Employment: Retired Engineer

Personal: Married with five grown children

Home: On the shoreline of beautiful Lake Conroe in the heart of Texas, USA

Education: University of Houston

Current Activities: Providing independent consulting and thermal design services for companies around the world for:

            Direct Fired Heaters

            Heat Recovery Steam Generators

            Waste Heat Recovery Units

            Air Preheat Systems

            Heater Revamps and Rating

            Reformer Revamp and Recovery Systems 

Past Activities: in order of last to first,

° Design and maintenance of two educational free web-sites,

http://www.HeaterDesign.com Thermal rating and design of Fired Heaters

http://www.HRSGdesign.com Thermal rating and design of HRSGs

Also provides commercial and free “Engineering Software For Engineers” at http://www.jehar.com, as well as hosting of web-sites.

° Developed and wrote software WinHeat4 Suite including WinProp which included capabilities to generate property grids from component or distillation curve inputs.

° Developed and wrote software WinHeat Thermal Rating Suite for design of Direct Fired Process Heaters and Heat Recovery Units either Unfired or Supplementary Fired, consisting of the following:

WinHeat3 Thermal Rating & Design

GridData Pressure Loss & Flow Regime Analysis

WinBurn Combustion & Gas Properties

WinFlow Draft, Ducting & Piping Analysis 

WinLoss Insulation & Heat Loss

WinWall Tube Wall Thickness Calculation

WinHeat3 User Manual

° Executive Vice-president and manager of Heat Recovery Division at Energy Technology, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA, a fired heater and heat recovery equipment design and manufacturer.

° Majority stockholder and CEO of Heat Recovery Corporation, a fired heater and heat recovery equipment and engineering company.

° Director of Engineering at Wheco Division of Therma-technology, Inc, a fired heater and heat recovery equipment design and manufacturing company.

° Design Engineer at Waste Heat Engineering Corporation, a fired heater and waste heat equipment design and manufacturing company.

° Software Design Experience: Developed one of the first thermal rating and design programs for heat recovery steam generators over thirty years ago.  Program was originally written in Fortran, the migrated to Wang Basic, Turbo Pascal, and Microsoft DOS.  Program is still in use today.  Currently have written new Microsoft Windows, Visual Basic 5 version of HRSG rating and design program.  Personal experience includes design, manufacture, and installation of hundreds of waste heat boilers, heat recovery steam generators, and direct fired heaters throughout the world.