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I want to excel in my field of Minerals / Materials and waste Processing. I look for a fruitful career where I want to contribute the most to the industry and acquire the best of professional skills.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
* Preliminary Project Evaluation and Planning
* Process and Flowsheet Development
* Process Equipment Sizing and Design
* Plant Commissioning Assistance
* Continual Technical Support to Marketing
Details of Skills:
Theoretical process evaluation, Conceptual flow-sheet design, Preliminary evaluation of the mineralogy of the feed material, test work planning and scheduling, bench scale testing, Preparation of preliminary flow sheet and preliminary equipment list, Flow sheet development test works, Chemical and physical comprehensive interpretation of test results, Development of process design criteria, preliminary flow sheet design with mass and heat transfer balance, Development of process description and control philosophy, Preparation of major equipment list and data sheets for specialized equipment, Piping and instrumentation drawings, Pre-engineering for capital cost estimate to establish cost of project.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
1. Hand on experiences in laboratory and pilot studies for scaling up and sizing of different proprietary equipments of Dorr-Oliver and FFE Minerals viz. Crushing, Grinding, Classification via Screening and Hydrocyclone. Various solid liquid separation methods are Flotation cell and Column, Thickener (conventional and hi-rate), Rotary vacuum drum filter, Disc filter, horizontal belt filter and Pan filters. I have also an experience of developing flocculant and chemical dosing systems for the settlers in alumina refineries and flotation plants in copper / lead / zinc processing plant.
2. Experiences in analysis and interpretation of XRD and XRF, Particle Size Analyser, Surface Area meter (BET), UV / vis spectrophotometer, Zeta meter, and Atomic absorption spectrophotometer, IR spectrometry, study of Rheology of different fluids systems.
3. In depth knowledge of Microsoft's Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Project 2000, Internet explorer/ netscape & Outlook express.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
1. April 2007 – working as Manager – Process Engineering in FLSMIDTH Minerals India Private Limited, Chennai, India.
2. February 2007-April 2007, worked as researcher in R&D, raw materials and coke making group
3. October 2005 –February 2008 working as Manager – Process Engineering in FFE Minerals India Private Limited, Chennai, India.
Major Job Responsibilities: My involvements are mainly in development and design of different beneficiation routes / processes for different minerals and the various minerals are
* Iron ore
* Bauxite
* Rutile
* Coal
* Calcium minerals
* Lead, zinc and copper ores
The major involvement of the design and sizing of different proprietary equipment of FFE Minerals. Evaluation of the plant efficiency, cost effectiveness of the mineral processing plant using simulation tools MetSim and HYSIS.
Major Accomplishment:
a) Detail engineering of the project: Bauxite grinding system of Hindalco, Muri, India and milk of lime plant in Kuwait National Petroleum Project.
b) Process audit and development in the product requirement of Two rod mills at NIRMA, Gujarat, India.
c) Commissioning and operation of 2m dia X 11.0 M tube mill for grinding of desulphurisation compound at JAMIPOL, Toranagallu, Karnataka, India.
d) Operation and commissioning of bauxite grinding and hydrate filtration plants at Vedanta Alumina Limited, India.
e) Basic engineering of the 2X440 tph grinding and flotation plant of Konkala Copper Mines, Zambia.
2. June 2001- Sept 2005, as Manager-Technology in Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Limited, Mumbai, India.
Major Job Responsibilities: My major jobs are to develop suitable technology for different minerals and materials keeping in view with the various proprietary Dorr-Oliver equipment along with the system.
Major Accomplishment:
* Fully involved as team member in the Hirate thickener, alumina-hydrate thickener project of Greenfield Alumina project of Vedanta Alumina, Sterlite Industries Limited, Orissa, India.
* Feasibility study, Process and flow sheet developed for a 50tph sand washing plant for Ashapura Minechem, Mumbai, India.
* Test work conducted and process developed to recover the material as well as the utility water with suitable equipment for the Gas Cleaning plant of Essar Steel, Gujarat, India.
* Process evaluation and Process developed for the Leaching plant, thickening of uranium waste sludge and filtration of MDU as a product for the UCIL, Turamdih project, India.
* Operations, commissioning and performance trials of Settler and sand washing system at NALCO Expansion project, Damanjodi.
