Everett Nichols

2671 Bardstown Rd. Elizabethtown, KY 42701 Home: 502-296-7986 Cell/Work/Primary: 502-296-7986 Email: Nichols_Piping_Design@yahoo.com

Present employment status: ContractorEmployment opportunities seeking: Contract or Permanent

Computer/Software Skills Certified in CADWorx 2015 Plant Production Modeling, AutoCad 2014,

MS Word 2003, Excel 2003 & Windows 8.1.

Piping Design Background Extensive knowledge of all piping constructed systems, supports, fabrication and, installation requirements, testing, cleaning, coating and inspection. Piping sizes designed - ranged from: ¼” o.d. tubing to 48” o.d. duct sized process powder conveying lines. Have designed 72” o.d. reinforced concrete sewer systems. Types of constructed systems designed included: flanged, welded, fully jacketed piping, threaded, solder joint, mechanical joint, bell & spigot, bent & flared carbon and stainless steel, Victaulic, Swagelok, Graylok and many others. Materials of construction familiar with include: Stainless steels, carbon steels, alloys of various types, copper, thermoplastics, plastic lined piping, glass, glass lined, cast iron, ductile iron, pressurized concrete, galvanized and Yoloy. Chemical process piping systems designed include: Continuous feed and batch type with various pressures from atmospheric to 600 psig. Temperatures from ambient to 600F hot oil jacketed and superheated steam systems. Tank farms and pipe rack systems designs per NFPA standards. Power piping design per ANSI B31.1 and B31.3 standards. Cad and hand-drawn piping isometrics spool sheets with all bill of materials, cut lengths, references, cleaning, coating, testing and inspection requirements. Shop fabrication ready. Complete orthographic layouts of piping and equipment arrangements. Oil refinery rehabilitation projects: Installation of coker system knife gate valves and all associated piping. Flare system re-routing to new vent scrubber system, involving several thousand feet of piping. Tank-farm loading & unloading systems. Analyzer systems tubing runs for acid systems. LPG piping systems. Checked, found and redesigned incorrect installations of PSV's placements. Liquefied nitrogen/cryogenic cooling systems for chemical process grinding applications. High-pressure water cleaning systems designed include: Lesser pressures with 1500 lb. class flanges to systems at 6000 psig using Graylok fittings and seamless C/S XXS piping. Wastewater treatment facilities: Overhead and below ground piping systems. Pharmaceutical process facilities: Stainless steel designed piping systems including sanitary fittings. Corrected clean design requirements.

Standards Knowledge Very strong knowledge base of National standards: ANSI B31.3, ASTM, ASME,

NFPA, API, AWWA, MSS, ISA-S5.1, OSHA PSM 1910.119 and PIP standards. Excellent knowledge of various USA municipal Plumbing and BOCA Building

Codes.

Miscellaneous Engineering Background Extensive knowledge of P&ID and instrument loop design per ISA-S5.1 standard

Instrumentation Symbols and Identification. Creation of custom engineering piping design standards including fully jacketed

piping. Mechanical design included: Agitator shafts, extruder die heads, scrubbers, dust

collectors, powder conveying ductwork. Structural design included: platforms, pump & compressor skids, pump supports,

pipe supports, ladder, stairs, stiles and many others designs. ASME pressure vessels, NFPA low pressure and atmospheric tanks design.

Professional ExperienceTechnology Plus Inc, Lees Summit MO

Senior Piping Designer/Checker , Contract job for United Group Services.Work was performed at American Synthetic Rubber Inc. in Louisville KY.July 14th. 2014 – March 12th. 2015Duties: Work consisted of field checking previously drawn piping isometrics to insure fit-up to equipment, proper routings and adequate pipe support design. In some cases the entire Isometric had to be re-drawn for a better routing and to meet pipe support requirements. Checked all piping bill of material take-offs. Hung Tie-Point labels. Maintained project Line Lists and Tie-Point Lists.Piping design was checked against the client's piping design standards for compliance and against ANSI Standard B31.3 if required. Request for information (RFI) documents were issued on an as needed basis as were “Exceptions to Standards” through the Construction Superintendent.Prepared demolition piping and equipment drawings, including piping isometrics, P&ID's and equipment arrangement layouts. Hung tie-point tags for demolition points and make bill of materials for demo components.

