Karinate Okiy Ph.D.

Experience

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  Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

  Mar 2007 - Jul 2010

  Monitoring and operation of process equipment such as process pumps, air coolers and crude oil desalting unit.Adjustment of controls such as knobs, valves, switches on control panels to control process variables, such as flows, temperatures, pressures, vacuum, time and chemicals by automatic regulation and remote control of processing units, such as heaters, furnaces, compressors, exchangers, reactors, quenchers, stabilizers, fractionators, rechargers, absorbers, strippers, debutanizers, stills, and towers to ensure smooth plant operation and correct process offsets.Participation in plant startup processes and shutdown in cases of emergencyIsolation and preparation of faulty equipment for maintenance repairsMaking use of processing schedules, operating logs, test results of kerosene, Light/heavy gas oil, Light/heavy naphtha, Light/heavy vacuum gas oil samples to determine necessary changes in equipment controls required to achieve the specified throughput and product quality Show less Daily Performance monitoring of the Units in the Power Plant and Utilities Section; Steam Boiler unit, Compressed Air unit, Portable Water System, Gas turbine unit, Cooling Tower, De mineralization Water Purification Unit, Cooling Water/Boiler Feed Water Treatment Chemicals Dosing Unit.Provision of Technical Support to assist in the troubleshooting of plant equipment in the event of failures to discover faults.Preparation of monthly report on cooling tower performance/cooling water quality for Kurita France.Preparation of monthly technical reports on the performance of the units in the Power plant and utilities section.Assisting in carrying out Energy balances on the Steam Boiler Unit to ascertain if process plant steam requirements are being satisfied. Show less

  • Process Plant Operator

    Mar 2008 - Jul 2010

  • Process Engineer

    Mar 2007 - Mar 2008
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  Universal Training Synergy (UTS)

  Apr 2010 - Jun 2010

  ASPEN Instructor

  Training and assessment of graduate engineers on process simulation and optimisation using- Aspen (Advanced System for Process Engineering) Plus. Performing simulation studies for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing plants, Fluidized Catalytic Cracking(FCC) Reactors, Crude-Oil Distillation Units, Catalytic Reforming (CRU) Reactors, and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) production plants. Likewise, providing technical support for installation and troubleshooting of software problems

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  Lafarge Cement

  Jul 2010 - Sept 2011

  Production Engineer

  Member of the operation preparations support team for commissioning of the Lafarge SA 300 million Euro Lakatabu plant project in Ewekoro Nigeria completed in September 2011.Preparation of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents for starting up and optimising the 400 tph Loeshe Raw Mill. Coordinating the production shift by managing plant patrollers, shift automation engineers, maintenance personnel and controlling the pyro-processing plant through DCS (Distributed Control System) to maintain product quality and efficiency of process. Participation in monthly safety audits of commissioning and construction activities during the construction/ commissioning phase of the cement plant.Validation of installed plants equipment specifications by paticipating in performance checks during plant test run phase. Show less

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  NESREA

  Jan 2016 - now

  Principal Engineer
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  Universidade do Minho

  Sept 2021 - Jan 2022

  Bolseiro de Investigação-Research Fellow

  Development of the Chreolab research code for preprocessing of mesh input data and postprocessing of field data using C++ programming codePreparation of workplan for research activities (i.e. Simulation of the selective laser melting process using OpenInjMoldFoam) at the Institute of Polymer and Composites-UMinhoRunning of OPENFOAM simulation cases