Stephen Prout

Experience

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  Alabama River Pulp

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2010

  Senior Process Engineer and Area Manager

  Led multiple cost-saving projects in pulp mills with 2–3-year ROIs on Kamyr digester to downflow cooking, burning Crude Tall Oil in Lime Kilns, Bark Boilers, and Recovery Boilers. Led process improvements in a Crude tall oil plant for a large capacity increase.

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  Georgia-Pacific LLC

  Jul 2010 - Oct 2018

  Senior Process Engineer

  Lead process engineer for the installation of an Oxygen Delignification Reactor System capital project, achieving significant savings of $11 per ton of CLO2. Successfully led multiple cost-saving projects in pulp mill processes involving evaporators, digesters, BSW, CLO2 generators, MeOH, Turpentine, and Natural Gas firing.Built and operated a fluidized carbon bed adsorber pilot plant system for terpene recovery in an OSB plant.

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  KBR, Inc.

  Oct 2018 - Apr 2020

  Professional Technical Process Engineering Leader

  Led cross-functional teams on chemical plant projects involving FEL estimating and design of an Indirect cooling tower system, H2S NCG white liquor scrubber, activated carbon bed system, and a polymer high viscosity heat exchanger.

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  Ingevity

  Jan 2021 - Nov 2023

  Corporate Process Project Engineer

  Led diverse chemical plant projects involving the design and procurement of API 650 tanks, specifying heat exchangers, upgrading paint mixing systems, overseeing pigging transport lines installation, and developing the scope of work of an evaporator falling film units for a refinery transformation

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  Fluor Corporation

  Feb 2024 - now

  Process/Specialty Engineer IV

  Pharmaceuticals