Professional Experience

Chemical Engineer

Exp : 2 Year(s) 1 Month

CTC : INR 4 Per Year

Key Skills Aspen HYSYS Process Modelling and Simulation Materials Research

Responsibilities As a GET I have worked as a shift in-charge in PVC production and Caustic Chlor plants. Undertook several projects in recovering PVC powders from reactor effluents, designing heat exchangers and plant feed water treatment units for caustic applications. Also supervised DCS operations, startup and shut down of Caustic units. Working with a team of plant simulation scientists at GE OIl& Gas, Bangalore, I got a lovely exposure to simulate real-time gas processing plants with Aspen HYSYS. Working with the Dynamics part of the simulation made me feel like operating the plant directly. Also had enough of theoretical modelling and analysis of centrifugal compressors! Later, I had another exciting opportunity to get introduced and explore the world of metal additive manufacturing. Under the guidance of Mr. Pradeep Kraleti, Senior Materials Engineering learnt the basics of this revolutionary technology. Worked with materials like cobalt chrome and FSX414 the key alloys for gas turbine parts. Got hands-on experience in microscopic analysis and material qualification techniques!

Achievements Modelling & Simulation of Dynamic Performance of Centrifugal CompressorsEdit GE Oil & Gas (Bangalore, India : Offsite) Jun 2017 to Feb 2018 (Full Time) Collaborated with the simulation scientists of Operability team from the Oil and Gas Division.Undertook several live projects associated with simulation of compressor layouts in refineries. Developed theoretical models on the performance of the compressors using the simulation software Aspen HYSYS. Gained expertise in performing dynamic simulations and estimating the efficiency of plant layouts through technical drawings. Recovery of PVC powders from Polymerization reactor effluents Chemplast Sanmar Ltd. Sep 2015 to Nov 2015 (Full Time) Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) is produced by polymerization of vinyl chloride through several methods. Out of which emulsion polymerization produces very fine PVC powders. The process takes place in a medium of emulsion of vinyl chloride froth forming an emulsion with water. Much of the powders after the reaction would be recovered directly by centrifugation. But a significant portion of it goes waste in the effluent waters. These powders form a sort of suspended froth in water. Surprisingly it was estimated that 80 of the froth consists of the powders. The project is to recover these powders through mechanical means. A unit was designed to recover these wastes along with the vinyl chloride gases. In a single settling tank there were powders collected at the bottom along with some water with a mist of vinyl chloride which were later separated. The challenge was to transport the froth from the reactor bottom outlet to the recovery tank which was successfully modeled.