Mark Iannelli
Downingtown,PA
Summary
Seasoned Pipe Stress Engineer with a proven track record at KBR, showcasing expertise in Caesar II and dynamic modal analysis. Excelled in client-focused solutions, significantly enhancing piping system reliability through innovative stress analysis and support design. Demonstrates exceptional analytical skills and a collaborative approach, ensuring project success and client satisfaction.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Technical Professional—Piping
KBR
Newark, DE
11.2023 - 10.2024
- Client: DuPont
- Used Caesar II to analyze chemical plant piping
- Qualified Code stresses to B31.3 and evaluated equipment nozzle loads, including pumps to ANSI standards
- Selected standard support details
- Prepared transmittals of support loads to the structural department
Pipe Stress Engineer
KENOSHA EPC
Wheat Ridge, CO
04.2023 - 11.2023
- Client: Tesla
- Modeled and analyzed compressed air and chilled water piping systems using Caesar II software
- Used Navisworks to review pipe routing and identify potential support locations
- Marked up piping isometrics using Bluebeam to transmit support and load information to piping designers and structural department
- Used Microsoft Teams to coordinate work with Tesla engineers and coworkers
Piping Analysis Engineer
TALEN ENERGY
Berwick, PA
10.2022 - 04.2023
- Plant: Susquehanna Nuclear Station
- Used ME101 to analyze nuclear plant piping
- Qualified Code stresses to B31.1 and ASME Section III and evaluated equipment nozzle loads and support loads
- Prepared and reviewed calculation packages in Word, Excel and Adobe Standard
- Attended daily department meetings to discuss plant and work status
- Utilized Microsoft Teams to communicate remotely with coworkers
Pipe Stress Engineer
KENOSHA EPC
Wheat Ridge, CO
08.2022 - 10.2022
- Client: Tesla
- Modeled and analyzed chilled water piping systems using Caesar II software
- Used Navisworks to review pipe routing and identify potential support locations
- Marked up piping isometrics using Bluebeam to transmit support and load information to piping designers and structural department
- Used Microsoft Teams to coordinate work with Tesla engineers and coworkers
Civil Design Engineer
DUKE ENERGY
Seneca, SC
08.2021 - 08.2022
- Plant: Oconee Nuclear Station
- Used SUPERPIPE to analyze nuclear plant piping, including condensate and condensate cooling water systems
- Qualified Code stresses to B31.1 and evaluated equipment nozzle loads to Duke standards
- Prepared and verified calculation packages and load transmittals in Excel and Adobe Pro
Principal Technical Professional—Piping
KBR
Newark, DE
09.2019 - 10.2020
- Client: DuPont
- Used Caesar II to analyze chemical plant piping, including conveying and high pressure steam systems
- Qualified Code stresses to B31.3 and evaluated equipment nozzle loads, including pumps to ANSI standards
- Selected standard support details
- Prepared transmittals of support loads to the structural department
- Performed dynamic modal analysis to help plant resolve vibration problems
Pipe Stress Engineer
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
Chandler, AZ
04.2019 - 09.2019
- Client: Confidential Electronics Manufacturer
- Used AutoPIPE to analyze electronics plant piping to B31.3
- Performed field walks with design team to determine best routing and support scheme for piping systems
- Lead Skype design review meetings using Navisworks
Field Engineer
OCEAN STATE TECHNICAL SERVICES
Providence, RI
02.2018 - 04.2019
- Clients: Ocean State Power, PSE&G, Exelon, Tucson Electric Power, Delaware City Refining, Samuel Adams, Talen Energy
- Inspected engineered pipe supports at power plants and refineries in the United States
- Evaluated pipe stress (B31.1) and pipe support problems and offered product and engineering solutions to the clients
- Analyzed hot reheat piping at Brunner Island power plant to help resolve issues with stop valves not closing
- Designed expansion loops, springs, anchors and guides for new steam and condensate lines at Samuel Adams brewery in Breinigsville, PA
- Used CAEPIPE to analyze 22” diameter main steam, 30” diameter hot reheat and 34” diameter cold reheat piping for Tucson Electric Power Unit 3 in Springerville, AZ, including seismic and relief valve reaction loads
- Performed CAEPIPE stress analysis for boiler feed water pump system at Woodbridge Energy Center in Keasbey, NJ
Principal Technical Professional
KBR
Newark, DE
07.2017 - 12.2017
- Clients: DuPont, Chemours
- Checked over 150 pipe support details for accuracy and load bearing capacity on Chemours project
- Evaluated Victaulic coupling loads on cooling tower water system
- Qualified multiple heat exchanger and pump layouts to B31.3 and vendor allowables
Pipe Stress Engineer
BECHTEL
Reston, VA
10.2015 - 04.2017
- Clients: Shell, ENKA
- Analyzed system of three pumps in parallel using Caesar II for Shell Franklin Project
