Power Plant Aramco
Resume:
My name is Vemuri Giridhara Sarma and I am a graduate in mechanical engineering B.Tech with 34 years of engineering experience in the areas of detailed engineering proposal engineering,project engineering related to refinery, simple and combined cycle power plants, piping, materials selection for aggressive corrosive environments, equipment sizing,technical specification, datasheets, P &IDs and technical bid evaluation for static and rotating equipment and packages. Best regards,
Vemuri Giridhara Sarma
India
RESUME
Name : VEMURI GIRIDHARA SARMA
Contact No : +919*********
Email : ******@*****.**.**
Education : B. Tech (Degree in Mechanical Eng. with 1st Division) Name of college : Regional Engineering College-Warangal-India Year of Passing : 1979
Date of birth : 8th November 1958
Total Prof. Experience : 34 YEARS
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Detail engineering, proposal engineering,project engineering related to refinery, simple and combined cycle power plants, piping, materials selection for aggressive corrosive environments, equipment sizing technical specifications, datasheets,P &IDs and technical bid evaluation for static and rotating equipment and packages.
EMPLOYMENT DATA
Jacobs –Zate-KSA
Lead Mechanical Engineer
May 2014- October 2016
KBR-AMCDE-KSA
Senior Mechanical Engineer
January 2011- March 2014
Kinetic Energy Factory Company – KSA
Technical Manager
Tenure: April 2010 – October 2010
National Contracting Company – KSA
Senior manager (Engineering)
Tenure: February 2009 – November 2009
TATA Projects Limited - Hyderabad-India
Assistant General Manager
Tenure: July 2006 – January 2009
KSK Energy Ventures Hyderabad-India
Lead Mechanical Engineer
Tenure: September 2004 – June 2006
Avineon India Limited -Hyderabad-India
Senior Manager (Project Engineering)
Tenure: April 2004 – September 2004
SST (India) Limited -Hyderabad-India
Senior Manager (Project Engineering)
Tenure: July 2003 – January 2004
Engineering services Inc., Walnut Creek-USA
Design Engineer
Tenure: 2001 – 2002
Larsen & Toubro Limited-India
Manager - Power Plant Engineering (1996-1997)
Senior Manager (1997-2000)
Tenure: 1996 – 2000
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited-India
Design engineer, Senior Piping Design Engineer, Deputy Manager –Piping and systems engineering Tenure: 1981 – 1996
Areas of expertise
Selection of optimum GE gas turbine package thru GT-PRO software as per client specification
Preparation of Piping Material Specifications,
Release of Division of work responsibility matrix(DOR) between client and EPC contractor
Release of technical specifications for BOP of GT like crude oil treatment plant, stack, water treatment plant for GT cooling water module, HVAC, fire protection system, crude oil storage tanks, distillate oil storage tanks, cranes and hoists, HP and LP piping and compressed air system.
Release of overall plant layout to other disciplines.
Interface with other disciplines and providing required inputs to design pipe racks, pipe trench details, proposed location of cable trench /cable duct/cable tunnel locations to facilitate civil to proceed for basic design and subsequent estimation of concrete quantity and estimation.
Furnishing kw power consumption for all mechanical packages/ equipment to electrical to design HT,MV and LT switch gear and also heat loads for HVAC package to estimate its power consumption.
Release of list of interface/terminal points .for utilities and crude oil, natural gas etc.
Steam boilers.
Key boiler auxiliaries and components like burners, fans, air heaters, super heaters, reheaters,economizers,condensate and feed water treatment and boiler feed pumps.
Steam turbines.
Steam turbine BOP like condensate feed water system,circulating water system and cooling towers.
Design basis
Scope of work and exclusions.
Basis of offer.
Technical data sheets.
Project coordination.
Project specification covering piping material specification, line list and standard pipe support details.
Pipe sizing, pressure drop and thickness calculations .
Piping material selection for extremely corrosive, high pressure and high temperature services
Pipe stress analysis using CAEPIPE software for checking basic code stress compliance as per ASME B31.1,ASME B31.3 by including design presure, operational weight and maximum thermal expansion thereby ensuring structural integrity and to maintain system operability by checking interface with static and rotating equipment, checking equipment loads and equipment alignment to meet equipment allowable loads stipulated by manufacturer and subsequent selection and application of pipe supports and release of RFQ for pipe supports.
Identification of piping systems prone for vibration,checking for their natural frequencies and designing with special attention to rigidity and damping effects
Analyzing piping for steam/water hammer effects such as steam turbine trip and open discharge safety valve opening if explicitly specified by client
High speed steam driven centrifugal gas compressors and power plant steam turbine piping design as per codes and standards like ASME B31.1,ASME B31.3 and IBR. DETAILS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JACOBS -ZATE: From May 2014 to October 2016 :Leading a group of engineers on MPP projects and also on the following.
