Philip Ratliff

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Senior Process Engineer as part of the Integrated Project Management Team (IPMT) responsible for developing both the Basic Design Package and the FEED Package for a 150,000 bpd refinery in South America. Ancillary units designed to work in tandem with the refinery included a 1.3 MTA ethylene plant, an 881 KTA propylene unit, and an aromatics facility designed to produce 780 KTA of p-xylene. Primary process units covered included the kerosene unit, diesel unit, ethylene plant, petrochemical FCC, reformate splitter and xylenes fractionation, and the transplus and C9+ aromatics fractionation unit, with specific responsibilities including Process Flow Diagram (PFD) review, Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) review, Material Selection Diagram (MSD) review, equipment datasheet review, hydraulic calculations, and HAZOP and LOPA review. Additional responsibilities included supporting the OSBL utility and offsites groups such as steam generation, power generation, the flare system, and the offsites storage tanks (crude oil, benzene, p-xylene, naphtha, kerosene, and diesel). Also responsible for the design of the chilled water system used for the HVAC of the administration buildings and warehouses.

Senior Process Engineer for the revised design of a fired heater at a Continuous Catalytic Reformer upgrade project. The fired heater was used as a reboiler (ca. 80 MMBtu/hr) for a reformate splitter with operational capacity of 55,000 BPD, and turndown to 35,000 BPD. The process simulation model used PFR Engineering???s FRNC-5 software to design the radiant and convection sections of the fired heater. Additional responsibilities included assisting the Chief Process Engineer responsible for the design of a 900 MMBtu/hr Platformer, also associated with this Chevron project.

Senior Process Engineer responsible for the plant-wide steam system on the Gasification Project in Illinois: site development included 100 MW of power generation, an ammonia upgrade from 830 tpd to 1000 tpd, a 2600 tpd coal gasification process, a sulfuric acid plant, an acid gas removal plant, a 1600 bpd Fischer-Tropsch process, and seven fired heaters (including five boilers generating steam at three different pressure levels: 1500 psig, 450 psig, and 150 psig). Additional responsibilities included assisting with the overall water balance, the cooling water system, the water treatment systems, and equipment sizing of pressure vessels such as the deaerators and the condensate drums....