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Boiler, HRSG, Pressure Vessel, and Heat Exchanger Root Cause and Failure Analysis, Development of Corrective Actions, Material Selection, Codes, Reverse Engineering, and Training
Expert is an expert at failure analysis, root cause analysis, and determining corrective actions. With years of experience, he has the ability to take complex problems and convert them into a manageable list that can be verified using available tools…
Pressure Swing Adsorption; Gasification; Pyrolysis; Biomass or Gas to Liquids; and Oil and Gas/Chemicals Process Design Engineering
Expert designed, built and ran a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit as part of his Ph.D work. The unit separated hydrogen from synthesis gas produced from the pyrolysis of biomass at high temperatures with a goal to optimize cycle hydrogen…
Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessels
Expert has over 40 years of experience in the thermal and mechanical design of heat transfer equipment. He has full membership in HTRI Heat Transfer Research Institute via his pressure vessels and heat transfer company. Has been heavily involved in…
Industrial Utilities (Equipment, Operation, Maintenance); Energy Conservation; Vibrations
Expert worked as a staff mechanical engineer at what was the world's largest single site producer of PET. The staff supported operations and maintenance departments throughout the facility, with heavy emphasis on the utilities department. Troubleshooting centrifugal pumps was a…
Pressure Vessels, Oil Tank Structure, and Rocket Design
Leo has experience during the last 15 years as a designer of ASME and Russian codes pressure vessels. He has prepared a total of more than 1000 projects, 3000 vessels were worked properly in Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, including…
Petrochemical, Pulp & Paper, Distillation, Industrial Accident Investigation, Overpressure Investigation and OSHA Compliance
Expert has over 40 years' of engineering design in the Chemical Process and Pulp and Paper fields. He has held positions of Production Engineer, Technical Director, Quality Control Engineer, Process Engineering Department Head, Senior Engineer. His experience includes many years…
Oil and Gas and Refining: Processing, Consulting, Advisory, Supervision, and Process/Operations Commissioning
Through many years of studying and working on numerous different sour/acid gas treatment sections, he was able to resolve and manage both large and small absorbers, ( normally called contactors ), bringing the cleansing ratios down 0.0 on both grains…
Heat Transfer, Heat Pipes, Cooling Systems, Power Plant Equipment Design, New Product Development
Expert’s interests and experience extend over a wide range of air-cooled heat exchangers. Prompted mainly by the present day environmental concerns and scarce water resources, as well as by the more attractive maintenance-free operation of air-cooled units compared to water-cooled…
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
Expert has more than 30 years of experience in the design and manufacture of shell-and-tube heat exchangers. He is thoroughly familiar with the manufacture and specifications of tubing, plate, and forgings used in these devices, and in the materials and…
Chemical Process and Design
Expert has expertise in design, system engineering, and practical applications focusing on packed and tray towers, evaporators, heat exchangers (i.e. shell and tube, spiral and plate type, and specialized heat transfer equipment), heat pumps, pressure and vacuum filtration, dryers, centrifuges,…