Rick Manner

Rick Manner
Independent Consultant · Hydroprocessing, Hydrogen Production, Refinery Processing

BS/MS MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice

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Introduction
I am a Semi-Retired Chemical Engineer with significant experience (40 years) in most Oil Refining and many Alternate fuels Technologies. My primary areas of expertise are Hydrocracking, Hydrotreating, H2 Production, H2 Management, Heavy Oil Upgrading, Aromatics, Gas-to-Liquids (Fischer-Tropsch) and Refinery Profit Improvement. I am familiar with most (probably all) Oil Refinery Processes
Skills and Expertise
Process Engineering
Process Simulation
Chemical Processes
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Process Optimization
Separation Technology
Distillation
Reaction Kinetics
Modeling and Simulation
Modeling
Additional affiliations
October 1986 - October 1987
NL Industries
  • Silicone Products Division
  • Cranberry Township, United States
Position
  • Engineer
Description
  • Silcone Products development Pilot Plant , NJ and Buffalo NY
October 1986 - September 2014
KBC Avanced Technologies - Parsippany NJ
  • Consulting Resarch and Developmnt
  • Parsippany, United States
Position
  • Consultant
Description
  • Senior Hydrotreating, Hydrocracking, Fischer-Tropsch, Synthetic Fuels,Primary Model Technology Developer for Hydrocracking,Hydrotreating,Delayed Coking,Fischer-Tropsch, Fluidized Bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC),Alkylation
April 1979 - September 1986
Exxon Research and Engineering
  • Florham Park, United States
Position
  • Engineer
Description
  • Project Engineer in Hydroprocessing/Hydrocracking group and Synthetic Fuels group.Became Fisher-Tropsch technology expert
Education
September 1975 - May 1979
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field of study
  • Chemical Engimeering

Publications

Publications (8)
Figure 1 Ebullated bed reactor
Figure 2 Overall design with sediment improvement points identified
Figure 3 Hydroclones
Seven rules of sedimentation in hydrocracking
Article
Full-text available
  • Dec 2018
A discussion of causes of crude oil compatibility and sedimentation issues observed at several refineries.
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Figure 1: Hydroskimming Refinery Configuration  
Figure 2: Moderately Complex Refinery  
Figure 3: Complex Carbon Rejection Refinery  
Figure 4: Complex Hydrocracking Refinery Configuration  
+3 Figure 5: Addition of Residua Hydrocracking  
Hydrogen Management
Conference Paper
Full-text available
  • Mar 2012
Hydrogen Management to Improve Refinery Profitability
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Figure 2: Conceptual Unconventional Oil Upgrader  
Figure 4: Delayed Coker Unit  
Figure 6: Full Conversion Upgrading With Hydrocracking  
Figure 7: Full Conversion H 2 Addition Refinery with Residue...
+1 Figure 8: FCCU Integration in Refinery Configuration  
Heavy crude Upgrading
Conference Paper
Full-text available
  • Mar 2012
A review of options to Upgrade Very Heavy Crudes
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H2 Management in a GHG constrained world
Conference Paper
Full-text available
  • Oct 2011
Am analysis of GHG emissions from Refineries and the impact ofH2 Management on GHG emmissions
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Molten carbonate fuel cell program. Progress report for period January 1-March 31, 1979: EMF and temperature relaxation in LiKCO/sub 3/ tiles; transference cell measurements
Technical Report
  • Dec 1979
Progress has been made in resolving the thermoelectric contributions to the relaxing EMF of electrolyzed LiKCO/sub 3/-LiAlO/sub 2/ tiles in a study of mass transport in molten carbonate fuel cell electrolytes. The thermoelectric effect is a measurable contribution, but only in the early stages of the relaxation that we have attributed to diffusion....
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Molten carbonate fuel cell program: EMF and temperature relaxation in LiKCO 3 tiles, transference cell measurements
Article
  • Nov 1979
Progress was made in resolving the thermoelectric contributions to the relaxing electromotive forces (EMF) of electrolyzed LiKCO3-LiAlO2 tiles in a study of mass transport in molten carbonate fuel cell electrolytes. The thermoelectric effect was a measurable contribution, but only in the early stages of the relaxation. Preliminary measurements with...
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Mass transport in molten-salt electrochemical systems
Article
  • Mar 1979
The early stages (0.1 ..mu..s - 5 sec) of EMF relaxation of a Li/sub 2/CO/sub 3//K/sub 2/CO/sub 3/ electrolysis cell were studied with applied currents of 100 to 700 mA at 582/sup 0/C after electrolysis durations of 1 s, 1, 5, and 10 min, and 1 hr. The short-term EMF decay was delimited into five regimes: the IR drop (0 to 5 ..mu..s), anodic double...
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Molten carbonate fuel cell program. Progress report for period January 1March 31, 1979: EMF and temperature relaxation in LiKCOâ tiles; transference cell measurements
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Progress has been made in resolving the thermoelectric contributions to the relaxing EMF of electrolyzed LiKCOâ-LiAlOâ tiles in a study of mass transport in molten carbonate fuel cell electrolytes. The thermoelectric effect is a measurable contribution, but only in the early stages of the relaxation that we have attributed to diffusion. Preliminary...
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Projects

Projects (4)
Oill Refining Consulting
Project
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MIT Practice School Research Report from 1979.
Archived project
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Gas to Liquids/ Fischer-Tropsch
Archived project
Course material I put together explaining how commercial GTL plants work. For now just something to share on Researchgate
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