• Chemical

This expert attended the University of Houston and received an MBA.

This expert received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.

This associate is an expert in monomer process technology, capital project budgeting, project selection, and implementation and cost. Further expertise includes energy efficiency, process technology improvement, and acrylic monomers production.

This consultant offers expertise specific to methacrylic acid, methylmethacrylate, waste treatment, and sulfuric acid regeneration. Further areas of knowledge include cost reduction and capacity de-bottlenecking.

Additional experience and specialization includes plant design, plant startup, energy conservation, and product quality improvement. This consultant’s background includes process yield improvement, environmental permits, acrylic acid production, and international plant startup. Additional background experience includes plant siting incentives, land acquisition, energy supply contracts, and plant operations,. This consultant’s expertise includes productivity, safety, health, and environmental excellence.

Extensive knowledge regarding increase of propylene oxidation reactors in acrylic acid production, and reduction of aqueous waste water in acrylic acid production.

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Chief Monomer Process Technologist, Monomers Business Capital Performance Director, Houston Site Energy Manager, Rohm and Haas, TX

Worldwide Monomers Production Manager, Rohm and Haas, TX

Manufacturing Manager-Acrylic Monomers, Rohm and Haas, TX

Manufacturing Manager Methacrylic Monomers, Rohm and Haas, TX

Area Manager, Methacrylic Acid, Methylmethacrylate, Waste Treatment Plant, Rohm and Haas, TX

Sulfuric Acid Regeneration Plant Area Manager, Rohm and Haas, TX

Assistant Area Manager, Rohm and Haas, Houston, TX

Rohm and Haas, TX

Led multi company/international project to de-bottleneck German joint venture acrylic acid plant; adapted plant designed with different Japanese technology to use Rohm and Haas procedures. Successfully completed phases 1 and 2 of project doubling plant capacity at a cost of less than 50% of equivalent for a new plant.

Proven ability to organize, motivate, and direct multi disciplinary groups to achieve rapid, measurable, successes in a variety of tasks and projects. These included product and systems quality improvements, cost reductions, capacity de-bottlenecking, new plant designs and startups, energy conservation, and process yield improvements.

Effectively interacted with international personnel and government authorities. Successfully negotiated plant siting incentives (capital and tax reductions), land acquisition, energy supply contracts, preliminary environmental permits, and sites services contracts for a new, major European monomers plant.

Applied innovative improvements (utilizing inputs and groups from Research, Engineering, and Production) in an effective and cost efficient manner to achieve productivity gains in plant operations and in improved quality and cost of capital projects. Developed systems which force creative thinking to develop alternatives to enable elimination of, or reduction in scope of plant capital projects, while maintaining plant productivity, safety, health and environmental excellence.

Monomers Business Capital Performance Director, Chief Monomer Process Technologist, and Houston Site Energy Manager, Worldwide Monomers Production Manager

Field experiences include North America, Europe, and the Far East

Received U.S. Patent for methods of increasing the throughput of propylene oxidation reactors in the production of acrylic acid, and reducing the aqueous waste water produced in acrylic acid production.