Project Engineering Manager
Siemens
Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months
1. 400kV Series Reactor Substation-DREP & G Power Station, DEWA, UAE: Resolved the issues related to reactor hall ventilation adequacy, auxiliary power supply system, & cable support system and got approval from DEWA.
2. 400kV Sabiya CCGT Power Station Stage-3 Substation, MEW, Kuwait: Finalized the scheme for Online Partial Discharge Monitoring System. Resolved the issues related to BPI selection, & structural interfacing arose due to 80kA fault level.
3. 400kV Ras-Lagrain, EWA, Bahrain: Finalized the scheme for Online Partial Discharge Monitoring System & auxiliary power supply system.
1. Credentials of being the first employee for setting up PGHV (i.e. GIS & Capacitor Bank) offshore engineering team for PGHV CSE Hub (central-south-eastern Europe) in INOPC.
2. Worked closely with LBUs in Germany & Switzerland and finalized the corresponding offshore customer-application & product engineering team framework in INOPC.
3. Hired 33 engineers and designers.
4. Finalized framework agreement between INOPC & LBUs for work and training packages.
5. Wrapped up techno-commercial scheme of computing facility setup in INOPC.
Middle East-North Africa-Turkey region (Sep 2013-May 2017)
Responsible for complete technical value chain of GIS retrofitting-modernization-extension (RME) projects, from bid stage feasibility study, & solution development to order stage adapter design, & project engineering management. Notable projects are 110kV North-Jeddah GIS SS Extn (existing Hitachi CFTA GIS bays extended with Alstom F35-4 GIS bay), and 110kV Rabigh GIS SS Extn (existing Siemens 8DN8 2 GIS bays extended with Alstom F35-4 GIS bay), 132kV Thorayban GIS SS Extn (existing Alstom T65 GIS bays extended with Alstom B65), 132kV JacobLines GIS SS Retrofitting (one of the busbars of existing GEC-Alsthom GMT II bays were replaced with F35-4 bus-disconnector modules only with 3 bays shutdown at a time).
Project engineering manager for 500kV Tarbela-IV AIS substation Extn project
Chief data analyst for Kahramaa (water & electricity utility of Qatar) power distribution network asset performance management project. Developed the asset performance management analytics and supervised over all the technical aspects of the project. Conferred with Alstars Award in recognition for outstanding techno-commercial contribution in bagging the first such large project (USD 11Million) globally for Alstom Grid.
Responsible for complete value chain of power system consulting business for the region. Ramped up the order intake from scratch to 300K Euro per year.
Extended functional leadership to GIS service specialists.
India region (Oct 2012-Aug 2013)
Secured the first major HVDC consulting assignment (i.e. Singapore - Indonesia HVDC feasibility study) for Network Consulting team globally (600K Euros). The portion for India consulting team was 77K Euros, highest ever overseas assignment. Conducted all the steady state, & grid code studies for the subject project on PSS/E.
Secured & executed several other power system study assignments, growing the business to 100K Euros per year.
- Power system consulting business, providing full portfolio of technical consulting services covering industries from oil and gas, to power generation and utilities
- Providing technical support to commercial team for technical solution development, & cost optimization of complex opportunities
1. Design & engineering of GIS upto 400kV (i.e. customer engineering (i.e. SLD, Layout, CT & PT sizing, surge arrester sizing, battery bank sizing, heat load calculation, foundation load calculation, interlocking scheme, schematic of LCC, cable scheduling, earthing design for GIS, & constructional drawing for GIS), factory engineering (i.e. preparation of Bill of quantity & assembly drawing for GIS manufacturing), I & C engineering (i.e. preparation of assembly drawings to be used for installation & commissioning, bill of quantity of site materials) for 17bays 8DQ1 0 & 200 bays of 8DN8, & 9 bays of 8DN9.
2. Protection & control scheme designing & calculation
3. GIS installation & commissioning
4. Handling internal & external engineering orders.
5. Support during proposal engineering.
6. Assist in factory acceptance testing.
7. Technical assistance for project closure.
8. Customer query resolution, coordination for interface engineering.
1. Assigned to be the principal consultant for GETCO (Gujarat Electricity Transmission Corporation) for the transmission network strengthening & planning by providing quarterly system adequacy studies (i.e. load flow, short circuit, voltage stability, transient stability, and VAr adequacy, contingency) & providing issue based solutions (i.e. improving voltage stability of Shaurastra & Kutch area, analyzing network sufficiency / reinforcement for wind power evacuation, decongesting of 220kV network for optimal usage of 400kV network).
