Plant Design

BIO-DATA OF R.V.RAMAN KUMAR

Name: Rekapally Venkata Raman Kumar

Father's Name: MR. R. A. RAMA RAO

Present Address: ***, *********** ********, *********

Near Maharajpur Border- Opp. Anand Vihar ISBT

Distt. Ghaziabad, UP-201010, India

Phone : +911**-*******(Res)

Mobile: +919*********, +919*********,

Educational Qualifications: Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering in First

Class with Distinction from Regional Engineering College, Surat (Under

South Gujarat University) in 1983.

Brief Introduction on Work Experience.

I worked in various prestigious consultancy companies and at present working in a major power

company in various capacities with over 26 years of work experience. My main work has been

planning, analysis & design of RCC and Steel structures related to steel plants, power plants,

industrial structures, residential and commercial structures and buildings. I had exposure to and

understanding of related components of steel plants and power plants. I am reasonably

conversant with the mechanical and electrical aspects of the above in addition to civil and

structural aspects in which I have the experience and expertise.

I was involved in the planning, analysis, design and preparation of Civil/Structural drawings of

major structures related to steel and power plants like steel melt shops, iron ore and coal

handling plant structures like Transfer Points(Junction towers),crusher houses, track hoppers and

Machinery Hatches, wagon tippler structures, Stacker Reclaimer foundations, underground

tunnels for conveyors over ground conveyor galleries and their supporting trestles etc, fuel oil

handling system civil works and structures like Large and medium fuel oil tank foundations,

retaining walls, drainage scheme in FO area, Oil Water Separator pits, fuel oil pump houses, pipe

supporting trestles, pedestals and their foundations,design of pile and open foundations for

power plant structures, ash handling system civil works,ash dyke design,miscellaneous other

plant and non plant/offsite buildings and structures like main plant building for power house,

administrative building, auditorium, Workshop bldg, permanent stores, CHP office Cum

workshop building, dozer maintenance shed, Fire Station building, drill tower etc.

I am thoroughly familiar with all aspects of RCC and steel structural designs and I have a

fairly good working knowledge of using computerized structural analysis and design

packages.

I am also thoroughly familiar with piling and pile foundations and pile testing procedures,

having been involved in the designs of piling and foundations of major power projects

notably Kahalgaon Stage-I, Unchahar and Vindhyachal STPP Stage-II of NTPC, wherein

I single handedly designed the pile foundations for main power house building columns,

Auxiliary columns, mill-bunker building, ESP and boiler supporting structure

foundations, PA, FD and ID fan foundations etc..Also I was involved in the piling and

foundation packages of other plants notably Kayamkulam and Faridabad gas projects.

I am also experienced in preparation of feasibility reports and Tender documents, Quantity

estimation for Steel and RCC structures, R&M and retrofitting/rehabilitation of old and

distressed structures, use of latest structural analysis and design softwares.

I am also familiar with the British, Chinese and American codes of design practices in addition

to relevant IS codes..

I am in a position to lead a team of engineers in planning and executing detailed

engineering work for power plant, steel plant, infrastructure or any other industrial

project as well as give support to site during execution.

For me, the important aspects of any work are Safety of the structure, Economical design,

practicability and feasibility of the structure as well as aesthetics and delivering the work on

schedule. Adherence to latest codal requirements, mechanical and electrical and other client

requirement are also important. Some of the major works done by me during my professional

career are listed below under the heading “Professional Experience”. These are including but not

limited to the following:--

Professional Experience:

1) Worked as Assistant Structural Engineer from July 1983 to December 1985 in M/S M.N.

Dastur and Co. Ltd., Calcutta. Here I was responsible in the planning, analysis and design of

various steel structures for Vishakapatnam Steel plant (VSP-RINL). These structures included

mainly:

Large mill buildings and their various components like columns& col bracings, surge

girders/wind girders, column lacings, crane girders, gable end box girders, purlins,

gusseted bases for columns, roof trusses, plan and vertical bracings, all types of runners,

beams etc.

Designs of conveyor galleries of large spans and sizes and their supporting structures i.e.

