Engineer Power Plant

Dhanasekar Chellam

Email: **********.*******@*****.***

Phone (M): 518-***-****

Summary:

. Authorized to work in U.S. (Green Card holder)

. Domain Experience:

Power Plant Automation - Turbine, Boiler & BOP Controls

Coal Yard Automation

Water Treatment Plant

Oil Extraction and Transportation

Copper Smelter Instrumentation

Mining Industry - Crusher & Merrill Crowe Controls

Gas Compressor and metering unit controls

Juice Pasteurization Controls

. PLC/DCS Experience:

Elsag Bailey DCS - INFI90

Honeywell DCS - Experion C200 Controller

GE Mark VIe, Mark VI Controller

GE Cimplicity (HMI)

Easy 5 Simulation software (Boeing)

Allen Bradley PLC

Panelview HMI

iFIX HMI

. Skills:

Field Instrumentation - calibration, wiring, loop testing and

troubleshooting.

Erection and commissioning of turbine, boiler & BOP instruments,

controls and drives - including pump controls and relay logic.

Programming/configuration of PLC/DCS systems

Developing HMI graphics

Testing/Simulation of turbine controls

Factory Acceptance Test - Hardware & Software

Panel design and wiring

Project planning and execution - projects up to $75,000 in value

Preparation of proposals (for clients and projects)

Troubleshooting and fixing program and field issues

Familiarity with following drawings - P&IDs, Panel layout, network

drawings, single-line, loop drawings and I/O drawings

Power distribution and calculation

VFD commissioning

Comfortable working with 110VAC / 480VAC equipment

Proficient in MS Office

Experience in Autocad

Experienced in Devicenet, Modbus and Fieldbus communications

Project management - including but not limited to project scoping,

resource allocation, scheduling, client interactions and business

development.

Employment Summary:

. Reliable Controls Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT from December 2013

till date with designation as "Electrical & Control Systems Engineer"

. GE Power & Water, Salem, VA from August 2012 to November 2013 with

designation as "Lead Engineer"

. GE Energy, Hyderabad, from May 2004 to May 2007 with designation as

"Lead Engineer"

. Tata Honeywell, Chennai, from Oct 2003 to May 2004 with designation as

"Application Engineer"

. TCP Power Division, Gummidipoondi from July 1999 to Sep 2003 with

designation as "Engineer"

Education:

. Bachelors in Instrumentation & Controls Engineering

Graduate 4 year degree (1994-1998),

Regional Engineering College (NIT), Trichy, India

Experience:

RELIABLE CONTROLS CORPORATION - Salt Lake City, Utah

Control Systems Engineer

Kennecott Utah Copper, Magna, Utah

Copper Smelter - Control Systems Engineer

. Project management for shutdown projects.

. Instrumentation support for Flash Smelting Furnace.

. Designed and implemented Heat Loss calculations for the FS furnace.

. PLC code troubleshooting for Air Slide Conveyor.

. Pump house upgrade: Project management for upgrading the cooling water

pumps.

AWD, Payson, Utah

Juice Pasteurizer - Control Systems Engineer

. Designed control panel for the pasteurization unit. Refurbished the

existing panel.

. Programmed and tested the controls in SLC5/04 for Pasteurization and

cleaning modes.

. Reviewed and tested the HMI screens and alarms.

. Wired the panel for different voltage levels (120VAC, 480VAC and

24VDC).

EPCO, Luman, Wyoming

Compressor Station - Control Systems Engineer

. Developed iFix 3.5 screens based on the P&IDs.

. Tested the ESD system and Alarm system.

. Diagnosed and fixed all issues on the existing iFix screens and on the

field.

EPCO, Red Desert Plant 154, Wyoming

Metering Unit - Control Systems Engineer

. Designed a backplane with PLC to operate and control a metering unit.

. Developed and tested program in Compact Logix.

. Configured and tested Pro-soft communication to operate the metering

unit from remote.

Allied Gold Corp, Hycroft, Winnemucca, Nevada

Crushers and Merrill Crowe - Control Systems Engineer

. Diagnosed and fixed issues related to devicenet communication.

. Calibrated and commissioned weight scales on the conveyors

. Commissioned AC drives, soft starters and devices on the preg and

barren ponds

. Developed ladder program for the pump controls on RSLogix 5000.

