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Harry A. Adams worked for BP Oil (formerly The Standard Oil
Co. of Ohio) in R & D
for many years and served
as Process Technology Manager for BP's worldwide petroleum coking
operations. Following his retirement from BP, he has been a coking
consultant serving many clients throughout the USA as well as in Canada,
Indonesia, Kuwait, Brazil, India, Switzerland, and Argentina.
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Successfully supported a client that does coke cutting on
a contract basis in resolving a performance dispute between the client’s customer
and the client. An excessively hard coke was unacceptably increasing coke cutting
time. The issue was quickly resolved.
Harry conducts training programs for all experience levels in
coking techniques, problem areas, economics, furnace operation, industry standards
and safety.
He doubled and tripled coking run lengths at several major refineries
He outlined procedures on how to improve coking economics by $10MM/year
Improved operations markedly by implementing a change from “sluice-way”
to “pit” coke cutting
Improved antifoam procedures to reduce carryover and save dollars
Worked with operators in the field to improve their knowledge of the coking process
and improve coke cutting procedures
Helped several refineries increase throughput, improve coke quality and
process technology
Reduced coke drum hot spots that can cause eruptions during cutting
He provided design input for upgrading of furnace operations
Published the “Delayed Coking” chapter in Introduction to Carbon
Technologies, Marsh, Heintz, Reinoso, Alicante; Universidad, 1997.
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Mr. Adams graduated from Hiram College, Hiram. OH, with
majors in chemistry
and math, and is a Chemical Engineering graduate of Cleveland State University.
He has held numerous seminars and has given short courses on the subject of coking.
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This page was last updated
March 22, 2009
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