Improve kerosene mercaptan sweetening with fluoropolymer-cartridge liquid-liquid coalescers

Thomas H. Wines is a Director of Applications Development for Pall Corp.’s fluid technologies and asset protection group. Prior to assuming this role, he was Director of Product Management, Senior Marketing Manager and Senior Staff Engineer for the scientific and laboratory services division at Pall. Dr. Wines has more than 32 yr of filtration, separation and purification experience serving the refinery, gas processing and chemical industries, and is a specialist in the fields of liquid/gas and liquid/liquid coalescing. He has authored more than 50 technical publications and has one patent. Dr. Wines has given numerous presentations at professional societies and is a member of AIChE. He earned a PhD in chemical engineering from Columbia University.

Andrew H. Gorin is a Vertical Sales Manager for Pall Corp.’s fluid technologies and asset protection group and has been with Pall Corp. for 20 yr. He has held multiple commercial leadership positions, including Refinery sales leader for the Americas, Global Sales Leader for hot gas filtration systems and industrial water treatment systems, and sales director for oil and gas/refining. Mr. Gorin shares his expertise in refinery applications and metal hot gas filtration systems by providing customer seminars and internal training sessions at Pall Corp. He earned a BS degree in materials engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from the University of Tennessee.

Javier Rios is a Principal Technical Service Specialist at Honeywell UOP. He is responsible for supporting UOP FCC and Merox operations worldwide. Over the past 14 yr, Mr. Rios has worked in the field services and technology services groups. As a Field Service Advisor, he provided onsite guidance and expertise during new unit commissioning, startup and troubleshooting for various technologies. In his current role, he specializes in FCC and Merox technologies, providing troubleshooting, optimization and operational assistance. Mr. Rios has been awarded four patents on UOP technologies and two trade secrets for improvements in treating technologies. He earned his BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Jessy Trucko is a Principal Technology Specialist at Honeywell UOP in the treating technical services group. He has been with Honeywell UOP for more than 20 yr. During his years in Honeywell UOP’s development group, he advanced alkylene and FCC technologies. Mr. Trucko has been involved with Merox as a Project Engineer in the gas processing engineering department and as a Treating Technical Service Specialist for the past 13 yr. During this time, he designed individual units and complexes and innovated multiple improvements to the Merox design. Mr. Trucko holds seven patents and earned a BS degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.