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February 2017

Jimmy Cleavinger

Jimmy has 35 years of experience in the chemical industry with 28 of those years in ethylene production.  He has worked in reliability, corporate, maintenance and operations engineering for J. M. Huber Corp. LyondellBasell Industries, Flint Hills Resources, and Chevron Phillips Chemical.   He is a Subject Matter Expert in furnaces, flares, combustion equipment and cold boxes.  He also has excellent knowledge of Risked Based Inspection, brittle fracture and fixed equipment....Read more

John C. Weikel

John is theis Asset Engineer, and was previously Operations Engineer, supporting the Hot Section at the BASF Total Petrochemicals, LLC site in Port Arthur, Texas.  Mostuch of his 16+ years’ experience has centered around operation of fired equipment, including 4 years with power and chemical recoverybiomass boilers, co-gens, 7 years with Steam Methane Reformers, and co-gens, and the last 3+ years withmore recently cracking furnaces.  John earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Lamar University in 2000....Read more

Theo Knijff

Theo started his career in 1987 as Production Engineer in Dow Terneuzen, the Netherlands.
In 2002 he accepted the assignment as Maintenance Representative for a project in Spain where Dow constructed their first Octene-1 facility.
Since 2007 Theo is in his current role, responsible to develop and implement Strategic Plans in the Hydrocarbon Business of Dow.
In 2013 he accepted beside his Dow role the function of Director for the non-profit organization K.I.C. “Knowledge and Innovation Center for Maintenance”, located in Terneuzen, the Netherlands.Read more

Creating an Environment for Student Success

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, April 5, 2017,
2:00pm to 3:00pm
EDT
Teaching chemical engineering students? Learn how to create an environment that ensures all students have the opportunity succeed. In this 60-minute webinar, discover how to create an environment for...

2017 AIChE NorCal March Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, March 7, 2017,
6:00pm to 9:00pm
PST
Synopsis of the Presentation: Relaying his own experiences of starting a consulting firm as a young entrepreneur in the chemical engineering field. The talk will include: How to be an entrepreneur as a chemical engineer - even if you think you are too young! Basic strategies for entrepreneurship/...Read more

(Chinese) Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems

January, 2015
《机械完整性体系指南》所述美国化工过程安全中心(CCPS)制定的机械完整性管理体系指南,属于过程安全和风险管理体系中的一部分,是石油化工行业、电力系统及其他存在高风险的生产行业进行机械设备、资产有效管理的重要指南。   本书从机械完整性定义开始,详述了相关概念,明确了领导层在机械完整性管理或者设备管理中的职责,制定了比较详细的实现机械完整性管理的操作指南,内容涵盖相关管理职责、机械完整性管理培训、机械完整性管理对象目标与任务、机械完整性项目的实施程序及执行、针对整个机械设备生命周期的质量保证体系、缺陷管理、风险管理、检验测试及预防性维修、绩效评估、机械完整性评审及持续改进的一系列系统化的内容...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Relief Systems but Were Too Afraid to Ask

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, March 22, 2017,
2:00pm to 3:00pm
EDT
Have you ever had a “dumb” question about pressure relief systems that you were too afraid to ask? Have no fear. Get the answer here. Provenance Consulting is ready to answer any question you have...

Engineers Week Events!

Monday, February 20, 2017, 12:00am CST to Friday, February 24, 2017, 12:00am CST
Join us for our various E-Week Activities! Sign up to volunteer for our Egg Drop Competition here: http://tinyurl.com/j6hsmah RSVP to the banquet (information below) by e-mailing tgcs@aiche.org .Read more

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