Category: News

PROCESS, effective January 2025, is pleased to announce several organizational changes at PROCESS that sets the stage for carrying on our commitment to excellence in applied chemical engineering well into the future.

• PROCESS is pleased to announce that Ms. Jacqeline F. (Jacqui) Stewart, P.E. has assumed the role as Chief Managing Partner for the entire company.  She replaces one of our company founders, Mr. L. H. (Hop) Boyd, Jr., to whom the company owes its creation and much of its success.  Hop will stay involved with the company as a consultant while he enjoys a variety of retirement activities.  Thank you Hop!!!

• PROCESS is pleased to announce that Mr. Matt D. Whitworth, P.E. has been promoted to both a company Partner and Business Unit Manager of our industrial services group in the Tennessee.  Matt is a Chief Process Engineer, a chemical engineer (B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998) with 24 years experience.  He will lead both technical and marketing efforts for the industrial services group in the TN office as well as support the Managing Partner in driving overall company strategy.

• PROCESS is pleased to announce that Mr. Jay S. White, P.E. has been promoted to Business Unit Manager of our industrial services group in the Pennsylvania  office.  Jay is a Chief Process Engineer, a chemical engineer (M.S., Polytechnic University, 1990) with 34 years experience.  He will lead both technical and marketing efforts for the PA office.

• PROCESS is pleased to announce that Mr. Matthew R. (Matt) Morris has been promoted to Business Unit Manager of our government services group in the Tennessee office.    Matt is a Senior Process Engineer, a chemical engineer (B.S., Tennessee Technological University, 2011) with 13 years experience. He will lead both technical and marketing efforts for the government service group out of the TN office.

• PROCESS is pleased to announce that Ms. Kimberly R. (Kim) Pace has assumed the lead role in coordinating the efforts of our Process Safety Services Group.  Kim is a Senior Process Engineer, a chemical engineer (B.S., University of Alabama, 2001) with over 23 years experience and takes this baton from one of our company partners, Mr. Melvin C. (Mel) Coker, Jr., who recently semi-retired and to whom the company owes a great deal of thanks for building and leading this group.  Mel will stay actively involved with the company as a consultant.  Thank you Mel!!!

PROCESS is pleased to announce that Matt Whitworth, working out of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee office, has just recently completed the requirements for and been awarded his P.E. license for the state of Tennessee. We congratulate Matt on achieving this significant accomplishment. Matt is the technical lead for the Industrial Services Group in the Tennessee office.

PROCESS is also please to announce that Chris Muntean, P.E. as part of his continuing education and working out of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee office, has just recently completed the requirements for and been awarded his certificate for completing ELP303: RAPID’s Process Intensification Credential Program with a focus on heat and mass transfer.  This course was offered through the AIChE Academy.

Matt is currently a Chief Process Engineer, a chemical engineer (B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998) with 23 years experience in the design, startup, and operation of batch and continuous organic chemical production processes, alternative energy process design, as well as in computer process modeling and simulation and Six Sigma methodologies.

Chris is currently a Senior Process Engineer, a chemical engineer (B.S., University of Toledo, 2006) with 17 years experience in the design, commissioning, startup, and operation of continuous chemical production processes, process design project management, project engineering, control system programming, as well as in computer process modeling and simulation and management of change.

We congratulate both Matt and Chris on achieving these significant accomplishments!

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP is a long-time client of Process Engineering Associates, LLC (PROCESS).  Their subsidiary company, Montana Renewables, recently achieved design throughput capacity for processing renewable feedstocks into low-emission sustainable fuel alternatives at the operator’s renewables manufacturing plant in Montana.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP subsidiary Montana Renewables LLC (MRL) has achieved the design throughput capacity for processing renewable feedstocks into low-emission sustainable fuel alternatives at the operator’s renewables manufacturing plant in Great Falls, Mont. (read the full story here: OGJ Online, Sept. 8, 2021).

Co-located at fellow subsidiary Calumet Montana Refining LLC’s (CMRL) Great Falls conventional refinery and specialty asphalt plant, MRL’s biorefinery reached its design processing capacity for renewable feedstocks of 15,000 b/sd as of Apr. 18 following commissioning of the operator’s new renewable hydrogen plant on Mar. 4, Calumet said.
While Calumet did not disclose a capacity of the new hydrogen plant, the new installation produces renewable hydrogen—or green hydrogen—by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using hydrogen gases collected from the biorefinery’s renewable diesel reactor. The plant then recycles the green hydrogen for reuse within the biorefinery using a patent-pending but yet-to-be-identified technology, according to MRL’s website.

PROCESS congratulates Calumet Montana Refining on this very significant accomplishment and wishes them many productive, profitable, and safe years of operation to come.

CPI has just announced significant news on some recent process technology developments, which we are happy to pass along.

CPI, one of PROCESS’ clients, has recently announced development of a new high-efficiency small-scale ammonia production process.

