Posted by on August 05, 19102 at 15:05:18:

Pragnesh K Patel
C274, Sundarvan Society. Phone: 91-265-711643 (R)
New Sama Road,
BARODA – 390008, E-mail: patelbaroda@yahoo.com
INDIA. pragnesh68@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging career as a Manager/ Sr. Instrumentation engineer in large chemical/ petrochemical and power plants out of INDIA.

EDUCATION

Gujarat University, INDIA
BS in Instrumentation and Control Engineering, 1989

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

 Two-years of experience in Installation, Commissioning, programming and implementation of Distributed Control System, Programmable Logic Controllers, Online analyzers, field instruments and control panels for machinery like compressors, blowers and furnaces for large-scale chemical and petrochemical plants.

 Eleven years of experience in instrumentation maintenance of 50000 TPA Caprolactam plant’s including DCS, PLCs, Field instruments like transmitters and Control valves, Machine controls, compressor and blower controls, furnace controls, Burner management system, control room panel instruments. This includes,

1) Four years of extensive Experience as an Team leader for Modern petrochemical plant's instrument group involved in handling DCS, PLCs and PC based industrial control systems Caprolactam plant. Team consists of 11 technicians and two engineers.

2) Specialized in Installation, programming, commissioning and maintenance of YOKOGAWA CENTUM-XL DCS (32 nodes), SIEMENS S5 series of PLCs (40+) and large scale YASKAWA U84 PLC (3 with 2048 I/Os each).

3) Good experience in problem finding, trouble shooting, application analysis, design, implementation/development, testing, and documentation.

4) Managed Source control, documentation for large plant having 4500 loops and prepared PC based software for specification, Instrument maintenance history and reporting according to ISO9002.

5) Credited for successfully analyzing an inter-department’s current performance/ instability issues and providing a remedy to that and for gaining credibility.

6) During this thirteen years, worked on following Electronic field instruments and controllers from different manufacturer,

- Controllers: Taylor MOD30, Foxboro 761, Yokogawa SLPC & YS170, H&B Protronic, Chino and Honeywell.
- PLCs from Siemens S5, Allan-Bradley PLC2, YASKAWA U84.
- DCS of YOKOGAWA CENTUM XL.
- Control Valves of Fisher, Mesoneilan, Yamatake Honeywell, Kitamura, Nales-Jamseburry, Norbro, ARCA and motorised actuators, solenoid valves.
- PRDS from ARCA for 37 Kg/cm2g steam.
- Analyzers of H&B, Siemens, AMETEK and Rosemount.
- Centrifugal Compressor control from ATLAS-COPCO, Germany and KOBE, JAPAN.
- Gas turbine controls from Dressor rand, France.
- Level instruments: Displacement, capacitance, radar, radioactive, purge type, head type, float level switches.
- Flow instruments: Orifice, Rotameter, mass flow meter, Venturi, pitot tube, Oval gear, Turbine meter, Magnetic flowmeter
- Pressure instruments: Transmitters and switches.
- Temperature instruments: RTD, TC, Pyrometer, Infra-red, thermistors
- Density meters – radioactive and head type, Conductivity meters, pH meters, Torque meters, weighing scales, Vibration monitoring system – Bently Nevada, speed measurement, online corrosion monitoring system, fire alarm system, Hydrocarbon gas leakage detection system, plant public address system.

RECENT WORK HISTORY

April-02 to Present Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. BARODA, INDIA
Manager (Instrument maintenance – Caprolactam-II)

April-97 to March-02 Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. BARODA, INDIA
Senior Engineer (Instrument maintenance) – Caprolactam-II

Feb.-94 to March-97 Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. BARODA, INDIA
Engineer (Instrument commissioning and maintenance) - Caprolactam-II

Aug.91 to Jan.-94 Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. BARODA, INDIA Asst. Engineer (Instrument Maintenance and modernization)
– Caprolactam-I

Aug.89 to Aug.-91 Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. BARODA, INDIA Management Trainee (Instrument maintenance) – Caprolactam-I

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications:
 Ladder logic and statement list based PLC programming for Siemens, Yaskawa and AB PLCs.
 YOKOGAWA CENTUM-XL DCS maintenance, programming, Graphic preparation.
 Shutdown planning and execution, calibration of all equipments.

