At the beginning of my career in this field, I participated as a technical intern in one of the optimization projects of the PDVSA-Intevep Pilot Plant Complex in 2005 (Venezuela). By carrying out a meticulous study of the technical procedures to prepare the complex equipment maintenance and nourished by experiences in the field, I was able to develop a user-friendly operating pump information base. I took into account the available previous knowledge and skills of the personnel together with the informatics tools. With the incorporation of this information base, the Complex simplified the search procedures of technical data for its equipment. Also, this information base served as the basis for the development of better databases, which today are the protagonists of the optimal standardizations in maintenance procedures.
Between 2010 and 2011, I was part of the Machine Dynamics Laboratory of the Simón Bolívar University (USB-Venezuela). I had experience in academic training and laboratory activities in the areas of mechanical vibrations, machine dynamics, and numerical methods. Although a good part of the activities were academic, I worked on modeling mechanical systems with n degrees of freedom subjected to periodic and non-periodic variable loads, a method that allows the mechanical systems to be simplified to basic models of masses, springs, and dampers. Using the theories in mechanical vibrations and numerical methods, I obtained accurate approximations of those basic models in terms of the responses of the systems to the mentioned variable loads, which mainly allowed me to make technical suggestions based on the risks of resonance of the systems and from there, indications on the correct use of them for their efficient performance.
As a mechanical engineer, I worked in the design and construction of an innovative, low-cost, controlled pressure drop generator system for ducts that transport air. USB Energy Institute (INDENE-Venezuela) asked that this system be developed for one of its research. They required a speed reducer, with a variable passage area, to avoid flow runaway in closed ducts that carry air. The work included the dimensioning and manufacturing, with basic elements, of an adjustable device, generator of controlled pressure drops, based on mesh theory and numerical approximations.
Also, at the same time and for the INDENE, I worked on numerical flow predictions, in open hydraulic circuits that harness potential energy. For this, it was necessary to develop computer programs to give solutions to systems of nonlinear equations, which are present in hydraulic studies of open circuit supply systems. Thus, allowing to make multiple technical suggestions, based on numerical predictions about the optimal use of potential energy in such systems.