Technical Solutions Specialists, Inc., Cincinnati Ohio Senior Piping Designer/Checker , Contract job for Dover Chemical Inc.

Piping and equipment layout for new chemical batching process. October 2012 through October 2013Duties: Piping orthographic drawings, isometrics, pressure vessel and atmospheric tanks design. Checked design work of peers. Piping/Tank/Pressure Vessel designs were performed per client's piping design standards and per ANSI B31.3 national standard. Pressure vessel and atmospheric tank designs were per applicable ASME/NFPA code standards.

Aerotek Inc. - Placed with Bowen Engineering Corporation Senior Piping Designer/Checker , Contract job for America Electric Power Co.

Piping design for new scrubbers installation at their Madison IN facility.April. 2011 – May 31st 2012 Completed project.Duties: Manually drawn piping isometrics, pipe support design and checked hundreds of designs for previously drawn pipe supports. Work consisted of field routings of water/air/nitrogen/steam and condensate systems. All piping designed was field checked for routing locations. Piping was designed per the client's piping design standards and perANSI Standard B31.3. Request for information (RFI) documents were issued on an as needed basis through the Construction Superintendent. All work was performed on site in an construction trailer at the plant facility.

CDI Corporation, Charleston WV

Senior Piping Designer/Checker , Contract job for Kureha America Inc. for their new facility project design in Belle WV.March 15th. 2010 – May 7th. 2010Duties: Piping isometrics and design checking, including fully jacketed pipe.

Technology Plus Inc, Lees Summit MO Senior Piping Designer , Contract job for Frontier Oil Refinery in Eldorado

Kansas.Jan. 2009 – Oct. 30th. 2009Duties: Miscellaneous piping design projects and P&ID walk-down.

Senior Piping Designer/Checker , Contract job for Archer-Daniels-Midland Inc.Feb. 2008 – December 2008.Project: Completed piping design package for two new ethanol plants.Duties: Piping isometrics and design checking of peers.

C&I Engineering, Louisville KY Senior Plant Designer/Checker , Contract job for Marathon Petroleum Inc.

August 2006 – Feb. 2008Project: Renovation of various processes within the oil refinery: Installation of (5) Coker knife gate valves and associated utility and hydraulic supplies for the knife valve operation requirements. Project for splitting out existing boiler natural gas supplies into two separate streams; one for pilot gas and one for the burner gas. Installation of an acid analyzer system in the alky unit. The last six months of employment was spent performing as an piping design Checker.Duties: Piping & equipment layout. These were all retrofit projects, which required complete field verification of systems to be modified and/or replaced. Piping was designed per the client's piping design standards and per ANSI Standard B31.3. Request for information (RFI) documents were issued on an as needed basis through the Project Engineer.

CH2MHill/Lockwood-Greene, Kalamazoo MI Senior Piping Designer , Contract job for Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Inc.

May 2006 – July 2006Project: Replacement of refrigerated water Chiller unit and replacement of several thousand feet of pipe bridge (trestle) piping.Duties: Piping & equipment layout. These were all retrofit projects, which required complete field verification of systems to be modified and/or replaced. I was the sole Piping Designer for these projects.

Ansert Mechanical Contractors Inc., Greenville IN Senior Piping Designer , Contract job for Atofina Chemicals, Inc.

December 2003 – December 2005 Project: Conversion of an existing Batch Reactors feed system into a Continuous Process Feed Design.Duties: Process piping layout arrangements, equipment arrangements, piping isometrics and P&ID designs. Performed five ASME pressure vessel designs. Assignment of equipment and instrumentation loop asset numbers. This was a retrofit project, which required complete field verification of existing systems.

Ohio Valley Mechanical Inc., Louisville KY – Contract Employee Senior Piping Designer , Contract job for PTX Foods, Inc.

May 2003 – September 2003Project: Raw material systems, cleaning systems and utility piping designs for new food processing plant.Duties: Developed orthographic piping drawings for the systems and designed the pipe supports. I was the sole Piping Designer on this project.

Birch, Trautwein & Mims Inc., Louisville KY – Contract Employee Senior Piping Designer , Contract job for Atofina Chemicals, Inc.

