Co-Founder at Lensa Technology Inc. | Process Development & Simulation
Portland OregonLensaSim member since Sat · 10 published designs · 10 likes · 5 followers
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Co-Founder at Lensa Technology Inc. and Ph.D. Chemical Engineer specializing in advanced process development, engineering simulation, and industrial AI. I drive the strategic roadmap and vision for Lensa’s core solutions—including Lensa Process Intelligence, LensaSim, and the Lensa API. Passionate about bridging chemical engineering principles with cutting-edge software to help industrial organizations define high-performance benchmarks, improve system reliability, and optimize data-driven decisions.
Proof of work
10 designs published in the last six months.
Demonstrated in that published work — derived from the flowsheets themselves, not self-declared:
- Distillation & absorption columns
- Flash & phase separation
- Reaction engineering
- Heat transfer equipment
- Pumps, compressors & expanders
- Solids handling
- Non-ideal liquids (activity models)
- Equations of state
- Multi-unit process synthesis
Published designs
Benzene-Propylene reaction
1 0 0S-1 S-2 S-3 FEED-1 Feed RCOL-1 Distillation (Rigorous) Distillate Product Bottom Product Lensasim-Aspen Benzene Toluene
0 0 5S-1 S-2 S-3 S-6 S-7 S-4 S-5 S-8 S-9 FEED-1 Feed STER-1 Continuous Sterilizer COOL-1 Cooler FERM-1 Fermenter / Bioreactor RCOL-1 Distillation (Rigorous) PROD-2 Product PROD-1 Product CENT-1 Disc-Stack Centrifuge PROD-3 Product PROD-4 Product Fermentable Glucose to Ethanol
0 0 4S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 FEED Feed HEAT-1 Heater RCOL-1 Distillation (Rigorous) Benzene Product Toluene Product Basic Training on Benzene-Toluene Separation
1 0 8S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 FEED Feed E-101 Heater T-101 Distillation (Rigorous) Distillate Product Bottoms Product Acetone–Isopropanol Distillation | Steady-State Validation
1 0 13S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 S-5 S-6 S-7 S-8 FEED-1 Feed COOL-1 Cooler ABS-1 Absorber / Stripper FEED-2 Feed PROD-1 Product HEAT-1 Heater FLSH-1 Flash Drum PROD-2 Product PROD-3 Product Acetone Removal from Air by Water Absorption with Solvent Recovery
This simulation demonstrates the removal of acetone from an air stream using water as the absorbent. The gas is first cooled before entering the absorber, where it contacts water counter-currently. Acetone transfers from the gas into the water, producing a cleaner gas stream and an acetone-rich liquid stream. The rich liquid is then heated and sent to a flash drum to recover part of the acetone as an acetone-enriched vapor. The simulation brings together cooling, gas absorption, heating, and flash separation in one process and shows how changes in operating conditions affect the overall separation. Title: Acetone Removal from Air Using Water Absorption and Flash Separation
1 0 29S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 FEED-1 Feed HEAT-1 Heater COL-1 Distillation (Shortcut) PROD-1 Product PROD-2 Product Benzene-Toluene Separation
1 0 12S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 S-5 S-6 S-7 S-8 S-9 S-10 S-11 FEED-1 Feed COMP-1 Compressor COOL-1 Cooler COOL-2 Cooler FLSH-1 Flash Drum PROD-1 Product VLV-1 Valve RCOL-1 Distillation (Rigorous) PROD-2 Product RCOL-2 Distillation (Rigorous) PROD-3 Product PROD-4 Product Flare Gas to LPG ( NSCHE Training)
I used this simulation to train students from the NSChE National Student Chapter on process simulation. We worked through how flare gas can be processed into LPG and discussed why we need each equipment along the way — from compression and cooling to separation and distillation. The goal was simple: don't just learn how to run a simulation. Understand the process and think like a process engineer.
1 0 39S-101 S-102 S-103 S-104 S-105 S-106 S-107 S-108 S-1 S-2 GRAPHITE FEED Solids Feed ACID-LEACH-SOLUTION Feed R-101 Fe LEACH Leach Reactor R-102 Al LEACH Leach Reactor R-103 Mg LEACH Leach Reactor R-104 Ti LEACH Leach Reactor S-109 PREGNANT LEACH SOLUTION Product S-110 PURIFIED GRAPHITE Product Graphite Purification via Multi-Stage Acid Leaching
This flowsheet models the purification of natural graphite through sequential acid leaching to remove metallic impurities. The solid feed contains 95 wt% graphite with SiO₂, Fe, Al, Mg and Ti impurities at a P80 of approximately 150 µm. A mixed H₂SO₄–HNO₃–HCl leaching system is evaluated at an initial operating temperature of 40°C. The flowsheet uses staged leaching to represent the removal of Fe, Al, Mg and Ti, producing a purified graphite solid stream and a metal-containing pregnant leach solution. Objective: establish a baseline mass-balance model and ultimately determine the acid composition and operating temperature that maximize impurity removal and final graphite purity. Current status: Baseline model developed and converged. Next step is validation against experimental/literature data followed by sensitivity analysis and optimization.
0 0 45S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 S-5 S-6 S-7 S-8 S-01 Feed COMP-1 Compressor HEAT-1 Heater RX-1 Conversion Reactor COOL-1 Cooler VLL-1 3-Phase Separator PROD-1 Product PROD-2 Product PROD-3 Product Fischer Tropsch Process
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