Trestles and towers (4 legged trestles), transfer points etc.

Design of steel bunkers and silos.

Design of floor beams at various levels in various buildings in the steel plant.

All other structures as envisaged in a steel plant.

2) Worked as Civil Design Engineer in M/S Kumbhani Consultans at Calcutta during the

period December' 85 to June' 87. Here I was involved in the designs of residential multi-storey

buildings, hotel buildings, canopy/roof structures over petrol pumps and large chemical tanks

small and medium industrial buildings for e.g. Factory buildings for Telelink NICCO at Kalyani

in West Bengal, Tamralipta and Kangsabati weaving and spinning mills, Khetawat chemicals

and fertilizers, various other RCC and Steel Structures.

3) Joined NTPC Ltd. in July, 1987

Worked for 28 years total in NTPC Ltd;

26 years in total in Delhi-NCR: NTPC Scope Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi (7 years)

and in NTPC Engineering Office Complex, Sector-24, Noida, UP (19 years)

Bongaigaon Thermal Power Project (NTPC project site), Assam. (2 years)

I worked as Additional General Manager (FES/FQA). Here, I was involved in many areas

like soil investigation, foundation design, design of steel and concrete structures,

preparation of feasibility reports, tender documents, and quantity estimation of all sorts of

structures related with large power plants.

My DETAILED WORK EXPERIENCE at NTPC is listed below, where, a detailed description

of major work done, project wise is given.

I. Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Project, stage-I, in Bihar:

Soil investigation, settlement and bearing capacity calculations.

Piling and foundation- Structural design of piles, pile caps, pedestals etc. of main power

house building, boiler building,ESP foundations, Chimney, ID, FD fan foundations, BFP

foundations, mill bunker buildings & mill foundations etc.

Design of ash pipe line supporting structures- trestles, towers (at intermediate locations

and at bends), and box braced girders up to 35 m span to support ash pipe lines.

Design of ash pipe supporting pedestals and anchor blocks at vertical and horizontal

bends.

Design of foundations for 100 m high tower crane.

Complete checking of designs of all the foundations for main plant building, boiler,

bunker, TG, BFP, Chimney and all the main structures.

Design of Ash dyke (earthen bund with core) and planning for pond size, design of leach

ate escape tower.

Designs of roads and drains.

Designs of small buildings.

Complete design of air washer building- A composite structure constructed of both RCC

and steel.

Cooling tower- Thorough checking of all design calculations as submitted by the

contractor M/S Paharpur Cooling Towers.

II. Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Project Stage-I : Design of various structures under

General Civil Works package, roads, drains, etc; Design of administrative office building, design

of ash pipe line supporting steel bridge over a canal etc.

III. Godavari Gas based Power Project: Involved in the initial stages for sweet water scheme

planning and preparation of tender documents (This project was aborted later on).

IV. Ramagundam STPP STAGE-I:

Totally involved in the designs of the package- 'Ash decant water recirculation cum effluent

treatment plant. Here I was thoroughly involved in the complete designs of Effluent treatment

plant components i.e. Pump houses, sumps, reactor clarifiers, sludge thickening tanks, vacuum

filter house, parshal flume and distribution tanks, acid dozing chambers, coal dust settling tanks,

chemical house etc. In addition I designed the pipe line carrying ash decant water from the

Kundanpally tank (near ash dyke) to the Effluent treatment plant. This was a gravity flow pipe

line & it envisaged usage 1000 dia MS pipes at road, rail crossings and 1000 dia/750 dia RCC

Hume pipes in rest of the locations; Design of junction chambers and pipe supporting pedestals

and their foundations; Design of inlet structure with gates and trash rack and stop logs at the ash

pond location.

I was involved in the review of engineering for wagon Tippler structure as Ramagundam,

wherein I reviewed the design calculations and drawings submitted by M/S L&T.

V. Dubai Electricity and water authority- As a consultancy project by NTPC: Here I designed

substation buildings, switchyard civil works,roads, underground and overhead tanks,

transformer foundations and oil separation pit, roads, drains etc.

