Uday N. Shah

Mechanical Engineer

***** ******** ***., *******, ** 90650 562-***-**** (Res.)

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SUMMARY:

Over 30 years of professional experience in the field of Refineries, Petrochemicals and Chemicals Plants (Domestic and Overseas)

Project Engineer for 20 years and as a Mechanical Integrity Engineer for 10 years.

Capital & Expense Projects - Mechanical Integrity works in chemical plants & refineries

Tank Turnaround Engineer with yearly budget of $ 10MM in capital & $ 4MM in expense.

20 years’ experience with API and ASME static equipment like heat exchangers, columns, pressure vessel, storage tanks and packaged auxiliary equipment.

More than 10 years' experience reviewing or creating project deliverables such as technical bid evaluations, technical deviations, materials of construction selections, and project decision records.

Expertise of Industries Standards such as API 510, 570, 579 and 653 to ensure integrity of vessels, piping & tanks. Used API 580, 581 and 617.

Extensive usage of industry standards such as ASME Sec VIII, IX, II (b), V, API 620, 650, 2000 and ASME 31.3.

Pressure Vessel and Tank FEN (Fixed Equipment Network) Engineer for rewriting / updating corporate specifications. Incorporation of PMI policy & procedures, updated PRV and PV testing requirements. Refer to following for Project Engineering work.

Worked at SUN Engineering as a consultant to design under railway gas transmission line, hydraulics on LPG line. Also worked at ConocoPhillips on 8 wharf line from plant to birth 148 to 152 for transferring the product and crude line from tankers. Worked on pigging and testing of LAX jet fuel line from COP plant to LAX. Worked on the storage tanks at terminal and plant.

Replaced tubes supports, new anchor and refractory work, replaced burner tiles and damaged refractory at Crude unit boilers. Finished heater tube analysis for remaining life

EDUCATION:

Master in Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, Dec. 1984

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, May 1983

BS Chemistry, Gujarat University, Gujarat, India, August 1978

Project Engineering:

Revamp of Carbon Monoxide Boiler at Tesoro Refinery (B&W): Redesign 22 feet diameter boiler to 14 feet square boiler. Install tubes in new configuration, bear tubes for better heat transfer then old refractory covered tubes in convection section. salvaged steam drum and Economizer sections. Installing new draft, louvers system and registers to reduce NOx. Install new Force draft system for full combustion of fuel gas. Install completely new fuel gas supply system with control valves to regulate the fuel gas flow. New instrumentation to control better Carbon Monoxide carryover to wet gas Scrubber. Saved 5 five days by pre planning for removing old boiler and piping by clearing out and using bigger crane to pull out old - -

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- boiler. Executed project at turn around. Worked with scheduler to estimate total time for project and helped schedule by pre-planning work. (Cost $ 12 MM).

Slurry Pump & Piping Upgrade Project at Tesoro Refinery: Worked as a project engineer to upgrade existing 2 two slurry pumps, piping and safety EBV installation. Upgraded piping from Carbon Steel to 9 Cr- 1 Mo. Installed new foundation prior to turn around by clearing out underground lines. Reduce curing time and piping installation during execution at turn around. (Cost $ 2 MM).

COGEN Project Manager at ConocoPhillips Refinery: Increased power generation by supplying cold dense air to turbine, design of new cooling tower, 4 cooling water pumps, 2-1400 tons’ absorption chillers, 4 new Ploy ethylene tanks and pumps for cooling water supply and return to new spray chambers. Design of all new piping for cooling water & steam, increased power production from 32 MW to 38 MW (Cost $ 5 MM).

Ethylene Oxide Chiller: Specified and installed EO 70-ton Chiller at F6 unit. Worked as a area engineer for Specialty chemicals section. Worked on modification of pumps, chillers and small equipment.

Cooling Water Revamp Project at Huntsman Chemicals: Replaced all underground cooling water lines to above ground piping for Ethylene unit. Revamp pump suction basin to avoid priming pumps. New piping design of 60” cooling water return header and 48” cooling water supply header and pipe rack. Profited $ 150K per month by cleaning out connection and installing new lines prior turn around for summer months. (Cost $ 4.2 MM).

