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ECP and to treat the full kerosene flow or
to run in parallel with the ECP (using a
smaller cartridge coalescer for a portion
of the total kerosene flow). A skid rental
may also be considered as an alternative
to custom-engineered, permanent equipment
for either approach.
NOTES
a Honeywell UOP's Merox process
b Gammon Corp.'s AquaGlo
c Pall Corp.
d
e
Pall Corp.'s horizontal liquid-liquid coalescer rental
unit
Pall Corp.'s duplex, horizontal pre-filter rental unit
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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.
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