QUIP Experiences Elizabeth Amos and Meaghan McTiernan Agenda - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

QUIP Experiences Elizabeth Amos and Meaghan McTiernan

Agenda • Introduction • QUIP Program Overview • Relation to CHEE 221 • Internship Incentives • Q&A

Elizabeth Amos • Fourth Year Chemical Process Engineering Student • Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. – 16 months – Heavy Oil Field Operator – Exploitation/Production Engineer CNRL Internship Students – Heavy Oil Plant Operator

Meaghan McTiernan • Suncor Energy for 12 months – Process Engineering Development (Oil Sands & In ‐ Situ) • Supported Upgrading at base plant in Fort McMurray • Main projects included Caustic Injection, DB Desalting and re ‐ writing coker fractionator protocol Suncor Family Day Volunteers at the Calgary Stampede 2014

QUIP Overview • 12 ‐ 16 months degree related, paid internship • Completion of 2 nd or 3 rd year • Register with QUIP, attend workshops and use QUIP job postings to apply • Professional Internship degree designation • One year pre ‐ graduation experience towards P. Eng • Test a career in a particular Industry • Fall Preview Day Oct 25 th 11 ‐ 2

Companies that Hired Queen’s Interns Ministry of Transportation AECON Enbridge Neptec Agriculture and Ericcson NOVA Chemicals Agri ‐ Foods Canada GE OPG Agrium GM PCL Construction Altera Greer Galloway Prysmian AMD Halla Recognia Armstrong Fluid Honda Shell BlackBerry Husky Energy Sherritt Bombardier Hydro One Suncor Bowen/Cenovus IBM Teck Brock Solutions McAfee Toronto Hydro Ciena Corporation Miller Group Vanhawks CNRL

DB Desalting Overview • Problem: Chloride content, asphaltenes and naphthenic acids in the feed to the Upgrader expected to increase • In the presence of steam, corrosion and fouling become significant issues

DB Desalting • New technology on mined bitumen (widely used in Refineries) • Removes salt from the oil through use of emulsion forming & breaking as well as electrostatic grids • Vessel internals are proprietary to Cameron; implementation into the plant done by my team

Process Design • Aim to minimize cost; only monitor what is needed – ex. monitor flow exiting the vessel and induce flow into vessel (CSTR) • Composition matters! • Determine vessel operating conditions – what are your desired parameters? – what results will you accept?

Internship Incentives

Internship Incentives Calgary Stampede Fernie, BC CNRL Employee Day, Zip lining CNRL Golf Tournament

Internship Incentives

Questions? Any further questions can be directed to: Elizabeth Amos: 9eaa@queensu.ca Meaghan McTiernan: 0mm93@queensu.ca QUIP: quip@queensu.ca