Edward is an
innovative licensed Professional Engineer with over 16 years of experience
in operations leadership, process engineering, design, process improvement,
startup, and commissioning of phosphate plants. He has supported large
scale greenfield and brownfield phosphate projects across the globe in the
areas of phosphoric acid production, granular phosphate fertilizer production,
and purified phosphoric acid production. Edward's operational experience has
served to enhance his ability to assist in making the optimal process design
decisions for his clients, while maintaining efficiency and control of cost and
quality.
Edward has worked
with clients in numerous brownfield areas including plant debottlenecking,
increasing plant capacity, and improving gas scrubbing efficiencies to comply
with environmental regulations. Edward also has experience working with clients
on greenfield Phosphoric Acid Plant (PAP) design, greenfield Phosphate Granular
Fertilizer Plant design, and greenfield Purified Phosphoric Acid (PPA) design,
through all of the engineering design phases. Edward's process design
experience includes heat and material balances, process flow diagrams, piping
and instrumentation diagrams, equipment data sheets, operations manuals,
operator training, plant safety, plant commissioning and start-up.
Edward is
currently the Global Director of Phosphates for Hatch and supports Hatch's
global portfolio of phosphate work within the areas of beneficiation,
phosphoric acid production, and downstream production of fertilizer, animal
feed, and high purity phosphoric acid.