Power Plant Operations Manager

K. HEMANTH KUMAR

Mobile: *****- ******** / 009***********

WhatsApp: 00974- 30143149 / 009***********

E-Mail: ***********@**********.***, *******.***@*****.*** Aspiring for higher level & rotational assignments PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

A result driven professional with 28 plus years of valuable experience in Operation and Commissioning with credentials in Bachelor of Mechanical and Masters in Production Engineering.

In-depth knowledge of managing maintenance operations for reducing breakdown/ downtime & enhancing operational effectiveness of equipment.

Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of combined cycle power plant, steam turbines, high pressure boilers, gas conditioning includes it’s condensate collection and transfer operation

& naphtha fuel systems, pipe line transfer, terminal unloading for HSD & Naphtha unloading berths

& respective floating and fixed roof storage tank farm operations and balance of plant like dm plant & fire protections systems.

An effective communicator with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.

Experience in GE- 9FA, 9E & 6B gas turbines.

Certified boiler proficiency engineer.

Certified Onshore ERTL.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Operations

Responsible for safe & economic operation of entire power plant, maintaining high PLF, low heat rate and less auxiliary consumption.

Managing operation and safety measures in naphtha operations.

Accountable for operations and isolation of electrical systems consisting of 400kV GIS & 220kV switchyard, 3.3 kV /415V station and unit switch gear, dc and ups systems.

Regularly managing operations such as start-ups, planned shutdowns, data trending and suggesting the corrective action.

Plant Engineering and Management

Resourcing and managing tasks for ensuring timely completion of the startups of power. Quality Control/Assurance

Ensuring adherence to quality standards and maintaining all related documents.

Generating various safety plans for isolations, de isolations, start checklist, recommissioning thereby ensuring smooth plant operations.

Resource Management

Effectively imparting continuous on the job training to the subordinates so that they can enhance their operational efficiencies.

Preparing training manuals for evaluating performance of trainees and educating the subordinate staff.

08 May 2021 to present: M/S Mesaieed Power Company Limited, 1990MW, C.C.P.P, Qatar

Engineer (General Shift)

KEY DELIVERABLES

Assist Operations Manager in general shift.

Responsible for Plant operations, Startups and shutdowns, Normal / Plant Emergency operational activities and reporting to Operations Manager.

Supervise shift operation team in order to ensure that operational targets are achieved safely, commercially and within the strict Environmental and Contractual Limits.

Responsible for Plant availability and Dispatch Instructions.

Effective planning of operational and maintenance activity in coordination with maintenance, planning department to achieve maximum availability.

As Senior Authorised Person for preparing issuing and cancelling of Work Permit System

(Safety documents) in SAP.

Monitoring and analysis of plant performance through PI (Plant Information System).

As an Incident controller conducting ERP Mock drills.

Prepare and submit daily load forecast profile for Kahramaa and gas consumption nominations for QP

Coordinating with inter departments for day to day activities, preparing operating plan.

Monitoring the water treatment operation and taking decision.

Responsible for execution of ISO 9001-2000 (QMS) and 14001-2004 (EMS) routine and non-routine procedures.

EQUIPMENTS PURVIEW

Gas turbines 9FA, Steam turbines D11, Black Start Gas turbines 6B by GE, Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) by NEM, Condenser by Doosan, Cooling towers by SPIG, 400 kV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) by ALSTOM, Electro chlorination for sea water treatment and Desalination through Reverse Osmosis (RO).

17 Feb 2016 – 20 Oct 2020: M/S Spectrum Power Generation Limited, 210MW, C.C.P.P, Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Senior Plant Shift Manager

KEY DELIVERABLES

Overall in charge for operation of the plant during shift and reporting to Assistant General Manager (Operations).

Authorized to carry out high voltage switching operation in 220kV switchyard with two main buses and one transfer bus single level generating substation with ten bays including 2nos line bays.

Supervision & control of all activities from DCS /PLC panels for Naphtha, gas, HSD tankers handling, respective pumping stations with ESD facilities and monitoring the billing of invoices.

Responsible for preparation of monthly tariff meter reports along with the A.P. Transco. EQUIPMENTS PURVIEW

Gas Turbines

Capacity : 3 x 47 MW.

Make : Westinghouse

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CAREER CONTOUR

Control System : Ovation

Fuel : N.G. & Naphtha

Steam Turbine.

Capacity : 1x67 MW.

Make : PARSONS POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS (U.K.)

Control System : Ovation

Waste Heat Recovery Steam Generators (High Pressure). Capacity : 3 x 85 TPH at 84kg/cm2 and 5100C (Dual pressure unfired boiler). Control System : Ovation

Package

D.M. Plant

: International Combustion Engineering

Capacity : 2 X 67 m3/hr

Package : Aquatech System (Asia) Private Limited

Control System : Allen Bradley 5/40 Application PLC 20 AUG’13 – 30 Jan’ 16: M/S Sadara, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Operations Shift Foreman (Shift in Charge) – Utilities and power KEY DELIVERABLES

Immediate Response Leader.

Utilising tools like SIS, OPD & RTMS etc.

Involved in commissioning and operations of associated units.

Promotes the best work practices related to health, safety and environmental protections, HSEQ management systems.

Fuel Management and its metering.

Responsible for conducting a strategic review of its respective operations and organization to identify functions, programs and project which can be scaled down, phased out or abolished, or those which need to be strengthened by using MOC.

Perform and /or facilitates root cause failure analysis RCFA and prospective solutions based on RFCA.

Trained in Life Critical Standards like Elevated work, Confined space & LOTO. EQUIPMENTS PURVIEW

Auxiliary Boilers

Capacity : 6 X 345 T/Hr; 45 ksc; 400 deg C.

