Rotating Equipment Mechanical Engineer

CHANDRA SIVAPURAM P Eng (Alberta, Canada)

**** ******** *** *** ***.: +1-409-***-****(C)

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA-90275 Email: ******************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Mechanical Engineer with 35+ years of proven experience to lead/member of Rotating Equipment Engineering Team in World Energy GH2 Wind energy – Green Hydrogen (Electrolyzers) – Green Ammonia Plant pre-feed engineering, Paramount Renewable Energy – SAF Refinery Project Feed and Detail engineering, Conventional Oil, Gas, Refinery & Petrochemical Industry. Strong knowledge and experience in Project & Plant Engineering, concept development and scoping, equipment selection and specifications, FAT testing, erection, commissioning, startup, operational support, failure analysis of major rotating equipment, Turnaround execution including GE Frame 5 & 6 Gas Turbines, large centrifugal compressors (API-617 & API-614) with Dry Gas Seals (API-692), large reciprocating compressors (API-618), centrifugal and recip pumps including machinery protection system (API-670 & 671) using Bently System1. Expertise in developing 10 years look ahead for pro-active reliability maintenance and engineering strategies.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

World Energy – Renewable Project – Paramount, CA & GH2 Project August 2020 to To Date

Lead / Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer – Project Delivery

Member of Owner Project team for GH2 Project in Canada, first stage with 1GWh wind energy – green hydrogen – green ammonia project pre-feed engineering scope to invite EPCs for progressing to FEED stage. Total 4 stages with approved project environmental scope to 4.0GWh in four stages

Member of Owner Project Engineering team for 20,000 Bbl/day Renewable Diesel and SAF units FEED, and detail engineering activities, coordinate project requirements with other disciplines, oversee the discipline engineering work at Project Engineering office – for fast-track engineering deliverables.

Attended FATs for recip compressors, centrifugal compressor, gear box and Dry Gas Seals for this project with Baker Hughes, Burckhardt compression, Lufkin Gears, Neuman & Esser, and Sulzer Pumps

Managed 6 Rotating equipment engineers – for quality control and quality assurance for engineering work.

The primary job involves checking and approval of specifications, data sheets, technical bids, resolving technical queries from vendors, vendor drawings for Pre-treat Centrifuges, Recip compressors and Centrifugal compressor, pumps and blowers. Participated in review of control narrative documents, C&E matrix and system studies.

Witness critical compressor Vendor shop FATs for timely delivery of long lead machinery.

PBF Energy – Torrance Refinery

Machinery Engineer - Hydro Processing Units May 2017 to July 2nd, 2020

Grassroots refinery with 165,000 Bbls/day crude oil processing capacity and producing various petroleum products with complex production process units.

Provided Hydro Processing Area Machinery Engineer lead role to this site for providing rotating equipment engineering support for improving site rotating equipment reliability.

Primary focus on Large Reciprocating compressors, Centrifugal compressors, GE Frame5 Gas Turbines, large steam turbines, BFW Pumping system, 300 pumping systems.

Conducted Selection, Review, testing, erection, commissioning, start-up, re-rate engineering, health monitoring (Bently System1 Vibration diagnostic tools) of major rotating equipment including reciprocating and centrifugal compressors, pumps, gas turbines and associated equipment as per API 610/613/614/615/617/618/682/684/686.

300+ large centrifugal pumps performance monitoring, provided inputs to operating procedures for machinery performance improvement and training operators for machinery knowledge for improved monitoring.

Initiated capital proposals for pumps and compressors upgrades with improved metallurgy, and re-rate to as per business needs.

Provided Business Team lead and other stakeholders, critical equipment health condition using Bently condition monitoring on-line tools and Process information.

Motiva-Port Arthur Refinery, Texas, USA (Royal Dutch Shell Group)

Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer – Utilities November 2014 to May 2017

This site is North America’s largest refinery with 600kBbl/day processing capacity.

Seconded from Shell International to this site for providing rotating equipment engineering support for improving site rotating equipment reliability in Plant Utilities

Primary focus on GE Frame6 Gas Turbines (6nos), large steam turbines, BFW Pumping system, centrifugal air compressor systems.

