Associates
RESUME OF ANTHONY MORT, P. ENG.
RR1 1300 St Andrews Rd
Gibsons
British Columbia
V0N 1V1
Phone 604 886 8990
Fax 604 886 8990
E-mail tony_mort@sunshine.net
Career Summary:
Forty-six years technical, engineering and supervisory/managerial experience in petroleum (oil sands), utilities and iron and steel industries.
Major technical application - fuel technology, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluidmechanics and process control.
Process plant conceptual design/development, economic investment evaluation, basic design, construction and project management.
Extensive hands on plant operations, commissioning and troubleshooting experience gained from technician to senior technical specialist levels.
Education 1953 – 1964
Bridgend Grammar School (UK)
Bridgend College of TechnologyNeath College of Technology
Qualifications:
National Certificate in Chemistry
National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering
Higher National Certificate in Chemical Engineering
Endorsements to Higher National Certificate in Chemical Engineering
Institute of Chemical Engineering Examination Part 3 – A Chemical Plant Design Thesis
Personal Development:
Comprehensive supervisory/managerial courses of up to 10 weeks duration
Conferences and seminars primarily related to fuels combustion, energy utilization and fired heaters
Training and Other Skills:
KT decision making and problem analysis
SCIMSCI hydrocarbon processing plant computer simulation
Slurry Pumping - Theory and Design at GIW Georgia USA
Process Instrumentation and Control
Fired heater design and simulation (HTFS and PFR)
Utilities Plant modeling for operating cost optimization (SAPPOS and Excel based simulations)
Principles of Loss Management
Completely familiar with MS Office software
Computer programming in Basic language
HAZOP process hazard and Operability analysis
Behavioural Display Interviewing
Professional Memberships:
Professional Engineer (Province of Alberta)
Formerly – Chartered Engineer (UK)
Member Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK)
Member Institute of Fuel (UK)
Employment History:
1958-1963 Steel Company of Wales Ltd, Port Talbot, United Kingdom.
Trainee Fuel Technician/Chemist (student apprentice). A period of hands on training in fundamentals of:
Fuels chemistry and laboratory techniques and practices
Combustion and Fuels Technology
Thermal process plant testing methods
Atmospheric emissions monitoring
Instrumentation and process control
Process plant thermodynamics and design principles
Mechanical and Instrumentation Workshop practices
The positions listed below were held within the same organization and reflect increasing technical competence recognition and supervisory responsibility:
1963 - 1964 Technical Assistant to the Chief Fuel Engineer
1964 - 1967 Assistant Fuel Engineer
1967 - 1972 Mills Combustion Engineer
1972 - 1981 British Steel Corporation Strip Mills Division (Port Talbot)
Manager Combustion Engineering Direction of a department comprising thirty professional engineers, technologists and technicians concerned with the safe generation, distribution and utilization of a wide range of liquid and gaseous fuels, atmosphere gases etc throughout a largeintegrated iron and steel plant.
Provide technical services to all thermal processes within the complex.
These services included:
-Fired heater design operation and maintenance
-Specification and monitoring of operating standards with particular regard to safety, thermal efficiency, product quality and yield
-Atmospheric emissions monitoring
-Fired heater combustion control and instrumentation
-Liaison with government and local authorities on matters pertaining to atmospheric pollution and control
-Liquid and gaseous fuels storage and distribution system design operation and maintenance
-Fuels/combustion testing services (laboratory and on plant)
-Troubleshooting and correction of processes and plant issues that resulted in a downgrading of product quality, yield and plant thermal efficiency.
1981 - 1996 Syncrude Canada Ltd, Fort McMurray, Alberta
1981 - 1982 Development Engineer – Primary Bitumen Extraction
1982 - 1984 Senior Development Engineer – Utilities
1984 - 1987 Engineering Associate – Utilities Technical Development
1987 - 1990 Section Head Utilities Engineering (Operations)
Responsibilities included:
-Leadership of a team of professional engineers providing process and mechanical engineering/technical support to the Operations and Maintenance Divisions of the Utilities Department. The operation comprised a 260mW power station equipped with gas and steam turbine generators, five 750 kpph power and waste heat recovery boilers, largescale cooling and process water pumping and distribution systems, nitrogen and compressed air generating and distribution systems and portable water plant.
