B.E. (Chemical) from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, 1960

EXPERIENCE:

1. Executive Director in Gramya Research Analysis Institute (Scientific and Tech. Consultancy Division) from July '99 till date.

2. General Manager of SRV Engineers Pvt. Ltd., Baroda (From February 1997 to June 1999).

3. Deputy General Manager and headed the Process Engineering and Business Development Department of Projects & Development India Ltd ( PDIL) , Baroda (From 1993 till 31.01.1997).

4. Worked in various capacity from 1963 to 1993 from Asst. Project Engineer to Chief Engineer and Head of Department in Projects and Development India Ltd., Sindri.

5. Graduate Engineer Trainee for operation in Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd., for two years from 1961-1963.

6. Lecturer in Chemical Engineering Department of Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, (Dhanbad), Year (1960-61).

7. Experience in PROCESS ENGINEERING:

 i) TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION :
    As a member of team, evaluated following technologies for selection of process licensor for Ammonia Plants;
     - Fuel oil based partial oxidation technology for Ammonia Plant for Nangal Expansion, Haldia and Sindri Modernisation Projects.
     - Gas based steam reforming route for Ammonia Plants of RCF Thal & KRIBHCO, Hazira.
     - CO2 removal technology on behalf of Govt. of India for the Indian Fertilizer Projects. Technology covered were MDEA of BASF, Germany, Selexol of Norton USA, Glycine of GV Italy, Catacarb of USA, Benfield of USA, CARSOL of Belgium.

ii) PROCESS HANDLED FOR PROCESS & DETAIL ENGINEERING:
   AMMONIA PLANT
- Gas Generation by partial oxidation of coal, fuel oil, Naphtha, LSHS.
- Steam Reforming process for Naphtha, Natural Gas and Associated Gas etc.
- CO Shift- Conversion with high temperature, medium temperature and low temperature operation.
- CO2 removal by physical, chemical and physico- chemical process like rectisol wash, Selexol wash, MEA, Amine Guard, Hot Potash, GV glycine, Benfield, MDEA etc.
 - Condensate stripping for re-utilization of process condensate.
 - Methanation / Nitrogen wash for final purification of Synthesis gas.
- Synthesis Gas Compression Synthesis for Ammonia Production and storage.

UREA PLANT

- Urea Synthesis, purification, concentration, prilling etc.
- Waste water treatment.

UTILITIES SERVICES

- Steam Generation, Steam Balance and Steam Networking.
- Cooling Tower and Cooling water balance and distribution.
- DM water, process water and waste water treatment.
- Inert gas, Instrument air system.

OTHERS MISCELLANEOUS TECHNOLOGY

 - Methanol synthesis & distillation.
- Hydrogen plant with PSA and conventional system.
- CO2 removal from flue gases.
- Purge gas recovery with Cryogenic, PSA and Prism separation.
 - Group Gas Gathering stations.
- Import storage and handling of liquid ammonia at low temperature and low pressure.
- Storage handling of Naphtha, Fuel oil, LSHS, Methanol, LPG etc.
- Import handling & storage of Propane, Butane in refrigerated tanks including handling LPG in Mounded Bullets.
- LPG import, storage handling and LPG Bottling Plants.
- Import storage of white/ black oil.
- Petroleum Oil Storage Terminal.
- Effluent treatment of waste water.
- Sulphur recovery from flash gases.
- Pesticide Production Process Review and detail Engineering for Southern Pesticide corporation Ltd.
- Decommissioning and commissioning of Ammonia Storage Tanks.
- Upgradation of crude distillation Unit.

Evaluation of Process technology system and  processes including design engineering for above process was carried out under my supervision to meet requirement of specific plant of various owners which included FCI, NFL, IFFCO, BACL, NFCL, RCF for fertilizer plants,  ONGC for Oil & Gas sector, IOCL & BPCL for Refinery Petroleum Products etc.

8. Supervision Assistance during Commissioning of designed plants.

9. Safety and Energy audit of Fertilizer plant.

10. Foreign Assignments:
I had the oppurtunity of working with Lurgi in Frankfurt and  Koppers in Essen, Germany in 1970, 1972, 1973 and with Uhde Germany in Dortmund for coal and LSHS based Ammonia plants. Worked with Cryo plant for Air separation plant of NFL Nangal. Worked for TV tube projects BEL in Cornigs Office in France. For selection of CO2 removal technology, visited operating plants of Technology Supplier to assess their Plant performance in Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Germany in 1989. For fixing up the design conditions as team leader for BACL Fertilizer project Shahjahanpur, India. I visited Haldor Topsoe at Copenhagen for Reforming, Purification synthesis and to Glammarco Vetrocoke office at Venice for CO2 removal process technology.

11. Project & Feasibility report:
- Project report for offsite facilities for Krishak Bharti Coop. Ltd for their Hazira and Gorakhpur Expansion Project.
- Prepared decommissioning and commissioning feasibility report for liquid Ammonia handling system for Gujarat Guardian Ltd.
- Prepared Technoeconomic/ Feasibility report for CO2 recovery from reformer flue gases by different chemical processes for increasing the capacity of NFL Vijaipur Fertilizer Project.

12. UNIDO Sponsored Project:
I had rendered services to Azot Sanayi, Ankaras, Turkey for establishment of their design office in 1982. I also imparted training for senior engineers of Azot Sanayi at Kutaya for Ammonia Technology in 1983.

13. Participation in Seminars:
Presented papers at Seminar at Institute of Engineers India, National Seminar at RCF, Institute of Chemical Engineers etc. Conducted number of technical training programs, presented papers at the National seminars conducted by Gramya Research Analysis Institute, Baroda.