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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management April 2009
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Dissertation: Modeling Risk and Risk-Based Maintenance in Chemical Process Industry
Advisor: Prof. J. Maiti
Masters of Engineering in Industrial Engineering Dec 2002
College of Engineering Guindy
Anna University, India
Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering April 2001
University of Madras, India
PROJECT WORKS
Decision support system for multi objective optimization in cotton mixing
College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India
Design of Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulphonate (LABS) manufacturing unit
University of Madras, India
Uncertainty Analysis in the Shutdown System of Reactor
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India
PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
„X Experience in development of fault tree and event tree for undesired events in chemical process industry and oil refinery.
„X Conducted probabilistic failure analysis in petrochemical industry.
„X Experience in characterization and quantification of accident losses (production loss, assets loss, human safety and health loss, environmental loss) and consequence modeling in chemical process industry.
„X Performed probabilistic and fuzzy risk modeling in chemical process industry.
„X Experience in development and application of reliability-based and risk-based maintenance policies in chemical process industry.
RISK AND SAFETY SOFTWARE SKILLS
„X Experience in application of risk indices and inherent safety indices like Dow fire and explosion index, Dow chemical exposure index, SWeHI, I2SI etc.
„X Experience in application of risk and consequence analysis software such as @RISK, ALOHA, CAMEO, MARPLOT, and EPA RMP.
„X Experience in application of risk and safety analysis tools such as Hazard analysis, Failure mode effect analysis, HAZOP, Fault tree analysis, Event tree analysis, Human reliability analysis, accident scenario analysis, and Preliminary risk analysis.
DEVELOPMENTAL EXPERIENCE
„X Developed and implemented an index of environmental consequence assessment for a typical Indian petrochemical industry.
„X Developed and implemented a decision support system for multi objective optimization in cotton mixing for a typical Indian textile spinning mill.
„X Experience in development and application of advanced Monte Carlo analyses such as 2D Monte Carlo simulation and fuzzy Monte Carlo simulation.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Ubuntu, DOS
Computer Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++, FORTRAN
Scientific Applications: MATLAB, Maple, Minitab
Technical Drawing: Microsoft Visio, PhotoShop, Paintshop
Office Applications: MS Word, Latex, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
Webpage Development: HTML, MS Frontpage
Database: Microsoft Access
LANGUAGES
English - Fluent
Tamil - Mother tongue
Hindi - Fluent
German - Basic knowledge
PUBLICATIONS
Journal papers
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Risk-based maintenance¡XTechniques and applications, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 142(3) (2007), 653-661.
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Development of Environmental Consequence Index (ECI) using fuzzy composite programming, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 162 (1) (2009), 29-43.
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Environmental risk management and decision making, International Journal of Environmental Pollution Control and Management, 1(1) (2009), 25-40.
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., A methodology for overall consequence modeling in chemical industry, Journal of Hazardous materials (Article in Press).
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Risk-based Maintenance Policy Selection using AHP and Goal Programming, Safety Science (Article in Press).
Conference papers
Raja, R., Arunraj, N.S., and Rao, K.S.P., Decision Support System for Multi Objective Optimization in Cotton mixing, International Conference on Operational Research and Development (ICORD), 2002.
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Risk-based maintenance - Techniques and applications, International Symposium: Beyond regulatory compliance - making safety second nature, Mary kay o'connor process safety center, 2005.
Journal papers under review
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Modeling Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: An Integrated Approach with Fuzzy Set Theory and Monte Carlo Simulation, Computers & Industrial Engineering (Under Review).
Arunraj, N.S. and Maiti, J., Uncertainty Analysis in Risk Assessment ¡V A Review (Under preparation).
Technical articles
Arunraj, N.S., Indian Nuclear Safety ¡V A fox to guard environmental hen house (Published in e-magazine named 'Poonga').
Arunraj, N.S., My experiments with risk in Indian chemical industries (Under preparation).
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