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Kenneth RamagostSenior Electrical / Instrument Engineer

53585 Ware Street White Castle, La. 70788Ph # 225-545-8256 Cell # 225-716-2854 Qualified (Education): Bachelor of Science (BS)Connected (professional affiliations): Instrument Society of America (ISA) Professional Summary: Kenneth has 40 years experience in instrument and controls engineering and maintenance which includes 30 years with process control instrument systems engineering, coordination of design and drafting, instrument specifications; 5 years with analyzer specification and start-up; 5 years with instrument maintenance. Kenneth has experience with project management and evaluation of procurement proposals.

GHD previous CRA Engineering, Baton Rouge, La 12/14 – 3/16Marathon Refinery, Grayville, La: Front end development for propane/butane spheres with emergency shutdown systems, SIL 1 approvals, independent sensing and safety shutoff valves. Studied different shutoff valves and recommend a type that will stay shutoff during a fire. Metal/tight seated bi-directional ball valves meet this requirement. Engineered independent parallel shut down systems for a new control room.OXY Chemical, Gramercy, La and Convent, La: Engineered wiring for a new speaker alarm system and added system to the plant safety alarm documentation.Review 5 Ton crane for power supply.

Ford Bacon & Davis, Baton Rouge, La 2013 – 2014; Salmon & Associates, Baton Rouge, La 2012 – 2013Motiva Refinery at Convent, La: Refinery assignment: In plant engineering for small projects meeting instrument welding inspection requirements, MTRs, PMI, NACE, API, NFPA, and NEC standards. Review basis of design documents with selection of instruments for each application. Replace older instrumentation with more reliable newer technology applications. FEL assistance and control theory applications. Motor relay systems, starters, and transformer power panels with power request forms.

Wink Companies, New Orleans, La 2004 – 2012Motiva Refinery at Convent, La 2005 – 2012:Plant Assignment: Specify of SIL 3 sulphur gas valves with considerations for NACE requirements and steam heating of valve. Addition of lightening protection system and barrier repeaters to a tank farm RS485 communication system to increase the robustness of the system. Calculations of reflected wave dampening and biasing resistors for proper communication with consideration of E.I.A. communication standards. Specifications of high flow turn down valve instead of using two valves in parallel. These 100 to 1 turn down valves meet EGGS travel turn down requirements. In plant studies of steam flows for steam educators. Specification and Installation of an EPA listed Vedeer Root leak detection system for Gas Station and design of Key counter system for petroleum dispensers.

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Valero Refinery at Norco, La 2004 – 2005:In House assignment: Grass roots project with 600 PSIG de superheater and designed VFD system to throttle the pump water delivery to the de superheated. Accumulator tank had varying SG liquid and the boot interface level transmitter was guided radar independent of SG changes.All instrumentation was purchased with NACE requirements for H2S services.

Cora Texas Sugar Manufacturing at White Castle, La 2003 – 2004As instrument design and maintenance Engineer / Technician duties included engineering a lime slurry float control system allowing constant pressure for Ph control. Purchasing, installed, and started up of instruments for a boiler shutdown system and Allen Bradley Logix control system. Calibrated, reworked, maintained and installed valves, positioners, I/P converters, regulators, Ph transmitters, differential pressure transmitters, and Honeywell single loop controllers.

