Costin Sirghei, LEAD ROTATING EQUIPMENT CONTROLS ENGG.

Costin Sirghei

LEAD ROTATING EQUIPMENT CONTROLS ENGG.

General Electric

Location
Romania
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
Experience
22 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 5 Months

LEAD ROTATING EQUIPMENT CONTROLS ENGG. at General Electric
  • Romania
  • My current job since April 2011

Deploying worldwide industrial control and monitoring systems including construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, tuning and turnover for:
- Upgrades, retrofits, migrations of GE control systems MarkIV, MarkV, MarkVI, MarkVIe.
- Gas and Steam turbines,
- Anti-Surge control systems for compressors (single and multistage),
- Bently Nevada monitoring system installation and service,
- Bently Nevada diagnostic services level1,
- Gas turbines Blade Health Monitoring System,
- Marine turbines LMs series
- Woodward Micronet units service,
- Exciter systems like EX2100e.

Projects completed
- PetroMidia Refinery, Woodward Micronet HMIs installations, Navodari, Constanta, ROMANIA
- EDF BUDAPESTI ERŐMŰ ZRT, EDF Kelenfold Mark VIe Upgrade for a GE Frame 9E gas turbine, Budapest, HUNGARY
- ELECTRABEL GDF-SUEZ, Electrabel St. Ghislain FAT of Mark V migration to Mark VIe for a 91FA gas turbine, Fót, HUNGARY
- WHEELBRATOR NORTH ANDOVER INC., Mark III to MarkVIe migration for steam turbine, Andover, MA, USA
- EXXON MOBIL ROTTERDAM, Mark IV to Mark VIe migration for a frame 6B gas turbine, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
- SOKOLOVSKA UHELNA, s.r.o., MarkVI MCC I/O revamp for a frame 9E GT in combined cycle applicat. Vresova, CZECH REPUBLIC
- HEP TE-TO MarkV migration to MarkVIe for two frames 9FA DLN 2.0 GTGs 70 MW each, Zagreb, CROATIA
- EDF Bert Budapesti Erőmű Zrt, Bently Nevada 3500 rack calibration and field probes installation works, Budapest, HUNGARY
- MVM GTER SAJÓSZÖGED plant, Bently Nevada 3500 rack calibration and field probes installation works, Budapest, HUNGARY
- LIETUVOS ENERGIJA, AB CCGT Elektrėnai Power Plant, 9FB and D12 turbines startup support, Elektrėnai, LITHUANIA
- HEP Proizvodnja d.o.o., TE-TO Zagreb, DLN 2.0 tuning for unit #1 and #2 (9FA) gas turbines, Zagreb, CROATIA
- SOKOLOVSKÁ UHELNÁ, s.r.o., Frame 9E GT in combined cycle application startup support, Vresova, CZECH REPUBLIC
- GAZPROM Naftna Industrija Srbije Pancevo Refinery, ITCC Integrated Turbine-Compressor Controls system deployment, SERBIA
- GALP Energia - Sines Refinery, Control system migration from Cegelec Digirec 920 to Mark Vie for 20Mw ST, Sines, PORTUGAL
- YARA SLUISKIL, Triple Modular Redundancy tests for protection and processors cores, Netherlands
- CEPSA QUIMICA, Island mode application code implementation and Redundant switches installation and config., SAN ROQUE, SPAIN
- CERNAVODA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Reactor #1 Machine Monitoring System planned outage calibration checks, CERNAVODA, ROMANIA
- LUKOIL NEFTOHIM BURGAS AD, Installation and testing of 24 BN 3500 racks for the plant expansion project, BURGAS, BULGARIA
- SLOVNAFT, Integrated Turbine Compressor Controls for anti-surge protection Mark VIe based installation, RUŽINOV, SLOVAKIA

I&E SUPERVISOR at Fluor
  • Portugal
  • October 2010 to November 2010

Porto Refinery Conversion Project for GALP Energia (2010 planned shutdown), Fluor as the EPC for process redesign for maximizing current facilities, increasing diesel production and optimizing heavy crude processing, Matosinhos, PORTUGAL
- Successfully representing the EPC in the pre-commissioning, commissioning and turnover I&E works on Worthington and Thomassen C35-2/25MB 5\4 compressors, Honeywell Safety Management System, Fisher-Rosemount Systems RS3, Emerson Delta V DCS system for the new Sulphur recovery unit (SRU), diesel desulphurization unit and amine treating units.

