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Senior Mechanical Equipment and Design Engineer. Precious metals refinery Plant.

1/ Range of bid eqpt.: Calciners, afterburners, ‘reactor’ plant (CFR), hydrogen generator, column filters, mills, furnaces, liquid ring vac pumps (LRVPs at 4m x 8m footprint ea.), belt filters / dryers, Glass vessel mixer / settlers, Etc.
(Note: All docs reviewed using Fluor’s document control app called ‘Coreworx’.)

2/ Significant level of vendor interfacing & management influencing design for a Belt Filter package upgrade – a ‘direct’ JM package outside of Fluor’s scope which involved site visits & being the technical consultant for the mechanical aspects to allow the unit to accept highly acidic process fluids – a significant equipment upgrade & development.

3/ Design monitoring of both the plant design, and belt filter design progress were done with Navisworks Manage.

4/ Significant influence on deciding the CFR equipment vendor. The CFR is JMs Intellectual Property (IP) for a novel machine design and a technical assessment matrix was devised (by me) to assess the best placed bidder to deliver the detail design and manufacture of the 8 units needed on the JMs 3rd century refinery (3CR) project.

5/ The working fluids in most of the mechanical packages are strong acids or strong alkalis, or solvents, which are selected to dissolved metals in solution for re-processing, so use of plastic pipework, plastic linings, plastic vessels, PFA (Teflon) coatings, and glass coatings for equipment is commonplace. Hydrogen blanketing is also used in some equipment, so ATEX and DSEAR regs are frequently referenced.

6/ Working to a wide selection of national and industry codes and standards for a wide range of industrial plant items. 

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