. Developed HMI screen on Factorytalk view studio to control/display all

equipment on the ponds.

. Wired and tested hardware protection for the conveyors.

D.R. Sperry & Co., Winnemucca, Nevada

Hycroft Mine - Control Systems Engineer

. Provided controls engineering support for final commissioning of

Hycroft Mine filter presses.

. Performed PLC programming modifications on washers and presses.

. Updated Panelview HMI screens for filter presses.

GE Power & Water, Salem, Virginia

Lead Engineer

. Responsible for Electrical and Balance of plant controls for a combine

cycle power plant which has 40 gas turbines and 10 steam turbines.

. Developed software in Mark VIe DCS based on logic diagram and

functional description.

. Configured Modbus interface on DCS for third party PLC systems.

Graphics

. Developed 80 (approx.) process screens in Cimplicity V8.2 based on

P&IDs.

. Developed 50 (approx.) electrical screens based on Single Line

Diagram.

. Developed Modbus screens based on PLC screens shots and Modbus

database from PLC vendor.

. Developed custom Cimplicity objects for all device types (eg: pumps,

MOVs) based on number of inputs.

Hardware Testing

. Completed panel inspection for 154 cabinets. Panel inspection includes

checking the layout, cabling and grounding.

. Hardware testing done for cabinets which include loop checks, power

redundancy, controller redundancy and IO Net redundancy.

. HMI setup done for all HMIs and Historians.

. Redundancy check done for both Unit Data Highway and Plant Data

Highway.

Factory Acceptance Test

. Hardware testing done in front of the customer and third party

inspector for all cabinets.

. Prepared test plans and demonstrated controls for all electrical

systems and balance of plant systems to the customer.

GE Energy, Hyderabad, India

Lead Engineer

. Designed and tested controls for 22 steam turbine and 13 gas turbine

units. The steam turbine units include large steam, medium steam and

straight condensing turbines. The gas turbine frame sizes include 9FA,

7FA, 6B and 9E.

. Participated in kick off meetings to discuss and learn customer needs.

. Generated software in Mark VI from existing library based on customer

requirements.

. Customized screens in Cimplicity V5.5 based on the customer

requirements

. Created simulation models in Easy 5 simulation software and tested the

controls.

. Configured second language screens based on project location.

. Responsible for ordering the hardware, HMIs and software tools and

shipping it to the site.

. Generated I/O report and shared it with the customer for field wiring.

Tata Honeywell, Chennai, India

Applications Engineer

. Developed controls and graphics in Experion C200 based on P&ID for

water treatment plants located in Calgary, Canada.

. Prepared Detailed Design Document for Control and Monitoring system,

Control narrative and Graphics.

. Developed controls and graphics in Experion C200 based on P&IDs for

gas extraction and transportation project located in Algeria.

. Prepared Master Engineering Database using Microsoft Access.

. I/O allocation done taking care of Input redundancy and process

redundancy.

TCP Power Division, Gummidipoondi, India

Engineer

. Responsible for erection of all field instruments in Steam turbine and

balance of plant systems.

. Calibrated HART transmitters, pressure indicators and switches.

. Designed and commissioned relay logic to switch transmitters between

DCS and backup panel indicators.

. Laid cables and done wiring for a complete I/O cabinet.

. Installed and commissioned INFI90 DCS.

. Commissioned the following systems:

o Air Cooled Condenser

o Condensate Extraction Pumps

o Boiler Feed pumps

o Turbine oil pumps

o Ash Handling System

o Coal Handling System

o Burner Management System

o HVAC System

o Air Compressor System

o Water Treatment Plant

. Responsible for material handling and maintain stock for all turbine

instruments

. Installed and commissioned PLC systems for ash handling and coal

handling systems

. Planned and executed preventive maintenance and shutdown maintenance

schedules.

Training:

. Undergone training on "Process Automation using PLC (Allen Bradley)"

at Advanced Training Institute, Guindy

. Foundation Fieldbus H1 - Lead trainer in Overview and Installation of

fieldbus

. Delta V HMI

. Siemens Simatic Controller

. Database training in Microsoft Access[pic][pic]

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