Nov. 2002 – March 2003Project: Installation of “Thermal Oxidizer Package” into an existing process vent stream.Duties: Developed finished layouts, isometric drawings of all existing vent streams and isometric drawings of proposed incorporation of “Oxidizer” within these vent streams. This was a retrofit project, which required complete field verification of existing systems to be modified and/or replaced.

Ansert Mechanical Contractors Inc., Greenville IN – Contract Employee Senior Piping Designer , Contract job for Jim Beam Distillery

July 18, 2002 – August 14, 2002Project: Rehabilitation of yeast tanks and pumping systems.Duties: Performed piping shop fabrication spool sheets. I was the sole Piping Designer on this project. This project was completed on schedule and budget.

Piping Layout Consultants Inc., Greenville IN – Contract Employee Senior Piping Designer , Contracted to Atofina Chemicals, Inc.

Oct. 2000 – March 2002Project: Complete updating of all process and utility P&ID's.Duties: Along with updating of existing P&ID's there were several new process P&ID's that were drawn from scratch. This project was stretched out over several months (18) due to lack of access to some process areas.

Rohm and Haas Kentucky, Louisville KY – Direct Employee Plant API 570 Piping Inspector , July 1997 – Nov. 1999

Duties: Performed OSHA regulated “in-service” piping inspections and supervised contract inspection personnel. The task was to inspect and insure that all regulated piping systems were within OSHA guidelines for safe design and compliance. This task was accomplished on schedule and accepted by OSHA. My certification number is 7557.

Design Group Supervisor & Senior Piping Designer , Nov. 1985 – June 1997Supervisor Duties: Assignment of work to a cross-section of designers and union pipe sketchers. Senior Piping Designer duties: Piping layout arrangements, equipment arrangements, piping isometrics and P&ID design. Pressure vessel and atmospheric storage tank design per ASME and NFPA.

Significant Projects

Rohm and Haas Kentucky, Louisville KY Conversion of existing dual dust collection systems for entire process unit into

single Water Scrubber Design: This project entailed removal of all existing dust collection equipment and installation of new pre-fabricated stainless steel 48” and 60” OD inlet ducts into a common water scrubber with water re-circulation tank and pumps. This was a major renovation and after completion the results exceeded all expectations for efficiency and cost. I convinced the area process engineers into installing the new equipment at the high tie-in point elevation within the existing process building instead of on the grade level outside, which was their first thought. This saved an enormous amount of money out of the project budget by maintaining the existing dust conveying fans sizes, except with a sleight horse power increase and vane upgrade which they could tolerate, enabled shorter runs on the large ducts involved and kept the equipment in a housed protected environment. We could gravity drain the scrubber re-circulation tank runoff instead of using a sludge pumping system and hold tank for discharge to the plant chemical sewer system.Design Duties: Performed equipment arrangement drawings, duct and pipe routing designs, piping isometrics, scrubber re-circulation tank design, P&ID design and miscellaneous structural steel designs.This was a retrofit project, which required complete field verification of existing systems to be modified and/or replaced. I was the sole Piping/Mechanical Designer on this project. This project was completed on schedule and well below budget.

Distributed Control System Automation of (8) Batch Reactor Processes: This was an ongoing effort, which took place over several years, one reactor and its support equipment, at a time. All existing piping and instrumentation were replaced. New stainless steel reactor designs replaced the original carbon steel glass coated ones. New catalyst and activator tank designs replaced their counterparts. Dedicated finished product storage tanks, pumping systems and piping were designed and piped for each reactor. New ultra high-pressure reactor cleaning systems were designed. The new DCS controls and sophisticated instrumentation, which included over one hundred monitoring and control devices on most of the reactors, replaced the existing antiquated analog/manual control systems. I was personally involved in each design phase of the conversions. These were retrofit projects, which required complete field verification of existing systems to be modified and/or replaced.Design Duties: Piping layout arrangements, ASME reactor and support tank designs, Pressure safety element (rupture disks) vent stacks designs, piping isometrics and P&ID designs. I was also the design group supervisor during this time frame.Note: During these conversions there were over (300) entirely new process and utility P&ID’s created. I had a hand in the creation of many and checked each one for adherence to corporate engineering and ISA-S5.1 standards.