Revamp of Flare Knock Out Pots and Flare Tips at Huntsman Chemicals: Revamp (3) flare systems by replacing Flare tips and knock out pots. Worked with EPC contractor for PRV study and releases at different scenario. Designed underground flare knock out pot with all safety instrumentations (Cost $ 3.1 MM).

EXPERIENCE:

Delek Refinery – Big Spring, TX (03/19 To 03/20)

Turn Around / Area Engineer: Working on vessels, piping replacement projects. Daily work includes piping leak repair, changing exchanger design from G-Fin to shell & Tube exchanger. Specification, help TA, PSSR and MOC updates

Lyondell Bussell Chemicals – Channel View, TX (02/2018 To 05/2018)

Turn Around Engineer: Working as an area engineer, daily plant/unit support. As regular engineer work at nights, working as a day time turn around engineer. Worked on a Tower crack repair project.

Total Refinery – Port Arthur, TX (08/17 to 12/17)

Turn Around / Project Engineer: Working towards end of September FCC turn around, project execution, helping in chemical and steam cleaning work. Working on turn around MOCs.

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Lyondell Bussell Refinery – Houston, TX (05/2016 To 07/17)

Reliability / Mechanical Integrity Engineer: Working as a Fixed equipment reliability engineer – small project work, working with IUP group as a Tank Engineer. Approving design drawings, scope of work, helping with MOC’s for changes, closing out MOC by submitting paper work to reliability database. Worked as a FERE at night shift for Coker unit fire, BHN piping circuits and valve replacement. Run temperature profile and IOW limits for all 33 refinery heaters using IP-21 program. Worked on a Coker unit fire project for ripping and equipment after Brinell Hardness testing,

Advantech Global - Port Hueneme, CA (02/2015 – 02/2016): (NAVFAC Facility in TX, VA, Japan and NC)

Tank Turn Around Engineer: Responsible for tank turn around engineering. Work involved the gathering of inspection report and writing 6 part RFPs as per new NAVFAC System. Project work included fuel tanks at Cherry Hill, S.C. Norfolk, VA; and Corpus Christi, TX. Requests for Proposal is for getting approval from DLA authorities for funding the project and for bidding purpose.

ExxonMobil Refinery, Torrance, CA (04/14 to 01/15)

Tank Turn Around Engineer: Tank Engineer which included the design of piping, aiding in tank cleaning Management of Change (MOC). Review and/or approving of contractor’s repair drawings per API 653 codes.

Chevron Refinery, El Segundo, CA (11/12 to0 3/14)

Turnaround Projects Engineer: Design engineer for the preparation of the engineering work request for upcoming TAR – 2014, projects. Coker, Crude and NHT units, Preparing Risk Analysis & Design Evaluation and closure for all project MOCs.

Tesoro Refinery Salt Lake City, UT (03/12 to 11/12) –

Turnaround Projects Engineer: Responsible for the design of COB, Reactor, and Regenerator upgrade and the New COB design. The work consisted of B&W, Refractory, Insulation and interface with the piping contractor and included the development of new P&ID, PFD and piping drawings Team member on the design of the refractory work in stripper section of the Reactor. Design slurry pumps replacement and piping for fractionators. COB project cost $ 10.2 MM & Slurry pumps project $ 2.0 MM. Miscellaneous small project work.

Jacobs Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA (11/11 to 02/12) -

Pressure Vessel Engineer: Responsible for the incorporation of Pressure Vessels / Heat Exchanger - Vendor’s print per standards and specifications on new Solar Panel Chemical Manufacturing Plant, TN

T.J. Cross Engineering, Bakers Field, CA (04/11 to 09/11)

Project Engineer: Project Engineer at Chevron-Upstream Project which consisted of the inclusion of the revamping of gas scrubber, Installed fuel gas filters and new soft water discharge header.

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Bechtel Corporation, Houston, TX (02/11 to 04/11)

Mechanical Design Engineer: Office - Support Mechanical Engineer on Motiva project which included working on mechanical equipment, pumps, foundation and piping supports. Field trips to Port Arthur plant for installation of new equipment and piping.

