Process Engineer

11/2008 – 12/2015

Process Engineer – ALSTOM POWER, Belfort Headquarters (France) and CO2 Capture Systems (Wiesbaden, Germany)
Role description:
● Responsible for Aspen process simulations and heat and material balance
● Design of CO2 capture facilities (chilled ammonia process, advance amine process, oxy-combustion) for coal and gas power plants
● Heat recovery and integration in the water/steam cycle
● Hands-on experience in various aspects of process engineering including development of PFDs and MDDs, pump dimensioning, equipment sizing and specification, line sizing, heat exchanger design (HTRI)
● Developer of new tool for Carbonate looping simulations on Barracuda (Computational Particle Fluid Dynamics)
Leader for simulations and HMB, projects:
● Mongstad I, Norway. Chilled Ammonia Pilot plant
● Mongstad II, Norway. Scale-up FEED package
● Novacarb, France, Chilled Ammonia Process Feasibility Study
● Mountaineer II, American Electric Power. Chilled Ammonia Process. FEED Package
● ATCO, Canada. Oxycombustion Plant, FEED Package
● GETICA, Romania. Chilled Ammonia Process CO2 Capture Plant. Feasibility Study
● Datang, China. Oxycombustion Plant. Feasibility Study
● Belchatow, Poland. Advanced Amine Process, Simulations with ProComp

Verfahrenstechnik (allg.)

9/2006 – 12/2007

Chemical Looping Combustion research (CO2 capture technology) carried out in partnership with the Polytechnic School of Montreal (Canada)
Role description:
● Pilot design: Fluid bed reactor, Catalysts micro-reactor, attrition tester
● Pilot experimentation: Catalysts preparation, mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, particle size distribution analyzer, mercury porosimetry
● Test planning and data reconciliation and simulation

Chemische Verfahrenstechnik