Derek is a chemical engineer with expertise in design, operation, and optimization of process equipment.  He has supported every refinery process unit in either a process or operations support & management function.  Derek has extensive experience supporting capital projects including two replacement FCC Reactors, new Crude Unit and FCC Main Fractionator pump-around heat exchangers, Crude Column Preflash internals, a Turbine Fuel Merox expansion, and modifications to a UOP InAlk after a catalyst swelling mechanism caused a bulge in the reactor shell. He is Becht's Process and Operations Engineering Manager