March 2020
Water Management
Demineralized water system design: Considerations for the petrochemical industry—Part 1
Site utility leads, engineers and other professionals in the hydrocarbon/chemical processing industries (HPI/CPI) are facing a perfect storm of increasing demineralized water demand, end of life of existing demineralized water plant equipment, changing source water quality, corporate directives to diversify water sources, and pressure from regulators and community stakeholders to minimize the volume of waste generated from water treatment.
The Authors
Jingjing Fan is a Wastewater Process Engineer at Advisian, a Worley Company. She has experience in water and wastewater treatment design for the petrochemical and refining industries. Dr. Fan holds a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Houston.
Sriram Ananthanarayan is a Lead Process Engineer/Project Manager with Advisian, a Worley Company. Mr. Ananthanarayan has more than 15 yr of experience in the process design, engineering and evaluation of water and wastewater treatment systems. He has led and developed designs to support projects in the oil and gas, chemicals, power and mining industries. He earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Calicut and an MS degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University.
ANDREW HODGKINSON is the Global Technical Leader at Advisian, a Worley Company. He has 35 yr of experience in industry and consulting with heavy industry, power, manufacturing, environment and resource efficiency. His expertise is in the management of technology development programs for water, wastewater and energy needs of heavy industry, with an emphasis on process optimization/integration and innovation. Mr. Hodgkinson holds a BS degree in physical chemistry from the University of New South Wales and an MEngSc degree in process integration from Monash University in Australia. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer, UK Engineering Council.
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