QUIP Experience
Meaghan McTiernan
Agenda
• Introduction
• My QUIP Experience
• Relation to CHEE 221
• Internship Incentives
• Q&A
Meaghan McTiernan
• Suncor Energy for 12 months
– Process Engineering
Development (Oil Sands &
In-Situ)
• Supported Upgrading at base
plant in Fort McMurray
• Main projects included
Caustic Injection, DB
Desalting and re-writing
coker fractionator protocol
Suncor Family Day Volunteers at the Calgary Stampede
2014
Meaghan McTiernan
• Summer Term Job - 4 months
at Suncor Energy
– Drilling Engineering Group
Drilling Engineering Team at GlobalFest 2015
• Validated liner installation
software for directional wells
Our ride to Stampede 2015
DB Desalting Overview
• Problem: Chloride content, asphaltenes and naphthenic acids
in the feed to the Upgrader expected to increase
• In the presence of steam, corrosion and fouling become
significant issues
DB Desalting
• New technology on mined bitumen (widely used in
Refineries)
• Removes salt from the oil through use of emulsion forming
& breaking as well as electrostatic grids
• Vessel internals are proprietary to Cameron; implementation
into the plant done by my team
DB Desalting
• How do you design a new system into an existing plant?
-start with your knowns; put into a PFD
-where are your tie ins to the process?
-what flow rates, temperatures and pressures do we need?
•Goal: remove salts from the oil
• measure composition in outlet stream
•Capstone design project (CHEE 470) will ask these same
questions
Process Design
• Aim to minimize cost; only monitor what is needed
– ex. monitor flow exiting the vessel and induce flow into
vessel (CSTR)
• Composition matters!
• Determine vessel operating conditions
– what are your desired parameters?
– what results will you accept?
QUIP Overview
• 12-16 months degree related, paid internship
• Completion of 2nd or 3rd year
• Register with QUIP, attend workshops and use
QUIP job postings to apply
• Professional Internship degree designation
• One year pre-graduation
experience towards P. Eng
• Test a career in a particular
industry
• Next info session January 6th
Companies that Hired Queen’s Interns
AECON
Agriculture and
Agri-Foods Canada
Agrium
Altera
AMD
Armstrong Fluid
BlackBerry
Bombardier
Bowen/Cenovus
Brock Solutions
Ciena Corporation
CNRL
Enbridge
Ericcson
GE
GM
Greer Galloway
Halla
Honda
Husky Energy
Hydro One
IBM
McAfee
Miller Group
Ministry of Transportation
Neptec
NOVA Chemicals
OPG
PCL Construction
Prysmian
Recognia
Shell
Sherritt
Suncor
Teck
Toronto Hydro
Vanhawks
Internship Incentives
Questions?
Any further questions can be directed to:
Meaghan McTiernan: 0mm93@queensu.ca
QUIP: quip@queensu.ca
Next information session:
January 6th, 2016
5:30 to 7:00 PM
Register through MyCareer
More information can be found at:
http://engineering.queensu.ca/QUIP/
http://careers.queensu.ca/quip