Mehul Patel

5-Sukh sagar Tenaments,

Near Jeet Tenaments,

Manjalpur, Vadodara, Email - mehul10941@gmail.com

Gujarat-390011 Phone: +919979897486

Age: 45 years’ Experience: 24 years Petrochemicals- BBHO (Naphtha Cracker)

Marital Status: Married

Seeking a fulfilling and successful career as a Process/Production Engineer with an organization of

International repute, which will enable me to deploy and enhance my technical knowledge and skills

while contributing towards its growth by committed and high quality work.

Sep’ 14 – Present : Reliance Industries Limited (Vadodara Manufacturing Division)

Positions Held : PO (carry additional responsibility of SFE & SS).

Experience and Key functions:

Total 24 years of experience in Butadiene process, pyrolysis gasoline hydrogenation process, benzene extraction process, Tank farm operation, sphere operation, offsite cooling tower operation and Flare area operation.

During this period, I was mainly involved in

Safety monitoring.

Review of PFD, P& ID, and equipment datasheet.

Going through plant specific operating manual and standard operating procedure Manual Loop

punches list preparation & dilution of punch list.

Pre commissioning & commissioning activities like hydro testing, flushing, leak test, and final box

up purging.

Plant startup activities like hydrocarbon charging, oil flushing, cold circulation, hot solvent

Circulation etc. Plant normalization, optimization.

Plant normal shutdown & emergency shutdown. Involved in 1:3 butadiene refrigeration system.

Loading and unloading of LPG, MIX C4‘s, cryogenic component like ETHYLENE, PROPYLENE

and 1:3BUTADIENE.

Storage and handling such hazardous petrochemicals products

Working as Shift Engineer in BBHO- (benzene butadiene hydrogenation offsite) Naphtha Cracker

Complex.

Career objective:

Experience:

Worked on various energy conservation schemes using Aspen Plus, HYSYS, HTRI, SULCOL,

and KG Tower. And Microsoft Visio.

Worked on Plant Economy Improvement Studies by Energy and Material balances, Pressure drop

calculations and schemes for Energy Conservation.

Worked in CAPEX project and Advanced Process Control (DMC Plus) Implementation in BBHO

(Naphtha Cracker).

Skills Acquired:

Familiar with basic engineering deliverables such as P&ID, PFD, Design Drawings and

datasheets.

Knowledge of Equipment sizing, line sizing, vessel sizing, Heat Exchanger sizing, PSV/relief

valve sizing,

And Flare sizing.

Familiar with API Codes and Standards related to equipment’s of BBHO plant, API-610 for CF

pump, API-560 for fire heater, API-555 for process Analyzer, API-612 for Steam turbine, API-520

sizing of PRV, API-620 for Low pressure storage.

Hands on experience in the operation of all process equipment like Pumps, Compressors,

Turbines, Columns, Reactors, Furnaces, Heat exchangers.

Preparation of data sheets for pumps, compressors, separators and other vessels, Control

Valves.

B. Chemical Engineering from Faculty of Technology, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara

with First Class (2005-2007). Part time course develop by Reliance Industries limited.

Diploma Petrochemical with First Class (1984-1988)

Class X, Board of Intermediate Education with 64% marks.

Simulation Software : ASPEN Plus, HYSYS, PRO-II, HTRI, Chem cad, Flare sim, Korf hydraulic,

MS Visio.

Complete project work on Benzene Toluene Separation using Chemsep simulation and find out

Pinch point and optimize reflux ratio also done mass and energy balance.

Educational Qualifications:

Software Skills:

Energy Conservation and other Projects:

Energy Conservation projects carried out using HYSYS Simulation software and improved the

energy efficiency of distillation columns by suggesting optimum reflux rate pertaining to a specific

distillate composition and minimum Reboiler heat input.

Furnace energy efficiency improvement with day to day data calibration.

Develop important parameter of IP21 to Excel sheet for better monitoring plant and prepare KPI

Graph.

Prepare PIPA with help of PHAST software and done consequence analysis of emergency

scenario.

Involve in COD minimization in OWS (oily Water sever) project and successfully completed

according to management vision under quality circle project. And awarded Gold Trophy by QCFI

Ankleshwar chapter at state level also excellence trophy by Bhili chapter at national level.

Awarded by RIL for giving contribution in teaching at Learning center.

Successfully done revamp activity and commission of BTX and Butadiene extraction unit with

safe start up.

Having good working experience in OFFsite area including Flare Operation.

Develop dynamic model of propylene – propane splitter to minimize losses of propylene from

bottom.

Team Member of the Toluene Cap ax project and Butadiene, Benzene, Pyrolysis Gasoline

hydrogenation APC implementation project, also suggested to build up better APC model with

respect of operational point of View.

Prepare Benzene – toluene Dynamic Model to understand better control of column with strategic

implementation of changes in day to day operation.

Suggest and successfully implemented to minimize fouling in final column overhead condenser

due to popcorn polymer in Butadiene extraction unit.

Suggest to minimize solvent losses in wash water in BD unit with help of simulation work carried

out in HYSYS.

Responsible for safe start up and shut down of the plant during any emergency.

Achievements at work:

Automation Projects:

Involved in Advanced Process Control (Aspen DMC Plus) implementation project in BBHO Plant.

Involved in the identification of Manipulated Variables, Control Variables selection, Tuning, Model

building and implementation.

Team Member of ODR committee.

Configured Operations Monitoring Professional (OMPro by Honeywell) for BBHO (Naphtha

Cracker) for effective monitoring of Operations.

Configured Intelatrac Device developed by Invensys for Operator Driven Reliability.

Simulation Projects:

Prepared dynamic simulations of Ethylene Fractionator, Propylene Fractionator.

Prepare dynamic simulation BTX Extractive distillation with sulfolane for study solvent ratio and

optimization of benzene losses in raffinate.

Prepare dynamic simulation of propane propylene splitter (HIDC) mechanical vapor

recompression system and find out break through temp to minimize propylene losses from bottom

of column.

Steady state simulations developed for columns and heat exchangers.

Heat exchanger sizing carried out.

Process Safety Management:

Team Member of PHA-HAZOP.

Prepared and updated Equipment data sheets and sizing calculations for new equipments.

Participated in Pre Start-up & Safety Review.

Prepared and updated Standard Operating Procedures & Standard Operating Conditions.