About The Owner

I spent the first part of my career doing R&D for the military which mainly consisted of field research and computer modeling. Since, I have been working in chemical/petrochemical plants doing process design and project management work as a plant employee and consultant. I currently hold PE licenses in TX and LA. See detailed project experience.

Process System Experience: Carbon Capture, Vinylidene Chloride, Flare Compliance, Crude, Hydrocracker, Hydrotreater, Olefins, Biofuels, Catalyst, Sulfur Recovery, PVC, Ethanolamine (EOA), Ammonia, Specialty Chemical, H2S Treating, EO Unit, Soybean Refinery, Urea, Nitric Acid, UAN, Tank Farms, Firewater, Flare, Marine Vapor Recovery, Utilities, LPG, Unloading/Loading Facilities, Tank Farms, Demonstration/Testing Units, Plastics to Chemical, and  Pyrolysis Oil.

Process Design Experience: Feasibility Studies, Simulation, Heat and Material Balance (HMB), Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), Block Flow Diagrams (BFDs), Basis of Design, Utility Summary, ISBL/OSBL Interface, Equipment Design, Hydraulics (L/V/2P), Exchanger Design, Relief Valve Design, HAZOP Support, Flare Evaluations, and Process Specification for Instruments.

Research Experience: Granted U.S. DoD collateral top secret level clearance to support classified programs, Author of 14 publishings, 9 technical reports, 3 refereed journal articles, 2 magazine articles,  and 3 patents pending/1 published patent.

Education:

MS, Civil Engineering, Mississippi State University
BS, Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University 

Professional:

Louisiana ChemE PE License No. 34751
Texas ChemE PE License No. 138922

Patent Holder and Technical Paper Author

Overview:

Mr. Stinson has over 15 years of process design experience in the petroleum refining, chemical, specialty chemical, and fertilizer industries (ammonia, urea, and UAN) as a plant process engineer and as a consultant. In addition, he has over 5 years of experience in research and development with the Department of Defense, Positions held include Process Department Manager, Senior Process Engineer, Project Manager/Engineer, and Research Principal Engineer. Mr. Stinson has spent the last 10 years of his career in a process engineering manager role with responsibility over the company’s process engineering department which at times was up to 30 process engineers. During his years as a process engineering manager, he also led major projects and did technical process design work to help his teams be successful. 

Expertise:

Through his plant and consulting experiences, Mr. Stinson has developed expertise in the following areas of process design: process simulation, preparation of process flow diagrams (PFDs) and heat and material balances (HMBs), development of piping and instrument diagrams (PIDs) for new and revised process units, sizing / specification of process equipment, and hydraulic analysis of fluid flow networks.

Mr. Stinson has led process teams on various projects in addition to supporting process design efforts that included: process simulation (steady state and dynamic), pressure relief contingency analysis, flare analysis, heat exchanger design/ratings simulation, utility summaries, and Basis of Design (BoD) document development.

Mr. Stinson has supported process design and safety efforts utilizing various process tools and programs including: ASPEN Plus Process Modeling, Aspen Hysys, Aspen Dynamic Modeling, Engineer's Aide Sinet Aspen Flare System Analyzer, Aspen EDR, Pipe-Flo, Design Flow, iPRSM Unisim, ChemCAD, Pro-II, HTRI, ProMax, Visio (process drawings), Instrucalc, AFT Fathom/Arrow, Salus, and PHA Works.

In addition to process design, Mr. Stinson has had various roles in process safety including: PHA facilitator, PHA scribe, PHA process representative, pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR). MOC reviews, unit PHA revalidations, and what-if analysis.

Mr. Stinson also has formal training in the following areas: PHA leadership training, API Relief Valve training, ASPEN training, Pro-II training, PSM workshop, and iPRSM training.  As a manager, he has facilitated numerous process department training sessions, and he routinely works with junior engineers on projects to get them exposed to various process design aspects. In addition, he has successfully done workshare across multiple office locations including the high value engineering center in India. He has prepared and approved numerous proposals, presented company engineering capabilities, and represented the company in bid meetings. As a lead for projects, he has managed budgets, communicated changes, planned work with project team schedule, progressed work with earned hours for cost control, and managed staffing levels.