Controls Engineer Power Plant

Sohail Yar Khan

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LEGAL STATUS: GREEN CARD HOLDER

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering In Electrical / Electronics From University of Toronto

CERTIFICATIONS

C Programming with Unix Operating Systems

Course Nos CENG 104 and CPAN 210

PLC Programming

Course Nos: ELEC 314 and ELEC 502

Electrical Codes

Course No: ELEY 004

Computer Aided Draft Elec (CAD)

Course No: ELIC 203

Data Acquisition& Audio Virtual (LABVIEW Programming)

Course No: ELIC 517 50

Microsoft Office

SUMMARY

25 years of professional experience.

Experienced in EPC Upstream and Downstream Oil and Gas, Hydro Power Generation projects and fossil fuel power plant I&C EPC, maintenance, overhauling, construction, commissioning and refurbishment.

Worked in maintenance of electro hydraulic and pneumatic equipment of large power units following the industrial codes, and applicable environmental health and safety issues.

Experience: Visio, SPI, Blue Beam, Brava, SPI Model, PLC/DCS hardware design and integration

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Instrument & Controls Engineer AECOM Co, Houston, Texas Sep 2023 –

April 2025

Worked on the EPC Project for Plug Power Co, Alabama, NY, Hydrogen Liquifaction Facility

Prepared data sheets for various instruments / Analyzers

Worked on HF Sinclair, Entergy Ammonia, Mines Sycamore TSF, Duke Project, Merom

Perform specification, sizing, and selection for various types of I&C components, and produce component related documentation including assessment documents, setpoint calculations, error analyses, technical specifications, etc.

Updated and/or prepared I&C engineering design documents including design requirements, design description, elementary diagrams, functional specifications, etc., together with the supporting analysis/assessment documents and other design basis documents.

Provided input to the drawing office for the preparation of various I&C related engineering drawings such as general arrangement drawings, instrument loop diagrams, wiring and connection diagrams, bills of materials, etc.

Controls design Engineering

Instrument List, MTO list

Worked on Brava for P&ID editing

Worked on SPI Smart Plant Instrumentation

Senior Instrument & Controls Engineer Albanese Solutions

Stepan Chemical Facility, FieldsBoro, NJ 08505 Nov 2021 –July 2023

Interface with various engineering disciplines, suppliers, and other areas of the company.

Assist in providing responses to technical enquiries from design review teams and regulatory agencies.

Assist in providing technical support to engineering groups at site.

Deliver technical presentations accurately and effectively.

Manage assigned work effectively, including prioritizing, executing, managing schedule and budget, and reporting, to meet project goals.

Worked for deliverables on below:

Instrument Index, I/O List, MTO List

Control Philosophy

Instrument Data Sheets

Control Valve Sizing.

Technical Bid Tabs

Procurement Packages

PLC(Control and Compact Logix) and DCS (Delta V), BOM, Control Panel Design

Instrument Cable Schedules

Cause & Effect Matrix (Interlock Drawing)

Control system architecture with PLC (Allen Bradley) and DCS (Emerson Delta V)

Loop Drawings

Wiring Schematic Drawings

Fire Protection System

Senior Instrument & Controls Engineer Kiewit Co, Lenexa, KS Jan 6th, 2020 – Sep 24th, 2021

Worked for Calcasieu Pass LNG Project – Louisiana, Chevron Upstream Projects

• Experienced as Assistant Lead on instrumentation projects in Oil and Gas facilities.

• Worked for Project Scope, Scope change, Schedules, Construction Plan, BOM,

Correspondence with Vendors.

• Maintain interaction with vendors of instrumentation for EPC projects

• Wrote Power and Controls Circuits at Smart Plant Instrument SPI (IN tool S/W)

• Worked on Smart View, UPV Model.

• Experienced in designing GE Turbine Control Drawings.

• Worked in designing Control System Architecture which includes PLC (Allen Bradley,

DCS (Emerson Delta V), Ethernet, Control Net, Device Net for a large refinery project

• Experienced in Instrument & Control System startup and troubleshooting.

• Develop and perform checks of Instrument Indexes based on P&ID Drawings

• Specified the PLC (Allen Bradley and somewhat Siemens) and DCS hardware

(Emerson Delta V

• Worked for specifications for SIS (Safety Instrumented System), LOPA calculations,

HAZOP meetings, then updated the P&ID drawings.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Automation Engineer Larson & Toubro Info tech Co, Bakersfield, CA Oct 29th 2018 – Dec 20th, 2019

Worked on Chevron Upstream Project Converted WW Tags into PIE Tags

• Preparation of S-95 Document through P&ID & Electrical drawings:

Control Logix, SLC500 / PLC Control Logix 5000 programs, DCS Delta V

• Worked with 86 Lock out relay, over current, under current, differential current relays

87, over frequency, under frequency, loss-of-field-excitation relay 40.

