Greater Milan Metropolitan Area
Principal process engineer with experience in Chemical, Petrochemical and Oil & Gas engineering companies. Italian Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering (5 years) and postgraduate course at Lyondellbasell focusing on the design of plants for the production of polyethylene and polypropylene. - Excellent experience in process modeling and simulation, both static and dynamic (with Aspen Plus, Hysys, Chemcad and Pro II), Excel/VBA programming - Proficient in designing and rating of Shell and tube, pipe in pipe, multi tube heat exchanger using EDR/HTFS or HTRI or with Excel/VBA - Proficient in sizing and rating of major process equipments, preparation of process documentation - Development of PFD, PSFD, MSD, P&ID, C&E, heat and material balance, plant debottlenecking - Relief system design, including PSV and blowdown sizing. - Line sizing with hydraulic calculations (process and interconnecting), single and multiphase fluids. - Vendors follow-up. Competence with Autocad and Flarenet/Aspen Flare Analyzer. Good experience in chemical plants commissioning and startup. Highly motivated and with good problem solving abilities. Personal website: www.melonimarco.it
My current role involves working on the basic and engineering design of plants that produce sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, and fertilizers such as NPK, MAP, and DAP. Main tasks: • Development of heat and material balances, using both process simulators (such as Aspen Plus, Aspen Hysys, or Chemcad) or custom-developed programs (using Visual Basic through Visual Studio or VBA if in Excel). • Equipment process design (process datasheets and specifications), control philosophy and definition of the interblock logic (Cause and effect charts) • Sizing of process and utilities lines with hydraulic calcultations, control and on-off valves, PSV, orifices. • Development of PFD and P&ID, also independently using programs such as Autocad or Draftsight. • HAZOP, SIL, P&ID review • Technical support to the commercial team for proposal, feasibility studies; vendors follow-up during executive jobs • Plant commissioning and start-up
My current role involves working on the basic and engineering design of plants that produce sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, and fertilizers such as NPK, MAP, and DAP. Main tasks: • Development of heat and material balances, using both process simulators (such as Aspen Plus, Aspen Hysys, or Chemcad) or custom-developed programs (using Visual Basic through Visual Studio or VBA if in Excel). • Equipment process design (process datasheets and specifications), control philosophy and definition of the interblock logic (Cause and effect charts) • Sizing of process and utilities lines with hydraulic calcultations, control and on-off valves, PSV, orifices. • Development of PFD and P&ID, also independently using programs such as Autocad or Draftsight. • HAZOP, SIL, P&ID review • Technical support to the commercial team for proposal, feasibility studies; vendors follow-up during executive jobs • Plant commissioning and start-up (Russia, Kazakhstan, Egypt)
Process Engineer consultant. Past projects (November 2015 - April 2016): Senior Process Engineer in KT Tecnimont, for the development of a basic/feed project for the dehydration, fractionation and recovery of C2+ from natural gas feed. July 2014 - October 2015 Process Engineer consultant in General Electric/Nuovo Pignone, for the development of basic and detail engineering of ten gas natural gas recovery, dehydration and recompression stations to be install or revamp in Bassora, Irak. Client was Shell - Bashra gas company. Main tasks: • Modeling and simulations of the plants by means of Aspen Hysys (static and dynamic simulations) • Equipment process design, control philosophy and interblock definition (C&E) • Hydraulic calculations, line sizing, valves and orifice sizing. • Development of PFD and support for P&ID and PSFD development • HAZOP, SIL, P&ID review • Vendor follow-up
In this job I was involved in the design of ethanol distillation, anydrification and multi effect evaporation plants. My main tasks were: • Modeling and simulations of the plant and preparation of the heat and material balances, with Aspen Plus, Aspen Hysys or with company internal programs developed in VBA/Excel. • PFD and P&ID development and markup, with Autocad and Bentley Autoplant ("Smart P&ID") • Hydraulic calculations, PSV sizing e rating, sizing of process lines • Equipment process design, process datasheets preparation • Logics and interblocks, C&E • Preparation of the plant operating manual • Vendor follow-up • Feasibility studies • Writing of programs in VBA/Excel • Commissioning and plants start-up (Russia, Uzbekistan)
From January to October 2011 I attended a postgraduate and stageur course (MASPENS) at Lyondellbasell (former Montell/Montedison). I finished the postgraduate course at the first place in the classification, with an excellent result: 110/110 magna cum laude.
I worked for one year at CONPRICI, the University Consortium for the prevention and protection against chemical and industrial risks, developing guidelines for calculating the restoration costs arising from environmental damage. I also developed process diagrams for typical water and fumes treatment plants to be used as examples in the guidelines. Finally, I estimated the costs through feasibility studies and prepared a guide that allows the calculation of such costs for any type of industrial plants.