Expert Heavy Industry - Steel & Mining

• Jul 2022 - Present

Business Unit Manager

• Jan 2012 - Jul 2022

STUDYBEL is the belgian engineering office specialized in industrial piping.Studybel offers the following services :• As prime contractor, management of your investment from the pre-project studies towards commissioning : Brief or detailed pre-project, budget, planning Implementation and detailed studies, process analysis Bill of specifications, material specifications Tenders and discussions with your suppliers Site supervision : coordination, planning, quality Commissioning : coordination and supervision of interventions Compilation of construction files and manuals• Our calculators engineers perform the following studies : Design and dimensionning of pressure vessels, tubular heat-exchangers, tanks and piping according to : Belgian and European design rules international codes and standards as, e.g. : ASME (I, III, VIII – div. 1&2), ANSI (B31.3, B31.11), TEMA, API, CODAP, SNCT, AD-Merkblatter, BS (5500, 2654, …), CODRES, STOOMWEZEN, TRD, DIN, EUROCODES, … Calculation notes according to these design rules, codes and standards Set-up of PED (Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC) files : prerequisites to design, materials evaluation, preliminary risk analysis, instruction manual Stability calculations of steel structures and chimneys, stress analysis Flexibility calculations of piping Mechanical and hydraulic calculations Process calculations : thermodynamic, pressure loss, water hammers, balance process, …• We realize the following studies : Implementation studies with measurement on site Making of drawing such as :  P.I.D. lay-out isometrics piping supports  pressure vessels tanks, silos, chimneys steel structures "as built" drawingsThese drawings may be ‘guide drawings’ or ‘for construction’.If necessary, it may be carried out directly on site or in the client’s offices.

R&D manager

• Jun 2009 - Oct 2011

Hamon Research-Cottrell provides air pollution control equipment technology and services worldwide.Improve the equipments, manage the know-how, evaluate alternative technologies.- Numerical simulation of the cleaning of electrodes in electrostatic precipitators with promotion of a student thesis (ECAM).- Calculation sheets for sizing of electrostatic precipitators.- Lime efficiency for acids neutralization in gas.- Crisis project manager for steel industry from June 2011

Engineering manager

• Jun 2006 - Jun 2009

Hamon Research-Cottrell provides air pollution control equipment technology and services worldwide.Leading a team of 6 to 10 engineers and 7 to 12 draftsmen, guarantee engineering documents quality, allocate people to project teams and manage subcontracted engineering, maintain and improve company expertise.- Realization of 12 project simultaneously in 2007 (2 times more than before).- Project manager in Italy, Hungary and Portugal.

Project manager

• Oct 1999 - Jun 2006

Hamon Research-Cottrell provides air pollution control equipment technology and services worldwide.Manage air pollution equipment installation project from client order to commissioning : engineering, supplies, erection, start-up.- Projects in France, England, Bulgary, Italy.- Improve of engineering methods and procedures in 2003- From March 2004 to June 2006, 22M€ project for waste incinerator upgrade in Bordeaux (France)

Engineering coordinator

• Apr 1999 - Sep 1999

Glaverbel, now AGC Flatglass Europe produces, processes and creates flat glass for construction (external glazing and indoor decorative glass), for the automotive industry and for solar applications. Leading a team of 22 engineers, technicians and draftsmen, organize the work, improve the methods and long term planning of the engineering needs. - Projects in France, Belgium and Czech Republic - Cancel of lower face scratches for ultra thin float glass. Glaverbel, now AGC Flatglass Europe produces, processes and creates flat glass for construction (external glazing and indoor decorative glass), for the automotive industry and for solar applications. Leading a team of 22 engineers, technicians and draftsmen, organize the work, improve the methods and long term planning of the engineering needs. - Projects in France, Belgium and Czech Republic - Cancel of lower face scratches for ultra thin float glass.

Project manager and engineer

• Jul 1991 - Mar 1999

Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing and in Charleroi.For Cockerill-Sambre industrial investments projects, manage engineering, supplies, erection, commissioning and operators training in Belgium and EKO-Stahl (Germany).- Crushed coal injection for blast furnaces- 3 blast furnace reconstruction (cooling loops, slag granulation , dedusting equipments, auxiliary fluids, hydraulic.- Water treatment process for coke plant in Seraing.- Gas dedusting and silencers for steel works in Chertal.- Pressure increase up to 1 bar of blast furnace gas duct from Ougrée to Seraing.

Maintenance engineer and manager

• Sep 1986 - Jun 1991

Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing and in Charleroi.Mechanical maintenance and improvements in cold mill factories of Kessales and Ferblatil.- Increase of working rates for continuous annealing, pickling lines and 4-stands mill.- Leading up to 40 maintenance workers with annual budget of 600 MBEF.