Michael M. Botz, P.E.

 

 

Mr. Mike Botz is a registered professional engineering consultant providing contract process design and engineering services.  With nearly 15 years experience as a consultant, Mr. Botz has augmented plant and corporate engineering staffs worldwide to complete projects ranging in scope from conceptual process evaluations through plant design, pilot testing, full-scale facility construction and plant commissioning.  Mr. Botz is highly experienced in the following aspects of process engineering:

 

·   Technology Review & Development

·   Process Flowsheets

·   Mass & Energy Balances

·   Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams

·   Laboratory & Pilot Testing

·   Equipment Performance Specifications

·   Capital & Operating Cost Estimates

·   Detailed Design Oversight

·   Operations Manuals

·   Facility Start-Up

·   Operator Training

·   Troubleshooting & Performance Upgrades

 

Mr. Botz’s process specialties include the following:

 

Water Treatment

·   Boiler Feedwater

·   Condensate Polishing

·   Ultra High Purity Process Waters

·   Utility Waters

·   Process Troubleshooting & Upgrades

·   Water Balance Development

·   Water Management Planning

·   Water Usage Minimization

 

Wastewater Treatment

·   Heavy Metals, Arsenic & Selenium

·   Ammonia, Nitrate & Nitrite

·   Cyanide & Related Compounds

·   Chemical, Physical & Biological Processes

·   Process Troubleshooting & Upgrades

·   Water Balance Development

·   Water Management Planning

·   Discharge Permit Review

 

Industrial Gas Cleaning

·   Acid Gas Scrubbing

     (SO2  H2S  HCl  Cl2  CO2  HF  HCN)

·   Particulate Removal

·   Scrubber Troubleshooting, Upgrades

     & Inspections

·   New Scrubber Design, Specification,

     Start-Up & Testing

 

Process Modeling

·   Process Mass & Energy Balances

·   Aqueous Chemistry Simulation

·   Troubleshooting & Bottleneck Analysis

·   Capital & Operating Cost Models

·   Environmental Fate of Pollutants

·   Steady State & Dynamic Models

 

 

Contact Mike Botz at:            mike@botz.com