COMMISSIONING INSTRUMENT LEAD ENGINEER at Total
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • May 2010 to September 2010

Total Abu Al Bukhoosh, Khuff gas field offshore exploitation for ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company), PPSP (Production Platform Switchgear Platform) new gas turbine generator (Siemens SGT-400), Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- Finalizing DCS/ESD, Fire and Gas and PLC Specifications (equipment layouts, loop drawings, graphics, Cause & Effects, Functional Logic Diagrams, Relay Diagrams, E/I Interfaces, field RTUs, heat tracing (Raychem - Tyco Thermal Controls) for the dual fuel systems (gas and diesel) Cyclone GTG - burst/pulsed rate done with thyristors,
- On-site engineering of Instrument loop Drawings (ILD), cable schedules and termination drawings,
- Leading of the pre-commissioning, commissioning and turnover activities under OPERCOM/ICAPs.

COMMISSIONING AND TURNOVER I&E SYSTEMS ENGINEER at PetroIran Development Company (PEDCO)
  • Iran
  • February 2010 to April 2010

Petroiran Development Company (PEDCO) - Sirri Island Gas Compression Facilities (EPC7), client was Iranian Oil Offshore Company (IOOC, subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)), Sirri Island, IRAN
- Enjoying the Iranian colleagues courtesy while commissioning and turnover of five MAN Turbo THM gas turbines (two used in power generation and three for gas compression), inlet facilities (pig receiver, slug catcher and also some gas stripping systems), flare systems (Dry and Wet flares), F&G and ESD systems based on Siemens technologies (Simantic Step 7), DCS system based on Yokogawa Centum CS 3000 R3,
- Leading system level tests, emergency shutdown tests and guaranteed safe shutdown of gas compression facilities.

SYSTEMS TURNOVER EPC REPRESENTATIVE / LOOP CHECK TESTS COORDINATOR at Bechtel
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 2009 to December 2009

Eastern BECHTEL (EBCL) - Asab Gas Development - Phase 2 (Asab-2), client was Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (GASCO), UAE.
Recovery of 6, 400 TPD of NGL from the sour condensate rich gas from the existing Asab Gas Plant, project cost 1, 241 USD
- Coordinating the best cross-cultural team of Indian and Filipino technicians in the turnover of plant systems with the end user (Gasco) in processes as functional tests, system level tests, red level tests and cause and effect testing;
- Coordinate the performing party (Kentech International Ltd.) for 8000+ instrument process loops for the two LNG process trains and also for common, offsite and utilities areas for the Thermax Babcock and Wilcox boilers, Yokogawa CS 3000 R3 DCS, BN3500, Mark VI/Cimplicity (for gas turbine compressors) or PLCs like Allen Bradley's Logix 5561/PanelView Plus 1500, heat tracing for boilers and GTs fuel gas lines, flare ignition system.

INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS SUPERVISOR (ESD/ DCS/F&G systems overall plant) at Technip
  • Qatar
  • August 2007 to April 2009

Chiyoda-Technip Joint Venture, RasGas Expansion Project Trains 6/7 & Al Khaleej Gas 2, client was RasGas Company Ltd., QATAR.
- Supervision of pre-commissioning and commissioning activities in relation with instrument systems and devices in respect with 15, 000 instrument loops in a team of 4 supervisors,
- Functional tests, system level tests, red level tests and cause and effect testing activities, SAT, DCS/ESD/IPCS/HIPS/FGS systems loop checking and PLC logic tests for Macchi boilers, Kobelco air compressors, Nuovo Pignone N2, C3 and Mixed Refrigeration process compressors, Bently-Nevada 3500 (MMS) and System 1, Biffi (MOVs), Baytek (LIMS), GE's Speedtronic Mark VI turbine governor for N2, C3 and MR compressors (frame 9, 9000E GT) and frame 6B gas turbines for Gas Turbine Generators (4 units) and Lean Gas Compressor (1 unit), Krohne metering skids for the feed gas, untreated condensate and molten sulfur.