VI. VINDHYACHAL STPP STAGE II – PILING AND FOUNDATION

PACKAGE:

Pile group analysis /Complete pile layout and design of pile caps, pedestals for Main Plant

buildings columns, bunker bay columns, TG Auxiliary columns, Boiler columns, Boiler lift

columns etc and foundations for ESP columns, Gable end columns etc.

VII. Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Project- Stage-I I

Piling and foundation package : Completely in house work related to Pile group analysis

and layout of piles in each foundation and design of pile cap foundation for boiler, Mill

Bunker, Main Plant ABC rows, auxiliary columns,ESP columns etc.

Planning, analysis and design of workshop building, foundations for various machines

and miscellaneous mechanical and electrical equipment on workshop floor as well as

preparation of construction drawings.

Design of foundations for trestles carrying fuel oil pipes and miscellaneous other pipes in

the main plant area.

VIII. Kayamkulam Gas Based combined cycle Power project, Stage-I

Review of engineering for piling and foundation package- Reviewed designs and

drawings for the main power house, HRSG and other related plant structures.

Engineering of workshop building.

IX. Faridabad Gas Based Power project, Stage- I

Review of engineering for piling and foundation package-Reviewed designs and

drawings for the main power house, HRSG, GRSG and other related plant structures.

Engineering of workshop building.

X. Talcher Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-I I

In house design of coal handling plant structures like stacker reclaimer foundation, track

hopper structure, machinery hatches and their shed, MCC rooms, track hopper control

room, pent houses and tunnel, complete planning and design of drainage arrangement and

design of drains in the coal Handling plant area:

Review of balance CHP structures submitted by turnkey vendor –design and drawing

review for conveyor galleries, foundation and structure for 2-legged and 4- legged

trestles, Transfer Points, crusher Houses, cable trestles& galleries, roads etc.

In house design and preparation of construction drawings and fabrication drawings(as

applicable) for

1. 6500sqm Administrative building, auditorium, AC plant building with

cooling tower on roof top and MCC room for the complex, transformer

foundations, connecting corridors, paving and drains, roads for the complex,

covered RCC car parking using folded plate, boundary wall and gate

complex and miscellaneous minor structures.

2. Permanent store building with 8000sqm covered area- A double storied

RCC building with steel roof truss and metal deck slab featuring multi

storied racking system for material storage.

3. 4000sqm Workshop building –A building with composite construction with

EOT crane in the main workshop hall which was of structural steel

construction with metal deck roof and an annexe portion of RCC for the

office.

4. Fuel oil pressurizing pump house- A complex building with composite

construction to house pressurizing pumps, heaters, accumulators, drain oil

tank, MCC and other equipment and the associated pedestal for the pipe

lines.

5. HFO tank foundation and dyke wall,

I also conducted an audit of all construction activities at site as a part of corporate QA audit team

XI. Simhadri TPP,Stage- I

1. Design and drawing review of 3500 sqm administrative building

2. Design and drawing review of all structures of fuel oil handling system mainly fuel oil

tank foundations and dyke walls, pressurizing and unloading pump houses, railway

unloading area paving and header trench, tanker unloading area, oil water separator pits,

other misc. items like drains, roads pedestals, area paving etc.

3. Design and drawing review of 3000sqm workshop building.

XII. Rihand STPP-I I

Coal Handling Plant: - Design and drawing review of major structures of coal handling plant like

conveyor galleries, trestle, transfer points, Track Hopper, MCC rooms, pump houses etc.

Complete engineering and drawings for Administration building (Extension), CHP office cum

Workshop building, Dozer Shed, Field Quality Assurance Lab etc.

I also conducted an audit of the construction activities of Stage-II as a member of the corporate

quality audit team.

XIII. Vindhyachal STPP-II I

Complete engineering of FO Handling System Civil works .Design and drawings for Structures

like F.O. Pump house, F.O tank foundation and dyke wall, Oil water Separator pit,

pedestals/foundations for pipes connecting various structures, tanker unloading area, drainage

arrangement and roads, transformer foundations etc. In addition I completed the required

engineering and got detailed scope and fabrication drawings prepared for Dozer Shed and other

misc offsite buildings.

