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ment in Australia. Working in executive and training positions, she spent 20 months in Melbourne and 4 months in Adelaide. Petroleum products, before they can be used by consumers for their intended purpose, must be purified. One such purification process involves using hydrogen to remove sulfur from kerosene and naphta. Between 1980 and 1982, Ms. Pelensky worked on calculation, design and specification of a retrofit of a plant to desul- furize naphtha and kerosene in Mobil’s New Jersey refinery. Lubricants designed for use in automobiles must be processed to remove wax. The old way to do this was to chill the lubricant and then filter it to remove the frozen wax. It was a complex, difficult and expensive process. Mobil engineers and scientists devised a new method to accomplish this dewaxing — using a catalyst to break up wax molecules into light components. While serving the same purpose, the new process is easier and less expensive. Between 1982 and 1984, Ms. Pelensky was assigned to design a dewaxing plant in Japan. In tan dem with the design project were several trips to Japan for training and presentations. In the early 80’s, oil companies began to develop an interest in energy conservation. Ms. Pelensky prepared several fundamental/theoretical studies on howto make existing refineries more energy efficient. Based on her studies of existing refineries, she also made recommen dations on designing new refineries that would be more energy efficient. One of the high points of Ms. Pelens- ky’s work in energy conservation studies was the implementation of her recommendations and sugges tions in a Mobil refinery in southern France. As environmental concerns began to affect oil companies, much attention was focused on underground storage tanks and the compliance of such storage tanks with various government and local environmental pro tection agency rules. Between 1991 and 1993, Ms. Pe lensky was Project Manager for Mobil Technical Center’s upgrading program in New Jersey. For Martha Pelensky, 1993 was a year of career highs and lows. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia and other former Soviet republics began to take a great interest in developing and improving the workings of their petroleum refineries and representati ves from post-Soviet countries were invited by Mobil to examine the workings of American refineries. Using her native Ukrainian, Martha Pelensky assisted as interpreter for high level visitors from Russia and Kazakhstan. Also in 1993, Ms. Pelensky was awarded a U.S. Patent as sole inventor of multi-point temperature monitoring system in fixed-bed catalytic reactors. While many patents are granted in this country, relatively few are granted to sole inventors — most patent holders share the honor with colleagues who collaborated on the given invention. Oddly enough, the year she was granted the patent, was the year that Mobil and other United States corporations began radically downsizing their operations and Ms. Pelensky, despite her many accomplishments and long years of service with the company was one of the victims of the policy. A lifelong survivor, she has survived this shift in fate very nicely and is now working as a freelance contractor and consultant in the petroleum business. Her latest project involved studying energy efficiency and yield improvement in a Byelorussian refinery. Byelorussia, like other former Soviet republics, wants to compete in western markets and hires western consultants to help upgrade its systems and plants to conform to western standards. The project was started by a British firm which hired Ms. Pelensky as inde pendent consultant. She wants, eventually, to do the same sort of work in Ukraine. Having focused on the professional side of Martha Pelensky, it is important to note that the lady is a multi dimensional human being who happens to be a petro leum engineer. Besides English and her native Ukrainian, Ms. Pelensky speaks fluent German and a little French. She has won prizes for knitting and needlepoint, charming examples of which fill her Yardley townhouse which she fixes and maintains herself. She takes pride in pointing out the drapery rods and shelving that are a small part of her “home improvement” program as well "Ditch Witch 'НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, СІЧЕНЬ 1996 17
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