Experience
My experience with operating plants spans facilities in the petrochemical, gas processing, upgrading, and SAGD industries. Knowledge gained in one type of facility has proven invaluable for other facilities. For example, controlling fired equipment that consumes variable heating-value gas is common in all facilities. The shrink and swell phenomena that is observed in a utility drum boiler can be applied to the once through steam generators in a SAGD facility. Multicomponent ionic equilibria apply to the absorption of acid gases in a caustic contactor, the solubility of H2S in bicarbonate buffered SAGD produced water, or even the prediction of scaling in a safety shower.