Ford Bacon & Davis, Inc. (Process Services, Inc.) Baton Rouge, La 1990 – 2002 Murphy Oil Refinery, New Orleans, La 2/04 – 9/04:In House assignment: Instrument engineer checking of a rebuilt asphaltine plant. Revised 34 specifications for missing process data and or incorrect process data. Manufacturing of valves were stopped until correct sizing incorporated. Sizing checking for plasma flows, considerations for possible greater than March 0.7 flows and Qty = 5 API pump seals instrumentation. Ineose at Plaquemine, La 11/02 – 1/03:Plant assignment. Project engineering responsible for survey of plant wiring system to be used for changing to a new DCS system. Field verified Junction boxes and compared to loop sheets. Selected conflicts and resolved conflicts between loops and Junction box wiring. Any conflicts were set aside for S/D verification of wiring.ExxonMobil BRPP at Baton Rouge, La 8/98 – 10/02:Plant assignment. Managed large projects with outside contractors. Purchased and engineered Honeywell remote DCS systems with design of interface to field instruments and fibre optics systems. Engineered pressure control system for a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer. Purchased and programmed variable frequency drives for small and large motors. Purchased and engineered 480/4,160 VAC motor starters. Engineered multi-point explosive gas and gas in water detection systems. Designed flow prover system for calibrating thermal flow mass flow meters with a Micro Motion Coriolis meter used as the standard. Engineered gas/vapour collection system for an analyser house. This collection system was an environmental system discharging to the flare. Purchased test rheometer system and improved heating controls for excess plastic discharge. Engineered interface controls between motor starter and package refrigeration unit. Project Instrument Engineer responsible for reviewing and purchasing instruments/electrical systems for larger projects being engineered and designed by outside contract companies. Exxon Chemical at Baton Rouge, La 1/98 – 8/98:PALA Switch Condenser Project. Lead Instrument Engineer responsible for instrument specifications and purchasing, PLC wiring, and specification of Modicon 984 PLC. Engineered logic for the PLC programming. Exxon Chemical at Baton Rouge, La 1/97 – 1/98:Plant Assignment. Job Leader responsible for supervising the instrument and electrical design group, planning, engineering, and directing design activities. Exxon Chemical at Baton Rouge, La 1/95 – 12/96:Xylenes Recovery System Project. Lead Instrument Engineer responsible for instrument engineering and specifying instruments on recovery system project. Specified and tested triple redundant shutdown system on a furnace for this project. Exxon BRPP at Baton Rouge, La. 1/92 – 12/94:Control System Modernization Project. Lead Instrument Engineer responsible for instrument engineering and purchase requisition for instruments, annunciates, and design review of I & E drawings. This project covered change out of all old instruments on 4 extruder lines.

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Cecos International at Livingston, La 9/90 – 12/91:Hazardous Waste Site Clean-up. Senior Instrument Engineer responsible for installation, wiring and programming a General Electric PLC for Cecos International. Responsibilities included specifying and start-up of field instruments. Salmon & Associates, Inc. Baton Rouge, La 2/85 – 9/90Ethyl Corporation Baton Rouge, La 1/89 – 9/90:Grass Roots Fire Resistant Material Plant. Instrument and Electrical Engineer responsible for design and engineering of Texas Instruments Rexnard D.C.S. system. Stared up packaging facilities. Union Carbide at Taft, La 8/88 – 1/89:Plant assignment. Pneumatic to Electrical Conversion of Instrumentation. Instrument Engineer responsible for specifying instruments, installation and construction start-up of a Honeywell TDC 3000 Control System. The project consisted of 1100 loops. BASF at Geismar, La 3/86 – 8/88:Plant assignment. Analyser Engineer Involved with specifying analysers, and sample handling systems.Types of analysers designed and procured were: Infrared, ultraviolet, pH, moisture, solids monitor, chromatograph, phosgene area monitors, and chlorine area monitors. Designed and made bill of materials and specifications for sample handling systems of each analyser. Assisted with supervising the installation and start-up for each analyser. BASF at Geismar, La 2/85 - 3/86:Plant assignment. Small Projects Instrument Engineer, involved with instrument engineering, specifying instruments, assigning DBC for Foxboro Micro spec, intrinsic safety requirements, distillation tower controls and flare system flow monitoring.

Gonzalez Engineers, Inc. Baton Rouge, La. 12/82 – 2/85 Barbay Engineers, Inc. Baton Rouge, La 12/79 – 12/82Georgia Pacific at Plaquemine, La : Plant Services. As Instrument Maintenance Engineer, worked in both engineering and maintenance. Duties consisted of instrument project design, scoping the project, writing specifications for instruments, routing conduit and wiring, design of instrument freeze protection and following the projects to completion. The maintenance aspect of the work involved trouble-shooting instrumentation for gas-fired boilers, distillation towers, accounting flow meters and interface level systems. Plant assignment. As Instrument Maintenance Engineer, worked in engineering and maintenance departments to satisfy the required work load deadlines. Duties involved detailed engineering of instrumentation projects, MOV's and Foxboro spec. 200 equipment. Design of plot plans, loops, elementary drawings and hazardous areas that required detail design of air purge systems for hazardous area declassification. Intrinsic safety was used whenever possible for declassification. Follow-up was done on all construction.

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Barnard and Burk Baton Rouge, La 7/77 – 1/79 Ethyl Corporation at Baton Rouge, La: Grass Roots Soap Additive Plant. As Instrument Engineer, duties included instrumentation and programmable controller design which included the following: specifying instruments; coordinating delivery of instruments, specifying annunciators and relays; review and correction of ladder diagrams; specifying a programmable controller (Modicon Corp.); design the matching of inputs and outputs with this controller; and incorporating ladder diagrams into the controller language. Attended classes (taught by Modicon) on controller operation, and has 2 months field work for the above design (plant start-up).

