal plant for LPG and LNG at Puerto San Jose (Guatemala) including the instrumentation for the spherical tanks (Canadian Erection Inc), supporting the structural analysis for the tanks including ladders, welding, upper platforms, and security fence.

-8 billion cubic feet capacity salt dome underground facility. Clean water was injected and salt water (brine) was taken away and re-injected in a deep well far away. Analysis of Compressor station, hydraulics systems, pumping stations, booster pumps, water well pumps, filter separators, Tuyere separators, de-hydration units, indirect fire heaters, storage tanks to receive the brine, control valves, and piping as per 49CFR192.

Cost analysis on alternatives to brine treatment including reverse osmosis, vaporization, deep well injection, membrane filtration, and solar evaporation.

-Project manager for a production facility in Ecuador including manufacturing three-phase separators, indirect fire heaters, glycol dehydration units, pressure vessels, valves, control valves, Scada system, RTU, and many thousands of items involved.

Designed equipment and prepared specifications for manufacturing, installation, and commissioning of upstream equipment for the oil and gas industry including production units, pressure vessels, three-phase separators, and valves. Customers in the gas pipeline business in Indonesia, exploration units in Ecuador, and offshore platforms in Brazil, requested the support of our local office a subsidiary of Beta International for urgent industrial needs. Select and provide: valves, vessels, separators, Christmas trees (five well manifolds), flow meters, flow computers, temperature sensors, pressure transmitters, Scada systems, rotary equipment: compressors, electrical motors, diesel generators, small gas turbines, tank instrumentation, etc.

Assistant professor

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA - Columbia, MO - 1984 to 1986

Teacher in several courses in mechanical and nuclear engineering. Courses: Machine Design, Thermodynamics, Nuclear Reactor Engineering, etc.

Missouri University Research Reactor;

Neutron radiography, thermal-hydraulic computer codes for reactor safety analysis,

Research assistance at the MURR research reactor: Performed NDT (non-destructive testing) and NAA (neutron activation analysis).

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Palma University

MBA

University of Pacific

Master of Science in Nuclear Power Engineering

University of Missouri

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Colorado State University

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Certifications: P Engineer (CIP 16770)

PMP (PMI)

Fluent in Spanish and English

Higher and lower level computer programs and codes (SolidWorks, VB, C++, Fortran) Membership:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers;

American Nuclear Society; American Society for Quality.

Patents

"Radar Tank Gauge using the Time Domain" a nonintrusive, non

-contact liquid level measurement •"Angioplasty Radiation Therapy. Minimal intrusive device to prevent

Restenosis” (Patent Number 6.755,776).

"High-Pressure Flow Meter for two phases using Laser Doppler Anemometer"

(GE-Patent Pending).

“Mixing Pipe and Steam Injection to Reduce Viscosity of Coal Slurry for Gasification”(GE-Patent Pending).

“Injection of CO2 on Posimetric Feeder to Reduce the Permeability of the Media when Working at High Pressure” (GE-Patent Pending).

“Posimetric Feeder System with Lower Discharge at High Pressure”

(GE-Patent Pending).

“De-agglomeration of the Posimetric Feeder Plug Using an Auto-Clave at High Pressure”(GE- Patent Pending).

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