Nirag Patel

Background

About Nirag Patel

12+ years of experience in maintenance and project lifecycle Experience with various manufacturing processes such as chemical, agrochemical, power, carbon black, oleochemicals, palm/vegetable oil processing, fatty acid/alcohol, fertilizer, hydrocarbon, syngas manufacturing process industries In depth knowledge of field instrumentation and control system including PLC(Allen Bradley, GE Fanuc, Schneider) and DCS(DeltaV, Yokogawa Centum, Foxboro EVO, Honeywell Knowledge of profibus/controlnet/ethernet/devicenet/fieldbus communication for Instrument and equipment like MCC, VFD, Remote IO, Flowcomputer etc. Equivalency with 4 years Degree education of canada as per WES evaluation Preparation of technical specification, technical and commercial comparisons and decision making. Safety work practices such as PHA, HAZOP, RCA, PSSR, Risk assessment, Management of change vendor development and cost optimisation to improve budget utilisation Developed operational and safety interlock logic for equipments such as, High pressure and Medium pressure heat recovery and fired boilers decanters/centrifuge for seperation thermic fluid heaters ( vertical and horizontal, fired ) High pressure reciprocating compressors High pressure feed pumps Spray Dryer Natural gas reformer and syngas purification Steel belt dryers and flakers Bagging Machines wide experience in programming, maintenance and commissioning of various control systems, Yokogawa Centum Foxboro EVO series DCS with FCP-280 CPU Emerson Delta-V DCS v7.4/10 with foundation fieldbus and SIS modules Allen Breadley Micrologix/Flexlogix/Compactlogix/Controllogix Honeywell DCS Reliability enhancement of static/rotating equipments/compressors/burners/boilers etc with robust interlocks and control schemes Revamping/turnaround/de-bottlenecking of equipments and plants to improve realibility Training from OEM such as Emerson, Foxboro, Siemens, E&H for Control systems and Instruments