Dr. Klaus Mattes

Operations Manager Ethylene Plant (Steam Cracker) on Site Wesseling. Betriebsleiter Ethylen-Anlage (Steam Cracker) am Standort Wesseling.

Utility Distribution for the Site Wesseling - Cooling Water Supply (Wells and Cooling Towers) - Demineralised Water Plant - Steam Distribution - Technical Gases (Air/Nitrogen) - Ethylene Supply Management - Waste Water Treatment Plant - Solid Waste Management

Focal point on site Wesseling for projects with focus on polymer plants and leader of a team of Project Engineers.

Production Engineer and Deputy Operations Manager of a world scale 320kta Polyethylene plant (Hostalen HDPE) at site Wesseling.

Leader of the mechanical engineering team at Site Engineering Wesseling/Knapsack. Responsible for the engineering disciplines: process, piping, static and rotating equipment. In addition Project Manager for major Capex projects at production site Wesseling. Accountable for the overall project performance in respect to time, budget and quality.

Commissioning Supervision of a world scale 300kta HDPE slurry plant (Bandar Asaloyeh, Iran).

Lead Engineeer Basic- / Detailengineering for polymer plants.

Polymerisation of Olefins with Metallocene Catalysts under Supercritical / High Pressure Conditins, Design of Experiments (DoE), Catalyst Screening, Kinetic Investigations of Polymerisation Reactions, High Pressure Technology , Polymer Characterisation, etc.

Internships at Unilever Hamburg, Lever Faberge Mannheim, Henkel Düsseldorf, Carl-Bosch-Museum Heidelberg, Landesmuseum Mannheim

Kinetik der metallocenkatalysierten Polymerisation von Propylen unter überkritischen Bedingungen.