Norton Engineering

Acids

• Sulfuric Acid: planning, process design, debottlenecking and troubleshooting

Alcohols

• Process design manager for large multi-unit oxo-alcohols plant in Contractor’s offices

Aromatics

• Design of catalytic reformer specifically to produce aromatics
• Design, troubleshooting and debottlenecking of complete aromatics complex

Olefins

• Design of pyrolysis furnaces
• Design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking and startup of all sections in olefins plant
• Studies on reboiler improvements for olefins towers
• Safety studies of olefins plants
• Process design group leader on major ethylene facility in Singapore
• Process designs of several revamp/expansion projects for existing ethylene facilities
• Start-up leader on propylene super-fractionator utilizing heat pump compression
• Process design of butylenes super-fractionator utilizing heat pump compression
• Operations Supervisor of propylene and butylenes fractionation units
• Process design of butane isomerization unit using IFP technology

Phenols

• Nonyl-phenol (high & low chlorine) manufacturing: planning, process engineering & design, troubleshooting, start-up, unit optimization

Polymers

• Poly-isobutylene manufacture. Process design, start-up, troubleshooting, debottlenecking
  Butyl and Halo-butyl Polymers: Process design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, start-up, new product development
• Air emissions quantification and permitting
• Debottlenecking studies and revamp designs for large Unipol polyethylene plant, areas included were polymerization and finishing

Polymer Devolatilization

• Direct devolatilization of LLDPE, LDPE, high ethylene EP and EPDM. Conventional devolitaliztion extrusion equipment and LIST kneader technology
• Air emissions quantification and permitting; emissions control technology evaluations

Specialty Chemicals

• Oxo alcohol manufacture. Planning, process design & engineering, troubleshooting, kinetic modeling; debottlenecking; environmental control
• Plasticizer manufacture. Planning, process design & engineering; assessment of product grade slate change impact on plant throughput and environmental control facilities
• Lube oil additives manufacture. (ZDDP, Ca-sulfonate, Mg-sulfonate, Polyisobutylene, Nonyl-phenol (Cl and low-Cl), Salacylic Acid, etc.) Planning, process design & engineering, troubleshooting, batch reactor optimization, batch cycle time improvement, MEI improvement; air pollution and odor control. Raw material utilization optimization and waste minimization studies
• Air emissions quantification and permitting; emissions control technology evaluations
• Toluene diisocyanate: process design / start-up / and operations (Supv)
• Vitamin C: planning and process design
• Animal anti-virus medicine: planning studies and process design
• Tall Oil Distillation Units: planning, process design and start-up
• Fat Splitters: planning, process design and start-up
• Vegetable Oil: planning, process design and start-up
• Soap manufacturing: revamp studies and process design including environmental efficiency improvement projects
• Process design leader for new developmental motor oil additives unit

Synthesis Gases

• Process design manager for a partial oxidation unit to produce syngas in Contractor’s offices. Process utilized Texaco technology