Thomas Wolters

Mechanical Design Engineer at MAN Energy Solutions

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

About

Highly skilled mechanical engineer. In the previous four years I have worked on bringing a commercial Ørsted Renescience waste recycling plant to life. When I started at Renescience in 2015 I was fully responsible for the operation of a medium scale pilot plant located at an incineration plant in Copenhagen. In close collaboration with our R&D department our team executed different test setups under real circumstances. Our team permanently improved the pilot plant and gave input for a large scale Renescience plant in Northwich, England. Unfortunately the location of the pilot plant was demolished and I continued working on the design and commissioning of the full scale recycling plant in England. Here I enjoyed to continuously improve the plant and dig into root cause analysis, when we faced challenges to keep the operation time of the plant. To ensure safety on site I performed several risk analysis using the Bowtie method. From 2007 to 2015 I have worked with different technologies in the chemical industry such as steam methane reformers, ammonia converters, reactor and heat exchanger design. I have been project member for two different pilot plants for production of methanol / gasoline out of biomass. In the final two years at Topsøe I have been group leader for the plant layout and piping group coordinating collaboration between our engineers in Denmark and our office in India. We had some great successes in saving man-hours by using value stream mapping and lean. Beside managing I also try to keep track on my engineering skills trough minor projects.

Experience

  • Mechanical Design Engineer at Everllence
    Aug 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

  • Senior Engineer at Ørsted
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Team Lead for Renescience at DONG Energy
    Jul 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr

    Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the REnescience pilot plant at ARC. Coordination beetween R&D, Concepts team and ARC. Responsible for work environment and safety. Hiring of external consultants for heavily loaded periods. Budget responsible.

  • Haldor Topsøe (7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Leader for plant layout and piping group
      Apr 2013 - Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Coordination between our office in Denmark and India, Supporting one of our key performance indicators, Reduction of man-hours to increase efficiency, Keeping track on project milestones, delegating project tasks, technical support for purchase of piping, 3D model reviews, Stress calculation of piping systems, Inspection of chemical plants

    • Deputy group leader of ammonia converter group
      Oct 2012 - Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Leading the ammonia converter group with 4 engineers and 2 draftsmen.

    • Mechanical Engineer
      Aug 2007 - Jun 2015 · 7 yrs 11 mos

      Design, inspection and installation of ammonia converter for the fertilizer industry worldwide. Design and inspection of pressure vessels and heat exchangers for chemical plants. Leading the AutoCad group for our draftsmen.

  • Diploma thesis at Linde Gas
    Oct 2006 - Mar 2007 · 6 mos

    Life Cycle Assessment of selected, sustainable processes to produce hydrogen