BYRON A. NAGEL, P. E., CHMM
QUALIFICATIONS:
25 years of Environmental compliance and Process experience, in a variety of positions. This, plus my chemical engineering education, professional license, interaction as company/client liaison, client presentation, supervisory experience and communications skills, with estimating, budgeting, scheduling, and process safety reviews, teaching and computer skills, and positive self-motivation, make me uniquely qualified for a position as a Process Engineer.
PROCESS SKILLS
HYSYS, Chemcad, Instrucalc, Pro II, Flare Net, Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook & Pipe-Flo. Familiar with Shell DEPs, API 520 for relief valve sizing, 14E for safety review, & HAZOP review analysis
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Leas Senior Process Engineer – Industrial Engineering Management Baton Rouge, LA 2013
• Perform material and energy balances & relief valve sizing on natural gas processing facilities
Lead Senior Process Engineer – Shaw Group/CB&I, Baton Rouge, LA 2012-2013
Assisted in start up of new oxidized polyethylene blender at ExxonMobil BRPO:
• Develop operating procedure for normal operations and start up, QA/QC sampling protocol during start up, coordinate customer feedback on product, and blender performance demonstration.
• Participate in PHAs, PSSRs, and system turnover to plant for operations commissioning
• Review design & vendor details for operability & maintainability
• Verify as-built drawings
• Develop blender improvement ideas to improve efficiency of blenders and reduce dead time
Perform material and energy balances, relief valve sizing, and, pump studies for Honeywell facility in Geismar
Lead Senior Process Engineer – H&K Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA 2011-2012
Served as Process Engineer on $2 million Brine Lithium Extraction pilot plant project and Crude Trimethyl Aluminum (TMA) Distillation Column design at Albemarle Corporation working with two other process engineers. My duties included:
• Development of basis of design and process scope document.
• Preparation of Block Flow Diagrams (BFDs), Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), and Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) conceptual design and check drawings to ensure design accuracy and compliance with specifications.
• Perform material and energy balances, relief valve sizing, and, pump studies
• Preparation of equipment specification, relief valve sizing and instrumentation process data tables.
• Interface with other engineering disciplines to ensure coordinated design and completed engineering deliverables.
• Interface with client and vendors to define project scope and resolve technical issues.
Accidental Release Prevention Engineer – Contra Costa County Hazardous Materials Program Martinez, CA 2009- 2011
Conduct on-site process safety audits to assess affected facilities’ compliance with Process Safety Management (PSM) elements (Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR), Management of Change (MOC), Process Safety Information (PSI), operating procedures, training, maintenance, incident investigation, and emergency response and identify potential deficiencies in the programs.
• Review affected facilities’ Risk Management Plan (RMP) and Safety Plan and make recommendations for acceptance, or prepare a notice of deficiency.
• Assist stationary sources in source term calculations and vapor-dispersion modeling.
• Coordinate and/or participate as a team member in Unannounced Inspections of stationary sources that are also subject to the Federal Accidental Release Prevention Program.
Lead Senior Process Engineer – Ford, Bacon, & Davis LLC, Baton Rouge, LA 2007 – 2009
Served as Lead Process Engineer on the $5 million Acid Tanks Upgrades Projects and as Lead Process Engineer on the $5 million Waste Water Treatment Plant Softener and Brine Regeneration system upgrade at Shell Motiva in Convent, LA supervising two other Process Engineers. My duties included:
• Developed scope of work, design criteria, budget estimates, schedule, staffing requirements, standards, and procedures for project assignments by collaborating with other engineering disciplines.
• Met with clients’ technical staff and clearly communicated project process design basis.
• Reviewed calculations, supplier quotations, bid evaluations, and supplier drawings for equipment designed in Process Engineering that could have a major influence on the operability of the process. Served as mentor to junior engineers.
• Managed the preparation of equipment specifications, PFDs, heat and material balances, and P&IDs, isometric drawings, relief valve sizing, safeguarding, and documentation using Berwanger software, and engineering calculations using Flare Net, spreadsheets, and HYSYS simulation software.
Lead/Senior Process Engineer - Waldemar S. Nelson Co., Inc., New Orleans, LA 2006 – 2007
Served as Lead Process Engineer for Shell International Exploration & Production on their $10 million Malaysian offshore oil platform, Gumusut-Kakap, supervising two other process engineers. My duties included:
• Process safety review of Offshore Oil Platforms using API 14E and ISO Standard 10418.
• Reviewed, revised and checked (PFDs) and (P&IDs) for Topsides Systems, collected equipment specifications, and evaluated topsides processes using HYSYS, a process simulator.
• Performed line sizing using API RP 14C, NPSH hydraulic calculations, and preparation and maintenance of line lists.
• Also, facilitated in HAZOP study for natural gas storage facility.
Senior Engineer - MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Princeton Junction, New Jersey 2003 – 2006
Served as Lead Air Quality Engineer for a Dupont Chemical facility in Edge Moor, DE in charge of their $1 million Title V air permit program, supervising two other engineers. My duties were:
• Preparation of Title V air permit renewals and provided regulatory interpretation and compliance at industrial facilities in Delaware, New Jersey, and New York.
• Designed, implemented and upgraded web-based database and file management system required by the Title V air permit recordkeeping and reporting program.
• Prepared Tier II chemical inventory reports, the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), monthly and annual air emissions reports, and Risk Management Plan (RMP) updates.
• Also, prepared monthly Discharge Monitoring Reports required by water permit for a Russell-Stanley industrial complex in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
• Prepared quarterly Excess Emis...
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