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Marital status: Married
Dependents: Wife & 2 childrens
EDUCATION:
Degree: Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation & Process Control with First Class
Year of Graduation: 1992
University: Pune, India
Years of experience: 15
Instrumentation Activities
* Implementing optimum and economical Process Control Strategies by means of a wide variety of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Individual electronic and pneumatic controllers, and field electronics and pneumatic instruments.
* Budgetary Cost Estimation of the Instrumentation system for a project.
* Sizing ( by means of manual and computer software applications), selecting, specifying evaluating and purchasing various instruments.
* Design of Logic Diagrams; Hook up diagrams, Schematic Diagrams, Loop Diagrams, Wiring Diagrams, Installation Details, Instrument Cable/tray layouts.
* Assisting in development of piping & instrumentation diagrams.
* Selection of suitable vendors for instrumentation items & floating the enquiries
* Preparing their Technical Bid analysis
* Inspection activities of the instruments at vendors shop
* Preparing bill of material and instrument work tender.
* Interdisciplinary coordination with other disciplines
* Coordination with client & vendors
* Construction Site supervision & commissioning assistance
* Preparing specifications, Input / Output list, Instrument Loop Diagrams, Interface with other systems, Graphics Drawings, Technical bid evaluation & technical recommendation for DCS, PLC, ESD, TMS systems which includes Yokogawa CS-3000, Foxboro IA & Honeywells TDC-3000, TRICONEX, SIEMENS etc.
* Providing QA/QC for design packages prepared by other engineers.
* Factory Acceptance Testing & Site Acceptance Testing
WORK HISTORY:
1. Employer Name: Zuhair Fayez Partnership Consultant,
From: 8/2001 To: Present Location: Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Position: Lead Engineer – Instrumentation
Duties: Instrumentation engineering for Saudi Aramco Refineries & Gas plants
Project Name:
a) Nayyum downstream facilities, Hawtah Stabilizer ( BI-3754, BI-8256) for J & P company b) Saudi Aramco Master Gas System Expansion Project ( Cross country pipeline project)
c) Upgrade existing Foxboro I/A series DCS at Shedgum Gas Plant and Uthamaniyah Gas Plant ( BI-10-00210)
d) Replacement of Relay based ESD systems for Sulfur Recovery Units 1 & 2 at Saudi Aramco Berri Gas Plant ( BI-10-00188)
e) Replacement of Relay based ESD system and Auxilliary system for Saudi Aramco Juymah Gas Plant ( BI-3180)
f) Replace Water Treatment Facilities for Abqaiq Plants – ( BI-8278)
g) Crude Distillation Unit # 4 Safety Upgrade – Jeddah Refinery h) LPG Truck Loading facilities at Rabigh Refinery ( BI-3530)
i) New FCCU Blower at Jeddah Refinery ( BI-3542)
j) Attended Factory Acceptance Test for 45 days in Yokogawa Singapore for Olifins Project @ PetroRabigh
Work involved –
Preparing Functional Specifications, Technical bid evaluation & technical recommendation, I/O list, Intrument Loop diagrams, interconnection diagrams, Logic Diagrams, Cause & Effect Diagrams, Cable Layouts, Construction scope of work and all related drawings & documents, Factory Acceptance Test & Site Acceptance Test, Site visits for the implementation / verification of the designed systems/drawings, providing QA/QC for design packages etc.
The upgrade of Foxboro I/A DCS at Saudi Aramco's Shedgum Gas Plant and Uthamaniyah Gas Plant ( BI-10-00210) includes –
- Hardware and software of 45 Nodebus host computers (Application processors / Application workstations, from AP/AW51B to AW70), 162 no. of Workstation processors to version -7.1. ( WP51B to WP70), the removal of entire CLAN system and installation of Address Translator Stations (ATS) in the existing Nodebus to interface with the switched – Mesh Ethernet network (100 Mbps to 1 Gbps), upgrade 50 existing Fault tolerant pairs of Control Processsors (CP30As / CP40As to CP60s) and 30 existing Fault tolerant pairs of Gateways (COM30 Style A to COM30 Style B)
In addition to above project scope also includes –
- Upgrade of the Historian, Migration of existing Data Manager Graphics to FoxView, Maintaining existing DCS interface with other equipment like – Gas Chromatograph interface, PI interface, Gensym G2 interface, AGA interface, DMC interface, Triconex PLC interface, Reports configuration, Maintaining SOE package functionality, System backup / Data Archiving
Systems associated with –
1) Foxboro I/A DCS Version 7.1
2) Triconex TMR PLC
3) Woodward's Micronet & 505 Governor system and Protech-203 Over-speed protection system, Electro-Hydraulic Power Cylinders
4) Emerson Delta-V DCS with Foundation Field bus & conventional Instrumentation
5) SIEMENS CS7 SCADA based Terminal management System & S7 PLC system
6) Radar Tank Gauging system of SAAB,
7) Rotork Motor operated Valves with Packscan ( 2 wire control),
2. Employer Name: Jacobs H & G Ltd. (Subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering, USA)
From: 3/1998 To: 7/2001 Location: Bombay, India
Position: Senior Design Engineer – Instrumentation
Duties: Instrumentation engineering for Chemical & Petrochemical plants
Project Name:
a) Mono Ethyl Glycol Expansion Project from 100 TPD To 160 TPD, for India Glycol Limited, Kashipur, Uttaranchal, India b) Instrumentation drawings for Kellogs, Battle Creek,U.S.A.
