Process & project engineer

 as Project: Engineer responsible for: a) Commissioning, start-up, process follow-up and optimization, daily on-job training on Demineralization water plant retrofit project; b) Base and detail engineering of Operation Optimization Projects: 1-Overall water consumption; 2-chemicals consumption on flue gas treatment; 3- MSW combustion improvement; 4- District Heating to industrial clients. c) Technical feasibility & Basic engineering of BAT’s (from Waste Incineration BREF and others, industrial cooling, energy efficiency) on MSW incineration site; d) Process Equipment Design and Technical Specification for Procurement & Purchase;
 Supervision, follow-up and optimization of Chemical conditioning of steam-water circuit, process and cooling service waters; of chemical & metallurgical analysis of all steam-water circuit tubes and equipment, namely, steam generators, condenser and steam-turbine; of Flue Gas Treatment plant. Site Energy audits follow-up.
 Operations Documentation: conception and upgrade of equipment operation tutorials, process descriptions and systems documentation; revision of Process Control Maps and Laboratory Analysis Plan; maintenance of current GMP Systems.
 Chemical and other raw materials: technical specifications definition and supplying contracts analysis. Responsible for raw materials quality control monitoring program (conception, implementation, follow-up, laboratory analysis methods). REACH documentation follow-up.

 Supervision, follow-up and optimization of Pulp mill Process (Process, Production, Quality/Environment/Safety) with special focus on Chemical Recovery and Power plants.
 Operations Management: Chemical cleaning and Pressure water washing of boiler tubes, evaporation plant and general piping during annual outages: analysis of subcontractors’ proposals, working team coordination and work tasks management. Daily production plan execution; Inventory Management; Conception and execution of preventive and reactive maintenance planning; evaluation of industrial equipments’ availability and capacity; coordination of new projects and daily maintenance tasks. Pulp mill on-duty piquet during 1 week every 2 months.
 Project: equipment & piping’s design, specification and procurement; process redesign, retrofit and optimization; lay-out and P&ID conception and analysis; Heat and Mass Balances, Hydraulic and transient analysis and design; DCS environment; building and erection; check-out and commissioning (safety systems, HAZOP, instrumentation, motors, piping), start-up, follow-out, supervision and optimization of:
Ash Leaching Process (from Metso, working inside multidisciplinary team)
Evaporation plant (Flash tank design, condensers route optimization) and other minor process stream recovery. Technical feasibility of BAT’s (including base engineering and process simulation with software packages) to achieve water consumption goals and higher availability of Evaporation plant and Chemical Recovery Boiler.
Pulp mill process improvement solutions achieved on Portucel Soporcel benchmarking campaigns.
 Operations team management: development, implementation and supervision of current GMP procedures and routines; training on-job and technical support to the operation staff; shift (10 persons) management.
 Operations Documentation Management: conception and upgrade of equipment operation tutorials, process descriptions and systems documentation; revision of Process Control Maps and Laboratory Analysis Plan; maintenance of current GMP Systems;
 Safety Training: assurance that process operations are always up to the level of BLRBAC (recovery boilers) and cGMP of Boilers Safety standards; development and upgrade of HAZOP procedures for each industrial process.
 Codes and standards: piping ASME 31.1, 31.3; boilers EN 12952; pressurized equipment EN 13445.

 Supervision, follow-up and optimization of Pulp mill Process (Process, Production, Quality/Environment/Safety) with special focus on Chemical Recovery (Evaporation, Recovery Boiler, Recausticizing and Lime Kiln) and Power plants (Power/Bark Boiler, Turbines, Waste/Process/Boiler Water treatment, Utilities Production).
 Participation as Process Engineer on main supplier multidisciplinary team responsible for Conceptual Design, Front End Engineering (FEED) and Detail Design (equipment & piping’s design, technical specification and procurement; process redesign and optimization; lay-out and P&ID conception and analysis; Heat and Mass Balances, Hydraulic and transient analysis and design; DCS configuration of process control logics on Honeyweel DCS environment) building and erection; check-out and commissioning (safety systems, HAZOP, instrumentation, motors, piping), start-up, follow-out, supervision and optimization of several new equipment:
Greenfield project of a new Recovery boiler from Andritz 2004-2006,
Recausticizing plant retrofit with Pressurized disc filter and slaker replacement from Eimco 2003-2004
Evaporation plant rebuilt and retrofit from Rosenblad/Alstom 2002-2004
Demineralization water plant DCS retrofit, cooling towers optimization and chemical pulping small projects.
 Technical and financial analysis of suppliers’ tender proposals. Equipment and piping procurement.
 Participation in HAZOP/HAZID and risk assessments.
 Responsible of operation co-workers training (theoretical and on-job).
 Process technology knowledge management/benchmarking between group facilities.
 Process Simulation and Optimization of Chemical Recovery Plant by Aspen Plus & Excel software packages.

 Design, synthesis, optimization and supervision of chemical industrial processes.
 Chemical & Thermal Thermodynamic, Transport Phenomena (Mass, Linear quantity and Heat). Organic Chemistry.
 Dynamic & steady-state simulation of industrial chemical processes by specific software packages (Aspen Plus, Hysis, Matlab & Simulink).
 Technical, Economic and Financial viability of a completely new DTBP (di-tert-butyl-peroxide) production unit project. Project included: product market analysis, patents research, chemical process synthesis, heat and mass balances, equipment design, mill’s layout definition, P&I Diagram conception, economic and financial viability.