Type : Bi-drum; Multi-fuel fired (NG/F.O.) water tube boiler Package : CERREY, MEXICO.

DCS : ABB, System 800xA

Flue gas Treatment: SCR & NID supplied by Alstom

Demineralisation

Capacity : 4 X 360 m3/hr

Type : Ion exchange

Package : Aqua tech International

Air compressors

Capacity : 5 X 25,300 m3/hr; 7.7ksc

Type : Three stages

Package : Atlas Capco

PLC : Allen Bradly

Aug’05 – Aug ‘13: M/S Genting (Malaysia) Lanco Power Private Limited, 1480MW, C.C.P.P, Kondapalli, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.

Plant Shift Manager – July 2009 to August 2013

Plant Control Engineer-February 2008 to July 2009

Operation Engineer-August 2005 to February 2008

EQUIPMENTS PURVIEW

Gas Turbines (Frame 9FA).

Capacity : 1 x 236 MW.

Make : GE.

Control System: Mark-Vie.

Fuel : NG (D.L.N. 2+).

Gas Turbines (Frame 9E).

Capacity : 2 x 123 MW.

Make : GE supplied by ALSTOM.

Control System : Speedtronic Mark-V.

Fuel

Steam Turbine.

: NG/HSD/NAPHTHA.

Capacity : 1x128 MW.

Make : ALSTOM (Triple pressure with 100 % Turbine bypass system). Control System

Steam Turbine.

: TGC 820.

Capacity : 1x130 MW.

Make : H.T.C. (Triple pressure with 100 % Turbine bypass system), China. Control System : ABB.

Waste Heat Recovery Steam Generators (High Pressure). Capacity : 2x186 T/HR at 87 kSC (Triple pressure unfired boiler). Control System : Teleperm XP-DCS supplied by Siemens. Package : HANJUNG.

Waste Heat Recovery Steam Generators (High Pressure). Capacity : 1x282 T/HR at 99 kSC (Triple pressure unfired boiler). Control System : Power Generation Portal- DCS supplied by ABB. Package

RO-DMPlant

: THERMAX.

Capacity : 2 X 51 m3/hr

Control System : Allen Bradly

Package : XTREAM FROM DVSL

Feb’95 – Aug’05: M/S Nagarjuna Fertilisers & Chemicals Limited, Kakinada. Engineer (Operations) of Power Plant & Utilities

Engineer - January 2005 to August 2005

Jr. Engineer - April 2001 to Jan 2005

Sr. Operator - April 1999 to April 2001

Operator - August 1996 to April 1999

Operator trainee -February 1995 to August 1996

EQUIPMENTS PURVIEW

Gas Turbines.

Capacity : 1 X 26 MW (Frame 5).

Control System : Speedtronic Mark V.

Make : Thomassen International, Netherlands.

Capacity : 2 X 10.9 MW (Frame 3).

Control System : Speedtronic Mark IV.

Make : Nuovo Pignone, Italy.

Auxiliary Boilers

Capacity : 2 X 100 T/Hr; 108 kSC; 515 deg C.

Type : Bi-drum; Multi-fuel fired (NG/LSHS) Water tubes Boilers. Package : Mitsui Engg. & Ship Building Company, Japan.

Nitrogen generation plant

Capacity : 420 Nm3/hr of GAN & 40m3 of LIN or 600Nm3/hr of GAN. TYPE: Liquifaction & distillation based on boiling package, Air products, UK Other Utilities include: HRSG ( supplementary firing), pre-treatment plant, dm plant, cooling towers, effluent treatment plant, compressor house, Triveni turbines ( steam turbines – back pressure and condensing type) and AMF.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Boiler Proficiency Engineer from Government of Tamil Nadu (Endorsed by A.P.), Chennai in 2005.

Diploma in Industrial Safety from Annamalai University in 2006.

Diploma in Business Management from ICFAIU, Hyderabad in 2004. SEMINAR CONDUCTED

For future Engineers in couple of engineering colleges. TRAININGS ATTENDED

Trained in Onshore Fire and Emergency Team Leader RelyOn Nutec at Qatar in March 2022.

Internal Auditing-Training Course on Integrated Management Systems held by Real Time Quality Management Services at Vijayawada in July 2007.

Ex-2100 /LS-2100 training conducted by G.E in March 2010. IT FORTE

LAN.

MS-Office.

S.A.P – PM & PP modules

Internet Applications.

COMMS.

Main Server

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

MTech. in Production from V. R. S. Engg. College, Vijayawada, Acharya Nagarjuna University in 2008.

M.B.A. in Finance from I.G.N.O.U.

B. Tech. in Mechanical from College, Kakinada, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 2000.

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from State board of Technical Education & Training in 1994.

OTHER SKILLS

Exposed to state of the art DCS system, Power System Switching on High voltage and Medium voltage systems.

Exposed to Automated Defects and Maintenance Management Systems.

Good spoken, written English and analytical skills. PERSONAL DOSSIER

Date of Birth : 20th February 1974.

Current Address

: K.Hemanth Kumar, Ezdan -56, Building no: 21, Flat no: 3, Al Wukair, Qatar.

Permanent Address

: S/o K.V. Subba Rao, Door No. 39/8/75, Bangarraju Layout, Muralinagar, Visakhapatnam– 530007, Andhra Pradesh, India. Linguistic Skills

: English, Telugu & Hindi.

Passport no.

: S1586988

Marital Status

: Married

No. of children : Two

Valid GCC driving License : 235-***-****

Expected Salary : Negotiable

Notice Period : Two months

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