Data sheets for static equipment, Crude tankage, Product storage tankages, Nonmetallic storage tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers(Shell and tube and air cooled type), continuous and intermittent blow down tanks, Flash tanks, DM water storage tanks, fire water storage tanks, deaerator, Turbine steam condensers
Data sheets for rotating equipment like centrifugal compressors, pumps including nonmetallic pumps(PVDC and PP etc.), steam turbines, gas turbines, crude storage tank mixers Sanitary lift station pumps
Packages for refinery supporting utilities like, Power plant equipment packages STG,GTG and SG and HRSG, electro chlorination packages and FGRS package. KBR –AMCDE: From January 2011to March 2014 Worked on various Saudi –Aramco projects including JAZAN project FEED on the following
Data sheets for static equipment, Crude tankage, Product storage tankages, Nonmetallic storage tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers(Shell and tube and air cooled type), continuous and intermittent blow down tanks, Flash tanks, DM water storage tanks, fire water storage tanks, deaerator, Turbine steam condensers
Data sheets for rotating equipment like centrifugal compressors, pumps including nonmetallic pumps(PVDC and PP etc.), steam turbines, gas turbines, crude storage tank mixers Sanitary lift station pumps
Packages for refinery supporting utilities like, Power plant equipment packages STG,GTG and SG and HRSG, electro chlorination packages and FGRS package.
Water treatment package, condensate polishing package and RO package.
Compressed air and instrument air packages, wet air oxidation package, Storm water and refinery process water drain packages with API separator,
Marine terminal packages such as loading arms and vapor recovery packages etc.
Selection of suitable materials(NACE certified for sour gas H2S corrosive environment) and also non metallic materials for electro chlorination packages.
Detail engineering package on Replacing Tank Gauging system (RTG) at Riyadh Refinery in Saudi- Aramco. The job consists of replacing existing obsolete Hydrostatic Tank Gauging System(HTG) with Radar Tank Gauging System in 41 product storage and crude tanks. Mechanical scope incudes site surveys,identification of suitable openings/gauge hatches on existing tank top surface for installing still wells for Radar gauges and temperature sensors with proper access and safety. Worked on various Saudi Aramco upgrade engineering projects RTR-2 x 15 MW STG package, Hydro fcyclones and pumps for sulfur package sulfur fines segregation and SEC electro chlorination package etc.
UNIT (ISOM)/AROMATICS, DISTILLATE HYDROTREATER (DHTHYDROCRACKER (HCK)), GAS SATURATION UNIT,HYDROGEN PRODUCTION UNIT (HPU)/PSA, AMINE REGENERATION UNIT (ARU), SOUR WATER General understanding on refinery process units like CDU,VDU, NAPHTHA HYDROTREATER / SPLITTER
(NHT), REFORMER / CCR UNIT (CCR) & ISOMERIZATION STRIPPER (SWS), SULFUR RECOVERY AND SULFUR FORMING AND HANDLING, FUEL SYSTEMS, FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION (FGD) and non- electrical utilities as mentioned above
Kinetic Energy Factory Company – KSA.(Subsidiary of AMCDE-KSA)- From April 2010 to October 2010 as Technical Manager supervising and providing technical guidance to team of 6 engineers responsible for pipe stress analysis,layout engineering and manufacture of variable and constant spring supports, sway braces and rigid struts and proposal engineering of pipe supports for companies in Gulf region.. National Contracting company –Saudi Arabia –From 2009 February to November 2009 worked as a Senior Manager (Engineering) - Heading proposal /project engineering division-Complete proposal engineering for combined and simple cycle gas turbine power plants –Preparing technical specifications for all BOP systems for the above and over all plot plan(plant layout) and electrical load list etc. TATA Projects Limited-Hyderabad-India – From July 2006 to January2009 worked as Assistant General Manager. Complete piping package coordination from head office for design and installation of piping 1100 MW Piping Package for Torrent Combined Cycle Power Plant near Surat-India KSK Energy Ventures Hyderabad-India (Sep 2004 to June 2006)
Complete Project execution /project coordination of coal fired power plants in India
Preparation of detailed technical documentation necessary for obtaining permits and clearances related to environment (Air and water pollution), aviation clearance for stack, coal/fuel linkage
Techno-commercial negotiations for finalizing O&M contractors for power plant
Techno-commercial negotiations for finalizing EPC contractors for steam generator and steam turbine and gas turbine islands and BOP(Balance of plant)
Finalization of EPC contracts with vendors
Rainwater harvesting and watershed management studies
Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) studies for handling DM plant rejects/liquid effluent
Project budget preparation
Site /field coordination
Avineon India Limited -Hyderabad-India (April 2004 to September 2004).