- Qualified pump nozzle loads and pipe stresses
- Used ME101 and Excel to calculate local stresses for support trunnions on ENKA Besmaya Project and Shell Franklin Project
- Evaluated 87 flanges for leakage using ASME Section VIII method
- Used Mathcad for advanced B31.1 SIF calculations
Pipe Stress Engineer
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
Mt. Laurel, NJ
01.2015 - 06.2015
- Client: Honeywell
- Used Caesar II to analyze chemical plant piping per ASME B31.3 stress requirements
- Evaluated equipment nozzle loads for compliance with Jacobs’s criteria and vendor allowable loads, including centrifugal pumps, heat exchangers, columns and towers
- Completed 27 accurate and Code compliant Caesar II models in just over five months
- Used Smart Plant Review to verify routing of piping and identify potential pipe support locations
Piping Technical Specialist
KBR
Newark, DE
05.2014 - 12.2014
- Client: Husky Energy
- Performed Caesar II dynamic modal analysis of compressor piping to determine optimal support types and locations to minimize chance of vibrations during operation
- Used NozzlePro to determine vessel nozzle stiffnesses and evaluate nozzle stresses
- Participated in model review meetings to make early determinations of feasible pipe routings and support schemes
- Reviewed plant model in Navisworks to identify alternate routings and potential pipe support locations
Piping Technical Leader
GAI CONSULTANTS
Cranberry Township, PA
01.2012 - 05.2014
- Clients: Westinghouse Nuclear, Progressive Design
- Used DST PIPESTRESS to analyze piping for Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear plant design
- Evaluated piping for seismic, hydrodynamic and pipe rupture loads
- Qualified stress models to ASME Section III Class 1, 2 and 3, and B31.1 requirements
- Authored full documentation pipe stress reports and created all necessary change paperwork
- Verified pipe stress models and reports scheduled for review by the NRC
Pipe Stress Engineer
AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS CORPORATION
Allentown, PA
01.2010 - 07.2011
- Projects: Laporte, Hawkins, Chengdu Hyco, Gent ASU IV
- Analyzed cryogenic aluminum and stainless-steel piping operating as low as -320˚F in cold boxes for air separation units in AutoPIPE
- Modeled CGs of control valves and actuators for accurate stress and flexibility characteristics at panel penetrations
- Modeled and specified piping expansion joints
- Qualified cold box panel stresses at pipe and valve penetrations, checked stresses in aluminum-to-stainless steel transition joints, designed shear lugs and trunnion supports and determined slug forces related to two-phase flow using TK!Solver software
Piping Engineer
SELAS FLUID PROCESSING CORPORATION
Blue Bell, PA
10.2007 - 11.2009
- Clients: Borouge, CITGO, Lockheed Martin, MarkWest Energy Partners, Praxair, YPF Repsol
- Used Caesar II to analyze and qualify alloy reformer tubes and manifolds designed for 1600F
- Designed 60 constant support spring hangers in LICAD
- Performed B31.3 branch reinforcement calculations in Excel for header connections
- Sized superheated steam relief valves in Excel
- Created project piping, support and insulation specifications in Word
- Sized expansion loops on 1700-foot-long, 30” diameter heat transfer fluid piping for proposed solar power plant in Arizona for Lockheed Martin using Caesar II
Senior Engineer
VALDES ENGINEERING COMPANY
Lombard, IL
05.2005 - 09.2007
- Clients: BP, CITGO, ExxonMobil, Forbo Adhesives, Will County Generating Station
- Qualified stainless steel and chrome-moly catalyst drop piping systems running near B31.3 Code limits for temperature (1362˚F) at BP refinery in Whiting, IN
- Designed six constant and variable support spring hangers using LICAD
- Evaluated main process pump system at Forbo Adhesive plant in Seneca, IL for B31.3 Code stresses and API 610 pump nozzle loads using Caesar II
- Designed flare stack support lugs, welds and guides
- Analyzed exchanger piping and qualified nozzle loads using Caesar II WRC 107 capability and NozzlePro software
Pipe Stress Engineer
KULJIAN CORPORATION
Philadelphia, PA
12.2004 - 02.2005
- Client: Tynagh Energy Limited (Ireland)
- Performed Caesar II pipe stress analysis on high-temperature alloy piping systems, including steam seal and auxiliary steam systems, for combined cycle power plant
- Qualified all pipe stresses per ASME B31.1 and all turbine nozzle loads per General Electric requirements
- Worked closely with PDS piping designer to successfully meet aggressive construction schedule for the two systems
Piping Engineer
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
Conshohocken, PA
07.2001 - 04.2004
- Clients: Amgen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Rohm & Haas, Valero and Wyeth
- Executed Caesar II pipe stress analysis on Valero Clean Fuels Project in Paulsboro, NJ
