Rafael H Rocha

About Rafael H Rocha

Chemical engineer with thirteen years of process safety consulting in petroleum and chemical industry. Extensive experience of industry and corporate standards regarding pressure relief system and vessel design. Intimate knowledge of P & IDs, PFDs, unit operations mechanical design information and specification, electrical one-line diagrams, piping isometrics, process simulations, and PSPPM.Conducted and reviewed numerous pressure relief studies, hydraulics studies, radiation analysis, quantitative risk assessments, and process simulation generation used to perform pressure relief and flare studies. Familiar with widely used PRO II and HYSYS process simulations, as well as FlareSim radiation simulation, PHAST radiation and dispersion modeling simulation, Flarenet and Visual Flow hydraulic simulation software. Experienced in managing and developing engineering team, supporting sales presentations, and generating cost estimates for proposals, developing project team.International experience with a 3 year assignment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil leading process safety projects and short terms projects in Romania, Italy, France and UK.

Experience

1. Department Manager - Project Definition

   KBR, Inc.

   Feb 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• University of Houston

  BS, Chemical Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• P&Id
• Aspen Hysys
• Process Simulation
• Process Safety
• Chemical Engineering
• Process Engineering
• Oil/Gas
• Pro Ii
• Heat Exchangers
• Petroleum
• Engineering
• Piping
• Project Engineering
• Hazop
• Feed
• Process Control
• Energy