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PROFILE
A highly motivated individual with five years of hands-on
experience in design, start-up and troubleshooting of oil
and gas process plants together with excellent academic
performance in both graduate and undergraduate studies
with strong background in computational fluid dynamics
and computational heat and mass transfer
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
* Sound knowledge of general refinery and oil and gas
production operations
* Strong background in designing, revamping and
debottlenecking of process plants using process
simulators
* Commissioning, start-up, operation and troubleshooting
of process plants
* Capability to instigate research proposals and conduct
new line of studies
* Interactive individual with strong interpersonal skills
both in leadership and teamwork
* Fluent in most common process simulators and general
utility software packages
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
- Graduate Research Assistant, 2000 - present
* Conduct research in the area of Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD)
* Performed Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of
turbulent flow using parallel simulation codes on NCSA
supercomputers
* Investigated and modelled turbulent heat and mass
transfer
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2000 - present
Involved in courses: Process Dynamics and Control,
Numerical Methods
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
OIL REFINERY PANCEVO, Pancevo, Serbia
- Senior Research Engineer, Research & Development Dept.,
1999-2000
Led a team of experts on two major projects:
* Alkylation and Hydro-Desulphurization (HDS) Units
Revamp
* Feasibility study (technical and financial evaluation)
for the Refinery modernization
Kept the projects on schedule and budget
FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY LTD., Reading, United Kingdom
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Process Expert, 1998
* Built the FCC and Gas Concentration Unit simulation
model for the FCC Unit Development Study at the Oil
Refinery Pancevo
OIL REFINERY PANCEVO, Pancevo, Serbia
- FCC Process Engineer/Process Engineer, 1995-1998
* Performed process monitoring and troubleshooting of
process units
* Optimized Crude/Vacuum Distillation Unit and FCC Unit
yield
* Conducted performance test runs for main process
equipments of the units
* Involved in start-ups and shut-downs of the FCC Unit
* Simulated steady state operation of columns and heat
exchangers
* Coordinated with equipment and catalyst vendors
ACHIEVEMENTS
* Developed application software for Condenser Design in
Petrochemical Industry
* Developed software for Operating Regime Planning for
Crude Distillation Unit
* Awarded for the application software at the
International Oil and Gas Conference, YUNG'97, V.Banja,
Yugoslavia, 1997.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, Norman, OK, USA
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Expected Graduation date May, 2002, (Current GPA:
4.0/4.0)
UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Batchelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, 1995
Graduated with Honors. Ranked in top three students of
the class,(GPA: 3.81/4.0)
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Supercomputers:
* NCSA HP-Convex Exemplar, NCSA SGI/CRAY Origin 2000
- Operating systems:
* Windows 98/NT, UNIX, DOS
- Programming:
* Fortran77/90, C/C++, Visual BASIC, MATLAB
- Software:
* PROII/Provision, ChemShare, FLUENT, ASPEN, MS Office
- Worked on Honeywell TDC-2000/3000 - refinery control
room machines
PUBLICATIONS
Mitrovic, B., Papavassiliou, D.V., Transport Properties
for Turbulent Dispersion from Wall Sources, Proceedings,
AICHE Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, November 2001. (Paper
to be published)
Mitrovic, B., Atkinson, D., Papavassiliou, D.V.,
Lagrangian Scalar Tracking for DNS of Turbulent
Transport, Proceedings, 6th U.S. National Congress on
Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, August 2001,
p. 334.
Mitrovic, B., Kovacevic, V., Serbanovic, S., New
Approaches for Condenser Design in Process Industry,
Chemical Industry Journal, February 1998.
Kovacevic, V., Mitrovic, B. "Catalyst and Process for
Conditioning FCC Gasoline", Proceedings, International
Conference YUNG '97, V.Banja 1997, p. 179-182.
REFERENCES
Available upon request
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