- Specified all required expansion loops, anchors and guides for steam, condensate, and hydrocarbon piping routed in refinery pipe racks
- For Amgen in Boulder, CO, prepared purchase specifications meeting BPE standards for all process piping materials including hygienic stainless-steel tubing, diaphragm valves, PTFE-lined hoses, steam traps, standard and hygienic pipe supports
- Prepared specifications for welding, pressure testing, painting, insulation, cleaning and passivation
Design Engineer
FLUOR DANIEL
Marlton, NJ
06.1990 - 07.2001
- Clients: AstraZeneca, BP-Amoco, Ciba, Citgo, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Epsilon, Genentech, ICI Americas, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, PSE&G, Sunoco and Warner Lambert
- Supervised group of seven piping material engineers with varying levels of experience (entry level to PE), providing necessary scheduling, coaching, training and staffing to support completion of quality department specifications for multiple projects, clients and industries (1996 – 1999)
- Evaluated and resolved existing pump suction vibration problem at Sunoco Marcus Hook refinery by making field observations and measurements at site and performing dynamic modal stress analysis in Caesar II
- Prepared piping material specifications, including minimum wall thickness calculations, for all piping line classes
Pipe Stress Engineer
NATIONAL FORENSIC CONSULTANTS
Norristown, PA
12.2000 - 01.2001
- Client: City of Baltimore
- Additional consulting work performed on weekends
- Executed static and dynamic Caesar II pipe stress analysis of building services piping (glycol, heating hot water, etc.) at Baltimore Convention Center to assist with legal investigation of failures in various mechanical joint piping systems during startup
Education
BSME -
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NEWARK, NJSkills
- Pipe stress analysis
- Caesar II
- DST PIPESTRESS
- AutoPIPE
- CAEPIPE
- SUPERPIPE
- ME101
- Manual pipe stress evaluations
- Visual pipe stress evaluations
- Field walk-downs
- ASME B311
- ASME B313
- ASME BPE
- ASME Section III
- Seismic static analysis
- Response spectra analysis
- Dynamic modal analysis
- Compressor piping support
- Piping types and materials
- Victaulic
- Vacuum-jacketed tubing
- Hygienic/sanitary tubing
- Carbon steel
- Stainless steel
- Chrome-moly
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Hastelloy
- FRP
- PVC
- HDPE
- PTFE-lined carbon steel
- Equipment nozzle load evaluations
- Pumps
- Turbines
- Pressure vessels
- Heat exchangers
- FE/Pipe
- NozzlePro
- API 610
- NEMA SM23
- WRC 107
- ASME Section VIII
- Flange leakage calculations
- Design of support spring hangers
- Design of struts
- Design of sway braces
- AutoCAD
- LICAD
- Support member sizing calculations
- Weld sizing calculations
- Field inspection of pipe supports
- Excel calculations
- Pipe span calculations
- Minimum wall thickness calculations
- Branch reinforcement calculations
- Shear lug calculations
- Trunnion calculations
- Insulation thickness calculations
- Relief valve sizing calculations
- Reaction force calculations
- Excel lists
- Mathcad calculations
- Word project specifications
- Technical bid evaluations
- Model review in Smart Plant
- Model review in PDS
- Model review in PDMS
- Model review in Navisworks
- Project data review
- Drawing review using Documentum
- EDMS
- SharePoint
- Drawing markups using Bluebeam
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Principal Technical Professional—Piping
KBR
11.2023 - 10.2024
Pipe Stress Engineer
KENOSHA EPC
04.2023 - 11.2023
Piping Analysis Engineer
TALEN ENERGY
10.2022 - 04.2023
Pipe Stress Engineer
KENOSHA EPC
08.2022 - 10.2022
Civil Design Engineer
DUKE ENERGY
08.2021 - 08.2022
Principal Technical Professional—Piping
KBR
09.2019 - 10.2020
Pipe Stress Engineer
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
04.2019 - 09.2019
Field Engineer
OCEAN STATE TECHNICAL SERVICES
02.2018 - 04.2019
Principal Technical Professional
KBR
07.2017 - 12.2017
Pipe Stress Engineer
BECHTEL
10.2015 - 04.2017
Pipe Stress Engineer
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
01.2015 - 06.2015
Piping Technical Specialist
KBR
05.2014 - 12.2014
Piping Technical Leader
GAI CONSULTANTS
01.2012 - 05.2014
Pipe Stress Engineer
AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS CORPORATION
01.2010 - 07.2011
Piping Engineer
SELAS FLUID PROCESSING CORPORATION
10.2007 - 11.2009
Senior Engineer
VALDES ENGINEERING COMPANY
05.2005 - 09.2007
Pipe Stress Engineer
KULJIAN CORPORATION
12.2004 - 02.2005
Piping Engineer
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
07.2001 - 04.2004
Pipe Stress Engineer
NATIONAL FORENSIC CONSULTANTS
12.2000 - 01.2001
Design Engineer
FLUOR DANIEL
06.1990 - 07.2001
BSME -
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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