*+ Years Industrial Experience

Experience in designing, Plate fin heat exchangers (Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers), Air cooled heat exchangers, Hairpin heat exchangers, Twisted tube heat exchangers, Shell and tube heat exchangers, Core-in-a Kettle, pressure vessels and pipe networks.

Experience in re-coding FORTRAN and VB based thermal & mechanical design software for air cooled heat exchanger to windows based platform.

Automated drawings for Air-cooled Heat Exchangers. The re-coded software has been modified to integrate the Thermal and Mechanical designs and to generate drawings. Experience in re-coding VB based thermal rating software for Tank heaters & Hairpin type heat exchangers. Experience in the development of CFD based thermal transient analysis software to predict the effect of temperature and pressure transients on a plate fin heat exchanger. Field experience in troubleshooting vibration and thermal related problems of air cooled heat exchangers and balancing axial flow fans.

Performed failure analysis on failed plate fin heat exchangers based on crack surface microstructures. Experience in working with strain gages as part of the failure analysis of a plate fin heat exchanger. Experience in Pipe Flexibility analysis of Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers, fired heaters. Strong Designing skills using ASME sec VIII div 1, Section VIII div 2, B 31.3, WRC-107, WRC-297 and supporting codes for structural design.

Experience in the transient thermal analysis of different types of heat exchangers. Capable of developing equations or Algorithms for various problems related to Industrial equipments. Able to multitask and work well with others at various levels.

2004: Master of Engineering Science (Mechanical Engineering) from Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas with 3.9/4.0 GPA

2002: Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad

Since Dec’16 as Free Lancer

Highlight:

Consultant for Ecozen Solutions for designing Evaporator Coils

Consultant for DynaVac Systems for designing Heat Exchanger for an autoclave Mar’16 – Dec’16 with TAAL Technologies, Bengaluru as Senior Thermal Engineer Highlight:

Onsite Sr. Thermal Engineer for Neste Jacobs located in Porvoo, Finland. Mar’14 – Jan’16 with Koch Heat Transfer Company LP, Houston, Texas Growth Path:

Mar’14 – May’15 as Sales Engineer

May’15 – Jan’16 as Mechanical Engineer

Highlights:

Mechanical and structural design of hairpin and double pipe heat exchangers.

Thermal rating of hairpin heat exchangers, shell and tube heat exchangers, twisted tube heat exchangers and tank heaters.

Perform costing and submit the proposal package for techno-commercial bids.

Successfully re-coded a VB based in-house software on tank heaters to C#.

Involved in the analysis of experimental data for elliptical tube heat exchanger and twisted tape tube insert. May’12 – Mar’14 with Harsco Industrial Air X Changers, Catoosa, Oklahoma as Senior Engineer R&D Highlights:

Re-coded FORTRAN and VB based thermal & mechanical design software to C++ and worked closely with the IT and a Third party company which developed the graphic user interface to launch windows based software to rate and design air cooled heat exchangers.

Went on field trips to troubleshoot air cooled heat exchanger related issues. Issues include vibration, axial flow fan balancing, air flow issues, high outlet temperatures etc.

Automated drawings for Air-cooled Heat Exchangers. The re-coded software has been modified to integrate the Thermal and Mechanical designs and to generate drawings.

Performed metallurgical failure analysis on failed fan components to predict the root cause.

Thermally Rated air cooled heat exchangers based on customer RFQ’s. Sep’11 – May’12 with Struthers Wells (Babcock Power Inc.), Houston, Texas as Senior Design Engineer and Finite Element Analyst

Highlights:

Performed pipe flexibility analysis of radiant and convective tube coils in fired heaters, risers and down comer’s connecting boilers and steam drums

Performed start up and shut down flow calculations for booster heaters and generated recommended curves for operating procedures

Performed transient thermal analysis on boilers and fired heaters Nov’08 – Aug’11 with Chart Energy and Chemicals Inc., La Crosse, Wisconsin as Product Engineer – Level II Highlights:

Design of the plate fin heat exchangers for LNG applications based on ASME section-viii div-1, B-31.3, WRC-107, WRC- 198, WRC-297 and internal design calculations of Chart Energy and Chemicals

Design of Pressure Vessels based on Section VIII Div I and other international codes for the core and kettle’s

Actively involved in the development of the transient thermal stress analysis software coupled with a fatigue stress analysis to determine the failure in the parting sheets subjected to thermal and pressure cycles. The failure analysis was also physically done against a scrap core along with a team of metallurgists

Individually, involved in the development project to determine the way to increase the header attachment capability. Elastic foundation theory was used to develop the equations

Actively was involved in the leak detection tests that were performed to locate the cracks in the heat exchanger and analyze it using the scanning electron microscope with EDS. The microstructures were analyzed for possible failure modes

Played a major role in the CFD code development for the transient analysis of the plate fin heat exchanger. The code was developed using finite volume approach

Performed strain gage testing to validate equivalent properties of a complex geometry

Involved in the development of a compact heat exchanger reactor

Developed PipePak models to analyze pipe network connecting heat exchangers and pressure vessels within a cold box

Developed compress models to design kettles as well as to generate ASME calculations for kettles, headers, manifolds, etc

Created ECN’s whenever necessary.

Checked submittal drawings, production drawings, shop orders and detailed drawings to incorporate any necessary changes

Created costing files for an estimation to the potential customer

Involved in the development projects proposed by the company for better performance and cost reduction of the heat exchanger

Jul’08 – Aug’08 with Texas Systems and Controls Inc., Tomball, Texas as Intern – Mechanical Engineer Role:

Involved in the finite element analysis of fuel gas pre-heater Jul’07 – Oct’07 with Eagle Pro Engineering Inc., Beaumont, Texas as Intern – Project Mechanical Engineer Role:

Performed pipe network analysis using AFT Fathom

Performed hydraulic calculations for many a systems in rigs and salt caverns

Checking design calculations and drawings

Dec’01 – Feb’02 with Bharat Heavy Plate and Vessels Limited, Visakhapatnam as Intern – Mechanical Engineer Role:

Gained experience in the design of heat exchanger using ASME sec. VIII, Div 1 & TEMA R standards

Gained experience by reviewing the performed design calculations of heat exchangers Analysis Tools : ANSYS 2020, Algor 23.1

Industrial Software’s : Compress 6261, PV Elite, Pipepak 23.1, Caesar II 5.1, HTRI 6.0 Xist, HTFS EDR, AFT Fathom Drafting tools : AutoCAD

3D Modeling Tools : Solid Works

Mathematical Tools : MathCAD, Matlab

Programming : C#, R

Received the Graduate Dean’s Scholarship at Lamar University from 2002 to 2008 Date of Birth 4th July 1978

Languages Known English, Hindi & Telugu

Address Royal Enclave Apartment, APT # 405, Reddy’s colony extension, Kadiri Road, Madanapalle-517325, Andhra Pradesh, India

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