Reboiler pinch: An approach to optimize flare system design during FEED

Hasan Amin is a Senior Process Engineer with the process and control systems department at Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He has nearly 22 yr of experience in the process and operations of oil and gas and petrochemical industries. Prior to joining Saudi Aramco, Mr. Amin worked with CH2M Hill (formerly VECO Canada), Worley Parsons Canada, and others in the process engineering department. Throughout his career, Mr. Amin has worked in various project lifecycle activities, including proposals, conceptual design, front-end engineering, detailed engineering, construction support, commissioning, operations and maintenance. He earned a BSc degree in chemical engineering and an MSc in total quality management (TQM) from the University of Punjab, Pakistan, as well as an MEng degree in chemical and petroleum engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada. He is a registered professional engineer in Alberta, Canada.

Praveen Dhote is a Chemical Engineer and a Process Safety Team Leader at Siemens. He has 19 yr of experience, specializing in process safety management (PSM) studies, and his extensive experience includes working on projects in Asia, central Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. Mr. Dhote has led various process safety studies for more than 14 yr, such as quantitative risk assessment, process hazard analysis, pressure relief analysis, and flare header analysis, among others for oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical projects at various locations. He is also a certified functional safety professional. Mr. Dhote graduated in 2001 from the Laxminarayan Institute of Technology at Nagpur University in India.

Sachin Kanade is a Technical Safety Lead at Siemens, supervising a team of engineers to execute and provide process safety technical support. He has 16 yr of experience in process safety and risk assessment in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Kanade has extensive experience performing consequence modeling and quantitative risk assessment studies, dispersion studies, facility siting/layout studies, radiation analysis, HAZOP studies, overpressure assessments, pressure relief and flare design, and much more. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University.