Experience

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  Retiring slowly

  • Founder and CEO

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  Climax Global Energy

  • Blackville SC

  • Operations Consultant

    • Jun 2012 - Dec 2012
    • Blackville SC

    Senior member of a team commercializing a plastic to wax conversion facility.

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  SGC Energia

  • Houston, Austria

  • Operatios manager

    • Jan 2010 - Jun 2011
    • Houston, Austria

    Pilot plant operation

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  Linde Gas Singapore

  • Singapore

  • Senior Technical consultant

    • Jan 2001 - Dec 2009
    • Singapore

    Optimizing and up rating of plant producing 1000t/d of CO + H2 by gasification of vacuum resid.Cryogenic separation of hydrogen and CO. Hydrogen purification by membrane and PSA.Commissioning of food grade liquid carbon dioxide plant.

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  AECI Modderfontein

  • Modderfontein near Johannesburg South Africa.

  • Starting as Lab Technician, ending as Senior Technical Resources manager

    • Jan 1961 - Apr 2000
    • Modderfontein near Johannesburg South Africa.

    Operation,, startup, optimization and participation in design of coal based ammonia and methanol plants in sizes ranging from 80 to 1200 t/d.Hands on experience of operating and optimising the following technologies:Coal gasification with make and blow generators, steam and oxygen blown generators and pulverized coal gasifiers Hydrogen sulfide recovery by iron sponge ,Vetrocoke and Rectisol processes.Air and enriched air blown Claus.Air separation using regenerators, Revexes , and molecular sieves. Argon recovery with hydrogen oxygen removal.CO recovery with copper liquor, Nitrogen Wash and Hyco.Carbon dioxide recovery by water wash and Rectisol.Ammonia production in tube cooled, cold shot and radial flow converters.Demineralisation of water for high pressure boilers.Spreader stoker coal fired and gas fired boilers.Catalytic NOX removal from syngas.Methanol production and purification.