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.

• 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.

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.

This page was last updated March 22, 2009