Lead EC&I Installation & Commissioning Engineer
Qaiwan Group
Total years of experience :8 years, 5 Months
Owners Engineer - Installation & Commissioning 750MW CCGT
Troubleshooting and Repair GE Frame 5 gas turbines with GE Mk4 control systems following a major fire at power plant.
•Dates April 2014 - Aug 2014.
Employer Parsons Brinckerhoff. Philippines (consulting engineers)
Location Negros Oriental, Philippines. - 50MW Geothermal Power Station
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Location WED Abu Dhabi, Bheramara Bangladesh.
Duty Lead Electrical / Controls / Commissioning Site Engineer.
•Team Leader. Including technical advisory service on heavy duty gas turbines and control systems, generator controls, and auxiliary equipment. Major overhauls. All electrical tests. Loop checks, calibration, QA management.
•Equipment - GE Frame 5, Frame 6 and Frame 9 turbine sets with LA. MK1, MK2, MK4 and MK5 controls. Generator (Brush and GE). Rethread rotors, replace sliprings and end caps. commissioning AVR to full load. Switchgear and protection systems.
•Dates 1997
Employer Thomassen BV, Holland (manufacturer and EPC main contractor)
Location Global - Turkey, India, Italy.
Duty Senior EC&I Installation and Commissioning Site Engineer.
•Team Leader. Installation, Commissioning and testing of GE Frame 6 gas turbines coupled to GEC Alstom generating sets and Babcock & Wilcox HRSG’s. GE MK5 controls and Foxboro DCS., PLC’s, & HMI’s. Supervision of alignment of embedded parts in concrete foundation for steam turbine.
•Installation and commissioning of a GE MS5261RA gas turbine coupled to Borsig process air compressor.
•Installation and commissioning of natural gas to naphtha fuel conversions on 10 x GE Frame 5 gas turbine generator sets with GE MkIV controls.
•Major overhaul on GE Frame 1 gas turbine (5000hp) coupled to a gas compressor.
•Dates 1995 - 1996
Employer European Gas Turbines, UK (manufacturer & EPC main contractor)
Location Connah's Quay Power Station, Wales, UK
Duty Lead Electrical / C&I Commissioning Site Engineer.
•Team Leader. Commissioning and start-up to handover of 1, 450MW CCGT power station, 4 x 360MW generating sets. GE Frame 9FA gas turbines & rotating equipment, with GE MKV controls, PLC’s and HMI. Steam turbines and generators with Stein HRSG's.
•Loop checks, calibration, QA management. Commissioning and fault finding on DCS system, CO2 fire-fighting system, and on-base instrumentation and LV equipment. Fully conversant with all start-up, load and shutdown curves, and dry low Nox system.
•Dates 1993 - 1994
1991 - 1992
Employer John Brown Engineering, UK (manufacturer and EPC main contractor)
Location Global - UAE. Italy, Peru, China, Philippines, Panama, UK, North Sea, Oman, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Brunei, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Curacao, Bahrain.
Duty Junior Engineer to Resident Engineer.
•Achieved youngest Resident Engineer status in company at age 25. Customer Services Division. Numerous site duties. Usually as Team Leader. Installation / Commissioning of GE heavy duty Gas Turbine operated power plants, including balance of plant, rotating equipment, electrical and controls, manufactured / supplied by John Brown Engineering.
•General Site Management. Maintenance, overhauls and trouble-shooting of same.
•Dates 1993
Employer Westinghouse USA (manufacturer and EPC main contractor)
Location Puchon, S Korea
Major overhaul and start-up of 500MW AEI steam turbine and generator.
•Major overhaul and replacement of HP and IP cylinders on a 200MW English Electric steam turbine, and complete rehabilitation of 30MW English Electric steam turbine generator sets and associated equipment including BOP and generators.
•Dates 1978 - 1983
Employer South of Scotland Electricity Board, UK (government utility)
Location Hunterston & Inverkip Power Stations, Scotland
Duty Graduate Trainee to Junior Engineer.
