W.
(BILL) EADIE, P. Eng. Ph. 780-906-0577
Project Manager, Structural Engineer &
President
Eadie Technology Inc. - Eadie Engineering Inc.
VP - Projects: Firebox Energy
Systems Ltd.
BACKGROUND
Bill Eadie started his
engineering career in Canada with a Vancouver structural consulting engineering
firm. His early experience was in the structural design of heavy concrete
structures for pulp mills and industrial plants. After moving
to Edmonton he was invited to be a partner in the Edmonton consulting
engineering firm of Kasten, Longworth & Smith
Ltd. In 1980 he expanded the company services, then Kasten,
Smith, Eadie Ltd., into mechanical, electrical and
ultimately process engineering. Over this period, with a staff of up to 30
professionals, he directed a majority of the company's multi-disciplined projects.
In addition to marketing
the company owned EADIEMAC Process for both onshore and offshore locations, Mr. Eadie is currently
looking for new and interesting management, project management or engineering
opportunities that can utilize his diverse professional experience.
STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERING DESIGN EXPERIENCE
In a technical capacity Mr. Eadie
was responsible for engineering designs & project management activities for
the following works:
- 600 MW Clover Bar gas fired generating station
Stage II building structure including turbine generator and boiler structures,
river pump house, outfall, switchyard and associated structures.
- 150 MW Battle River coal fired generating station
foundations and turbine hall structure.
- Explosion repairs investigation, design and
expediting at the Battle River Station 'A' coal fired power plant.
- H.R.Milner coal fired
generating station at Grande Cache, baghouse civil works,
ash disposal conveyor system and ash silo foundations.
- 10 million gallon underground reservoir and pumping
station, Edmonton.
- $30M warehouse, retail &
greenhouse operation "The Enjoy Centre", St. Albert, 2010
RESEARCH
FACILITIES PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
The following projects, related to hydrocarbon &
biotechnology research facilities, involved various engineering disciplines:
- Alberta Research Council Clover Bar, pilot plant
modifications
- Alberta Research Council Nisku,
high pressure research facility installation of containment vessels &
related utility services
- Devon, Alberta, high head laboratory installation
of containment rooms & related utility services for pilot plants
- Heavy oil visbreaking
& partial upgrading pilot plant process testing (at Nisku
facility).
- Alberta Research Council biotechnology laboratory,
installation of process services
ENERGY
INCLUDING POWER PLANT ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Current - 30MW-->270 MW Glenevis
John W. Murray biomass power project, planning and engineering management, 2012
In the oil and gas field Mr. Eadie
provided technical support to a Canadian oil, gas and minerals exploration
company involved in the installation of field production facilities for oil and
gas wells in the West Oneida Field in Eastern Tennessee. Mr. Eadie's activities involved the design, purchasing,
expediting and construction of pipelines, tankage,
separators, pumps and delivery pipelines and meters. In addition Mr. Eadie was involved in presenting the company's position at
a dozen State of Tennessee Oil and Gas Board unitization hearings.
On completion of this project Mr. Eadie
was involved in the acquisition of oil and gas properties in the Redwater area of Alberta.
PROCESS
ENGINEERING
Starting in the mid-1980's Mr. Eadie
directed the expansion of Eadie Engineering Inc.'s
process engineering department with particular emphasis on projects involving
heat exchangers and pressure vessels. Over a 10 year period a process for the
partial upgrading of heavy oil was jointly developed by Mr. W.A.MacWilliams,P.Eng. and Mr.Eadie. Canadian and U.S. patents were secured for this
thermal visbreaking based process (known as the EADIEMAC
Process).
Detailed designs, including manufacturing drawings for
skid mounted heavy oil processing plants, were developed under Mr. Eadie's direction all geared to establish the economics of
the process. Locations for a 1,000 bbl/day demonstration plant are currently
being sought. Ongoing discussions are taking place
for the design of a 20,000 bbl/day visbreaking unit
to be located on an ocean drilling platform where the compact nature of the EADIEMAC
Process is an advantage.
EDUCATION
Associate: Civil
Engineering, Dundee College of Science & Technology, Scotland. (Now the University of Abertay.)
Member: APEGGA.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
President:
Consulting Engineers of Alberta, 1989/91
Chairman: Association
of Consulting Engineers of Canada / Industry Science & Technology
Canada Liaison Group, 1990/91
PATENT
Co-developer:
"Process and Apparatus for Partial Upgrading of a Heavy Oil
Feedstock" - Canadian & U.S.Patents.