Project Lead Engineer
ABB Global Industries and Services Ltd
Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months
Project Lead Engineer, INOPC-IA/EN
Duties:
Six Sigma Green belt Project Lead Engineer, leading a team of 5 to 10 engineers according to the Size and Complexity of the Green field and brown-field projects for the Power, Oil & Gas Onshore and Offshore, Desalination Industry. Our team involved in engineering, testing (IFAT & FAT at Customer Locations) and Commissioning activities, of ABB Symphony Plus DCS System.
I conducted Customer training's at various locations such as Australia, Egypt, UAE, Singapore for the Symphony Plus DCS Systems.
I have commissioned the ABB INFI90/ Symphony plus DCS for RTR Cogen Combined Cycle Power Plant Projects at Saudi arabia.
I have commissioned the ABB INFI90/ Symphony plus DCS for Hormoz Combined Cycle Power Plant Project at Bandar Abbas in Iran.
Commissioned ABB Symphony plus DCS for the Al-Ghubra Desalination project at Muscat City.
Involved in the ABB INFI90 DCS FAT/SAT and Commissioning activities for the Habshan 1 & 5 ESD Replacement project for GASCO, Abudhabi.
Commissioned the ABB INFI90/Symphony plus DCS for the ABB DCS HMI Upgrade project at Gazlan Power'Plant - Saudi Electricity Company Eastern region.
Engineering activities for OXY Petroleum, Qatar Petroleum,
Performed DCS Engineering & Submitted Project Documentation such as FDS, FAT Procedure, Method Statement, SAT Procedure for the BP Offshore Projects. Participated in the Document review & project meetings with EPC vendor Woodplc.
Good experience in preparation of technical BIDS & Proposals received from ADNOC Offshore and it's EPC companies for ABB INFI90 DCS Modifications.
Manager, Controls Design & Tuning --- January2012 to June 2012.
Emerson Process Mangement Power & Water Solutions, NOIDA.
Duties: * Served as Technical lead for a retrofit project of 1000 MW Thermal power project.
* Lead the team of 5 engineers and provide technical support for the whole duration of the project.
* Review the specifications, P&ID diagrams, inputs from the customers.
* Proactively involved in the Controls design, Graphics design according to the Customer
inputs.
* Take active participation in the review, Status update meetings with the customers.
* Served as Single point of contact for the entire project.
* Hands of experience in Tie-back simulation for both Discrete and Closed loop
Controls before FAT.
Duties:
* Proactively involved in the Functional testing of application software for GE Gas turbines (7FA, 9FA) using EASY5 Simulation Model for various Gas Turbine projects which includes EMAL, AL Sabiya 2000MW CCPP with Mark VIe Control System.
* Pro-actively involved in the System testing of Platform software (GE ControlST and its Sub- Products- ToolboxST, WorkstationST) using Gas Turbine Model Simulation (EASY5)
* Proactively involved in developing System Test Setup for simple cycle Gas Turbine Application.
* Hands on experience in requisition activities for two Gas turbine Projects from customer inputs.
* Proactively involved in the NPI tollgate process - right from DDR to DVR and participated in the review, status update meetings with the customer.
* Hands on experience in developing Test Plan & Failure mode effect analysis document.
* Procurement of Hardware involving Controllers, IO Packs, Terminal Boards for MarkVIe Controls.
* Proactively involved in the GE Fanuc Cimplicity 7.5 HMI Screen Development and Validation of HMI Screens.
* Good Knowledge in Testing Processes and Test Environment.
* Good Knowledge in various protocols involving OPC, Modbus, Fieldbus, HART and also in Networking.
Senior Instrumentation Engineer, Aug 2006 to Feb 2008
Operational Energy Group Pvt Ltd
Site: Penna Electricity Ltd (58.9 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant), Ramanathapuram, Tamilnadu.
G.E Frame 6B- MS6001B Gas Turbine with MarkV Speedtronic Controls, 65 TPH HRSG, SIEMENS 20MW Steam Turbine. HRSG, Steam Turbine & BOP are controlled by Honeywell Experion PKS-R210 DCS.
Duties: * Served as the owner's first point of contact for all contractual, technical and maintenance issues concerning 6B gas turbine & Mark V Controls, Honeywell DCS, HRSG, siemens steam turbine and their auxiliaries.
* Directly reporting to the Plant manager & lead the Instrumentation team in commissioning, troubleshooting, repairing and in maintenance outages.
* Provided on-site gas turbine technical direction during operation and maintenance outages.
* Directed the checkout and troubleshooting of gas turbine control systems, Honeywell DCS.
* Oversaw the subsequent startup and shutdown of gas turbine and its auxiliaries.
* Proactively provided hands-on job planning, troubleshooting, personnel training and development
* Procured spare parts in accordance with maintenance requirements.
* Generate reports, plant procedures and schedules
* Carried out day-to-day jobs in accordance with safety rules.
* Responsible for fault finding during start up problems or after trip of any of the above mentioned areas.
* Maintained history record of each instrument and special records for critical ones
* Supervised the calibration of pressure instruments, temperature instruments, control valves, PRVs, positioners, I\ps.
Control & Instrumentation Engineer, Jan 2003 to July 2006
TCP LTD (Power Division)
1*65MW Coal fired Thermal Power Plant, Gummidipoondi, Tamilnadu.
275 TPH Franco-Tosi Steam Generator, Ansaldo Steam Turbine, and BOP are controlled by ABB INFI 90 DCS. Other Systems such as Soot Blowing, Coal Handling, and Ash Handling are controlled by Allen Bradley & Siemens- S5 PLC
Duties: * Served as the owner's first point of contact for all contractual, technical and maintenance issues concerning ABB INIF 90 DCS ( Symphony & ConductorNT), PLC Systems, Analyzers, and Steam Turbine governors.
* Provided on-site technical direction on Steam Generator & its auxiliaries and Steam turbine during Startup, Shutdown & maintenance outages.
* Maintained history record of each instruments and special records for critical ones
* Carried-out & supervised the calibration activities of pressure instruments, temperature instruments, control valves, PRVs, positioners, Current to Pneumatic Converters, Analyzers during Commissioning, shutdown, Preventive maintenance.
* Carried-out maintenance activities on Coal-handling, ash-handling, pulveriser mill, Condenser, furnace area.
* Good Knowledge in ABB Gas Analyzers.
* Hands on experience in calibration & maintenance of PH, Conductivity, Dissolved O2 Analyzers.
* Scheduling preventive maintenance & shutdown activities.
* M.B.A in Human Resource, 2008 IGNOU, New Delhi. PASSPORT DETAILS: Name Nithyasankar Rajendran Passport Number K3471134
* B.E in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2002 Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, INDIA.