Senior manager - Technologist
Reliance Industries Ltd
Total years of experience :15 years, 5 Months
echnologist (Utilities & Offsites Operations)
Units Handled: - Cooling towers, Plant Air & Instrument Air compressors, Air Separation Units (ASU) plant,
waste water treatment plant (ETP), Tank Farm including Cryogenic ethylene storage section, DM and
condensate polishing plant, Ultrafiltration (UF) and Reverse osmosis (RO) plant
Jobs Handled:-
* Involved in pre-commissioning and commissioning activities including P&ID, material balance and
Isometrics checks, graphics and interlock logics checking, and Cause and effect checks in Invensys DCS.
* Actively participated in pre-start-up safety reviews (PSSR), process hazard analysis (PHA), standard
operating procedures and conditions (SOP & SOC) preparations, onsite troubleshooting with new
modifications & management of change (MOC) implementation and guidance to operations team by initiating
technical improvements to reduce breakdown and improve uptime of the plant.
* Initiated technical discussions with the technology supplier from commissioning phase, start-up Performance
guarantee test run (PGTR) and final steady state handover to team with best in class safety standards
* Worked actively with Environment engineering department in refinery for meeting HSE and pollution control
specifications and ensure compliance to factory norms as per government policies.
* Monitored process safety, product quality on daily basis and ensured all process deviations are investigated
as per standard HSE practice which includes timely action by initiating a site engineering request.
Process Consultant for Refinery process improvement program for Crude unit (CDU), Digital Transformation initiatives (Optimizers), Energy and utility integration for upcoming Petrochemical unit integration.
Opportunity identification for CBG (Compressed Biogas), Flex Fuels Hydrogen economy (LOHC) and CCUS de-carbonization projects.
Sustainability project evaluation and analysis for continuous catalytic pyrolysis technology, converting plastic waste to pyrolysis oil (Lummus Green Circle). 2.Feasibility analysis for EcoRepol and EcoRelene as part of RIL waste to wealth Circular economy.
Developed projects for sea water-based fracturing using sulfate removal membranes and NF technology. Facilitates cross-disciplinary cooperation in developing, testing, validating and technology approval from Saudi Aramco R&D team in Dhahran office; effectively collaborated with contractors, vendors, operators and service personnel during onsite field tests.
Adhoc) - Dept. of chemical engineering (A Govt. of India Institute)
* Faculty of petroleum refinery operations, project engineering and non-conventional energy resources
subjects for undergraduate students in chemical engineering
Plant centric solutions
* Commissioning assistance for plant startup and safe shutdown operations in Yokogawa DCS & Prosafe -RS
ESD for various equipment in offsites and utilities unit in HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) refinery.
* Project engineer for dynamic process simulator model (OTS) of LNG Terminal at Hazira LNG & Ports Pvt.
Ltd, Shell-Total JV
M.Tech (GATE Scholarship)
* Worked for techno-economic feasibility studies for acid-catalyzed and alkali-catalyzed process for Biodiesel
production using HYSIS steady state simulation. Training on combined cycle power plant, Multi-Effect
distillation desalination projects from CPCL refinery in Tamilnadu, India.
* Industry Training: - Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) -Kochi refinery