•Passed the Boards 3 year professional engineer trainee program based at Inverkip Power Station - 3 x 676MW Parsons Steam Sets.
•Followed by two years as Junior Engineer on Shift Operations at Hunterston Advanced Gas Cooled Nuclear Power Station - 2 x 660MW sets.
Provide expert electrical engineering talent to represent the plant owner during final installation, commissioning and testing of the power station.
•Oversee complete electrical commissioning including pre commissioning of cables and switchgear (Fuji and ABB), electrical rotating equipment including main generator (Fuji), and all balance of plant.
•Attend and positively contribute to daily commissioning meetings.
•Start-up of all electrical plant including switchyard and HV cables and transformer.
•Oversee performance testing and one month reliability run. Handover to client
•Develop punch lists. Review drawings and manuals.
•Specialize on state of the art Siemens type fire detection and alarm system.
•Dates April 2013 - March 2014.
Employer Marubeni Engineering. Japan (EPC turnkey contractor)
Location Calabar Power Station. Nigeria.
Duty Lead C & I Installation / Commissioning Engineer.
•5 x GE Frame 9E units with Mk6 controls, BOP, DCS and 330KV Switchyard & substation.
•Team leader with local engineers and technicians on final electrical / C&I erection works plus commissioning. including cable installation / testing, instrument calibration works, cold/hot loop checks to the point of firing the units. QA/QC of all documentation, certificates, drawings etc.
•Planning all activities. Attend daily commissioning meeting. Coordination with site manager / client / owner.
•Dates 2011 - 2012
Employer Tenaga National Berhad, Malaysia (utility owner)
Location Melacca & Langkawi Island, Malaysia.
Duty Lead Electrical / C&I / Commissioning Engineer.
•Supervision of GE Mk5 controls, PLC, HMI, & DCS system maintenance & start-up during major overhaul on CCGT Power Plant due to a catastrophic failure. GE Frame 9B Gas Turbines and Steam turbine with HRSG’s, steam turbine & rotating equipment. Loop checks, calibration, QA management.
•Relocation of GE Frame 6 gas turbines (with GE Mk5 controls), PLC, HMI, Alstom generators and switchgear/substation plus balance of plant (BOP). Recorded all pre shutdown running data. Tagged and removed all plant wiring. Sized new cables and wiring for new location. Dismantled complete plant for shipment. Malaysian workforce.
•Dates 2001 - 2010
Location Global - Philippines, Gabon, Kuwait, Korea, Bolivia, Vietnam, Singapore, USA, Nigeria.
Duty Lead / Senior Electrical / Controls / Mechanical / Commissioning Engineer.
Usually with local workforce. Installation & Commissioning / testing of new simple cycle gas turbine power plant - GE Frame 6FA with GE Mk5 controls, PLC’s, HMI. Re-engineering of controls. Including generator and switchgear.
•Multiple major electrical rewires, major overhauls, Allan Bradley PLC retrofits, and commissioning / testing of land based and barge mounted Westinghouse 251's and GE Frame 6’s with BOP. . Install / commission wet / dry low NOX systems. Loop checks, calibration, QA management.
•Engineering of 60Hz to 50Hz conversion of GE Frame 7E simple cycle gas turbines and relocation, installation and commissioning of same.
•Major overhauls and engineering, conversion of GE Frame 7E from single fuel to tri-fuel DLN fuel system including complete rewiring and installation of Allan Bradley turbine controls.
•Troubleshoot Electrical / Controls / Mechanical faults on all mentioned power plant.
•Dates 1999 - 2001
Employer Masaood John Brown, UAE (EPC contractor)
Location Das Island, UAE
Duty Resident Site Engineer. Electrical / Controls / Mechanical.
•Provide planning and supervision of maintenance on GE Frame 5 gas turbine sets (sole power supply for complete petrochemical island) & all electrical equipment.
•Trained client personnel. Advised on parts procurement. Advised and supervised plant up grades. Troubleshoot & repair.
•Dates 1998
Electrical, Mechanical & Controls