Engineer Engineering

PRAKASH PARMAR Email id: ***********@*****.***

Cell: 409-***-**** Artesia, CA 90701

Career Focus

To build career with an organization that provides excellent training and which utilize my sound technical background for solving problem in plant and which enable me to apply my skill to achieve organizational objective.

Summary

• From last 12 years, I am in the field of chemical engineering with more than 4 years of experience including fortune 500 companies in the field of engineering.

• Acquired Intermediate skills with simulation software such as ASPEN plus 2006, HYSYS & PROII

• Proficient in engineering disciplines such as, Solid knowledge of Unit operations, Batch processing, Mass transfer, Heat transfer, Solids handling, Separation processes, Fluid Flow and Material /Energy balances.

• Experienced with the technology supplied by Foster wheeler USA.

• Worked on downstream process of petro chemical unit with Cracker plant and commissioning of chlorine handling unit.

• Solid experience with DCS (Distributed control system), PLC (Programmable Logic Control).

• Compliances, PFD's, PID's, HAZOP, OSHA, Six Sigma and Process troubleshooting.

• Experienced with an ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 14001 and HSE.

• Good team affiliation, presentation skills and problem solving methodology sought

• The successfully worked with Asia’s largest cooling tower and having good experience with water treatment process.

Achievements

• Carried out detailed testing and analysis for Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning of Chlorine handling unit.

• Derived feasible results while doing research on Sandalica project and those results (feed ratio) were utilized in Camphor and Allied products Ltd to commence a new process plant.

Experience

Process Engineer April-2011 to Till Date

POLYCOAT PRODUCTS – SANTA FE SPRING, CA

• Supporting daily manufacturing and engineering operations with process engineering basic and judgment as well as troubleshooting and analyzing technical issues.

• Providing analysis and engineering feedback, reports and updates to the engineering team and operations management

• Review chemical and environmental engineering design to ensure compliance with engineering principal and related specifications and industry standards as well as applying chemical and environmental engineering principals to provide support for our engineering project studies.

• Specifically responsible for performing engineering production troubleshooting and analysis, providing process data and support and performing process equipment’s design and analysis.

• Providing justification, development, and implementation of engineering projects to improve safety and environmental performance, as well as improving asset reliability and profitability for projects.

Process Engineer June 2007 to July 2008

CAMPHOR & ALLIED PRODUCT LTD – Vadodara, Gujarat.

• Preparation of Process Flow Diagrams(PFD), Piping Instrumentation Diagrams(P&ID), mass and energy balances, equipment sizing and rating, Valve sizing and specifying pipelines, pumps, heat exchangers, relief valves and rupture discs, HAZOP studies and take corrective action to address process deviations.

• Handled unit processes such as chlorination, Hydrogenation and unit operations such as distillation, drying, Water treatment, crystallization with the use of distributed control system (PLC) and trouble-shooting of the process problems.

• Plant optimization, production planning, plant emergency control, implementing safety systems. Acted as liaison between sales, manufacturing, quality and purchasing in order to meet process specifications.

• Performed material balance and energy balance calculations for distillation columns and other pressure vessels.

• Total in-charge for Plant operation and managing experience in of (DHM) Dihydried mercinol and Astrolide plant having sections like Autoclave Reactor, Reaction , Filtration, Separation and refrigeration, Auxiliary boilers and Captive power plant, all utilities plants.

Project/Research engineer June 2002 to August 2003

Malti Chemical Research Ltd – Nandesari, Gujarat.

• Malti chemical Research Ltd is subsidy of Camphor and allied products Ltd.

• Supported marketing team to address them use of products so that they can sell very well.

• Performed data analysis and provided recommendations when working with pilot plant to achieve more than 25% conversion in R&D by moving from laboratory to pilot plant and production scale.

• Initiated statistical analysis project that resulted in sound recommendations adopted by entire department.

• Prepared plans and layouts for equipment or system arrangements and space allocation. Experienced with process scale-up and technology transfer.

• Participated to improve/update safety of plant and production processes after a careful review.

Process Engineer June 2000 to May 2002

Reliance Industries ltd. – Hazira/Surat, Gujarat.

• Operated Asia's largest cooling tower, Over there I used to do dosing of chemical to treat water which mainly include chlorine dosing, acid dosing and chemical which we used to dose was supplied by sales person of other company.

• Design and manage petrochemical plants Implement and operate environmental and quality control systems as well as root cause and failure analysis.

• Supervise a team of technologists, mechanics and junior engineers supporting refinery operations. Conduct technical feasibility evaluations of projects in Fortune 500 Company.

• Theoretical calculations for the refinery like Energy Balance Across the sections for Column, power requirement for pumping liquid, NPSH, Dew point calculation, calculations of Lab Properties using and matching with Lab results, Material balance in vacuum column.

• Physically loop file checking in field and generate comments. (Mate code and rating of valve, NRV, gasket, end blind, spec blind, flange, orifice, CV direction, instrument range)

• Checked PFD and P&ID and provided comments whenever required.

• Unique experienced of commissioning and working with DCS system of MOD300 (ABB TAILOR), ADVANT 500 system, FOXBORO system, Rockwell automation-Allen Brate of Chlorine Handling Unit.

• Expertise in handling HSE & F management related procedures and well versed in the different types of procedures such as permit to work procedure, Hot work permit procedure, vessel/confined space entry procedure.

Education

Masters of Engineering (Chemical) Lamar University, TX, USA Dec’10 GPA (Major): 3.61

Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India May’07 GPA: 3.25

Diploma in engineering (petro-chemical) Maharaja Sayajirao University, India April’00

GPA: 3.31

Academic Projects________________________________________

• Increased profit from 250$ to 5648.50$ by using ASPEN HYSIS with varying process parameter and plant layout.

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