February 2016
Process Engineering and Optimization
Use discrete event simulation as decision support for storage and shipping—Part 2
Over the past decades, one engineering firm has been using discrete event simulation (DES) to study shipping and storage as an integral part of project execution throughout all phases of a process facility’s design, construction and operations.
The Authors
is a principal technical professional at KBR with the Automation and Process Technologies group. He has extensive experience in logistics simulation and operations management systems in the oil and gas industry. He holds a PhD in systems science from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
is a technical professional leader with the Automation and Process Technologies group at KBR. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, and has been in the process technologies and automation area for the last 20 years. Previously, he worked as a software development engineer at Bryan Research and Engineering and spent several years in the academic field at the University of Puebla in Mexico. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University.
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