Kaushik Makwana, Grid Consultant

Kaushik Makwana

Grid Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services - Other Locations

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Control and Instrumentation
Experience
28 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :28 years, 6 Months

Grid Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services - Other Locations
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since October 2021

 Grid Modernization.
 SMART EMS system modeling.
 Consistent and secure communication between OT and IT with solutions.
 DMS, EMS, OCMS, DNOO, smart applications in clouds.
 Gate way zones, secure Data protocols, Open standard protocols.
 IOT enabled services for smart grid.
 Cost estimation and residual risk analysis for power system projects.
 Smart Grid project road map preparation, Data architecture, application
architecture.
 Implementation of new Technology ensuring business objective deliverable.

Project Engineer (E&I) at DAR Al Riyadh / MASSADR
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • My current job since March 2017

Engineering design, Estimation, prepare complete feed package and construction package for electrical and instrumentation projects. Implementing Exxon mobil standards, NEMA, NFPA, API and IEC standards. Implementation of HCIS recommendations for safety and security in Lighting design.

Sr. Consultant at Dar Engineering & Palace Consulting Engineers
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2012 to February 2017

• Writing Technical specifications EMS portion for National Control Centre project, Saudi Arabia.
• Technical Specifications for Automatic Meter Reading System in KSA.
• Engineering design reviews for electrical systems for SCADA and Protection.
• open access transmission tariffs and transmission congestion management
• Control Centre SCADA EMS System Support
• Load flow analysis, State estimation, Contingency analysis.
• National Grid external and internal communication.
• SCADA EMS Tender specification and scope of work preparation for National Control Centre project.
• Evaluation of Technical and commercial bids for SCADA EMS and related IT Infrastructure.
• Complying to vendors technical queries and fixing SCADA Architecture.
• Defining Key Performance index and availability calculations for SCADA systems.
• Defining data communication among the Regional control Centre to National control Centre.
• Defining power applications as per the Regulations in force and Market management system.
• Upgrading of SCADA Systems at Regional Control Centers.
• Preparation of SCADA Operating procedures and standards for Control System Department.
• Review of Draft Standards for Substations Automation, Materials and Security Systems.
• Co-ordination of Unified Project Manual project of Saudi Electricity Company.

Manager - SCADA & Protection at Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited
  • India - Vadodara
  • May 2001 to February 2012

Load flow analysis, State estimation, Contingency analysis.
Calculation of available power transfer capability between two networks.
open access transmission tariffs and transmission congestion management
Configuring and commissioning of ABB and D20 RTU.
Transducers selection, signal verification for RTU inputs.
Accounting transducer requirement with different CT PT connection.
Integrating power system protection points for Sequence of Events system points.
Testing of RTU Control signals from control room.
Designing power supply system for SCADA System, Data Centre and emergency lighting in Control Centre.
Managing real-time database, edit database and commit database in xa21 SCADA.
Implementing roles, privileges and security in ORACLE server.
Designing and implementing backup strategies for Physical backup and Import / export for ORACLE database.
DBA Activities and Space management on database servers, Assigning Job activities to the team members.

Deputy Engineer - Instrumentation at Gujarat Electricity Board
  • India - Vadodara
  • March 1997 to May 2001

• Instrumentation maintenance for boiler auxiliaries, coal mill, boiler feed pumps, dearator, ID, FD, PA fan, lube oil control system, related instruments, indicators and recorders.
• Spares and inventory management and budget preparation.
• Preparing pert chart for managing various routing maintenance schemes.
• Temperature sensors at flue gas, coal mill inlet and outlet, feed water system, turbine body temperatures for stress evaluation, air damper controls, spray control etc.
• Calibration of various transducers, sensors, gas analyzers like flue gas oxygen analyzer.
• Hydrogen purity sensors, Conductivity analyzers.
• Protection and interlock systems for various turbine and boiler auxiliaries and binary logic.
• Maintenance of control loops, and Automatic Turbine Run off System of 210 MW X 3 units.
• Tuning of feed water control, steam flow control and boiler drum level control loops, coal mill instrumentation, gas analyzers after annual and capital over hauling.
• Planning annual and capital over hauling and other maintenance programs.
• Monitoring maintenance progress during shutdowns.
• Implementation modification of new schemes and boiler testing.
Company: Faculty of Tech and Engg. MS University Vadodara, India

Project Executive at Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited
  • India - Ahmedabad
  • March 1995 to June 1996

• Pharmaceuticals process analysis, Identifying load pattern for the each process,
• Electrical power distribution design, Process automation,
• Estimating and costing of utilities for the pharmaceutical processes like steam, DM water, raw water, electrical power, distilled water, compressed air etc.

Education

Master's degree, Control and Instrumentation
  • at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • January 1995
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Faculty of Technology and Engineering, M S University, Vadodara
  • January 1993

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering 1993 M S University of Vadodara, Gujarat 66.22 %

Specialties & Skills

Maintenance Management
System Deployment
Instrumentation
Oxygen Gas ANALYZER
BOILER Auxiliary sensors
Annual Budget and Revenue Requirement
Instrumentation CALIBRATION
HYDROGEN Purity Analyzer
INSTRUMENTATION Maintenance
Instrumentation System Maintenance
Power System Protection Testing
Solaris 5.8
ORACLE 10g
LINUX, Apache, MYSQL, PHP
Tendering and Budgeting
Cisco Certified Network Engineer
Mathematical Modelling
Risk analysis

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert
Gujarati
Expert

Memberships

Society of Power Engineers, Vadodara
  • Life Member
  • April 2003

Training and Certifications

Xa/21 SCADA System Software (Training)
Training Institute:
GE Neetwork Solutions, FL, USA
Date Attended:
October 2004

Hobbies

  • Active member of society of power engineers, attending national and international conference on indu
    1. Arrived at multi-input multi-output linear model to forecast one-day ahead hourly energy. 2. Tuning of boiler drum level controller on no-load condition (before synchronization of 210 MW turbo generator set). 3. Reduction in failure rate of Camile Baure indicators on modification of power circuits at higher ambient temperature. 5. Successful completing of website automation on 10 Oct 2007.