Seasoned Engineering Consultants, Inc.
C. Michael Neal, P.E., President

Mr. Neal is a 1976 graduate of Texas A & I University with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He has many years of heavy industrial experience in design and maintenance engineering, as well as construction, maintenance, project and technical management. He also has extensive experience in automotive maintenance and performance modifications, vehicle/industrial accident investigation/ reconstruction, building codes compliance/interpretation, and nautical steam plant and propulsion systems. He has worked in the following industries: petrochemical, chemical, plastics power generation, automotive, gas transmission with salt dome storage, wastewater treatment, engineering/ construction services, and forensic engineering consulting services.

Mr. Neal's areas of expertise include design, construction, project management and operations of cogeneration facilities, ethylene cracking furnaces, wastewater treatment facilities, high-pressure polyethylene facilities, ethylene process facility revamps, high-pressure steam systems, and emission containment and monitoring facilities/systems. Cogeneration experience includes gas turbine, waste heat recovery boiler with supplemental fired duct burners, HP-HT steam system, and 38MW generation system. Cracking furnace experience includes U-coil and W-coil designs, revamp/retube/new installations, HP steam system, emission monitoring systems, decoke systems, TACB permitting, state operational licensing, and ASME certifications.

Polyethylene experience includes hyper ethylene compressors, autoclave and tubular reactors, hot melt extruders, ebullition steam generation, refrigeration systems, analog vibration studies, polymer and copolymer production. Wastewater treatment experience includes bug ponds, API storage tanks with containment and cathodic protection systems, classifiers, NESHAP and TCLP legislation compliance. Ethylene processing facilities revamp experience includes cryogenic expanders, prestripper towers, TEMA heat exchangers, ASME pressure vessels, API tanks, fireproofing systems, firewater protection systems, ANSI B31.1 and B31.3 piping. Forensic engineering experience includes investigations, exemplar testings, interpretation of pertinent codes, photography and videography, demonstrative exhibits, written and oral reporting, and expert testimony.

Mr. Neal's nautical steam plant and propulsion experiences started with his U.S.Navy training at the Basic Propulsion and Engineering Scool in Great Lakes, Illinois in 1968 and continued with hands-on operational and maintenance experience in the engine rooms of three U.S.Navy ships. His extensive experience in automotive maintenance and performance modifications started in his high school years performing hands-on vehicular maintenance and building/maintaining race cars, then continued following his discharge from the U.S.Navy as a technician for a Ford dealership. As an automotive technician for the dealership, he repaired engines, transmissions, differential, drivelines, air conditioning systems, brake systems, carburetors, starters, alternators, suspension systems, and electrical systems. As an independent technician, he designed and implemented modifications for increased horsepower and durabiity of engines, and increased durabiity of drivetrain and suspension components. Through self-education and hands-on experience, Mr. Neal evaluates performance and maintenance issue on 18-wheelers, and performs failure anaysis on their components.

In addition to his professional expertise, Mr. Neal has used his technical knowledge and writing skills to write and update petrochemical plant specifications and standards as well as maintenance, inspection, operations, and project procedures. Additionally, he is well versed in writing engineering services proposals and contracts. He has been published in a trade magazine for his work in fireproofing systems. He has experience in ISO-9000 certification and OSHA 1910.119 compliance. He has provided continuing education training in forensic investigation fields to insurance claims associations.