-Preparation of, and stewardship to the department's annual operating and capital budgets.
-Identification of long term process plant development and replacement needs to meet corporate production and financial objectives.
-Preparation of the Utilities Dept 5 yr capital expenditure plan.
-Liaison with and direction of central resource groups, contract organizations etc. providing technical, conceptual and detailed design, construction and project management services to the Utilities Department
-Technical staff recruitment, training and performance review
1990 - 1996 Senior Engineering Associate – Process Development Dept.
Responsibilities included:
-To provide a specialist technical resource to operations, maintenance and design organizations throughout the extraction, upgrading and utilities complex on design and operation of fired heaters, boilers and associated plant.
-To evaluate problems limiting production, efficiency and safety.
-Identification of process/plant changes which provide an effective return on investment.
-Participate in the development of major new process conceptual changes.
-During this period I was a member of a small development team that designed the first hydrotransport extraction plant . The team took the laboratory/pilot plant concept to full scale commercial plant design.
1997 – present Semi Retired / Thermal and Combustion Process Consultant
Provision of specialized services (on request) to oilsands and other major companies.
These include:
Conceptual design/development of additional CO boilers and peripheral plant for the Syncrude Canada UE1 capacity addition.
Commissioning of two Foster Wheeler fired heaters at the NIRMA
Petrochemical Plant, Baroda, India.
Analysis of the cause of OTHWG tube failure at the Syncrude Aurora bitumen extraction facility. Recommend design and operating changes to avoid repetition.
Establish the cause of steam superheater tube overheating on Syncrude’s Utility Boilers. This required my development of a detailed computer based heat and mass transfer model in order to predict the effect of burner thermal release maldistribution
Recommendations to avoid forced air fan vibrations on the CO boilers at Syncrude
VECO Engineering Calgary – Assist in the conceptual design of the Heat Recovery Steam Generator at the United Carbon Black Plant, Medicine Hat,Alberta.
Development of a model to predict and correct auxiliary burner initiatedtemperature mal-distribution causing tube failure on the Syncrude GTG waste heat recovery steam generators, member of the problem analysis team
Development of a model to predict ammonia destruction in the fire box of Syncrude’s CO boilers. This was completed in conjunction with a Babcock and Wilcox specialist in chemical reaction kinetics. My contribution included writing code to predict the combustion chamber temperature profile
Patents and Publications
Continuous Galvanizing of Strip Steel at Port Talbot Steel Plant – presented to theSouth Wales and West of England Branch of the Institute of Fuel. Published in theJournal of the Institute of Fuel 1968.
CO Boiler Reliability – Examination of Failure Mechanisms, Root Causes,Corrective Actions and Monitoring Requirements – Presented at NACE Corrosion95 Conference.
Statistics Aid Fuel Efficiency – Published in Chemical Engineering Magazine.
Review of some boiler tube failures at Syncrude – presented at the NACECanadian Region Western Conference.
The Measurement and Application of Wobbe Index in fuel gas combustion control –presented to the American Instrument Society - Edmonton Alberta and to the FortMcMurray APEGGA Branch.
Preparation and presentation of a three-day training course on combustion andheat transfer in fired heaters to Syncrude technical staff and operators.
Major Committee Participation:
South Wales and West of England Section of the Institute of Fuel.
British Iron and Steel Confederation – Ingot Heating Standards Study Group.
British Iron and Steel Confederation – Slab Reheating
Furnace Design/Development Study Group.
British Steel Corporation Study Group on Low Grade Energy recovery from SteelPlants.
References: Supplied on Request.