2. GETCO network power system study, which include load flow, short circuit, voltage stability, protection scheme review, contingency & issue based solutions.
3. SVC sizing for L & T Hazira, & Zoom Steel Company LLC, Oman.
4. Insulation coordination study of 400/220kV Vedanta Aluminum Limited.
5. Part of a team comprising of ABB USA & ABB India Power System Consulting units to carry out system study for 220kV Cable based HVDC of Reliance Infrastructure Limited, Mumbai.
6. Design & develop a transmission & distribution network for Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) project. This includes network, sub-station, & protection scheme designing.
7. Techno-commercial consulting services for design, engineering (primary & secondary designing), vendor selection & procurement support, construction supervision, testing & commissioning support of 132/33/11kV sub-station of Torrent Power, & 220/33kV L & T Hazira.
Major assignments are
1. Team member of network planning (power system study, load forecasting) group of OPTCL at State Load Dispatch Control Center, OPTCL, Orissa.
2. Protection & control scheme designing & calculation of transmission line, transformer, reactor, busbar, breaker failure.
3. Project engineering of 400kV Meramundali sub-station (i.e. 7 dias of 400kV)
4. Project engineering of 400/220kV New Duburi sub-station (i.e. 3 dias of 400kV & 7 bays of 220kV).
5. Project engineering of bay extension at 220kV Meramundali sub-station (i.e. 2 bays of 220kV)
6. Project engineering of bay extension at 132kV sub-station Joda (i.e. 4 bays of 132kV)
July, 2005 - July, 2008
1. Voltage stability, load flow, short circuit, & outage planning study of OPTCL transmission system.
2. Preparation of general arrangement drawing of equipments, & the Bus.
3. Fault level, & max. fault current calculation of the Bus, & sub-station.
4. Earth Mat design.
5. Lightning protection design.
6. Preparation of guaranteed technical particulars & technical specifications of the following: Bus Material, Protection Control & Metering, General equipment & substation accessories, ACDC auxiliary power supply system, Fire fighting system, Power transformers, Circuit breakers, Isolators, Current transformers, Voltage transformers, Surge arrestors.
7. Preparation of battery, battery charger, DC distribution, & AC distribution plan of the substation.
8. Preparation of Protection & Control Scheme, Trip Logic, & Interlocking arrangement.
9. Preparation of C&R Panel drawings.
10. Preparation of Cable Schedule.
11. Reviewing vendor drawings for deposit works.
September, 1999 - June, 2005
1. Performing / Supervising Pre-Commissioning testing of field equipments, Relays, & over all Protection & control scheme.
2. Performing Protection setting calculations.
3. Preparing test plans for scheme checking.
Software development on Java, J2EE framework, and Oracle
GATE 2006 Rank – 738 Score - 444 Percentile – 96.22 Publications IEEE Indexed International Conference Publications: 1. “Short Term Load Forecasting using Neural Network trained with Genetic Algorithm & Particle Swarm Optimization” Mishra, Sanjib; Patra, Sarat Kumar; Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, 2008. ICETET ’08, First International Conference on;16-18 July 2008 Page(s):606-611; Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICETET.2008.94. 2. “A Novel Approach to Design a Wireless Communication Based Railway Information System”, Kumar, Vijay; Patra, Sarat Kumar; Mishra, Sanjib; TENCON 2008 - 2008, TENCON 2008. IEEE Region 10 Conference; 19-21 Nov. 2008 Page(s):1-4; Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766653. 3. “Short Term Load Forecasting using a novel Recurrent Neural Network” Mishra, Sanjib; Patra, Sarat Kumar; TENCON 2008 - 2008, TENCON 2008. IEEE Region 10 Conference; 19-21 Nov. 2008 Page(s):1-6; Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766829. 4. “Short Term Load Forecasting using a neural Network trained by a Hybrid Artificial Immune System” Mishra, Sanjib; Patra, Sarat Kumar; ICIIS 2008, Third International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, IEEE Region 10 Colloquium and Conference; 8-10 Dec. 2008 Page(s): 1-6; IEEE Catlog No.: CFP)0858A-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2806-9, Library of Congress: 2008906756. 5. “Short Term Load Forecasting using a Robust Novel Wilcoxon Neural Network” (Accepted) Mishra, Sanjib; Patra, Sarat Kumar, TENCON 2009, Singapore. International Journal Publications: 6. “Short Term Load Forecasting using a novel Recurrent Neural Network” Mishra, Sanjib; Patra, Sarat Kumar; International Journal for Computational Intelligence, Theory & Practice, Vol. 4, No 1, 2009, pp. 39-46.