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Process Industries Division: How we are governed

Process Industries Division is concerned industries where primary production processes are either continuous or batch produced.

Process Industries Division Board

Ian Hancock CEng FIMechE - Chair

Ian Hancock

Operations Manager, Bradley Pulverizer Company 

Ian has over 30 years experience in engineering is registered as an IEng Engineer in  variety of disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation and is a member of the IMechE and IET. 

He studied at Canterbury College of Technology in the Department of Engineering and Mining, followed by a technician apprenticeship in aerospace. He then made a move into heavy engineering in a wide range of industries from paper mills and power generation to quarrying and dredging specialising in bulk material handling with conveyors, size reduction and heavy trommel equipment.

He now works for Bradley Pulverizer Company as Operations Manager managing projects from quote to commissioning, as well as managing upgrades and modernisation of existing plants. Specialising in fine powders production and size classification for a wide range of industries from power generation, steel manufacturing and fertilizer to specialised small scale milling of unusual materials.

 His role also involves Broadfield acidulation units for the manufacture of super phosphate fertilizer and acidic salts.

Richard Tiplady CEng FIMechE - Immediate Past Chair

Turnaround Engineer, Tiplady Engineering Management Services Ltd.

Richard is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years experience in engineering major turnarounds for onshore oil refineries and gas facilities.

He works as an independent contractor for a number of major oil and gas companies and global consultancies in the UK and overseas.

Whilst undertaking his mechanical engineering degree at Imperial College, Richard gained work experience in the nuclear fuel industry. After graduation he spent five years in heavy steel industry maintenance during which he gained chartered status via the IMechE MPDS process. He then progressed to turnaround engineering in the process industries.

Tim Fox CEng FIMechE - Past Chair

Independent Consultant 

Noel Hensman CEng MIMechE - Vice Chair - Member Engagement North West Centre / Process Community

Retired

James Bridge CEng FIMechE - Past Chair

Consultant

Process Industries Division Board Members

Masoud Bagherzadeh CEng FIMechE

Senior Static Equipment Engineer, Fluor Ltd

Allan Barton - Co-opted Member

Global Business Leader Resources and Waste, Arup

Kenneth Burns CEng MIMechE

Oliver Butler CEng FIMechE

General Manager, LNG Market Development,  Shell International E&P

Alan D'Ambrogio CEng IMechE

Vice President Oil and Gas, ABB Consulting

Phillip Dale CEng FIMechE

Operations Manager, Fulifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies UK Ltd

Murat Islam CEng MIMechE - Young Member Representative

Mechanical Engineer IV, John Crane UK Ltd

Christopher Mellows FCMI PCQI

Director, Zulu Joint Integrity & Training Ltd

Christopher Mellows

Chris Mellows has 31 years’ experience in the oil, gas and chemical industries.

Rather than following a purely academic route, Chris started his career as a mechanical engineering apprentice with BP Chemicals and has since worked specifically within the downstream oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical industries for various blue chip organisations as well as contract support companies. During his career, he gained particular mechanical joint integrity experience on refinery HF Alkylation units. It was this experience that drove Chris to become involved in QA/QC for turnarounds and projects and eventually enabled him to start his own business in 2009 specialising in joint integrity management and leak prevention of bolted joints for UK COMAH sites. Chris and his team now also deliver industry standard joint integrity training and assessment courses throughout the UK (and overseas).

He has extensive experience of supporting assets in terms of design and delivery of joint integrity processes in line with industry guidelines and best practice to help achieve a safe and timely leak-free start up of plant and has a passion for supporting UK apprentice programmes in terms of training delivery and competency assessment of bolted connections of pressurised systems. Chris is a qualified NVQ assessor, a member of the Chartered Quality Institute (Practitioner) and the Chartered Management Institute (Fellow).

Thanos Moros CEng FIMechE

Engineering Director Consultant

John Phillips CEng FIMechE

Prizes and Awards

Simon Rees CEng FIMechE

Projects Director, Norton Straw Consultants

Stuart Scott - Co-opted Member

Reader in Energy & Thermodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Karen Stevenson - Co-opted Member

Compliance Officer, GSK Pharma Engineering and EHS

Amira Tamam - Young Member Representative

Corrosion Resistant Products

Ting Wing-Kuen CEng FIMechE - Process Industries Division Prizes and Awards Chair

Sunil Panchbhai AMIMechE - North West Centre Secretary and Treasurer

Founder, AscenTrack Consulting, Pune, India

Secretary and Treasurer, India Technical Centre

Jin Xuan CEng FIMechE - Young Member representative

Senior Lecturer, School of AACME, Loughborough University

Steve Johnson - Co-opted Member

Vice President  Plant Asset Management, Petrofac

Technical Activity Committees and Centre Chairs

Jitendra Bhambure - Process Industries Division India Centre Chair, Mumbai

Associate Member

EurIng Martyn Ralph BSc CEng FIMechE

Martyn Ralph

Retired

Martyn Ralph, is a recently retired, International Brewery Design Engineer.

He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a member of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling and a member of the Brewing Engineers Association. Martyn worked for large multinational brewers and consulting engineers on five continents, designing breweries and acting as Owner’s Representative on multi-million dollar projects. He is a specialist in managing projects in third-world and developing countries.

His skills as a brewery engineer have also been used in the hygienic, non-brewing sectors, such as Dairy Processing, Baby Foods, Soft Drinks, Food, Toiletries and Polymers.

Martyn also worked as a Consultant for Micro-brewery owners including the Little Creatures and Mikkeller Breweries in London.

Steve Cromar CEng FIMechE

Claire Edwards CEng FIMechE - Pharmaceutical Committee

Outsourcing Manager, Process Industries, GSK

Rob Grant - Water and Wastewater Industries Committee

Ian Hancock CEng FIMechE - Bulk Materials Handling Committee

Ian HancockOperations Manager, Bradley Pulverizer Company 

Ian has over 30 years experience in engineering is registered as an IEng Engineer in  variety of disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation and is a member of the IMechE and IET. 

He studied at Canterbury College of Technology in the Department of Engineering and Mining, followed by a technician apprenticeship in aerospace. He then made a move into heavy engineering in a wide range of industries from paper mills and power generation to quarrying and dredging specialising in bulk material handling with conveyors, size reduction and heavy trommel equipment.

He now works for Bradley Pulverizer Company as Operations Manager managing projects from quote to commissioning, as well as managing upgrades and modernisation of existing plants. Specialising in fine powders production and size classification for a wide range of industries from power generation, steel manufacturing and fertilizer to specialised small scale milling of unusual materials.

 His role also involves Broadfield acidulation units for the manufacture of super phosphate fertilizer and acidic salts.

Noel Hensman CEng MIMechE - North West Centre

Retired

Christopher Robinson CEng FIMechE - Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee

Director, CER Technologies Ltd

Technical Activity Committees

Process Industries Division has six Technical Activity Committees (TACs):

The TACs are key to the success of the Division as are the regional centres, which provide lectures, seminars, conferences and others events for members.

Regional centres

The Division has two regional centres in the North West and Yorkshire.

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