Guiding team of engineers responsible for piping layout /stress analysis for BHEL Industrial steam turbine package
SST (India) Limited -Hyderabad-India (July 2003 to Jan 2004)
Guiding team of engineers responsible for piping layout /stress analysis for BHEL Industrial steam turbine package
Engineering services Inc., Walnut Creek-USA (2001 to 2002) A) CLIENT : CALPINE PITTSBURG POWER PLANT-CALIFORNIA- AUXILIARY BOILERS B) CLIENT: BLOCK-520 CAT ACID BOILER FOR DOW CHEMICALS FACILITY C) CLIENT : AMGEN- COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT- CALIFORNIA JOB DUTIES at ESI, Inc. Walnut Creek-USA
Preparation of Piping Material Specifications,
Preparation of Piping & Instrumentation diagrams (P&Ids) like aux.boiler steam system, Turbine steam system, Feed water system, Condensate system, Circulating water system, Auxiliary cooling water system, Makeup water system, fuel system,
High pressure valve selection for steam and high pressure feed water
Pipe thickness calculations,
Line Sizing, Pressure drop calculations
Pump Total Dynamic Head Calculations
Preparation of Technical Datasheets for Continuous Blowdown Tanks, Intermittent Blowdown Tanks, Boiler Feedwater Pumps, Circulating Water Pumps, Makeup Water Pumps, and Condensate Extraction Pumps
Material Selection,
Pipe stress analysis (thermal and weight and seismic) as per ASME B31.1 &B 31.3. with CAEPIPE stress analysis e for analyzing critical lines like Main steam piping, High pressure Boiler Feed water piping
Selection of pipe supports, restraints, Hydraulic Snubbers,
Selection and design of Boiler continuous and intermittent blowdown tanks Larsen & Toubro Limited- Baroda-India (1996 to 2000) JOB DUTIES at L&T -Baroda
A) CLIENT : AWARPUR CEMENT WORKS, AWARPUR, INDIA- CPP
PROJECT PROFILE: Green field project with coal fired AFBC Boiler and Steam Turbo- Generator.
Mechanical job involves preparation of purchase specifications for various packages, bids evaluation, Plant & Equipment layouts, Piping general arrangement drawings. Used international codes including American Piping Codes such as ANSI B 31.3, ANSI B 31.1, ASME Section VIII,, API610 in the above design.
Total responsibility of executing Pipe stress analysis using CAEPIPE Software
RESPONSIBILITY: I was responsible for total engineering of complete piping systems for the entire power plant.
B) CLIENT: USHA MARTIN INDUSTRIES LIMITED-JAMSHEDPUR, IND - CPP
Carried out all the activities similar to the above project. The Turbo Generator package, condensate system and feed water heaters were procured from BHEL- Hyderabad-India.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited-India (1981 to 1996) JOB DUTIES at BHEL-Hyderabad
A) CLIENT : BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED- INDIA-Steam driven HC gas centrifugal compressors and air compressor
Terminal points list, utility list and line list.
P&IDs for lube oil, compressor seal oil and process gas and cooling water steam and drain system
Equipment layout,Piping GA drawings, piping isometrics and bill of material(BOM) Pipe stress analysis (Pressure,Thermal & Weight) of Steam piping
Process gas piping and steam piping stress analysis
Pipe support selection,hanger schedule and pipe support sketches and their purchase request.
B) CLIENT: MADRAS REFINERIES LIMITED- INDIA 25 MW -Steam driven HC gas centrifugal compressors and Air compressor
Terminal points list, utility list and line list.
P&IDs for lube oil, compressor seal oil and process gas and cooling water steam and drain system
Equipment layout,Piping GA drawings, piping isometrics and bill of material(BOM)
Pipe stress analysis (Pressure,Thermal & Weight) of Steam piping
Process gas piping and steam piping stress analysis
Pipe support selection,hanger schedule and pipe support sketches and their purchase request.
C) CLIENT:HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED- Steam driven HC gas centrifugal centrifugal compressors and Air compressor
Terminal points list, utility list and line list.
P&IDs for lube oil, compressor seal oil and process gas and cooling water steam and drain system
Equipment layout,Piping GA drawings, piping isometrics and bill of material(BOM)
Pipe stress analysis (Pressure,Thermal & Weight) of Steam piping
Process gas piping and steam piping stress analysis
Pipe support selection,hanger schedule and pipe support sketches and their purchase request.
D) CLIENT: GUJARAT STATE FERTILISERS CORPORATION LIMITED 25 MW CPP-TG package
P&ID steam and drain system
Piping layout, Plot Plan,
Pipe stress analysis ( Thermal +Weight +Pressure) for HP, IP & LP steam and condensate system,
E) CLIENT: TATA IRON AND STEEL COMPANY LIMITED-30 MW CPPINDIA
P&ID steam and drain system
Piping layout, Plot Plan,
Pipe stress analysis ( Thermal +Weight +Pressure) for HP, IP & LP steam and condensate system,
Similar works were carried out for Tata chemicals ltd-Urea and ammonia plants steam driven compressor packages (Carbon dioxide, synthesis gas and ammonia plant,Nagarjuna Fertilizers and chemical plant, Bindal agro and Chambal Fertilizers and chemical plant,National Fertilizers –Vijaipur and IFFCO-Aonla and motor driven centrifugal compressors for IOCL- Haldia.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Successfully analyzed and solved many site problems like Turbine lifting due to piping loads
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Thorough knowledge of Basic design, Design Criteria, Material selection as per ASME & ASTM Codes, Fabrication and Testing requirements, Design of Weld Joints, Heat treatment, requirements of Non-destructive examination for weld joints.
Deputed to Nuovo-Pignone -Italy for discussions and vetting of Gas Authority of India- Lean gas centrifugal compressor Lube oil and Seal oil system design for high speed centrifugal compressors.
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