500+ large centrifugal pumps performance monitoring, provided inputs to operating procedures for machinery performance improvement and training operators for machinery knowledge for improved monitoring.

Shell Canada Limited

Start-up Rotating Equipment Engineer – Shell Kashagan Project, NCPOC Jan 2013 to Oct 2014

Joined in start-up team to provide support for commissioning and start-up of Export Sales gas centrifugal compressor trains (Each train consists 2 GE 15,000 HP Thermodyne centrifugal compressors in series and total 4 trains in parallel) and Flash gas centrifugal compressor trains (4 Trains), with CCC auto loading sharing control system, Bently System1 health monitoring system, Dry Gas Sealing system, Voith Vorecon variable speed control for operational flexibility.

Guided and mentored Shell seconded junior engineers and senior contract rotating equipment engineers to commission 1000+ pumps, Atlas Capco Turbo Expander trains (2) with S2M magnetic bearing support system with Dry Gas Sealing system.

Reviewed major rotating equipment Operations Test Procedures and steered successfully project construction / commissioning teams for operations readiness and flawless start-up of above major rotating equipment.

Attended daily management meeting for start-up priorities, chaired REs team meeting, distributed day’s priority work to the team and supported any technical issues to achieve start-up target equipment to handover to operations.

As site Rotating Equipment advisor resolved issues with Project delivery management team, with complex technical issues on high-speed Turbo machinery with deeper technical analysis and factual equipment run-data presentations.

Shell Canada Limited

A&V Turnaround Block Coordinator - Shell Canada Scotford Upgrader May 2008 to Dec 2012

As A&V Turnaround Block Co-ordinator, successfully steered Planning & execution teams to 110% of 2010 Turnaround KPIs Target. The key performance indicators are:

HSES Performance: TRCF 3.6 vs Target of 2.4 (which is site wide)

On budget – A&V Budget: C$70 million (Total budget for 5 blocks is C$381 million, site wide budget within 2%)

On schedule: Stream to stream, no production- Actual 48 days vs Target of 48 days

Total man hours 500,000+ hours

The key maintenance inspection jobs undertaken for 30 days TA execution window are:

40 Vessel Inspections, 40 Fin Fan Inspections, 12 Exchangers, 4 heaters, 1 Vacuum Column, 110 Control Valves, 60 RVs, 15 Piping modification jobs (Projects), 15 Temp MOCs involving large decon piping installations, 4 Fin Fan Bundle replacement.

Shell Canada Limited

Lead Machinery / Electrical Engineers Group - Scotford Upgrader April 2005 to April 2008

Lead and direct group of 8 machinery and electrical engineers towards best-in-class engineering support for equipment upgrades and health monitoring of 155,000 bbls/ day Upgrader LC Fining primary process units and support units’ machinery

Supported project front-end engineering, by evaluating existing & proposed machinery configurations, identifying ratings/characteristics of major equipment, developing system design philosophy, assessing life-cycle costs, including reliability of systems.

Provided consultancy to project group on related process machinery, including Pumps, dynamic & PD compressors, other special- and general-purpose pumps, gears, and support systems (wet / dry seals, control & condition-monitoring systems, lubrication) working with EPCs & OEMs

Reviewed Shell machinery standards for machinery (add-ons to API Standard), provide field engineering requirements to develop Shell Global equipment Standards.

Shell Canada Limited

Staff Machinery Engineer - Scotford Upgrader June 2002 to March 2005

RHC Machinery Engineer – Provided machinery engineering support for LC Fining / heavy-oil hydro processing machinery includes, reactor charge pumps, reactor circulating pumps (Ebb Pumps), catalyst charge pumps, recycle pumps in high pressure services.

Provided rotating equipment engineering support for high-speed Pinnacle Centrifugal compressors upgrade project, Re-cip compressors piping pulsation studies issues.

Provided monthly critical rotating machinery performance feedback (computer-based monitoring programs developed by Shell) to management for any equipment reliability issues.

