Germán Ramos Barragán

Process Engineer at Lantania

Seville, Andalusia, Spain

About

Industrial Engineer (5 years degree) at University of Seville, Spain, and MSc Water Technology Engineering at University of Stavanger, Norway. International experience on site, in United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Experience in design, hydraulic, process calculations of desalination plants and technical specification, as well as plant operation and maintenance on site. Project planning and interaction with clients and suppliers.

Experience

  • Process Engineer at Grupo Lantania
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    Jubail 3A IWP - 600,000 m3/d.

  • Abengoa (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Process Engineer
      Sep 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Dubal Desalination Plant (RO & CEDI) 41,000 m3/d. Supplying potable water and de-ionized water through a process of electrodeionization. - Process Design: Mass balance, Process Calculations, P&IDs, chemical consumption, plant description, Control philosophy DCS Implementation, software membranes projections, Energy Consumption, CIP, HAZOP. - Main equipments: RO Membranes, Dissolved Air Flotation, Media Filters, CO2 storage and dosing equipment, Calcite Beds, CEDI (Continuous Electrodeionization), chemical dosing pumps, Energy recovery Device, layout design. - Effluent Treatment Plant Design: Coagulation, Flocculation, Lamella, Centrifuge decanters.

    • Commissioning Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Shuaibah III Expansion II SWRO 250,000 m3/d. - SWRO Desalination plant supplying water to Makkah. Capacity of 250,000 m3/day. - Commissioning Process engineer. - Desalination plant operation. Ensure effective and optimal operation of the plant and equipments. - Production planning. Operation performance and energy consumption evaluation. - Operation lead for a team of engineers, operators, maintenance technicians and lab technician. A team of 10 co-workers per shift. Provide technical and mentoring support to plant based technical staff.

  • Veolia Middle East (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • District Cooling Operations Engineer
      Aug 2017 - May 2018 · 10 mos

      Saadiyat District cooling plant provides chilled water to 25 clients (hotel resorts, university, museum), each one with an energy station (plate heat exchangers), includes two cooling plants, two chilled water storage tanks, and two piping networks of 25 km in total. Tasks included: - Plant Operation and Maintenance. - Saadiyat Customer relationship : Follow up of KPIs. Contingency planning. - Due diligence, reviewing of existing installations for taking over two sewage treatment plants (1,500 m3/day, each) in EGA complex.

    • Desalination Operations Engineer
      Jan 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Fujairah RO desalination plant - 136,500 m3/day. Part of the (back then) largest hybrid desalination plant in the world linked to a 2,000 MW power plant and a 450,000 m3/day thermal desalination plant. Tasks included: - Support to operation manager. Monitor, identify and assist to control plant and process issues. - Cleaning and flushing RO, membranes performance analysis and optimization. - Operation data analysis and elaboration of technical reports, work instructions, operating manuals and dispatch declaration. Monthly KPI report. - Process monitoring and water quality assurance. Laboratory work. - Monitoring process equipment: RO membranes, process pumps, and energy recovery systems. - Overtaking operation of a desalination plant from a competitor in Qatar. The Pearl RO Plant. - HSE support.

  • Mechanical & Process Engineer at Abengoa (Abeinsa Engineering)
    Mar 2015 - Dec 2015 · 10 mos

    Al-Khafji Desalination plant 60,000 m3/day (Saudi Arabia). Main tasks performed: - Elaboration of main process P&IDs. - Hydraulic calculation main process system. - Surge analysis using Flowmaster V7. Main system and auxiliary piping network. - Equipment Data Sheets and Technical Specification (Mechanical Design Criteria, Pumps, tanks, CO2 plant, Electrochlorination plant, Chlorination plant, Fire Fighting System, DAF, Ultrafiltration System, Reverse Osmosis system, Self-cleaning system, Energy Recovery Device).

  • Research Internship at Salsnes Filter
    May 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Working on BIAs project: Sustainable treatment of wastewater by Salsnes Filter fine mesh sieves and biological processes. Tasks included development of separation technology process, sampling on field, chemical analysis and result analysis. Field mechanical work. Improvements to be implemented on separation technology process. Work location: Aquateam headquarters (Oslo) and Nodre Follo (Oslo wastewater treatment plant). At E.D.A.R. “El Torno” in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), working hand in hand with Aqualia I+D researchers, on SWAT project (www.swattechnology.no), part of the European FP7 (seventh framework programme, http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/62353_en.html). Tasks included working on design improvements, proposing solutions for energy consumption optimization, research on polymer chemicals properties and applications. Laboratory analysis and report of project results. Work location: Aquateam headquarters (Oslo) and E.D.A.R. “El Torno” in Chiclana de la Frontera.