Ryan Hinson

About Ryan Hinson

Mr. Hinson currently serves as an associate Fire Protection Engineer with Burns & McDonnell. His work is almost exclusively petrochemical industry-centric including petroleum product-refining, producing, storing, terminal, and fractionation facilities. He has over 28 years of fire protection experience, including design and project management in the last 15. Prior to engineering, Ryan was a water-based systems designer and sprinkler fitter apprentice. He often utilizes this experience when designing systems to make them physically buildable. He has been involved in projects for medical, education, military, commercial, utilities, and industrial clients both public and private. As a designer, his expertise included prescriptive system design. As a fire protection engineer, Ryan’s design experience includes: facility-wide fire suppression, fire alarm, and detection systems; water-based suppression including deluge-type exposure spray systems; and High-(HEF) Expansion Foam; fluorine-free foam system replacement solutions; hazardous liquid processing, storage, and transport; LPG-processing and storage; truck, train, and marine vessel terminals; and hazard analyses of both new and existing facilities including LPG storage. Ryan has researched and/or designed hazardous vapor knockdown systems for Hydrofluoric acid and Ammonia leak mitigation. He investigates existing systems for demand flows and pressures where such complete information is unknown. From pipe support spans to large-dia. hose losses for performance-based designs using trailer-mounted monitors, heat-flux calcs of atm. storage tanks, and depth-of-bury effects on effective pressure ratings for HDPE piping dependent ambient characteristics; Ryan has researched the feasibility, cost implications, and appropriateness of use for a broad spectrum of equipment- and system-specific application possibilities to meet a variety of Clients\' customized needs including full system cost comparisons for prescriptive code- vs. performance-based schemes. His current workload has taken him into hydrogen facility fire protection. Much of his work is outside the traditional bounds of NFPA and includes but is not limited to petrochemical client-specific engineering practices, API (American Petroleum Institute), SIGTTO (Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators), ISGOTT (International Safety Guide for Oil Tankers and Terminals), CGA (Compressed Gas Association), OCIMF (Oil Companies International Marine Forum), and AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronomics).

Experience

1. Associate Fire Protection Engineer

   Burns & McDonnell

   Jun 2009 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

Education

• Crown College

  Associate of Arts (A.A.), Biological Science

  1993 — 1998

• St. Cloud State University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Building Codes
• Hdpe Use in Fire Protection
• Structural Support of Fire Protection Equipment
• Project Management
• Contract Management
• Site Survey and Information Gathering
• Autocad
• Design-Build Documents
• Submittal Review of Suppression, Alarm and Detection Systems
• Piping
• Detailed Fire Pump, Foam Pump, Tank, and Fabricated Appurtenance Configurations
• Material Takeoffs for Estimating Purposes
• Firewater and Foam Supply Evaluation
• Fire Protection Infrastructure
• Cad
• Process and Instrumentation Diagram Modification
• Hvac
• Fire and Hazard Analysis
• Facility Siting, Layout, and Spacing Requirements
• Mep
• Fire Protection
• Project Specifications
• Lpg Fire Safety Analysis
• Fire Safety and Hazard Analysis
• Subcontract Package Generation
• Commissioning
• Api Requirements and Recommendations for Petroleum Industry Fire Protection
• One-Line Diagrams for Fire Suppression and Fire Alarm and Detection Systems
• Nfpa
• Construction
• Engineering
• Appropriate Fire Protection Application and Equipment Selection
• Fire Protection Equipment/System Testing Procedure Generation
• Construction Management
• Wide Ranging Knowledge of Codes and Standards as They Pertain to Fire Protection
• Masterstream Monitor-Applied Fire Protection
• Military Facility Fire Protection
• Hydraulic, Pressure Relief, and Supply Demand Calculations
• Petroleum Product Terminal Fire Protection
• Design Basis Generation