A&V Unit, HMU Machinery Engineer - rotating equipment and associated with vendor service engineer(s) / EPC project engineer(s) to review major rotating equipment installation, review work progress, prepare commissioning punch list as per quality procedures, review completion and prepare for commissioning & start-up, and lead commissioning team for Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit & Atmospheric Vacuum Unit with total installed horsepower more than 100,000 HP including:

o15000 HP Man Turbo motor driven double barrel Centrifugal compressor train with dry gas seal system, condition monitoring with Bently System I

o3000HP Robinson Centrifugal fans with lube skid systems

o200 pumps (large multistage pumps, between bearing pumps) ranging from 100 HP to 3500 HP equipped with dry gas seals, bently 3500 vibrations systems with System1 monitoring.

o15000 HP Nuovo Pignone hydrogen recycling recip compressors equipped with hoerbiger hydrocom capacity control system and Bently Rod drop monitoring in System 1

oSundyne Pinnacle compressors with dry gas sealing system

Carried out rotating equipment engineering studies for alternate feeds, higher feed rates and energy studies.

Site focal point for Bently System 1 upkeeping and carried out optimization enhancements for better equipment health monitoring.

Upgrader site focal point for Flowserve pumps issues, Sundyne compressors, ManTurbo compressors, Nuovo Pignone compressors, Hoerbiger HydroCom & John Crane dry gas seal vendors

Jacobs Canada - Consultant Senior Mechanical Engineer November 2001 to May 2002

ExxonMobil Acid Gas Injection Project: Developed work scope for pumps, recip- compressors and blowers upgrade, prepare data sheets, RFQs, TBEs & Purchase orders.

ESSO - Imperial Oil

Senior Machinery Engineer – Sarnia Refinery September 2000 to October 2001

Provided technical support for selection, operation, maintenance, trouble shooting and long-term reliability for 250,000-bbls/day refinery rotating equipment with necessary equipment upgrades.

Westcoast Energy

Maintenance Engineering Consultant - Fort Nelson Gas Process Plant October 1999 to June 2000

Provided rotating machinery reliability and maintenance engineering support for prevention of failures on critical rotating machinery like centrifugal compressors, blowers, overhead cooling fans, pumps and gearboxes.

Provided SAP experience and Maintenance Planning expertise as required by Fort Nelson Field Services for their day-to-day routine maintenance and backlog jobs.

Carried out planning of two process trains outage maintenance activities in MS Project

Provided maintenance support for supervising the new project execution.

Designed and developed maintenance business process for effective implementation.

Manufacturing Game: Reliability Programs – 5 days course designed by DuPont, USA.

European Petrochemical Company, SABIC, Saudi Arabia

Mechanical Engineer - Reported to Plants Maintenance Manager June1992 to June 1998

As a Lead engineer, for the commissioning and start-up of MTBE & Polypropylene plants carried out maintenance design engineering issues, implemented alternate methodologies, executed commissioning and startup activities, carried out HAZOP studies which resulted in plant safe commissioning and production achieved 25 days ahead of schedule (Polypropylene plant capacity 200,000 tons/year, UNIPOL PROCESS, UNION CARBIDE CHEMICALS, USA). The critical equipment is

oKobe cycle gas centrifugal compressor

oNuovo Pignone vent gas reciprocating compressor

oSundyne propylene transfer pumps

oBryan utility nitrogen, hydrogen and ethylene gas compressors

oCatalyst slurry feed pump

oFarrel twin screw barrel type extruders, gearbox and couplings

oUnder water pelletizer and die-plate alignment problems

oMelt pump, Pellet dryers and screeners, Mollers packaging machines.

Designed and developed preventive maintenance program for all Polypropylene plant equipment for 6 years in HP-9000 CMMS system, carried out maintenance optimization studies with improved procedures which has resulted in increased MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) by 25%.

Developed comprehensive predictive maintenance program like vibration measurements, lube oil analysis on all static equipment, and piping and rotating machinery.

Diagnosed for frequent steam leakage of extruder heating systems and implemented short and long-term remedial measurements thereby reduced line shutdowns. This has resulted in increased production of 400 tons/month.