* Process and flowsheet developed for Anirox Pigment to recover iron oxide fine as a pigment grade application, India.
* Commissioning and operation of 30 tph sand washing plant at Lanja of AIGL, India. The special equipment Jet Sizer is in operation.
* Test work conducted and suitable process developed for 100 tph coal handling plant to recover the coal reject fines at ACC, Kymore, India.
* Feasibility study and process development of 20 tph kaolin clay processing plant at Bhuj, India.
* Test work conducted and process developed for unit operation consists of scrubbing, classification, thickening and filtration of English Indian Clay at Trivandrum, India.
3. April 1998- April 2001 as a Research Associate, Mineral Processing Technology division, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, India.
Major Involvement:
* Recovery of metal values of chromite from hydrocyclone overflow by using flocculation cum flotation technique for Orissa Mining Corporation, Kaliapani, Orissa, India.
* Physical separation of carbon and bath components from spent anode residue of smelter at NALCO, Angul, India.
* Study of surface properties of non-coking coal for effective separation from fine inorganic matter of MCL, Talcher, India.
* Dry beneficiation of high ash non-coking coal using dense media fluidised bed separator of CMPDI, Ranchi, India.
Exploratory works:
* Effect of packing of solid particles in coal water mixture for preparation of high concentration coal slurry for direct injection in the combustion process.
* Electrokinetic study of maceral (lithotypes) of coal to establish the separation parameter of ash with respect to coal in non-coking coal.
* Axial dispersion study in flotation column using graphite ore to establish the material transport phenomena in term of the mixing co-efficient in the recovery zone.
* Effect of anions on the electrokinetic behaviour of kaolinite, iron oxide, alumina and titania. This study was carried to establish the separation criteria of one in presence of other using selective flocculant.
* Upgradadtion of micaceous iron oxide to remove silca by conventional flotation.
4. June 1995 – April 1998 as Research Associate in Minerals and Materials Processing division of Tata Research Development and Design Center, Pune, India.
Major Associations:
* Scientific design of chemical reagents for the separation of iron oxide, titania, kaolinite and alumina especially with oleates and hydroxamates.
* Design of reagent molecule for the separation of calcium mineral namely; calcite, fluorite, apatite and dolomite in the basis of molecular recognition mechanism.
5. Aug 1994-June 1995 as Process Engineer, Friends coal Carbonisation, Dhanbad, India.
My job responsibilities were over all quality control of the coal carbonisation plant and process.
EDUCATION
1..Master of Technology in Mineral Beneficiation from National Institute of Technology (formerly Regional Institute of Technology), Jamshedpur, Bihar, India. 1992 – 1994, A Grade, CGPA: 9.54 / 10.0.
2. Master of Science in Inorganic Chemistry from National Institute of Technology, (formerly Regional Engineering College), Rourkela, Orissa, India. 1992, in First division.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND TRAINING
1. Member of Indian association of surface science and technology and member of Indian institute of mineral engineers.
2. A certificate course for auditor on ISO 9001-2000 conducted by TUV.
3. A certificate course on TQM and ISO 9000 by IEC, Pune.
4. A certificate course in Safety management in chemical industries and hazardous areas.
PAPERS PUBLISHED
17 papers published in national and international journals and seminar proceedings( details of the list enclosed in the annexure).
REFERENCES
1. Mr.P.S.R.Reddy, Head, Mineral Processing Technology Department, Indian Institute of Materials and Minerals Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,(Formerly Regional Research Laboratory) Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. 751013.
2. Dr. S.K. Biswal, Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Materials and Minerals Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,(Formerly Regional Research Laboratory) Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. 751013.
3. Mr. A.D. Kini, Vice President, Technology, FLSmidth Minerals Private Limited, Chennai, India, 603103.
ANNEXURE
1. PVT Rao, P K Banerjee, S. K. Naidu and M Pattanayak, "Factorial Design of Experimentation for Column Flotation Studies with Fine Coal", Mineral Processing: Recent advances and Future Trends, S. P. Meherotra & R Sekhar eds., Proceedings of International conference, IIT, Kanpur, Dec 11-15, p 663,1995.
