Qualifications and Experience
- Over 44 years experience in all aspects of industrial water management.
- Last 26 years in the Oilsands Industry of which 20 was spent at Syncrude Canada
- Complementary experience in Refinery process-side corrosion and fouling control
- Extensive Utilities experience especially as it relates to high pressure boiler tube failure prevention
- Thorough knowledge of water management for both SAGD and open pit oil sands operations
- 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.
- Training in risk assessment, troubleshooting, decision making, root cause analysis, time management, priority setting, facilitators.
Capabilities
- Water balance and ionic predictive modeling using Matlab and Simulink
- Boiler feedwater treatment
- Cooling water treatment
- Wastewater treatment
- Produced Water treatment
- Potable water treatment
- Treatment of water for recycle and reuse
- Issues with water management and tailings for the oilsands industry
- Boiler tube failure prevention
- Water-side and process-side corrosion control programs
- Engineering and Operator training in all of the above
- Strategic Development and Project Execution
- Fuel Technology, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Process Control
