William W. Smuck brings wide-ranging process engineering knowledge and experience to clients in the petroleum and petrochemical industries who require in depth expertise in:

• Clean Fuels
• Hydrocracking
• Sulfur recovery

• Hydrotreating
• Hydrogen Production
• Gas and liquid treating

• Fluid catalytic cracking reaction and product recovery technology

Bill's experience includes refining business planning and strategic analysis, conceptual and detailed engineering design of new facilities, plant revamp, and startup and operations troubleshooting. He has carried out many US and Canadian assignments acting as the lead engineer, directed licensor and/or contractor process engineering efforts, working full time in contractor offices and at clients’ sites. He has interfaced with most of the contract engineering companies servicing the industry. Selected projects:

• Served as Sunoco’s companywide amine treating systems expert.

• Evaluated and selected appropriate designs and solutions to upgrade existing systems and for new installations for conventional refinery gas stream treatment.

• Assisted tar sands bitumen upgrading operations involving high sulfur levels, and where efficient and safe recovery are critical.

• In depth knowledge of all sulfur recovery technologies including tail gas recovery units and the Stretford sulfur recovery process
  
  

• Process lead in design basis definition, detailed FCC technology evaluation and selection, and oversight during licensor package development.

• Expert on issues with processing tar sands source gas oils in FCC units.

• Detailed process design of several main fractionators for Exxon FCC licensed packages for construction overseas and in the USA.

• Process design for downstream revisions for crude unit integration, and for light ends and sulfur recovery.

Hydrocracker Complex

• Conducted process evaluation and selection

• Managed process design of a 20,000 BPSD hydrocracker complex including hydrocracker, hydrogen plant, vacuum unit, and sulfur recovery

• Located in contractor’s office in Montreal for duration of detailed design effort

• Assisted in guarantee negotiations, startup, and provided ongoing operations advice.

• 30 ppm S Gasoline.   Evaluated current licensable gasoline desulphurization technologies, including CDTech, Exxon Scanfining, IFP Prime-G, Mobil Octgain, UOP Isal, Phillips Z-Sorb. Participated in client's final comparison and selection. Advised client on suitability of selected technology for future refinery reconfiguration and possible future choices.

• 15 ppm S Diesel.    Provided design basis for Distillate Hydrotreater, including blending options for existing low sulphur distillate components. Prepared hydrogen balances and developed order of magnitude capital for hydrotreater, support units (hydrogen and SRU) and offsites.

Mr. Smuck holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

This page was last updated September 21, 2011