NUCLEAR FUEL HANDLING SYSTEMS I&C FIELD SENIOR SPECIALIST at SN Nuclearelectrica SA
  • Romania
  • December 2001 to August 2007

S.N. NUCLEARELECTRICA - CNE Invest, Cernavoda 905200, Medgidiei 2, Constanţa, ROMANIA
Nuclear Power Plant - Energy #1; 2 units installed power 1400 MWatt, 18% of Romanian national grid electricity production
- Proudly responsible for the operations and maintenance activities for the new fuel and spent fuel transfer systems, nuclear fuel reactor loading and unloading systems, refueling of the nuclear reactor under directions from the Shift Superintendent, calibration activities for electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and control equipment under SIL4 standard, refurbishing of the fuelling-defueling systems.
- Leading the pre-commissioning, commissioning and the hand-over of reactor #2 in cross-discipline activities involving nuclear fueling handling systems, plant’s dual control computers DCCX and DCCY using It tools like CMMS, WinPCS, TRAK, IntEC altogether with Intergraph’s Smart Sketch application.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT I&C SYSTEMS SUPERVISOR at SC Elcomex IEA
  • Romania
  • September 2006 to August 2007

S.C. ELCOMEX I.E.A., Cernavoda 905200, Medgidiei 2B, Constanţa, ROMANIA
- Supervision of the commissioning activities for the fuel handling systems of Cernavoda N.P.P. Unit 2, including digital/analogue inputs and outputs testing for the dual digital control computers (DCCX and DCCY), I&C loop testing for analog and Smart transmitters, analog alarm units configuration and testing.
- Electrical activities involving pumps motors testing and MCC configuration, eddy currents material fault scans, ultrasonic material fault scans, grounding checks, pre-operational and operational checks of I&C systems used in plant process monitoring and control.

MATERIAL CONTROL DEPARTMENT DATA INPUT AND DATABASES SUPERVISOR at SC Elcomex IEA
  • Romania
  • May 2001 to December 2001

S.C. ELCOMEX I.E.A., Cernavoda 905200, Medgidiei 2B, Constanţa, ROMANIA
Main tasks and responsibilities were as following:
- Data input and also preventive and periodical maintenance of various databases used as warehouse applications.
- Databases maintained were Oracle based (CMMS), Microsoft's Access, Paradox, FoxPro and dBase 4.
- Warehouse material supply/issuing updating, bill of materials correction and cross-platform exports

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Universitatea Ovidius Constanta
  • July 2016

Graduate studies in electrical engineering in progress.

High school or equivalent, Vocational
  • at Grup Scolar Industrial Energetic
  • July 2000

Baccalaureate diploma.

Specialties & Skills

Instrumentation
Equipment Installation
Controls

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Professional membership
  • April 2015

Training and Certifications

MarkV revitalization implementation (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Fot, Hungary
Date Attended:
July 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Woodward Controls for GE Aero turbines (LMs) (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Houston, USA
Date Attended:
March 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Gas Turbines MarkV/Ve/VI/VIe retrofits (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Longmonth, Colorado, USA
Date Attended:
August 2012
Duration:
300 hours
GE LM2500/LM6000 marine turbines maint. & operation (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Fot, Hungary
Date Attended:
March 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Nuclear Power Plants Automation Electrician (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2000
Valid Until:
January 9999
Autodesk AutoCAD 2011 Essentials (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
Integrated Turbine-Compressor Control system (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Firenze, Italy
Date Attended:
February 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Bently Nevada Machine Diagnostic Engg. Lev.1 (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Houston, USA
Date Attended:
April 2013
Duration:
80 hours
Field Engineering Program - Bently Nevada S&I Eng. (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Houston, USA
Date Attended:
January 2013
Duration:
200 hours
Steam Turbines MarkV/Ve/VI/VIe retrofits (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Schenectady, NT, USA
Date Attended:
March 2012
Duration:
120 hours
Mark* operation with HMI (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric - Energy Learning Center, Longmonth, Colorado, USA
Date Attended:
June 2011
Duration:
80 hours

Hobbies

  • History of Religions, History, Cooking, Barbequing, Tennis, Swimming, Photography
    Whilst leading the manual nuclear fuel loading of reactor #2 of Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant my team and I have successfully delivered the critical path task in the scope, costs and sooner than projected by about 2 days for the €777 million project.