Evan Hall Sugar Mill at Donaldsonville, La. 12/76 – 7/77As Instrument Engineer / Technician duties included electrical motor maintenance, running conduit and wiring for starters and motors, changing transformers, switches, starters, and motors from 220 volt to 440 volt operation, trouble shooting, general electrical work, and instrument maintenance.

Tennessee Valley Authority at Knoxville, Tennessee: 1/74 – 7/76Sequoia Nuclear Plant. Instrument Engineer on this grass roots project. Duties included the development and final design of instrumentation control and logic diagrams, procurement data sheets, and tabulations for two T.V.A. nuclear plants. This development and design included the following: review of systems flow diagrams; detailed piping drawings; electrical drawings; applicable design criteria, engineering design procedures; and instrumentation and controls design standards and practices; review of vendor catalogs and equipment specifications to establish equipment availability and suitable applications; specified the number and types of I&E equipment required to control various processes and gather data; review and coordination of overall system I&E requirements with construction and power production.

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Electrical and Instrument accomplishments: Special designs: I have championed several improvements for instrumentation and to mention a few: Selected propane safety ball valve with metal seat and true bi-directional tight shutoff, selected 1" orifice flange meeting piping requirements for critical coolant flow (Piping specs allow for lowest 2" orifice flanges), Eight large duct conservation vents cost was $200,000 and engineered a pressure damper with backup damper reducing cost to $30,000 saving $170,000 for the project. Savings allowed for a 26" automated pressure butterfly valve to be installed as a second back up pressure relief system. Interface with JE ISBL & OSBL process engineers and Client: Much of my work has been closely reviewing with process engineers for submitting specification sheets with process information, discussing the process as it related to instrument selection for process compatibility, temperature and pressure ratings, NACE requirements, and chemical composition for area classification ratings. Also worked with mechanical engineers and inspection for in line instrument mechanical integrity; welding, dye penetrate testing, material certification and mechanical code requirements. I have worked with clients to develop batch sequences for the PLCs, cause & effect matrix for SIS systems and PLCs, and alarm spreadsheet. Communications: Experience in many types of switches, gateways, Ethernet converters, RS485 duplex communication, serial, fiber and Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) standards and engineered large communication systems. Calculation of termination resistors for long distance RS485 communication and use of cat 5 cables, Selecting cable length according to data rate. Electrical and Instrument components: Engineered 480/120 Volt AC Racks, starters, breakers, transformers with Short circuit current analysis, power panels, equipment amps interrupting capability. Engineered and wiring size and conduit sizing. Engineered field instruments; orifice plates, Coriolis meters, PD meters, Rotameters, pressure and DP transmitters, Temperature elements and thermo wells, control valves, motor operated valves and on/off pneumatic valves. Engineered analysers: Ph, IR, Chromatograph, and area monitors for explosive and toxic gases. DCS, PLC & SIS: Requisitioned, programmed, written software, troubleshooted and start up of Modicon and GE Fanuc PLC's for grass roots plants. Engineered Logic drawings for the software, engineered I/O cards and drawings for interface of field instruments to Honeywell, Yokogawa and Fisher DCS, many different PLCs and Triconex/Tricon SIS systems. Anti-surge systems: Engineered anti-surge systems for compressor turbines and single control loops for anti-surge, instrumentation. Interface of pressure, temperature, differential pressure, and flow instrumentation for package anti-surge systems with backup power systems. Closely worked with system supplier to have a fully compatible field instrumentation anti surge system communication via hard wire loops, communication switches, gateways, Ethernet, RS485 and fiber converters meeting EIA standards. Team Management: Electrical/Instrument engineer team lead for 20 designers for several different clients with managing the teams and generating work schedules.

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Other related areas of interestPublished Published BooksFlow and Instrument accuracies based on Bernoulli's equation, 2012 Kindle eBookPresentations

National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) for instrumentation, Saint Rose, La. 2005

Hi resolution drawing tool for engineers, Saint Rose, La. 2004 Process instrumentation in condensable vapor service, Baton Rouge, La. 1995

Presentations Published, Baton Rouge, La. 2015 Horizontal vessel with elliptical end caps, vol. vs. height calculator Small to medium size wire voltage drop calculators TW distances calculator Low power contacts will prevent many signal failures

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