Power Plant Project
Resume:
BALASUBRAMANI DHANDAPANI - M.TECH
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Overall 6 years of experience in Control, Instrumentation and Automation on
various applications. Currently working as Senior Engineer - Controls &
Automation in GE Energy Power Conversion (Formerly - Converteam Power
Conversion)
EDUCATIONAL PROFILE
> M.Tech - Mechatronics (2007 Batch) from Anna University, India and
secured 80.6%
> B.Tech - Electronics and Instrumentation from Vellore Institute of
Technology, Vellore, India and secured CGPA 7.9 out of 10
RESPONSIBILITIES
> DCS application development for Gas and Steam turbine
> DCS and PLC application development for plant automation
> PLC/Power Electronics Controller application development for Medium
Voltage Drives from 4 MW to 27MW Synchronous and Induction machines
> Engineering application design, development and execution of control
and electrical systems (DCS, Power Electronics Controller, SCADA,
and PLC)
> Control system development. Experience in Power, Oil & Gas and
Solar.
> Basic & detail engineering for field Instruments and commissioning
field instruments with DCS/PLC - IO list, Instrument selection,
P&ID. Experienced in Combined cycle power plant & Thermal power
plant automation
SKILLS
> Expertise in DCS and PLC (Function Block and Ladder logic
programming)
> SCADA
> Expertise in Control System development - like PID controllers
> Instrumentation design and Engineering, P&ID, sensors & transmitters
> Power Electronics Controller (VME and PCI based controller) for
Medium Voltage Drives (VFD)
GE Energy Power Conversion (formerly - Converteam), Chennai & USA
Period: 3 Years 1 month
Designation: Senior Engineer - Controls and Automation.
Current location: Chennai, India
Individual Achievement: 1) "GE External Focus - Silver"
2) "GE retention bonus"
Current project: DC drive - product development
Role: PLC/PEC Controller platform development
Location: Chennai, India
Description: Controller PLC/Power Electronic Controller hardware
engineering for DC drive.
Project 1: Gas Compressor application
Role: Application development for process control and VFD drive (27MW)
controller.
Location: Pittsburgh (engineering office) and Salt Lake City (Project
site), USA
Description: Developed an application for process in PLC and drive controls
in PEC,
> Control logic in High Speed (cycle time of 500 micro sec) Power
Electronics Controller for VFD
> PLC process automation for transferring the gas compressor motor to
DOL and back to VFD
> There are 2 drives and 2 motors, where customer can select any drive
to run any motor with interlocks
Project 2: Gas Compressor application
Role: Application development for VFD drive (27 MW) controller.
Location: Pittsburgh (engineering office), USA
Description: Developed an application for drive controls in PEC/PLC
> Control logic in High Speed (cycle time of 500 micro sec) PEC for
VFD
> Developed a speed skip band function block for 5 different speeds
with fault detection on skip band.
> Developed and modified the drive software to accommodate 6 DFEs 36
pulse
Project 3: Gas Compressor application
Role: Application development for process control automation and VFD (4MW)
controller
Location: Pittsburgh (engineering office) and Billings (project site), USA
Description: Developed an application for process in PLC and drive controls
in PEC
> Developed PLC process automation for gas compressor to transfer
across the line and transfer back to VFD.
> Control logic in High Speed (cycle time of 500 micro sec) PEC for
VFD
> VFD control logic development and modification on hot fly catch
technology to transfer the compressor motor from DOL to VFD
BGR Energy Systems (Formerly - GEA Energy Systems), Chennai
Period: 3 years
Designation: Engineer - Control & Instrumentation.
Role: Basic and detail engineering for Natural gas and Thermal Power
plants.
Project 1: 92.2 MW COMBINED CYCLE POWER PROJECT (GAS & STEAM TURBINE)
Individual Achievement: 'STAR PERFORMER - C&I'
Role: Instrumentation design & engineering and Control system (DCS)
architecture design, IO configuration & process logic development using
function block programming & Ladder logic programming
Location: Chennai (engineering office) and Madurai (project site), India
Description: Field instruments engineering, selections, installation &
commissioned at site (Pressure, temperature, flow, level, Flame and Humming
sensor), P&ID review & correction
Control logic for plant common DCS - Siemens - SPPA T1000
> 62 MW Gas Turbine (Ansoldo, Italy) controller - ABB Symphony Harmony
System
> 32.2 MW Steam Turbine (China) controller - Woodward (digital Electro
Hydraulic) governor Triple Modular Redundancy controller with TSI
Bentley system.
> Gas booster compressor (Ariel, USA) locally controlling by GE Fanuc
PLC
> Automatic Turbine Run up System for Steam turbine - logic development.
All the above controllers are linked with Modbus communication protocol.
Design & engineering development and also successfully commissioned the
above at site
Project 2: 2 X 600 MW THERMAL POWER PROJECT.
Role: Instrumentation design and engineering. DCS - basic & detail
engineering for Boiler Turbine Generator & BOP. Control system architecture
design, IO configuration, and process logic development.
Location: Chennai (engineering office), India
Description: Field instruments engineering (Pressure, temperature, flow,
level)
Invensys Foxboro DCS for Boiler Turbine Generator Unit
o Single boiler 600 MW capacity - logic development and
instrumentation design
o Single turbine 600 MW capacity - logic development &
instrumentation design
> PLC's as sub system for Balance Of Plant
o Triconex PLC - engineering and logic development
> Invensys Foxboro DCS for plant common automation system.
Invensys DCS - basic & detail engineering for Boiler Turbine Generator
Control system architecture design, IO configuration and process logic
development
> Boiler protection system
> Burner Management System
> Turbine protection system
> Governor - TMR
All sub system PLC's are linked with OPC (Modbus) protocol.
Intern Project during M.Tech graduation as part of Industrial Experience:
Company: LineHexp Automation private ltd, Chennai, India
'Online production monitoring system' - to monitor number of finished
product that comes out from final bay of brake shoe manufacturing plant. It
also calculates PPM defective products.
Trainings (Certified Courses):
> ABB: DCS - Symphony Harmony Controller for Gas turbine, India - 2009
> Siemens: DCS - SPPA T1000, Power plant automation DCS at Gurgaon, India -
2009
> Automation and Controls Systems - PLC design, development and programming
at Pune, India - 2006
Languages: German - Level 1
Academic FINAL YEAR DISSERTATIONS
M.Tech: Mechatronics (Industrial Automation) - year of graduation 2007.
> Successfully automated the material transfer from inventory to machine by
implementing a robot.
Funded by, LineHexp Automation private ltd- Chennai, India
B.Tech: Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering - year of graduation 2005
> Successfully modelled Infrared Heater at Steady state which is used in
Thermo Structural Test.
Funded by, Defence Research Development Lab - Hyderabad, India
References:
Manickam. V - Control & Automation - Team Leader, GE, Chennai -
Anandan Kannan - GM - C&I, BGR Energy Systems, India - 094********
S.Prabhu - Sr Manager - Power Electronics, Ashok Leyland, India -
Mark Duewiger: Control & Automation - Leader NA, GE, USA - +1 412 736
9504
Date: 20-08-2013
D.Balasubramani
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