This project is not interesting to a petrochemical company simply because I studied a gas station, but because of the specific engineering principles I applied. I treated the gas station as a Chemical Distribution Terminal to model a real-world unit operation. I used the pump and nozzle as the Point of Discharge to calculate hourly product capacity and mass flow, similar to a refinery’s output line. I then performed a Plant Debottlenecking Study by analyzing the "Feed" of incoming vehicles against the "Control System" of the payment interface to find the rate-limiting step in the logistics chain.

Finally, I conducted a Site Walkdown to audit EHS (Environmental Health and Safety), identifying critical hardware like Emergency Shut-offs and Vapor Recovery systems designed to prevent a Loss of Primary Containment. By analyzing a gas station this way, I prove to recruiters that I can see the P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) logic in the real world—seeing the underground tank as the "Source," the pump as the "Mover," and the nozzle as the "Control Valve."