Wagon Tippler package: To augment the coal handling capacity of existing and new units, a new

package has been introduced which includes wagon tipplers,conv galleries, crusher house etc,

and involves interconnection with all stages of the plant.

XIV. Kahalgaon STPP-II(2X500MW)

Coal Handling Plant: -Complete Design and drawing review of all structures of this massive coal

handling plant like conveyor galleries, trestle, transfer points, Track Hopper, Stacker Reclaimer

foundations, Crusher house, underground TPs and tunnels, MCC rooms, pump houses etc,

entirely single handed. I handled enormous volumes of work coming from the turnkey vendor,

thoroughly reviewing the same and offering critical comments at the same time ensuring that the

work adhered to the technical specifications/Indian and foreign standards as well as the input

drawings from manufacturers complete engineering and drawings for Main O&M Workshop

building, CHP office cum Workshop building, Dozer Shed, Fuel oil pump house and tank

foundation, fire station and drill tower, pipe supporting pedestals etc.

XV. Barh STPP-I(3x660MW )

Coal Handling Plant: -Complete Design and drawing review of all structures of this massive coal

handling plant like conveyor galleries, trestle, transfer points, Track Hopper, Wagon tipplers,

Stacker Reclaimer foundations, Crusher house, underground Transfer Points and tunnels, MCC

rooms, pump houses etc, entirely single handed. I handled enormous volumes of work coming

from the turnkey vendor, thoroughly reviewing the same and offering critical comments at the

same time ensuring that the work adhered to the technical specifications/Indian and foreign

standards as well as the input drawings from manufacturers. Interacted with various departments,

groups, organizations including obtaining drawings approval from Indian Railways for the

structures directly bearing railway loads.

Main plant and SG area Civil Works: Design review of transfer points and conveyor galleries

near the bunker buildings coming in the main plant area,preparation of scope and fabrication

drawings. Fuel oil pressurizing pump house: Design, preparation of drgs and fabrication drgs.

Offsite Civil Works: Design and drawings, fabrication drgs as applicable for:-Workshop

building, Administrative bldg, bulldozer shed,

CHP Office cum Workshop bldg, permanent store building etc.

XVI. Simhadri STPP-II(2x500MW)

Coal Handling Plant: -Complete Design and drawing review of all structures of this massive coal

handling plant like conveyor galleries, trestle, transfer points, Track Hopper, Wagon tipplers,

Stacker Reclaimer foundations, Crusher house, underground Transfer Points and tunnels, MCC

rooms, pump houses etc, entirely single handed.

XVII. ARAVALLI Jhajjar STPP-I(3x500MW)

Coal Handling Plant: -Complete Design and drawing review of all structures of this massive coal

handling plant like conveyor galleries, trestle, transfer points, 4 nos Wagon tipplers, Stacker

Reclaimer foundations, Crusher house, underground Transfer Points and tunnels, MCC rooms,

pump houses etc, entirely single handed.

XVIII. Sipat STPP- I Fuel oil handling system-Complete engineering for all the fuel oil

handling related structures –F.o.Pressurizing PH, Pedestals with foundations for pipe lines etc.

Offsite civil Works: Administrative bldg, Satcom bldg,

Fuel oil handling system- Complete engineering for all the fuel oil handling related structures –

F.o.Pressurizing PH, Pedestals with foundations for pipe lines etc.

XIX. Sipat STPP-I I

Fuel oil handling system-Complete engineering for all the fuel oil handling related structures –

F.o.Pressurizing PH, F.O. Unloading pump house, fo tank foundations along with containment

wall, design of pavement and related structures of tanker unloading area, drains pits, access

staircases etc, Pedestals with foundations for pipe lines etc.

Offsite civil works: Design and drawings, fabrication drgs as applicable for:-Workshop building,

Administrative bldg, bulldozer shed, CHP Office cum Workshop bldg, permanent store building

etc.

