Mr. Hall has over 30 years of experience in managing and performing risk, reliability and availability analysis with a background well suited for addressing risk, operating reliability, and life cycle cost issues. In addition to performing risk, reliability, availability, and life cycle cost analyses of refinery, chemical, electric power, and marine systems, he has also managed the development and maintenance of risk and reliability software applications.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Analysis
- Risk Based Inspection analyses of 6 Waste Heat and Fired Steam Generators
- Risk Based Inspection analyses of the Alcohol and Linear Alkyl Benzene Units for Sasol North America including the analysis of 500 pressure relief devices
- Risk Analyses for the construction and commissioning of a deep ocean gas transmission Oman India Pipeline originally proposed by the Oman Oil Company
- RAM Assessment of Integrated Gas Combined Cycle Design for an ExxonMobile IPP
- RAM Assessment of Coal to Ammonia process upgrade for AECI, South Africa
- Operational Reliability Assessment of a Cyanohydrin Processing Facility, Rohm & Haas
- Availability analysis of a proposed upgrade of Edmonton Refinery for Petro Canada
- Hazards Analysis of Pelindaba Uranium Enrichment Analysis, Republic of South Africa
- Reliability Assessment of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor, U.S. Department of Energy
- Pharmaceutical Plant Safe Shutdown and Microorganism Containment Hazards Analysis
- for Eli Lilly
- RAM Assessment of Shell Oil’s Geismar Alpha Olefins Plant
- RAM Assessment of Rohm & Haas’ B4 Monomer Plant Upgrade Design
- RAM Assessment of Ultraformer and DDU units at BP’s Texas City Refinery
- RAM Assessments for the following ExxonMobil facilities:
- Jade Platform
- Cerro Negro Production and Central Processing Facility
- Jose Ethylene Plant
- Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) Analysis for:
- Southern California Edison Company
- Electric Power Research Institute
- Centerior Energy Company
- City of Austin, Texas
- Long Island Lighting Company
- Development of Reliability Centered Maintenance Standards for Public Service Electric
& Gas Company
- Fire Protection Analysis of Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station
Software
- Product manager for APTECH’s RDMIP© Risk Based Inspection (RBI) assessment software
- Project manager for the design, development, and maintenance of the Electric Power Research Institute’s UNIRAM© suite of facility reliability assessment applications –
UNIRAM, UNISAM, GDASRAM and ACOM.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- B.S. (Oceanography), University of Washington (1971)
- B.S. (Chemistry), University of Washington (1971)
- M.S. Coursework in Computer Systems Management, University of Maryland
SELECTED REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES
Risk Based Inspection Assessment and Inspection Scheduling of Sasol North America, Inc. Lake Charles Chemical Complex, Alcohol Unit, Final Report, Aptech Engineering Document AES 05095909-3-3, ( with H Tran, A, Kurlekar, G Barrera, and D. Christie), April, 2006, Houston, Texas.
Application of RAM Simulation Technology to Refining and Chemical Plant Power Initiative, NPRA Maintenance Conference, May 23-26, 2000, Austin, Texas.
Determining Equipment Criticality Using Advanced Simulation Methods, Industrial Services International 1999 Conference (Proceedings), June, 1999.
Availability Cost Optimization Methodology, EPRI Report TR-1000225, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA (with J. Witt, E. Reed, and S. Wenzlick) (December 1991).
Demonstration of an Availability Optimization Method, EPRI Report IE-7296, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, (with R. Unkle) (February 1991).
LCC/RAM Simulation in Support of Gas Turbine Power Plant Forecasting, International Joint Power Generation Conference (IJPGC, 2003), (Proceedings), July, 2003. (With N. Winchester)
Life Extension - A Strategy for Cost Optimization, International Conference on Life Assessment and Extension, Proceedings (with J. Weiss) (June 1988).
Nuclear Plant Life Cycle Cost Analysis Considerations, International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP ’04), (Proceedings), June 13-17, 2004.
Optimizing Plant Installation, Operations, and Maintenance Costs: Application of RAM Simulation Methods, Invited paper presented at the 1998 International Joint Power Generation Conference, August, 1998.
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