Operations Technoligist
EQUATE Petrochemical Company
Total years of experience :28 years, 1 Months
Key roles:
• Ethane cracker Hot end DCS/Field Operation
• Identifying equipment/Instruments needing maintenance
• Making operating procedures and revising
• Shift EH&S Coordination
• Alarm Management
Technical skills:
• Pre-commissioning and commissioning
• Mentoring new Operators
• DCS knowledge - Honeywell Experion, TDC3000
• Identifying abnormalities and reporting
• Monitoring DCS parameters, analyzing and taking corrective action
• Handling of Furnaces
Achievements:
• As a Field owner Successful commissioning of EQUATE Ethane cracker hot section, consists of Cracking Furnaces, Acid gas removal unit, Quench section, Dilution steam System, Process condensate cleaning unit, Spent caustic system, Sulfur recovery unit, Steam system(LS, MS, HS, HXS), Condensate system, Ethane storage
• Training to new Operators as On Job Trainer
• Energy consumption in Acid gas removal unit
• Fuel gas flow reduced to Acid gas Flare
worked with Indian Oil Corporation Limited ( IOCL ), Panipat in
Panipat Refinery with a refining capacity of 12 MMTPA from Sep’ 2005 to sep'2007 as Production operator.
JOB PROFILE
Pre-commissioning, Commissioning experience, Field operation (as per sop) Start up, Operation, Shut down, Trouble Shooting of following units.
• Delayed Coker unit - 204 MMTPA
• Sulphur Recovery Unit - 225 TPD * 2
• Amine Regeneration Unit (Acid Gas Removal unit) - 409 M³/hr of Rich Amine
• Refinery Sour Water Stripper Unit - 170 M³/hr of Sour Water
• Hydro processing Sour Water Stripper Unit - 40 M³/hr. of Sour Water
• Tail Gas Treating Unit - 450 TPD Throughput
Accountabilities:
Responsible for entire field operations of all equipment in the assigned area.
Operating all the equipment of the assigned unit in compliance with Standard Operating Procedure ( SOP )
Monitoring and Maintaining equipment conditions and make necessary adjustments.
Logging process parameters and report abnormalities.
Responding to plant upsets and emergencies.
Preparing and hand over of equipments to maintenance staff for repair and take back in service in safe manner.
Ensuring that all activities comply with SHE legislation.
Careful monitoring and where necessary control and supervision of Permit to work ( PTW ) system.
WORK EXPERIENCE :
Present Position : DCS Operator ( TDC-3000 Honeywell)
Company : The Andhra Petrochemicals Ltd., Visakhapatnam, is the
only Oxo Alcohols Plant in India producing 42, 000 TPA of high purity 2-Ethyl Hexanol, N-Butanol and I-Butanol supplied by Kverner Process Technology, LONDON, with Naptha and propylene as raw materials.
Duration :March’99 to Till Date
NATURE OF DUTIES :
DCS/Field operation (as per sop) Start up, Shut down, Trouble Shooting of Oxo Alcohols Unit which includes the following sections.
Field operation of HYDROGEN PLANT, consist of
· Hydrodesulphurisation Unit
· Adiabatic & steam tubular reformer
· Acid gas recovery Unit
· H2 PSA Unit
DCS/Field operation of Oxo Alcohols plant, consist of
· VPH Converter section consisting of vaporizer, a vapor phase hydrogenator and a recycle gas multistage centrifugal compressor.
· Refining section consisting of two valve tray columns of 54 and 40 trays each for refining the product to get 99.5% purity.
· Vacuum package section consisting of multistage steam jet ejectors and condensers for creating vacuum in the columns.
Continues monitoring and maintaining process parameters like temperature, pressure, flow and level and logging them at regular intervals and adjusting the parameters according to the requirements.
Operation of Fired heaters, Furnaces, Compressors, Pumps, Heat exchangers, Distillation Columns, Reactors,
Operate, Maintain and control plant operation, coordinate activities with maintenance.
Experience in catalyst filling of 1132 tubes of VPH Converter (Cu and Zn)
Preparation and follow up the maintenance activities.
Good knowledge of P & ID’s, PFD’s, and process interlocks.
Good knowledge of safety rules and practices and work permit system.
Operation of plant through DCS (TDC-3000X, Honey well) as per SOP, Equipment Surveillance, Monitor and follow-up maintenance activities, Assisted in drafting documents for ISO 9000 certification
Operation of Benzole Distillation Plant.
Understanding all equipment and procedures related to unit operation.
Operation of Edible Oil Hydrogenation Plant.
Understanding all equipment and procedures related to unit operation.
> Six months Sandwich Training in Visakhapatnam Steel Project. Nature Of Duties : Operation of Benzole Distillation Plant. Understanding all equipment and procedures related to unit operation. > Six months Sandwich Training in Jocil ltd., Guntur. Nature Of Duties : Operation of Edible Oil Hydrogenation Plant. Understanding all equipment and procedures related to unit operation.