XX. R&M works and RLA studies:

Did extensive work in the field of R&M, RLA studies, preparation of tech specs of RLA jobs to

be undertaken specifying various types of destructive and non-destructive tests, specs for R&M

works of entire dilapidated and old power plants of DVC and state electricity boards, retrofitting

and refurbishing of damaged concrete and steel structures,

I have complete knowledge of the entire gamut of R&M works, retrofitting and repairing

damaged structures, preparing technical specifications and suggesting remedial measures thereof.

Some of the works done by me in this regard include Chandrapura and Durgapur thermal power

plants of DVC, Gandhinagar TPP of GSEB, Ropar TPP of PSEB,preparation of specs for

renovation/repair work of damaged track hopper structure at a plant of NTPC etc.

XXI. Talcher Thermal Power Station:

Combined Heavy machinery cum Workshop building- Engineering design and drawings.

Misc other buildings.

XXII. Korba STPP-III:

CHP for Stage-III: Involved right from the conceptualization stage. Involved in the detailed

engineering stage for the designs and drawings of transfer points, conveyor galleries, pump

houses and MCC rooms, drains and roads etc.

Main plant and offsite civil works: Design, construction drawings and fabrication drgs of main

plant transfer points, connecting conveyor galleries and tripper conveyor galleries.

Buildings: Permanent store building engineering.

XXIII. Anpara D power project of UPRVNL

Involved in the CHP package and wagon Tippler Package detailed engineering review. Involved

in checking and approving design calculations and drawings for various structures of CHP

mainly Crusher House, over ground and underground transfer points, tunnels, conveyor galleries

and trestles, cable trestles and cable trestles, stacker reclaimer wheel load analysis and design of

SR foundations, pump houses, MCC and electrical control rooms, Roads Drains etc.

XXIV. Bongaigaon Thermal power project:

Fuel oil handling civil works like dyke wall around tanks, oil water separator pit, fuel oil pump

house .Other offsite structures like CHP office cum workshop building, canteen building etc.

XXV. Vallur TPP

Fuel oil handling system civil works.

XXVI. Barh-I I

CHP: Review of CHP package of Barh-II super thermal power project. This is a major CHP

package consisting of various structures like Stacker Reclaimer,Crusher House, Wagon tipplers,

track hopper, underground and over ground TPs, tunnels, over ground galleries and trestles,cable

galleries, pump houses MCC rooms, drainage and connecting roads for the plant etc. I am

responsible for total review of designs, getting the relevant Civil structural drawings and getting

the same released to site after due discussions/review/modifications etc.

Offsite civil works: CHP office cum workshop building, bulldozer shed, permanent store

building with heavy and light material loading stores, fuel oil pressurizing pump house.

XXVII. Rihand STPP-IV:

Fuel oil handling system civil works

XXVIII. Vindhyachal STPP-IV:

CHP package: Review of CHP package engineering with all the major structures of CHP as

mentioned in other CHP packages as well as integrating the new CHP with existing CHPs of

previous stages.Fuel oil handling system civil works. Presently, I am looking after Field Quality

Assurance and Field

Engineering related works at NTPC Bongaigaon Thermal project site.

These are some of the works which I was involved in. I was responsible for the planning,

analysis, design and getting the drawings prepared for all the above mentioned works

which I performed to the satisfaction of my superiors. Also I was involved in the

preparation of tender documents of various works mainly preparation of documents

pertaining to technical specifications and Bill of quantities as well as tender drawings.

Since April 2013 at NTPC Bongaigaon Thermal Power project, in Assam as AGM(Field

Quality Assurance and Field Engineering Services),Heading both the departments.

Looking after the entire Quality related and engineering issues at site, with at least 40

people reporting to me.

I am responsible for surveillance audits, audits by Central QA group, Participating and

certifying for A class checks, Surveillance for B type checks and taking note of C-type

chks. Responsible for total quality control of all activities at site, be it material testing,

concrete and reinforcement testing, equipment calibration and testing, MTC, PDC etc.

Making all departments to comply with the requirement of audit observations etc.