Araima Sarl, Boulogne Billancourt, France (08/10 to 12/10)

Pressure Vessel / Mechanical Engineer. Responsible for the Checking of the vendor’s design and fabrication drawings, against Chiyoda & Saudi Aramco specifications for SATORP (Saudi Aramco Total Refinery) project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Checked WPS, PQR, materials, design calculations, prepared deviations and waiver of specifications. Helped to achieve cost optimization and project schedule to start grass root refinery by 2013. - Worked with Chiyoda (Japanese engineers) and Aramco (Saudi Arabian Engineers) Worked in Tsurumi, Yokohama, Japan. Total project cost $ 12 Billion.

Tesoro Refinery, Salt Lake City, UT (01/10 to 04/10)

Turnaround Projects Engineer: Turnaround Engineer for the inspection and reliability department which used API 510 and API 570 calculations for pressure vessels and piping. Team member on capital project for heater revamp, reactors MOV installation and reactor heads replacement and on plant air compressor for cooling water supply lines.

ConocoPhillips, Los Angeles, CA (02/04 to 05/09)

Pressure Vessel / Inspection Engineer: Project Manager on PMI program that consisted of the Identifying lines and NDT testing for material identification. Unit inspector engineer on Hydro units, rerating. repairing pressure vessel and piping and the updating plant PRV database for schedule testing, repair and record keeping. RBI work with Equity engineering for Coker/ Flasher and Crude units providing data on MI and process side to evaluate corrosion rate. Assisted on WSG (Wet Gas Scrubber) to reduce emission from 1st stage separator in FCC unit.

Project Engineer / Tank Turn Around Engineer: Managed capital & expense budget for tank turn around. Repair work includes installing double bottom and domes per EPA requirements. Replaced shell courses, new floating roof, nozzles, coating etc. Team member on SOW and budgeting for next year, tank expense and capital turn around budget which detailed the preparation of tank turn around work scope and cost for cleaning, repair work from previous tank inspection reports.

Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery, Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia (09/00 to 09/02

Senior Project Engineer: Completed feasibility study, preliminary engineering-, detail design and construction for pressure vessel modifications, capital and turnaround projects in FCC, Crude, Alky, CHD, Utilities, SGP, ISOM, Sulfur Pit and Offsite areas.

Installed new FRP tank, piping revisions for sulfur system, online HF analyzer, etc.

Alky unit project for designing heat exchangers. (Rod Baffle) nuclear level and temperature gages.

Upgraded plant Fuel Gas supply lines piping from 150 class rating to 300 class rating.

Prepared cost estimates, AFEs, project schedules, engineering design calculation.

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Prepared construction bid packages, conducted job walk / project kick-off meetings, HAZOP, bid tabulations, monitoring construction activities and commissioning of several projects.

Provided cost estimates and Objectives up to five years for equipment replacement in a capital budget for each year.

Dow Chemical’s Eastern Engineering, Midland, Michigan (01/00 to 08/00

Pressure Vessel / Fixed Equipment Reliability Engineer: Application of API 510, TEMA, API 610, API 653 & ASME Sec VIII for existing pressure vessels, tanks, hoppers, and storage silos. Computation of total load and provided extra supports in tanks’ roof and larger nozzles for EV and PVRV. Re-rating, new nozzle installations, minimum wall thickness, reinforcement calculations for new and existing pressure containing equipment.

Huntsman Corp. Port Neches, Texas (01/95 to 11/99)

Project / Inspection Engineer: $ 4.1MM - Revamp cooling water at Ethylene unit, finished project on time and spent only $3.2MM. Supply cooling water to Ethylene/Propylene unit, designed and installed new cooling water lines in timely basis. Designed the critical tie-ins to the exchangers for hot summer months which resulted in increment of $1.5MM net profit in summer months than previous year. Estimated project cost.

$ 5.0 MM – Supply cold/dry air to turbine to produce more electricity. Designed required cooling air to turbine inlet air by installing two 1400 tons’ absorption chillers, cooling tower, spray chambers, new filter house & associated tanks and pumps. Review and preparation of PFD and P&ID. Initiated the setup of PM and operators training for new system. Increased electric power from 32 MW to 38 MW.