Natural gas is the feed material for the catalyzed process which includes innovations such as air cooling, Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) to remove excess carbon dioxide and nitrogen, the use of screw compressors in a relatively low-pressure synthesis section, and more.  The process has recently received a U.S. patent.  CPI is currently seeking sales opportunities and strategic partnerships globally.  Advantageous plant site targets may include remote agricultural locations with excess or stranded gas supplies, as well as regional farming cooperatives seeking to gain tighter control over their fertilizer supply and reduce shipping & storage costs.  Certain markets for ammonia derivative products (ammonium nitrate, diammonium phosphate, etc.) may also find the small modular process to their advantage.

We wish CPI continued success as they seek to commercialize this exciting technology. Follow this link to view the full article recently published in the Jan/Feb 2019 edition of Fertilizer Focus, page 49 – 51; Bridging the Gap for Small Scale Ammonia Production, by Derek Lennon.

Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) in Squamish, B.C., Canada has just announced significant news on some recent strategic investments, which we are happy to pass along.

CE has announced two major strategic investors, the first being Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and the second being Chevron Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Chevron Corporation.

These investments enable CE to accelerate commercialization of CE’s Direct Air Capture (DAC) and AIR TO FUELS™ technologies, and bring them closer to deploying large-scale commercial plants. Both Occidental and Chevron are investing into CE’s technologies and business plan, and this funding will allow CE to accelerate the use of their technologies in a way that delivers affordable, low-carbon energy, and significant emissions reductions.

CE is one of PROCESS’ valued clients whom we have served through our international projects group and wholly owned subsidiary Process Engineering International, LLC. We wish CE continued success as they seek to commercialize this exciting technology. Follow this link to view the full Press Release and/or visit the web site for Carbon Engineering, Ltd.

PROCESS recently completed a project for a technology development company for a demonstration scale process designed to transform spent fracking water into clean water. Agua Dulce Technologies, LLC based in Littleton, Colorado hired PROCESS to scale up the design of a novel water treatment process from a bench top unit to a demonstration-scale pilot unit. PROCESS developed the basic engineering package for both the pretreatment and pervaporation portions of the process. Visit the web site for Agua Dulce Technologies.

PROCESS is pleased to announce that Rame Sulaiman, working out of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee office, has just recently completed the requirements for and been awarded his P.E. license for the state of Tennessee. We congratulate Rame on achieving this significant accomplishment. Rame routinely leads many of our pressure relief device evaluation and sizing projects.

Rame is currently a Senior Process Engineer,a chemical engineer (M.S., Tennessee Technological University, 1995), with 22 years experience in equipment and processing systems design, startup, operation, and optimization as well as dryer, filter, and heat transfer equipment detail design and the design of process control systems.

We congratulate Rame on achieving this significant accomplishment!

We are pleased to announce the signing of a teaming agreement between Process Engineering International, LLC (PROCESS) and PetroDIAC, an industrial consulting company with headquarters in the UAE.  Although Process Engineering International remains unbiased and independent from all other companies, the use of teaming agreements allows PROCESS to provide expert chemical engineering support to our team member’s efforts.  An alliance between PROCESS and PetroDIAC reinforces PetroDIAC’s commitment to providing the highest levels of quality services to their clients and the same high level of conduct in their business practices.

PetroDIAC is a next-generation consulting services firm founded in 1994 with offices in Houston (USA), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE). PetroDIAC’s multi-disciplinary teams are dedicated to improving the profitability, efficiency and safety of Oil & Energy customers worldwide. As competent trusted advisors, our professionals apply innovative technologies and capture new opportunities for profitable growth in today’s dynamic energy market.

Process Engineering International, LLC (PROCESS) specializes in providing applied chemical process engineering skills to industry.  PROCESS serves the petroleum refining industries (upstream, midstream, and downstream), chemical production industries, petrochemical industries, metals & minerals processing, pharmaceutical industries, food and beverage industries, and all other process industries and brings a team of over 50 world class, experienced, highly-motivated chemical engineers with work histories that have significant achievements in the process engineering field and in process safety management services.  PROCESS’ consulting services range from large projects that involve complete plant process design package preparation and assistance, all the way through startup, and optimization, to small projects that only involve a few hours of consulting.

For further details, please connect with us via www.petrodiac.com and www.processengr-intl.com

Mr. Michael Tanzio who works for PROCESS out of our Gilbertsville, PA office, was recently invited by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to share his career highlights through a new communications series called ‘Meet the Process Engineers’. Mike has enjoyed a varied and very productive employment history and was given an opportunity to comment on certain aspects of his career. If you are a chemical process engineer or are considering it as a career path, you are certain to find this article interesting. Enjoy!

https://www.aiche.org/chenected/2018/08/meet-process-engineer-michael-tanzio

PROCESS ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES, LLC is pleased to publicly offer the following 3½-day PHA training course: PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSIS (PHA) LEADER TRAINING COURSE

The purpose of the 3½ -day training course is to assist personnel at chemical plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries, and manufacturing plants in becoming proficient in leading and documenting process hazard analyses (PHAs) by becoming familiar with various qualitative hazard review techniques and industry best practices for conducting and documenting PHAs.

Who should attend:  Managers and engineers responsible for conducting PHAs at chemical plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries, and manufacturing plants.

Detailed instruction of the following hazard review methodologies will be included in the course:

• Hazard and Operability (HAZOP)
• What-If
• Checklists
• Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA).

An introduction to Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) will also be included.