 Specification and work procedure preparation and control for ISO9002.
 Microsoft Access 97, Excel and Office.
 Siemens S5DOS and WinCC for PLC application development.
 Taylor’s Ladder logic development software.
 Alan-Bradley’s series 6200 application development software.
 Familiar with instrument standards.

Platforms:
Windows 3.1x/95/98, Windows 2000, AT&T System V.68 UNIX on Motorola workstation, Microsoft DOS, LINUX

Field Work:
Various kinds of transmitters and control valves calibration. Routine checkup list and execution, Repair and problem history management.

RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE

Oct-98 to Present
Plant: CAPROLACTAM -II
Working as team leader for instrumentation maintenance work for Caprolactam plant. This includes shutdown planning and execution, major problem handling, training of personals, import substitution, cost reduction, documentation control and spares planning and procurement apart from day to day routine maintenance work.

 Working as a team manager to coordinate complete work with other departments.
 Involved in necessary modifications, change and implementation for better productivity and safety.
 Interacted with user groups for making necessary logic and operation.
 Responsible to prepare and review the technical specification for all such modifications and new instrumentation.
 Responsible to Coordinate with the assurance and quality. Also Responsible to Coordinate with the outside vendors improve the overall application performance.
 Served as all purpose technical problem solver and troubleshooter including innovating new common mechanism to test and debug different instruments of the system.
 Help other team members in learning and solving technical problems.
 Developed software solution to replace costly line printers and Monitors by developing device drivers and protocol conversion routines for YOKOGAWA DCS and SIEMENS PLC as a part of cost reduction activity.
 Studied various distillation column control and effect of interrelated controls. Optimized various controllers' set points for higher production and low raw material wastage.

Feb-98 to Nov-98
Project: ADBS (Anone De-bottle necking scheme)
Worked as a part of ADBS project team for detail engineering, project work, installation and commissioning. The ADBS project was implemented to enhance the productivity, safety and throughput. Which increased in annual capacity of production for CAPROLACTAM.

 Detail engineering work for 40 loops and 150 I/Os in present system using new hardware. This includes control valve sizing using Masoneilan control valve sizing software and Orifice sizing using software.
 Installation, calibration and commissioning of Analyzers, new node for DCS, new I/Os for PLCs, field instruments and control valves.

April-93 to Feb-98
Plant: CAPROLACTAM-II
Worked as instrument maintenance engineer. This includes,
1) Day to day routine maintenance work.
2) Spares planning and requirement generation.
3) Manpower planning and work distribution.
4) Trouble shooting for all kind of instrumentation problems including DCS, PLC.
5) Annual shutdown planning and execution.

Feb-91 to March-93
Project: CAPROLACTAM-II
Worked as a part of commissioning team for CAPROLACTAM-II plant. This involved
1) Installation of Instruments as per drawings and instrument schedule.
2) Complete loop checking, calibration and commissioning of complete loop (around 1300 loops).
3) GTR of plant and instrument performance test.
4) Interacted with user groups, process licensers and consultant for making necessary testing and commissioning schedules.
5) Responsible for manpower and work distribution, erection and installation of instruments, loop checking and instrument calibration.

Aug-89 to Dec-91
Project: Modernization of CAPROLACTAM-I

1) Worked as part of maintenance of mixed pneumatic and electronic instrumentation based on single/Dual loop controllers.
2) Part of modernization team for old relay based instrumentation to new PLC based instrumentation system for process and safety interlocking of continuously running CAPROLACTAM-I plant.
3) Worked for Siemens S5 series PLC programming, Logic development, interaction with process licensers for logic understanding and finalization.

BACKGROUND & INTERESTS
 Embedded micro-controller applications for control and instrumentation.
 Programming of new range of DCS, PLC and SCADA systems.
 Programming languages – C, VB6.
 Operating systems [Unix, Linux, Windows]
 Remote communication systems including field bus and RF link.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 Received CASH price and award of Appreciation from Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., for Embedded application for printer and PC interface With DCS and PLC.
 Received award of Appreciation from Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., for Protocol conversion software development.
 Received Certification after completion of training and examination for DCS programming from YOKOGAWA and PLC programming from L&T ltd. for ladder logic programming.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 23/07/1968
Nationality: INDIAN
Martial Status: Married
No of Children: Two
Passport No: B5724188 Issued at Ahmedabad on 25/9/2001.