Problem Solver

Andrea Lainati

Andrea Lainati

Areas Andrea Lainati is Knowledgeable in:

Industrial plant operations.
Industrial plant troubleshooting and optimization.
Application of innovations into industrial sites.

Andrea Lainati's Problem Solving Skills:

  1. Pilot plant operations
  2. Industrial plant precommissioning and commissioning
  3. Oil refining technologies
  4. Troubleshooting
  5. Training of operating personnel
  6. Industrial plants monitoring and optimization
  7. Oil refinery operations
  8. Piping and instrumentation diagrams
  9. Syngas and hydrogen technologies
  10. Basic and detail engineering

Andrea Lainati's Problem Solving Experience:

  1. Continuous training of operating personnel on fundamentals of the refining technologies in order to establish proper process variables necessary for an efficient unit.
  2. Troubleshooting of plant upset events.
  3. Responsible for pilot plant operations (hydroprocessing, hydrocracking, fluid catalytic cracking, coking, visbreaking, atmospheric and vacuum oil distillation, EST hydrotreating of heavy residue, pure water production from sea water by crystallisation).
  4. Fluid catalytic cracking pilot plant operations engineer (San Donato Milanese research centre): fine controllers tuning to optimise plant operation.
  5. Hydrocracking pilot plant Precommissioning & Commissioning leader (Milazzo research centre).
  6. EST pilot plant (heavy residue hydrotreating) operations engineer (San Donato Milanese research centre): daily monitoring process parameters and performances during start-up, normal operation and shut down phases.
  7. Oxygen blown SCT-CPO pilot plant (syngas / hydrogen production) operations engineer (Milazzo research centre): daily monitoring process parameters and performances during start-up, normal operation and shut down phases.
  8. Basic and detail engineering of Oxygen blown SCT-CPO pilot plant revamping (Milazzo research centre): proposal and design of approved plant modification to develop SCT-CPO technology and optimise the unit.
  9. Hydrocracking pilot plant Factory Acceptance Test leader at Contractor’s premises.
  10. Air blown SCT-CPO hydrogen production plant Precommissioning & Commissioning leader (European Zero Regio project, Mantova).
  11. Air blown SCT-CPO hydrogen production plant manager (European Zero Regio project, Mantova). Management of the operators (8 people in shift) assigned to plant operation. Training of the operators on technology fundamentals, safety and plant operation. Maintenance companies (mechanical, electrical and instrumentation) management.
  12. Air blown SCT-CPO hydrogen production plant construction supervisor at Contractor’s premises (European Zero Regio project, Mantova).
  13. Basic and detail engineering of Air blown SCT-CPO hydrogen production plant supervisor at Contractor’s premises (European Zero Regio project, Mantova). Writing of operating manual as proprietary technology owner representative.
  14. Basic and detail engineering of GTL demonstration plant revamping (Sannazzaro de' Burgondi refinery): proposal and design of approved plant modification to develop GTL technology and optimise the unit.
  15. I developed a patented syngas production technology starting from liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons (US2013028815 (A1) ― 2013-01-31).
  16. GTL demonstration plant operations engineer (Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi refinery): daily monitoring process parameters and performances during start-up, normal operation and shut down phases.
  17. Daily monitoring process parameters and performances of hydroprocessing, Merox, amine, sour water stripping, sulphur recovery, tail gas treatment and visbreaking/thermal cracking units.
  18. Basic and detail engineering for the conversion of the refinery into biorefinery.