Richard Riddell
Process Engineer at Engsolve Limited- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Engsolve Limited
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United Kingdom
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Process Engineer
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ian. 2018 - - Prezent
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Energy and Power
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Oil and Gas
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Downstream Conceptual Engineering manager
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mar. 2008 - ian. 2018
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ExxonMobil
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Chemical Engineer
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ian. 2002 - ian. 2008
Worked on various safety, industrial hygiene, cost/energy reduction and debottlenecking projects on a thermoplastic elastomer plant. Worked on various safety, industrial hygiene, cost/energy reduction and debottlenecking projects on a thermoplastic elastomer plant.
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Monsanto
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India
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Financial Services
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Process Engineer
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ian. 1998 - ian. 2002
Worked on various upgrade projects, including packaging, pneumatic conveying and heat transfer.
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Lead Process Engineer
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ian. 1993 - ian. 1998
Lead process engineer - £24m thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounding capacity expansion. AES had an overseeing design team in the contractor’s office (FWEL). AES took responsibility for the process design of the plant.
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Manufacturing representative
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ian. 1990 - ian. 1992
Involved checking all the design documents and drawings produced by the contractor (FWEL). This ensured that the needs of the operating plant were incorporated into the design and that operability issues were addressed.
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Manufacturing representative
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ian. 1990 - ian. 1992
Involved checking all the design documents and drawings produced by the contractor (FWEL). This ensured that the needs of the operating plant were incorporated into the design and that operability issues were addressed.
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Engineering manager
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ian. 1989 - ian. 1992
Engineering manager for the Elastomers business.
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Design Engineer
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ian. 1984 - ian. 1989
Designing, engineering and commissioning minor capital projects up to a value of £1m on TPE compounding lines and maleic anhydride and rubber additive plants. The rubber additives process included projects on high-pressure reactors, feedstock transfer and product evaporation and distillation. Trained as HAZOP chair and acted as such many times.
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Process Engineer
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ian. 1983 - ian. 1984
Part of a team commissioning a Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) plant in Poland - The work was shift based and involved final check out, water batching and commissioning for the whole plant from chlorine vaporisation through to VCM storage. Part of a team commissioning a Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) plant in Poland - The work was shift based and involved final check out, water batching and commissioning for the whole plant from chlorine vaporisation through to VCM storage.
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Alcan
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Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Process Engineer
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ian. 1980 - ian. 1982
Developed and managed the capital budget. Worked on crystallisation, evaporation and caustic soda handling projects. Worked an out of hours on-call rota to cover operational issues on the digester section of the plant. Developed and managed the capital budget. Worked on crystallisation, evaporation and caustic soda handling projects. Worked an out of hours on-call rota to cover operational issues on the digester section of the plant.
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Process engineer
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ian. 1977 - ian. 1980
Projects included, (1) the checking out, water batching and commissioning of an Acrylonitrile Styrene co-polymer manufacturing plant in Antwerp, (2) the design, checkout and commissioning of an Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene compounding line at Antwerp. (3) Transferred to the US CED office in St. Louis on assignment as a member of the process design team for the first world scale integrated ‘Roundup’ herbicide plant. I was responsible for the design of the oxidation reaction and the provision and subsequent separation of the activated carbon catalyst, (4) lead process design engineer on an Acrylonitrile (AN) emissions control projects on the AN production facility at Seal Sands, Teesside.
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Education
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The University of Manchester
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Process design for Energy and the Environment -
University of Glamorgan
LLM, Arbitration -
Newcastle University
B.Sc, Chemical Engineering