Operations Engineer, Engineer Plant, Process Engineer

Sheraz Bashir

***************@*****.***

Address: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Nationality: Pakistani

Contact No: +966-**-*******

Date of Birth: 01-04-1988

Personal Profile:

My career goal is to become a valuable resource for my organization, whereby it attains and maintains its market leadership role in my area of expertise.

Qualifications:

M.Sc. Chemical Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia CGPA 3.40 Sep 2013-Nov 2015

B.Sc. Chemical Engineering University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan CGPA 3.70 2006-2011

Work Experience: (4.5 years)

Operations Engineer

Qaiser-LG Petrochemicals Limited, Pakistan April 2011-Sep 2013

Responsibilities:

Technical monitoring of Plant, Optimization of process parameters to increase plant production, to decrease losses and to improve product quality through Shift Operations & DCS Control.

To ensure the processing and producing planned rates and to provide alternatives to maximize plant productions.

Improvement of Production processes, process safety and product quality.

To optimize the plant operations and minimize waste.

To carried out energy conservation and thermal efficiency audits.

Conducting PSSR (Pre Startup Safety Review), MSA (Management Safety Audit), Fire & Emergency drills, Permit to work (PTW) and Lock out/Tag out (LOTO) Audit as per routine.

Review of plant performance through material and energy balance, cost calculations and simulation studies.

Continuous Support to Technical team in Future Projects and Developments.

Process Reports: To prepare Unit Consumption Reports of raw materials, products, utilities, inventory and store Management.

To prepare daily production report, log sheets, log book, parameters trend & lab results.

Preparation of Monthly Departmental production report.

Study, evaluate and propose modification and upgrading of equipment to improve production processes and increase the reliability of the plant operating system.

Monitoring & troubleshooting of plant, emergency handling, plant startup & shutdown activities & de-bottlenecking and production planning.

To plan & execute the Annual Turnaround activities with services departments.

To perform economic evaluation, support studies and activities related to process safety and environment.

Process documentations: Process descriptions, maintaining data sheets and log sheets, to keep up to date SOPs and P & IDs.

Study of process hazard analysis (HAZOP) of plant.

To participate in activities associated with equipment and material procurement.

To deliver technical training sessions to plant operators & trainee engineers.

Continuous Support to Technical team in Future Projects and Developments.

Process Design studies using Simulation Software Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Plus, UniSim.

Preparation/ review of PFD’s, P&ID’s, Engineering Flow Diagrams, Process Data Sheets, Project specific specifications, design calculations/ analysis, Procurement specifications.

Estimation/ engineering work related to bids.

To participate in activities associated with equipment and material procurement, permitting, and subcontracting.

Graduate Research Assistant

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Sep 2013-Nov 2015

Responsibilities

Development of Steady State Simulation Model of Three & Four products Divided wall Distillation Column (new multicomponent distillation technique) using Aspen HYSYS and UniSim.

Development of the Design structure of Three product Divided wall Distillation Column based on Rigorous Simulation studies.

Optimization of the Divided wall Distillation Column to obtain optimal design parameters based on minimum Reboiler Duty.

Performed Economic evaluation of the Divided wall Distillation Column based on minimum Energy consumption and compared it with conventional distillation column schemes.

Involved in designing the distillation column experiment, contacted vendors for purchasing equipment’s, mounting the columns in lab, run and test the lab scale distillation column.

Project in Saudi Arabia:

Design and Optimization of the Divided Wall Distillation Column by using Aspen HYSYS

This project is funded by King Abdul-Aziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) Saudi Arabia and it is completed in October 2015. In this project, I worked on development of rigorous steady state simulation model of Divided Wall Distillation Column followed by optimization of the operation of Divided Wall Column using Aspen HYSYS/UniSim. After rigorous simulation and optimization, the obtained results of this research shows that by using Divided wall column for multicomponent distillation purposes, we can save 30% of energy consumption and capital cost as compared to conventional distillation column.

Conference Presentations:

Conference Paper presentation on title “Design of three products Divided Wall Distillation Column” at 3rd Middle East Process Engineering Conference & Exhibition (MEPEC), September 2015, Bahrain.

Poster presentation on title “Design and Control Strategy of the Divided wall column for Energy saving” at National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan (NSTIP) Projects Exhibition, November 2014, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

Runner-Up in Technical Debate Competition at 3rd Middle East Process Engineering Conference, September 2015, Bahrain.

Software Skills:

Tools: Aspen HYSYS, UniSim, Aspen Plus, Matlab

Expert to perform the steady state and Dynamic simulation of Distillation columns including DWC technology by using Aspen HYSYS and UniSim.

Steady state simulation of Absorbers, Reactors, Compressors, Heat exchangers, Pumps, Expanders, Flash separators, Oil and Gas applications, NGL plant etc.

Computer Skills: Microsoft Office (Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point)

Professional Training & Workshops:

Quality Management System ISO-9001:2008 (Institution of Engineers, Pakistan)

Environmental Management System ISO-14001:2004 (Institution of Engineers, Pakistan)

Process Safety & Risk Management (Ingredion Incorporated, Pakistan)

Personal Safety Management (Ingredion Incorporated, Pakistan)

Time Management (Ingredion Incorporated, Pakistan)

Safety Standards for Industry (Pakistan Institute of Chemical Engineers, PIChE)

Health and Safety Standards for Projects (Institution of Engineers, Pakistan)

Personal Strengths:

Strong communication skills, with the ability to present technical information and prepare concisely written reports.

Ability to be decisive, goals-oriented individual, capable of independent decision making with the ability to successfully meet targeted goals and time and budgetary constraints.

Highly conscious about safety, health and environment.

Innovative & good Team player.

Punctual, flexible, hardworking and determined.

Extracurricular Activities:

Travelling, Football, Cricket, Table Tennis, Reading Newspaper, Internet surfing, Movies.

Attend profession related seminars and group discussions.

Interacting with people of different ages, classes and cultures

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