ABOUT

Whitfield Consult is built around the skill and experience of Rex Zietsman, a chemical engineer with over 30 years of experience in the areas of chemical, mining, minerals processing, pulp and paper and fertilizer. My experience was initially in a production environment though I have been a design engineer for the last 20 years .

 

Brief CV

Principal Consultant, Whitfield Consult

• Providing chemical engineering consulting services

• Areas: renewable energy, Rare Earths, Tantalum/Niobium, pulp and paper, minerals processing

• Project development: biogas, power, pelletization of iron ore, DRI/HBI, biomass to diesel

 

Sales Director, AR Process Projects – an engineering and project management company

• Founding shareholder

• Responsible for process engineering

• Developed unique leach pre-heat system for uranium processing

• Areas: chemical, mining, minerals processing, pulp and paper, fertilizer, nuclear (PBMR Fuel Plant)

 

Sales Manager, IMS Process Projects

• Managed sales of capital equipment principally evaporators, crystallisers, dryers, fluidized bed combustors, distillation systems, scrubbing systems, gas cleaning, effluent treatment plants, etc

• Assistance with the development of a unique Black Liquor Steam Reforming process

• Trouble shooting and provision of technical solutions to process challenges

• Plant commissioning

 

Omnia Group

• Group Raw Material Manager responsible for group purchasing of raw materials including ship imports and the managing the road and rail logistics of all raw materials to and from all of the factories

• Factory Manager, Hectorspruit Liquid Fertilizer Factory

• Explosives Engineer supporting Sishen Iron Ore Mine

 

Chemical Engineer, Plant Manager, Fedmis Phalaborwa

• Sulphuric acid and cement production

• Design, building and operation of a Rare Earths pilot plant

 

Metallurgist, Highveld Steel and Vanadium

• Metallurgist in an iron and steel complex

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