c) 1200 TPD Soda Ash Project for Nirma, Bhavanagar, India
Work Involved:
Preparing specifications, Input / Output list, Instrument Block Loop Diagrams, Interconnection with other systems, Technical bid evaluation & technical recommendation for DCS, PLC, systems which includes Yokogawa CS-3000, SIEMENS & Allen Bradley PLC's. Field Instrumentation, Preparing Instrument work tender, Inspection at vendor's works, deputed to site for 4 months for residual engineering, & site supervision.
3. Employer Name: Consulting Design Engineering
From: 01/1996 To: 1/1998 Location: Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Position: Instrumentation Engineer
Duties: Instrumentation engineering for Saudi Aramco Tanajib, Safaniya onshore plants and Marjan, Zuluf offshore plants
Project Names:
a) Providing Additional Crude Oil Shipping Pumps, Safaniya GOSP, Saudi Aramco b) Providing Emergency Isolation valves for Gas plant R74, Safaniya.
c) Relocation & design of all necessary instrumentation for dosing systems & package plants for Saudi Aramco's Tanajib plant d) Field, DCS & PLC checking & upgrading of logic drawings & P&ID's for Zuluf & Marjan (offshore) plants e) Field, DCS & PLC checking & upgrading of logic drawings & P&ID's for Tanajib & Safaniya onshore plant
Work Involved:
Detailed engineering of Instrumentation system as per Saudi Aramco's Standards & International Standards, viz- selection of instruments, preparing their specifications, Instrument installation schedules, preparing Instrument hook-up and Loop diagrams, Emergency Shutdown System Cause & Effect and Logic Diagrams etc. Site visits for the implementation / verification of the designed systems/drawings.
Systems Associated With:
1) Honeywell's TDC – 3000 Distributed Control Systems
2) M/s. Triconex's PLC based TMR Emergency Shutdown Systems
3) M/s. Bentley Nevada's Rotating Machinery Protection Instrumentation Systems.
4) Baker Oil Tool's Pneumatic/Hydraulic ESD System
4. Employer Name: Dalal Consultants & Engineers Ltd., India
From: 10/1993 To: 1/1996 Location: Bombay, India
Position: Instrumentation Engineer.
Duties: Instrumentation Design Engineering-for Chemical, Petrochemical Plants & Refineries.
Project Names:
a) Sunrise Polycon Ltd., New Delhi b) Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd., Mumbai ( A 27 KM pipeline project - Nhava Sheva Port to Patalganga)
c) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., - LPG bottling project - Mumbai d) Mafatlal Rose Color Industries Ltd. Baroda, Gujarat ( Dyestuff project)
e) National Organic Chemical Industries Ltd., Thane, Maharastra
Systems associated with
1) Foxboro's 760 Series & Yokogawa Controllers. (Including it's Configuration & commissioning).
2) Leeds & Northrup's SCADA and RTU system.
3) S. B. Electromechanicals Tank Gauging and Tankfarm automation System.
4) Avery's Electronic Weighbridge.
5) Yokogawa's MICRO-XL DCS.
6) Taylor's MOD-30 System & various pneumatic controllers
7) Encardiorite's Loadcell based tank weighing system (Including it's installation & commissioning)
8) M/s. Allan Bradley's PLC-5 system with PARAGON software.
5. Employer Name: Desai Associates
From: 6/1992 To: 10/1993 Location: Bombay, India
Position: Instrument Engineer
Duties: Erection, Commissioning & Maintenance for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Bombay refinery.
Work involvement was Calibration, Erection, Loop checking and commissioning of all Process Control Instruments and Configuration and commissioning of M/s. Taylor's MOD –30 System for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Mumbai Refinery.
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