Kumar Prashant, Petrochemical & Refining Technical Assistant

Kumar Prashant

Petrochemical & Refining Technical Assistant

Process Integration Limited

Location
United Kingdom
Education
Master's degree, Advanced Chemical Process Design
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

Petrochemical & Refining Technical Assistant at Process Integration Limited
  • United Kingdom
  • My current job since October 2011

Projects:
• Conceptual design, modeling, and simulation using industry standard software packages.
• PINCH Analysis and Process Integration.
• Research and Software Development.

Systems Engineer at Infosys Technologies
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2009 to September 2010

• Successfully completed a 5 month extensive technical training with 40 days of specialized training in Microsoft .NET focused on windows/web application development with ASP.NET, ADO.NET and C# and backend database programming with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Covered the fundamentals of computing, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Concepts, basics of C, C++, JAVA, Oracle (PL/SQL) and Networking.
• Developed a fully functional Online Banking System in ASP.NET as a part of the POST-Training project in a team of 4 members. The project included the maintenance of various test documents and design level documents. It adhered to phases of the SDLC and also to several organizational standards and processes.
• Provided support for Desktop applications.
• Worked with vendors and other computer support team to ensure smooth running of the IT department and user computers.

Education

Master's degree, Advanced Chemical Process Design
  • at University of Manchester (UMIST)
  • September 2011

The course emphasises design for the production of commodity chemicals and fine and speciality chemicals and to optimise design of production processes to maximize economic and operational profits. Key modules include Energy Systems, Utility Systems, Computer Aided Process Design, Distillation Systems Design, Reaction Systems Design and Greenhouse Gas & Combustion Emissions. Dissertation: Successfully completed a research project titled ‘Steam Level Optimisation in Site Utility Systems’ which included developing a software in VBA with user friendly interface to provide optimum number and pressure of steam mains and other parameters like heating demand, cooling demand, cogeneration potential and utility cost. Design Project: Design and optimisation of the Energy and Utility System to meet the heat and power requirement.

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Jaypee University of Information Technology
  • May 2009

Key modules include Fluid Mechanics, Chemical Processes, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Separation Processes, Environmental Engineering & Safety, Energy Sources & Energy Conservation, Cement Technology, Petroleum Refining, Polymer Engineering, Process & Project Engineering and Plant design & Simulation. Dissertation: Design of Allyl Chloride production plant. Grade: 8.3/10 (equivalent to 85%)–topper of batch 2005-2009 of Chemical Engineering.

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
Process Optimization
Process Engineering
Process Modeling
Process Simulation
C, C++, C#, RDBMS, VBA, MS .Net, MS Office
ASPEN PLUS, HYSYS, MATLAB, GAMS, HEAT-int, SITE-INT, CRYO-int, ChemCAD, What’sBest, AutoCAD

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

IChemE
  • Associate Member
  • June 2011