Tomas Ramis, P.E. FL.

Experience

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  ASMAR - Navy Shipyard Talcahuano

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  Propulsion Rotating Equipment Analysis

  Summer Internship

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  Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato

  Jan 2007 - Nov 2007

  Mechanical Engineer Intern

  The project required the installation of 16 hydraulic cylinders per stand, to provide mill balance and permit positive or negative bending of the work rolls. Duties included system drawing development

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  PegasusTSI formerly Mustang Tampa Inc.

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Pipe Stress Engineer

  Tampa , FL

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  Lisega, Inc. USA

  Feb 2010 - Apr 2011

  Field Service Engineer

  Field Inspection & Construction, Pipe Stress Analysis, and Pipe Support Design.

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  Bechtel Corporation

  Apr 2011 - Nov 2017

  Watts Bar Nuclear Plant - Unit 2Responsible for ASME Mechanical PER (Problem Evaluation Report), Engineering Design and Field Change Request, Material requirements, and Spec’s reviews, Base Metal repair, component refurbishment/replacement, and components supply deviation approvals.Westinghouse / PCI support; Steam Generator, Reactor Vessel, Pumps, and Valves inspections. Performed foreign object retrieval, component cleanliness evaluations, System flushing, Hydro & Start-Up tests. Also responsible for welding procedures review, NDE testing, and resolution for welding indications. Show less

  • Senior Mechanical Engineer

    Sept 2015 - Nov 2017

  • Senior Mechanical / Material Engineer

    Nov 2014 - Oct 2015

  • Mechanical / Material Engineer

    Jul 2013 - Nov 2014

  • Mechanical Engineer

    Apr 2011 - Jul 2013
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  ARAUCO

  Feb 2018 - now

  Responsible for Wood Preparation, Wood Yard, Chemical Plant, Evaporators, Lime-Kilns and White Liquor Plant - Causticizing. MAPA Project will produce 1,560,000 tons of eucalyptus pulp.Wood Preparation area have four Chipping lines, three Twin RotaBarker debarkers, RST 360 Chip Stacker for 183,000 m3 l, five bark Crushers and five Presses. 20 ha Wood storage yard with cobblestones and receiving areas for trucks and rail. Chemical area; Chlorine Dioxide Plant of 51 tons/day SVP-SCW (Single Vessel Processes- Sulfuric Acid Recovery). Tanks area for chemical storage; Caustic Soda, Sulfuric Acid, Chlorate, Methanol, Peroxide and Bisulfite. Evaporator area – 7-effect train with a concentration capacity of 2,070 t/h of black liquor to feed the Mill recovery boiler. In addition to supplying clean energy to the mill, an energy surplus of 166 MW will be delivered to the National Electrical Grid.Causticizing area. Liquor plant with a capacity to produce 15,399 m3/d of white liquor and two rotary Lime-Kilns with a capacity of 2x700 t/d. Show less Gerencia de Ingeneria y Construcción (GIC)Dissolving Pulp Project at Valdivia Mill. Responsible for the mechanical modifications to upgrade the mill to produce textile fiber and cellulose pulp.Incorporation of two new batch digesters and improvement of the existing ones to have a total of twelve digesters with a total capacity of 4,800 m3. Modification of the cooking process and incorporation of Pre-Hydrolysis and Neutralization steps. In addition, change in the approach system to the pulp machine and the construction of a new ozone generating plant for the bleaching process. For the new production process, improvements and increased capacity were made in the areas of wood preparation, water plants, cooling towers, bleaching, washing, machinery, causticizing and evaporators. Finally, an upgrade was made to the recovery boiler of the plant, incorporation of quaternary air and a fourth Electrostatic Precipitator. Show less

  • Project Manager for Fiber and Recovery Areas.

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2018 - Jun 2022

  • Lead Mechanical & Piping Discipline

    Feb 2018 - Nov 2018