• Knowledge of the upstream oil and gas process through P&ID drawings and visiting

the sites

• Worked on Power/Energy Management System (PMS/EMS) at Wonder Ware

platform.

• Worked on SMART GRID for Substations through SCADA at Wonder Ware platform.

SENIOR INSTRUMENTS AND CONTROL ENGINEER Burns & McDonnell Co, Kansas City, MO April1st, 2013 – June 29th, 2016

Completed Downstream One OAK, Phillips 66 Montana Refinery, P66 Ponca City, and CVR Energy projects

Experienced with Process Safety Management, PHA/HAZOP/LOPA & PHA (Preliminary Hazard Analysis)

Hazardous locations and instruments selection, considering Class I(Groups A, B, C and D) or Class II (Groups E, F and G) or Class III / IEC Zone classification system0,1, 2 and 20, 21, 22.

Worked for refinery and processing of oil and gas.

Worked on detailed engineering design.

Prepared different instruments & Valves purchase packages.

Worked on SPI (Smart Plant Instrumentation) for specifications of Control Valves under given design and operating parameters temp, press, pressure drop, flow rate, Viscosity, density, sound pressure level, for the calculation of Flow Coefficient Cv and control valve size.

Worked on SPI for creating Instrument Index, Control Loop Generation, wiring

Sizes and selected the Control valve actuators.

Pressure Relief Valves selection and data sheets preparation as per the given Phillips66 design guidelines

High temperature Pressure safety relief valve data sheets preparation and selection as per the given Phillips66 design guidelines

Emergency Isolation Valves EIV data sheets and selection as per the given Phillips66 design guidelines

Flow Orifice and Restriction Orifice design and preparation of data sheet

Prepared data sheets for Ultrasonic, Nuclear, Coriolis flow meters and transmitters under given design and operating conditions with respect to different applications and environments.

Worked on preparing costs of different instruments.

Control Loops generation, Instrument Index, Wiring of marshalling & junction boxes.

Use of REP’s (Refining Engineering Practices of Phillips 66) / REP Deviations

Experienced with SPI Model Review.

Worked on Thermowell Wake Frequency Calculations

Performed Quality reviews at SPI, for different instruments and control valves and isolation valves.

Required working and development knowledge of P&ID drawings.

Understanding and used codes as per ISA, ANSI, IEC, NEC/ CEC and OSHA safety standards.

Worked at Blue Beam / Brava editing red line P&ID drawings / documents.

Senior Controls engineer L&S electric Co, Rothschild, WI Aug 4th, 2008 – Dec 28th, 2012

Worked on Hydro Power projects (Wood Ward Governor Control, SASK Power, PUGET Sound Energy)

Developed P&ID drawings for electro hydraulic equipment at Visio software.

Required knowledge of hydro power plant process and related P&ID drawings

Worked on installation/removal cut in drawings.

Prepared wiring drawings / elementary drawings

Reviewed the designed panel drawings.

IO identifications & hardware design, for PLC

Unit, governor and protection control panel testing considering codes.

Conduct FAT Test and wrote manual.

Designed Control panels as per the NEMA rating chart / IEC’s IP for different environments and as per UL 508A, UL 698A.

Developed bills of material (BOM) to meet system requirements.

instrument & Controls Engineer Arabian power co(EWEC) ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E), May 8th,1995 – Nov 24th, 2000

Worked at Thermal Power Plant, Capacity 2x300 MW+ 2x75 MW+5x65 MW

●Performed modifications of Sie Graphic Editor (SGE) programming software of Turbine Control

●Worked in installation and commissioning for new projects.

●Working knowledge of thermal power plant process, water treatment Plant, Desalination Plant and related P&ID drawings.

●Coordinated with Operations Engineers for the development of procedures and philosophies for the design and productivity of the new projects.

●Worked on Siemens Simatic Turbine Controls.

●Worked on Burner Management Systems (BMS), control logics and instrumentation.

●Performed FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) frequently on boiler and steam turbine shutdown.

●Refurbished Compressor Controls logics & Instrumentation

●Worked frequently on Generator protection tests before actual start up.

●Worked on Diesel Emergency Generator control logics and instrumentation.

●Worked on CMMS Computerized Maintenance Materials Management Systems

●Carried out protection tests frequently for Boiler &steam Turbine before actual start up.

●Performed modifications for electro hydraulic control system of turbines.

●Experienced in control logics, interlocks and safety trips for high-pressure boilers and steam turbines & for controls of high & low-pressure gas lines.

●Water Treatment Plant instrumentation control logics and instrumentation

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