Small projects that included the design and installation of new process tower, 70 tons’ chiller, pumps, exchangers and pressure vessels. Designed and installed new flare Knock out Pots, Flare tips for the accommodation of an RV study for the total relief valve flow per environmental RCRA requirements. Installation of new vent scrubbers, changing rings for Ammonia unit vacuum scrubber.

Designed and installed new burner tips to produce steam and reduce NOx out of incinerators and the installation and sizing of new PRV, Emergency Vents, and Pressure Vacuum Relief valve (PVRV). Team member on the CET study.

Responsible for the saving of $400M by designing Plate & Frame exchangers from conventional Shell and Tube exchangers.

Responsible for the new pipeline to the product storage tank within a week to supply the special product to the customer.

Mobil Chemicals, Houston Olefins Plant, Houston, TX (10/93 to 12/94)

Project / Field Engineer: Task included piping throughout the plant for collecting vents, drains and purges from all equipment per OSHA and TACB for EO venting. Collected EO rerun to make product. Responsible for the installation of new Emergency / Alarm system to alert plant personnel in time of an emergency. Worked with OSHA rules, regulation and ordinance codes for city of Houston. Coordinated and scheduled projects at May 1994 T&I.

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E.I. Dupont, Beaumont Works, Beaumont, TX (10/92 to 10/93)

Project / Field Engineer: Upgraded existing 4MM gallon tank to facilitate storage capacity of plant outfall diversions, using API 650 and 653 codes.

Responsible for the installation of portable cooling tower and associated piping for one section of plant, which reduced total plant outfall temperature by 6 Fahrenheit Worked on Sulfuric acid tank and line project from Tank car/ truck unloading facility.

as per Texas Water Commission. Study of PHR (Process Hazard Review) by fall tree method and designed necessary control loops and relief system on all the projects. Designed and installed hydro-pneumatic water tank in emergency to supply water for eyewash and emergency shower facilities throughout plant. Designed, installed and sized various pumps & RV.

Ohmstede, Inc., Lake Charles, Louisiana (05/91 to 08/92)

Design / Manufacturing Engineer: Design and fabrication of different types of heat exchangers and pressure vessels per TEMA and ASME Sec. VIII. Modification work included new shell, channel or retube the bundle, nozzles and supports. Responsible for the preparation of detail fabrication, outline design drawings using HTRI and CADD system. Mechanical design of Heat exchanger using RCS / HTRI program

Earth Engineering & Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland (04/86 to 04/91)

Project / Construction Engineer: Supervised projects to $ 38MM for compliance with construction specification, state codes and OSHA rules and regulation. Scheduled and planned the construction sequence. Responsible for the preparation of project sketchbook and daily construction logbook. Supervised 75 people including engineers, inspectors and contractor work force. Planned earthwork,

concrete and structural work by critical path method. Finished project data book. Calculated total project quantity for earthwork & concrete work for final payment.

Team Member for 2 bridge rehab projects, widening I-270 from beltway 495 to Rt. 28.

Stubbs Overbeck & Associates, Inc; Beaumont, Texas (09/84 to 11/85)

Mechanical / Project Engineer: Team Member for Mobil Oil Corporation on $45MM Wharf Upgrading project. Upgraded wharf 2, 3, made new wharf facility 5.

Preparation of equipment specification, hydraulic and pump calculations.

Pipe stress analysis using TRIFLEX computer program.

Hydro testing of new valves and piping for start-up of wharf facilities.

Preparation of Operation Manuals per U.S. Coast guidelines.

Preparation of project data books.

Additional Training:

Attended CODEWEST School for API 570, Houston, Texas May 1998.

Attended Callidus Flare and Combustion seminar, Tulsa, Oklahoma. October 1996.

Attended CODEWEST School for API 510, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. November 1996.

“How to Manage Multiple Projects and Meet Deadlines”, “Project Writing Skills”, “How to Manage Anger, Conflicts and Emotions”, “Business Writing” by Fred Pryor Seminars.

Attended seminar on Project Scope Definition offered by Flour Daniel. August 1997.

Design of Shell and Tube exchanger per TEMA and ASME codes.

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