Thomas J. Dugdale has international experience in project management,
licensing, engineering design, plant engineering and troubleshooting in the refining, petrochemical, and
specialty chemical industries, in the UK, Spain, Brazil, Taiwan, Australia and the U.S. He has successfully
held complete project responsibilities. In business development he has created and started specialty chemical
and medical product businesses with large and small companies. Selected projects:
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- Refinery Crude Unit Energy Reduction Utilized HYSIM simulation
of existing refinery crude unit heat exchanger train to evaluate proposals for process changes to reduce
energy use.
- Refinery Field Services Worked onsite to determine design
basis and location of piping tie-ins for new processing unit.
- Butane isomerization Managed the subcontractor for the design,
procurement, and construction of a C4 isomerization plant.
- Ethylene Cracker and off-sites Process engineering for an
ethylene cracker, followed by designing major equipment, preparing equipment specifications, selecting
equipment vendors in Spanish engineering subcontractor's office.
- Town design Organized the construction of a 600-unit housing
development for a coal mining town in Australia. Negotiated with the town council, the miners' union,
government agencies, and farmers to establish the town location, layout, and the infrastructure needed
to support the town and coal mine. Prepared bid packages, selected the contractor and negotiated the
contract. The development was built.
- Beta phenyl ethanol (Rose Fragrance) Scoped the entire project,
negotiated a Japanese azeotropic distillation process license, completed the technology transfer,
prepared bid documents for engineering, procurement, and construction, selected the EPC contractor,
managed the process design, engineering, procurement and construction. Project was completed ahead
of schedule and under budget.
- Propylene Oxide, Styrene, Ethyl benzene Supervised 25-man
plant engineering group responsible for the design and construction of all capital additions in the
chemical complex.
- Ethylene oxide, glycol, amines and ethers Led the contractor
start-up team that optimized each unit's operation and successfully ran the guarantee test runs in
Brazil.
- Wound care products Set up a world-wide distributor network
to export the company's products and built up the international sales from zero to 30% of revenues.
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