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Defilippo, A.

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Anthony Defilippo is a Senior Analyst at Porter McGuffie Inc. He began his career with the company as an intern while completing his mechanical engineering undergraduate education at the University of Kansas. He then went on to the University of California, Berkley, where he received his PhD in mechanical engineering. Dr. DeFilippo worked with Abengoa Research on molten salt thermal energy storage and second-generation biofuels.

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Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2018
Aglave, R., Siemens PLM Software; Defilippo, A., Mcguffie, S., Porter McGuffie Inc.

It is never a good sign when a piece of equipment exhibits unsafe behaviors—such as large, unexpected vibrations, or cracks forming around instrument ports—particularly in the thermal reactor of a sulfur plant, where high-temperature gaseous streams chemically react as part of the process that produces elemental sulfur.