Kamo Avanessian

About Kamo Avanessian

Fluent in English, Russian, and Armenian.Experience in solvent extraction, leaching, crystallization, flotation, solids processing.Experience in carbon capture and sequestration (gas purification amine plants).Experience in extraction and processing of inorganic chemicals from brine obtained from solution mining.Experience in heavy industry including plant expansions.Experience in process improvements and optimization.Experience in development of new chemical processes, designing, operating, and building new pilot plants and scale-ups. Experience in process equipment design including but not limited to pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, scrubbers, vessels. Experience in applying tools to design piping systems, calculate pressure relief valve sizes, complete material and energy balances, and perform process optimization studies.Extensive experience with various optical and electron-scanning microscopes, zeta potential meters, and liquid surface tension meters.Responsible for design of laboratory, pilot, and full scale experiments, data collection and analysis, and determining applications for experimental results.Experience in FORTRAN 77, Promax, ChemCAD, CAD, Microsoft Office, Minitab, MATLAB, Foxboro and DeltaV DCS Systems, SAP, and various web-design programs.

Experience

1. Process Engineering Consultant in Minerals Processing and Chemical Industries

   Conscience Vc

   May 2017 — Present · Copley, OH, US

   May 2017 – PresentCopley, OH Process Engineering Consultant in Minerals Processing and Chemical IndustriesFebruary 2019 - PresentProvided on-site process engineering consulting services to Primary Energy in Chicago Area. Revised real time material & energy balance calculations in historian databases. Provided creation of historian tag calculations and revisions.Provided consulting services to several different chemical, minerals, and power clients through GLG consulting. Helped a client to start up a pilot plant to extract Boran and Lithium from a test well in Southern California.

Education

• The University of Akron

  BS Chem. Engineering, Hydrocarbons, Polimers, Solids Processing

  1993 — 1997

• Complex Exploitation of Deposits Institute,Science Academy of Russia

  MS, Minerals Processing

  1986 — 1989

• National Polytechnic University of Armenia

  Bachelor’s Degree, Mining Engineer/Minerals Processing

  1976 — 1982