Raphael

Process Engineer
Male38 y/oLaboratory Manager/Engineer/Semiconductor process engineerLive in Trinidad and TobagoNationality Trinidad and Tobago
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Summary

Process engineer who is detail-oriented person with clear focus on obtaining the most efficient results whilst always striving for continuous improvement. Approximately 7 years’ experience working on projects in upstream and downstream process facilities providing technical project and plant support and support for the development of process technology whilst ensuring HSE standards. Experienced with different unit operations such as reactors, distillation, absorption, pumps, heat exchangers and separators. Excited about tackling challenges to ensure process facilities are designed and operated economically, efficiently, safely and sustainably

Work experience

Teaching Assistant

Drexel University
2022.01-2022.03(3 months)
Graded students’ homework, projects, corrected and proctored exams, presented solutions to the class, clarified problems during office hours for CHE372 Integrated ChE Case Studies (emphasis on industrial equipment behavior and design - distillation columns, heat exchangers, pumps)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Kansas
2019.09-2020.05(9 months)
Clarified problems during weekly office hours, graded assignments and exams, facilitated classroom discussion sessions and course labs, managed grade book Assisted in the following courses: C&PE211 – Material and Energy Balances, C&PE611 – Unit Operation Design, C&PE524 – Chemical Engineering Kinetics and Reactor Design

Process Engineer

bpTT
2015.01-2016.08(2 years)
(40,000bpd condensate facility, 150, 000bpd crude oil processing facility and 3.2bscd gas slug-catcher) Led process engineering activities for cleaning of slug-catchers for internal inspection and mechanical integrity repairs to reduce process safety risk Led onsite night operations for reverse pumping for removal of stuck pig in 12-inch subsea condensate pipeline which prevented condensate flow to the facility Participated as process engineer in plant revalidation and projects HAZOP and LOPA Performed safety audits and led RAs and responsible for site lock valve register and P&IDs Provided process input in the updating of the site SOPs

Process Engineer, Challenge Program

bpTT
2014.01-2015.01(a year)
Relief System Project WorleyParsons Office Participated in relief scenario load review Performed PSV sizing for separator, PSV inlet and outlet line sizing verification calculations using Aspen HYSYS and Flare System Analyzer and used homogeneous equilibrium model (HEM) for PSV sizing for 2-phase release Performed PSV sizing, inlet and outlet line sizing verification for heat exchanger and developed HYSYS simulation for HEM 2-point omega method for line sizing that gave a smaller PSV size

Process Engineer, Challenge Program

bpTT
2011.10-2014.01(2 years)
Onshore Area Developed and reviewed destruct and construct P&IDs, conducted RAs and performed process calculations in support of MOCs for plant modifications, commissioning and decommissioning activities Simulated and evaluated operating modes using Aspen HYSYS & EDR and compositional analysis Evaluated use of heat exchanger with plugged tubes for reinstatement of an alternate processing route and managed retubing of the heat exchanger under the site activity planning process Participated in the troubleshooting of process equipment performance

Engineer in Training

World GTL Trinidad Limited (In Receivership)
2008.09-2010.05(2 years)
Performed simulation of the amine carbon dioxide removal system using E-NRTL Improved plant Aspen HYSYS simulation by changing Gibbs reactors to equilibrium reactors to better represent the APR-SMR setup where the ATEs were changed to better reflect the expected methane conversion and WGS reactions Supervised pilot plant reactor testing activities to ensure testing objectives were completed at Pittsburgh Applied Research Centre in an oil cooled reactor. This also included participating in the loading and unloading of catalyst and troubleshooting of reactor problems. Testing then conducted at Emerging fuels technology in a steam cooled reactor Simulated the fuel gas system for the plant to determine demand and evaluated the effect of using fuel gas with high hydrogen content on the heaters (hydrogen from the membrane unit) Participated in process equipment inspection towards mechanical completion and turnover this included amine regenerator column and contactor, diesel and naphtha columns and Fischer-Tropsch reactor. Additionally assisted in the loading of column packing

Educational experience

Drexel University

Chemical Engineering
2020.09-2022.03(2 years)
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering minor in Operations Research

University of Manchester

Advanced Process Integration and Design
2017.09-2018.09(a year)
University of Manchester Masters Proposal and Thesis Wrote thesis proposal for evaluating the retrofit of ethylene-ethane distillation process with carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membranes which included a work plan and a Gantt chart Developed different process flowsheets of the hybrid-membrane configuration for the ethylene separation and selected the best configuration including heat integration Performed rigorous simulation of the distillation column and modelled the refrigeration process Modelled the best-case CMS membrane and performed operating and capital cost modelling using Matlab Performed sensitivity analyses and determined that the hybrid configuration was not feasible using the total annualized cost

University of the West Indies

Chemical and Process Engineering
2005.09-2008.07(3 years)
BSc Chemical and Process Engineering

Naparima College

Sciences
2003.09-2005.09(2 years)
University of Cambridge International Exams (A level and AS level) Chemistry - A Physics - A Mathematics - A General paper - b

Languages

English
Native

Certificates

Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design (Udemy)
2024.04
PLC Fundamentals (PLCDojo)
2024.03
TOEFL
2022.09
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