Vent gas reciprocating compressor frequent piston rings and rider rings wear out root cause analysis carried out and by using improved materials and quality checks in rebuilding of compressor has increased MTBF from 10 days to 30 days in 6months time.

Catalyst slurry feed pump frequent failures studied and implemented systems approach in maintenance execution with improved assembly procedures performed on a regular basis, quality alignment checks prevented earlier once in a week plant shutdown to once in a year.

Enhanced mean time between shutdowns of extruder trains from initial once in a month to six months by introducing proactive maintenance approach of “Ownership-Production and maintenance staff “has resulted increased plant on stream factor levels from 78% to 92% over a period of two years.

Developed and implemented coupling condition monitoring by measuring skin temperature by using pyrometer in addition to vibration monitoring helped to prevent many midnight failures by trend monitoring.

Planned and executed four major annual turnarounds for the world’s largest MTBE/Polypropylene plants in six years which has resulted in increased plant on stream factor levels from 75% to 95%.

Planned and executed Polypropylene plant de-bottlenecking project and it has resulted increased production levels by 20% and steered for a successful ISO-9002 certification.

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited, India

Assistant Engineer – Bombay offshore Project (E&P) June 1982 to June 1992

Designed and developed preventive and predictive maintenance schedule for all rotating and static equipment of Drill Ship Sagar Prabhat /LPG/CSU Plants for 10 years.

Ruston Gas Turbine, Elliot centrifugal compressor, Nuovo Pignone reciprocating compressor

United centrifugal pumps, Byron Jackson multistage vertical barrel pumps

Drill Floor Equipments, Diesel Engines, Mud Pumps, Cementing Equipment, Water makers, Bilge Pumps and Ballast water transfer pumps.

Planned and executed plant turnarounds for 10 years and carried out various modifications on major rotating and static equipment to increase their reliable operating performance.

Planned, mobilized and executed Kobe steel cold box major repairs of LPG –II plant and innovative planning had reduced plant down time from initial 60 days schedule to 45 days.

Carried out major overhaul of gas turbines, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors, and vertical pumps along with OEM service engineers, which has enhanced the operating performance, and increased level of plant equipment availability levels from 85% to 95%.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Bachelor of Engineering, University of Mysore, India, 1980

Texas Professional Engineer Licensed. (# 125868)

SAP R/3 & ABAP/4: In-house at Reliance Cybertech Pvt., Ltd. India

Reciprocating compressor performance short course, A&M Texas Turbomachinery 2003

Stability Analysis – Tutorial short course, A&M Texas Turbo machinery 2004

Case Study Presentation at 22nd International pump users Symposium, Houston, Texas: “Dry Gas Seals for Oil Sands pumping application – Engineering issues and solutions “

Design, Operation and Rerate considerations for Integrally Geared Turbocompressors - IMECHE Turbomachinery Symposium, the Hague, NL, April 2006

Case Study Presentation at 44th Texas A&M Turbo Machinery 2016: Sales Gas Compressor Vorecon Speed Reducer / Increaser Sub-synchronous High Vibrations

INDUSTRY TRAINING

GE Frame 6: Gas Turbines User Conference in Pheonix, AZ, USA 2015

Failure mode diagnosis – Shell Global Solutions, The Netherlands 2004

Attended 32nd & 33 rd Turbomachinery Symposium at Houston Texas 2004

Lufkins – Gear design, engineering and failure analysis, Edmonton 2003

Machinery Diagnosis – Bently Canada Ltd 2002

System 1: Machinery Applications – Bently Canada Ltd 2002

Reliability: Manufacturing Program - Dupont- U.S.A at Westcoast Energy 2000

Hazop studies: In-house at Saudi European Petrochemical Company 1996

Reciprocating compressors-Advancement in valve technology

Hoerbiger Services Middle East. 1996

Inspection and Testing on Centrifugal compressor, IHI, Japan 1994

Nuovo pignone compressors- Nuovo pignone, Italy 1993

REFERENCES

Ramadan Mahmoud – Cell Phone: 310-***-****

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