2. S.K. Naidu, M Pattanayak,P K Banerjee and PVT Rao " Column Flotation- an effective alternative to conventional flotation for treating coal fines", proceedings of CHEMCON –94, IIChE, Kharagpur Regional Centre, and IIT, Kharagpur, Dec '14-17, p.115, 1994.
3. M Pattanaik & S K Bhaumik, " Surface Chemistry of Mineral Flotation", Mineral Processing: A Short Course for Supervisors in the Mineral and Mining Industries, R Bhima Rao, PSR Reddy and MI Ansari eds., IIME Bhubaneswar chapter, pp. 92-102,1998.
4. S.K. Biswal, M. Pattanaik, S. Prakash, P S R Reddy and S.K. Bhaumik, "Effect of Coal Properties on Beneficiation and Characterstics of coal Water Mixture", Proceedings of National Seminar on Coal and Coal Combustion in Utility Boilers, R&D Center, Noida, Varma, Lal & Hirani eds., pp. VII-25, 6-8 April-1999.
5. M.Pattanaik," Physicochemical Characterisation of Flotation Reagents", Souvenir of National Seminar on Recent Techniques in Mineral Processing, Waste and Environment Management (RETMEM-99),IIME, Bhubaneswar Regional Centre, p. 109, Feb'2000.
6. M Pattanaik, S.K.Biswal & S.K.Bhuamik, "Surface Chemistry and Mineral Processing: Knowledgebank for the Next Millenium", Proceedings of National Seminar on Recent Techniques in Mineral Processing, Waste and Environment Management (RETMEM-99),IIME, Bhubaneswar Regional Centre, p. 124, Feb'2000.
7. M Pattanaik, S K Biswal & S K Bhaumik, " A Comparative Physico-Chemical Study of Hematite with Hydroxamic acid and Sodium Oleate", Separation Science and Technology, vol. 35, no.6, p. 75, 2000.
8. M Pattanaik & S K Bhaumik, " Adsorption Behaviour of Poly vinyl pyrrolidone on oxide surfaces", Materials Letters, vol.24, no. 5, 2000.
9. M.Pattanaik,"Electrokinetic behaviour of titanium dioxide powder with anionic and non-ionic polyelectrolytes", Proceedings of National sympoisum on materials for the third millenium and ATM, IIM Kanpur chapter and IIT, Kanpur, Nov'1999.
10. M. Pattanaik and P. K. Naik, " Molecular Recognition And Synthetic Chemistry: A New Paradigm for the Design of Reagents for Mineral Flotation", Indian Chemical Society, Platinum jubilee celebration, Calcutta,11-16 Dec'1999.
11. M Pattanaik, S K Biswal, "Electrokinetic Study of Alumina in Different Polyelectrolyte Solutions", SYMFLOC-2000, IIChE, Damanjodi Regional Centre, NALCO, p. 94, 22-23 Jan'2000.
12. M Pattanaik, S K Biswal and S.K.Bhaumik, Electrokinetic studies of Kaolinite and Alumina with Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone, National symposium on Mineral Processing and Technology, MPT-2000, April 4-6, 2000, Indian Bureau of Mines, Nagpur, India.
13. M Pattanaik, P.S.R.Reddy, S.K.Bhaumik and R. Bhima Rao, "Physisorption vs. Chemisorption: A Rational Approach in Mineral Flotation, Journal of Surface Science and Technology, No 23, vol. 5, April, 2000.
14. M. Pattanaik, Dispersion Profile of Rutile in Polyacrylic Acid Solutions Through Electrokinetics and Settling Studies, National Seminar on Processing of Fines, PROF-2000, National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, 2-3 Nov' 2000, India.
15. M. Pattanaik, T.K.Rout, and D.K.Sengupta, "Electrokinetics of TiO2 towards the Interpretation of its Dispersion Behaviour, Journal of Surface Coating International 12, December, 2000, pp-5-10.
16. M. Pattanaik, "Dispersion Profile of Rutile in Polyacrylic Acid Solutions" Journal of Material Science and Metallurgy, National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, vol. 2(14), pp.21-25, 2001.
17. M. Pattanaik & S.K.Biswal, Effect of packing density on preparation of high concentration coal slurry, National Seminar on Chemical engineering for Utilisation of Natural Resources, CHEMINAR 2001, 16-18 Feb 2001, Bhubaneswar.
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