The Becht Team
Below you will find brief biographies of key Becht personnel. Click on one of the functional areas to bring up persons engaged in that service area..
*** Please note that the listing below is representative of the quality of Becht’s staff and not an exhaustive listing of all personnel ***
Request Additional Team Member InfoJim Wei
Jim T. Wei has over 30 years experience in the development, improvement, engineering, and operation of petroleum and petrochemical processes, based largely on his long-term career with Sunoco, Inc and independent consulting. As Senior Process Specialist for Refining, he has contributed to troubleshooting and optimization of sulfuric acid and HF acid alkylation, butane and hexane isomerization, sulfur recovery, and amine treating units.
As leader of the Technical Management Committee Team for the UDEX process, he has optimized four UDEX units at four different refineries.
Mr. Wei has provided technical expertise and sophisticated problem solving capability for optimizing, upgrading, and enhancing petrochemical technologies including purification and desulfurization of refinery light gases, ethylene partial oxidation to ethylene oxide, UDEX/CAROM extraction processes, hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexane, toluene disproportionation to benzene and xylene, and cumene production using Mobil’s zeolite technology or SPA catalyst, propylene oligomerization.
Mr. Wei has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tunghai University (an affiliate of Princeton University), Taiwan, from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude, in the top 1% of the Engineering College. He has a M.S. in Chemical Engineering [with Honors] from the University of Delaware. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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