VISHAL NIGAM

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SUMMARY:

1. Professional with 3 years of industrial experience in pressure relief systems, ferrous sulphate production and industrial solvent refining by distillation

2. Six Sigma Green Belt Certified by Institute of Industrial Engineers

3. EIT certified chemical engineer from NCEES, Texas Board of Professional Engineers.

4. Excellent understanding of software such as ASPEN (steady state and dynamics), Aspen HYSIS, ChemCAD, Polymath, Pro-II, AFT Fathom, AFT Arrow

5. Exposure to software such as Flare Net, Siemens PS-PPM, G-Proms, Auto-CAD, Minitab, Solid Works, SAP, Matlab

6. Familiar with various Quality Assurance methodologies (gas and liquid Chromatography, surface area measurement, particle size distribution, attrition rate measurement and carbon-sulfur analysis)

7. Field level implementation of HSE policies, procedure and guidelines

8. Familiar with engineering standards such as ASME, OSHA

9. Experience with application of API 520, 521 and 2000 and ASME Section VIII in relief system design for process vessels

10. Capable of developing PFD’s, equipment design specification sheets

11. Conducted PID corrections for processes analyzed during relief design

12. Experience with hydraulic calculations, pressure relief system design, relief load calculations for varied relief pressures

13. Exposure to engineering documentations like flex drawings, piping isometrics, mechanical design information, operation specification sheets

14. Good at working independently and also proficient in working as a team to solve problems with detailed analysis of data from all aspects of the process

15. Expert with office softwares like Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio, Outlook

16. Proficient communications skills in both individual and group meeting settings

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Invista S.A.R.L., Orange, TX October ’12 - Till Date

Position: Process Engineer

1. Worked on relief devices attached to process vessels for nylon-66 chemicals like adiponitrile, hexamethylene diamine, adipic acid, cyclohexane, etc

2. Detailed Analysis of individual processes to calculate projected relief capacities and decide the validity of the installed relief devices by available capacity or area comparison on basis of API 521, 520(part 1 & 2) and 2000 for deviced previously designed using Siemens PS-PPM, Superchems.

3. Accomplished marked up corrections for existing PID’s as a part of process relief analysis

4. Re-validated designs for relief valves on liquid decanting tanks, heat exchangers (involved in both heating and cooling duties) and gas analyzer systems

5. Re-validated pilot operated relief vents for pressure vessels with low operating pressures

6. Re-validated rupture disks in combination with relief valves, also accomplished standalone rupture disks for liquid full equipments and high pressure calibration gas bottles

7. Re-validated designs for conservation vents, emergency vents and flame arrestors for storage tanks with or without nitrogen headers

8. Involved with new installation design for rupture disk for gas analyzer and gas chromatographer systems for boilers and conservation vents for storage tanks

9. Audited Relief devices based on PRA and PHA studies

10. Involved in verification of process release headers in the plant for available release capacities during multiple relief situations

JHS Chemipharma Pvt. Ltd., Navi Mumbai, India July ’08 - July ’09

Position: Process Engineer

1. Worked as a Process Engineer in support for industrial solvent purification for pharmaceutical industries

2. Responsible for process mapping to start the distillation for a particular supply from client for purification

3. Carried out Waste reduction project by analyzing the plant and finding the loop holes in the standard operating procedure

4. Actively involved in critical analysis of plant data for process optimization using Excel & Minitab

5. Applied PSM (Process Safety Management) tools like HAZOP study and SWOT analysis

6. Took part in mock safety drills concerning column flooding system overpressure to ensure proper emergency response at plant level

7. Trained for SAP configuration of Production Planning Master Data, bills of material, work center, routing, plant resource tools, master recipe

8. Trained for demand management, sales and operation planning(SOP), capacity requirement planning and MRP run in SAP

Somatic Pharma Salts, Mumbai, India Jan ’07 - June ’08

Position: Engineering Intern

1. Worked as engineering intern in production of ferrous sulphate

2. Performed design calculations for reaction kettle design, centrifuge lining thickness and crystallizer

3. Generating reports on production, quality and efficiency of the process on a weekly basis

4. Managing the equipment acid cleanup and ETP operation for spent acid disposal

5. Controlled packaging operations for crystals and powdered ferrous sulphate and managing storage after production

6. Suggested possible process modifications and equipments modifications in an operational plant

7. Conducted Time Study analysis to calculate VAT(Value Added Time) and non-VAT to keep a check on time wastage by labors

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Dr. Carl L Yaws, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX Jan ’11 to Jan ’12

Position: Student Research Assistant

1. Responsible for data collection, sorting and selection of data for analytical research of solubility of water in benzenes

2. Calculating missing data by interpolation and graphing techniques

3. Assisted professor in final verification and arrangement of all selected data for printing purposes

4. Research culminated into final publication in Chemical Engineering magazine

EDUCATION:

1. Masters in Chemical Engineering Graduation - Dec’11

Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas GPA – 3.33/4.00

1. Bachelors in Chemical Engineering Graduation - May ‘09 University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India Grade- First Class

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

1. Solubility of Water in Benzenes as a function of Temperature”, Chemical Engineering Magazine, Dec ’11

2. Viscosity Measurements and Data Correlation for Two Synthetic Natural Gas Mixtures

3. Study of Amines Production and Manufacturing

4. Profit maximization by optimizing recovery in a Ketene Plant using Aspen Plus

5. Biodiesel Plastic: Future of Packaging and Fuel for Military

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