Process Engineer

PRAVIN C UTEKAR

**** ******** ***** ***#*** Phone: 918-***-****

Monroe, NC 28110 Email: ******.******@*****.***

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Solid petroleum refinery experience as Refinery Process Engineer with complete understanding of refinery operations and safety procedures

• Extensively involved with troubleshooting and optimization of diesel, kerosene, gasoline hydrotreaters, Crude, vacuum and amine units

• Hands on experience of using appropriate engineering and field tools by working closely with unit superintendents and unit operators

• Familiar with plant data acquisitions and analysis programs including simulations software – PRO-II and HYSYS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Refinery Process Engineer (Technical Services) November 2008- Present

Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing, LLC, Coffeyville, KS

• Responsible for monitoring unit performance, providing process troubleshooting for unit optimizations and technical support for day to day operations

• Conducted process unit test runs, analyzed data and developed process correlations to evaluate and optimize the unit performance

• Played key role in startup of new Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline Unit

• Performed all routine calculations that included unit mass balances, energy balance and hydraulic calculations

• Actively participated in the process safety reviews, MOC development and lead near-miss incidents

• Walk-down and updated various refining unit process instrumentation diagrams and process flow diagram

Chemical Engineer Intern (Technical Services) May 2008- August 2008

Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing, LLC, Coffeyville, KS

• Gained extensive experience in Coker and vacuum units

• Assisted unit superintendent to analyze key performance indicators to evaluate and optimize unit performance

Research Assistant May 2003- November 2008

The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

• Designed, developed and managed state-of the art Ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) system that significantly enhanced the research in dry etching of copper with betadiketones

• Developed PFD for NGL recovery plant in HYSYS 3.2 with cost estimation and sizing of equipments

• Developed PID controller in LabView 7.0 for temperature programmed desorption (TPD) analysis

• Built from the ground up an innovative, optical bench for reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Research and Process Development Engineer September 2001-October 2002

Kedia Chemical Industries Ltd, Mumbai, India

• Process/design development and scale-up of multiple projects in the pilot-plant with SOP development

• Compiled, reviewed and evaluated relevant engineering data for process design

Research Intern December 2000-August 2001

National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, India

• Designed, developed and optimized tubular packed bed reactor and catalyst for selective oxidation of hydrocarbon

• Worked and gained extensive experience in Gas chromatography and HPLC techniques

Summer Intern May 2000- August 2000

Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd, Nagothane, India

• Gained extensive industrial experience in LDPE, gas cracker plant

• Updated HAZOP studies of major equipments in plant

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Conversant with HYSYS, PRO-II, FLOWEL, Microsoft office and Visual basic

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

• PhD in Chemical Engineering (GPA 3.5/4.0) December 2008

The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

• Bachelors in Chemical Engineering (First class with distinction) June 2001

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, India

• Engineer Intern in Training Certification October 2005

Oklahoma State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

PROJECTS

• Refinery

o Involved in the PHA, PSSR’s and start of new ULSG (Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline)

o Minimized flare losses, Identified leak source, designed and implemented water seal system for flare

o Designed gas inlet system to improve amine unit operations

o Designed and developed water wash plan to reduce corrosion in hydrotreating units

o Actively participated in unit turnarounds, maintenance and start-up activity

• UHV studies of copper dry etching with beta-diketones

o Studied reaction pathways using temperature-programmed desorption (TPD), Auger electron spectroscopy and reflection-adsorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS)

o Assembled and implemented instrumentation of all equipments on UHV chamber

o Designed RAIRS setup and designing LabView program for TPD experiments

REFERENCE

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