Ali Bozorgnia
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Duluth, GA 30096 Email: *************@*****.***
Process Engineer / Project Coordinator / Engineer Manager
Process engineer with twenty years of experience in design, project management construction and trouble-shooting for petrochemical, oil and gas industries.
Expertise: Process and equipment simulation. Distillation design, control and simulation. Pressure relief sizing from equipment to network and up to flare tip. Process and instrument diagram (P&ID) generation. Process control design and trouble shooting. Equipment design.
CORE COMPETIENCE
Design Leadership - As head of chemical engineering department lead a team of process engineers to successfully redesign MEK processing plant, from an old plant in India based on basic design by Texaco, utilizing many equipment from the old plant whilst increasing the capacity by 40%, implanting new control system to change the operation from manual to full automatic operation with many new control loops. Incorporated new pressure relief system in accordance to the latest API standards. Added an ESD system with several levels to insure safety of the plant. Performed multi-discipline HAZOP on the whole plant. Designed tank-farm, utilities, and loading/unloading station among others. Added automatic start-up and shut-down to new DCS system.
Project Management – Lead a multi discipline team of engineers to highly profitable EPC project for Butadiene plant inside of Jam Petrochemical plant (largest Olefin unit in the world). Coordinated all engineering activities in accordance with construction requirements. Managed all purchasing for technical correctness and timely delivery. Oversaw all phases of the project from design to commissioning and handover.
Process Improvement – Lead process engineer responsible for duplication of MTBE plant while performing process improvement and trouble-shooting on the first plant; incorporating new control system, redesigned relief system to allow increased input into the system. Lowered energy consumption by redesigning distillation towers, heat exchangers. Lowered methanol consumption and waste by design and addition of a new absorption tower.
Tender Management – Managed a team of engineers for successful bid on tender for oil desalination, sulfur removal, gas recovery, gas injection, gas, oil and water pipeline project which resulted in the EPC project worth more than 100 million dollars being awarded. Obtained the best engineering points in between twenty companies which participated in that tender.
Sales Engineer – Worked as technical sales engineer for Hochest AG. as sales engineer responsible for plastic sales; increased sales form one million dollar to 8 million dollars per year in just two years.
EDUCATION
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona USA
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering 1990
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona USA
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry 1990
PERSONAL INFORMATION
• US Resident
• Willing to relocate
• Willing to work internationally
COMPUTER SKILLS
Have worked extensively with following simulation and technical soft ware:
Hysys, Aspen Plus, Chemcad, ProII, Chempro, Mathcad, Flarenet, Flaresim, and HTRI.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIANCES
Hamrah Sanat Engineering Consultant / Fimco Co. (April 2008- April 2011)
Lead Process Engineer / Process Department Manger
Parsikan Iran Engineering Consulting Company / Ferdows Machine (September 2006- March 2008)
Project Manager / Lead Process Engineer
Chimi Baft Petrochemical Co. (October 2004 – March 2005)
Specialist Process Consultant
Aria Tavan Tarah Engineering Consulting Co. / Elmatco. (November 2004-March 2005)
Lead Process Engineer
Parsikan-Iran Engineering Consulting Co. (September 2002- October 2004)
Senior Process Engineer
Chemia Negar Company (November 1995– August 2002)
President / Technical manager
Iran Hoechst AG (May 1993 – August 1995)
Technical Sales Engineer
Parsikan Iran Consulting engineering Co. (December 1991 – February 1993)
Design Engineer