All engineering related issues at site.

COURSES ATTENDED:

a) Languages:

6 Month Certificate course in Russian Language From erstwhile

Centre of Soviet Science, art & culture under erstwhile USSR embassy.

b) Softwares& hardwares

: Certificate for attending and successfully completing DBASE III +,

LOTUS, Wordstar, VC++, C- Language, Computer architecture & assembly language

programming, use of Microcomputers in Civil engineering, Visual Basic

c) Technical :

Courses on design of earthquake resistant structures (conducted by IIT, Kanpur), Fortran-77,

MS- Windows; Concrete and concrete technology, concrete mix design from NCBM ; Safety

Management in construction Industry, 3 week training on “Enhancing Managerial Competence”,

at Power Management Institute of NTPC, training on STAAD, MATHCAD and AUTOCAD

softwares.

Attended two week training on ANSYS, a FEM based analysis program at Centre for finite

Element analysis and design at IIT, Chennai in 1997.

I have good working knowledge of STAAD Pro (latest) and other structural analysis and design

packages. Also well versed with PLAXIS finite element software.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Nationality: Indian

Mother tongue: Telugu

Religion: Hindu

Languages known: English, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, and Russian

Other non-professional achievements/special abilities & qualities:

1) I can fluently converse in many languages as stated above and reasonably understand and

communicate in many other languages like Punjabi, Bhojpuri etc. I am learning Spanish and

German languages also.

2) I got 99.99 percentile score in TOEFL examination in year 1984, which was one of the top

scores in the world at that time.

3) I used to take part in active social service work during my college days, wherein we planted

trees, helped sick and old people and took part in cleaning drives as well as in rescue and relief

works. In the year 1981, when a silk mill building collapsed in Surat and many people were

trapped under the debris, we were called to help in rescue and relief works. We stayed at the

accident site for 3 full days and nights and rescued many people who were still alive as well as

pulled out dead bodies from the debris. I was given a certificate by a minister of the Gujarat

Government for the selfless and commendable work done.

4) Many certificates for attending and completing many technical and non technical

courses/workshops/seminars.

Hobbies: Reading books, playing indoor and outdoor games, travelling.

Marital status: Married

Children: 1 girl-child (Passed Bachelor of technology Bio Tech in 2014, planning to go to US

for higher studies and research))

Countries Travelled: United States of America; Taiwan(Taipei), Thailand (Bangkok) (In transit).

Background of family members

Father: Eminent Civil Engineer, with over 50 years experience in various organisations,

renowned cooling tower expert in the countryat present living at Tiruchirapalli/ Hyderabad. He

has unlimited knowledge, experience and capability to do any type of civil/structural work as

well as complete engineering of any type of cooling tower including civil/structural design,

preparation of construction /fabrication drawings,Bill of materials as well asexecute the work at

site . He also undertakes R&M works for cooling towers, including up gradation, re-engineering

the tower to improvestructural strength as well as improve the tower performance .He can

change the tower configuration from cross flow to counter flow and vice versa by reengineering

the thermodynamic parameters and fill material. He also undertakes periodic maintenance of old

towers.

Mother

A science graduate with MBA, with excellent project management background.

Wife: A Home maker

Sisters: 2sisters, both CAs, well settled in multinational companies.

Brother: Younger brother, scientist, professor in micro biology. He is a citizen of the United

States of America and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Personal Traits and other information: I am a very liberal and easy going person. I mix easily

with people and I always have a very broad outlook and positive frame of mind. I get along well

with my superiors as well as my juniors. As far as work is concerned, I am gentle in my

behaviour but extremely firm about meeting my official targets and commitments. I am always

receptive to innovative ideas and welcome all such suggestions that give value addition to work.

I am looking for a suitable opening in a large Power/infrastructure company or multinational. I

am looking for a change from my present job since I want to explore new types of works and

widen my capacity to do new things since I believe I am in a position to do so.

R.V.RAMAN KUMAR

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Contact phone nos:

1)+919*********; 2) +919*********; 3)+911**-*******

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