S.

SIVAKUMAR
E-Mail: ahtirma@gmail.com

Mobile number: +971508620785

Current Location: UAE

PETROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

Operations.Manufacturing.Engineering.Maintenance
Accomplished professional with 20 years of progressively responsible experience in
petrochemical and gas processing sectors with enhanced achievements in process
development and optimization. Provide technical, engineering and business skills in process
and operations engineering to ensure higher productivity and best manufacturing practices.

Aspen HYSYS simulation

..Career snapshot..
Expertise in the startup, normal operation and trouble shooting of
Ammonia plant-Naphtha Hydro fining and steam reformer operations.
Naphtha crackers- Olefin plant and downstream unit operations.
Cryogenic LPG liquid and vapor handling, compression and condensate recovery.
High pressure steam boilers, feed water chemistry and turbine operations.
Hot oil heaters- Fuel oil & Natural gas fired, operation and maintenance.
Ammonia gas crackers operation, Nitrogen generation and deoxo unit.
Esterification and Polycondensation- Polyethylene Terepthalate manufacturing

Process optimization
Process enhancement
Resource Optimization
Energy conservation
Total quality management
HAZOP & HACCP study
Debottlenecking study
ISO audit & documentation
HSE standards and policy

..Career Objective..
Seeking a challenging role in process and operation engineering field in a leading
organization where my resourceful experience and academic skills will add value to the
organizational operations.

..Career Responsibilities..

Manage and ensure safe efficient production operations, development & effective
implementation of detailed plans, procedures and standing instructions.
Monitor plant operation performance, review, monitor equipments efficiency and ensure
reported data are accurate and within design operating range.
Lead the production operation team and ensure personnel are effectively motivated. Plan,
organize and ensure manpower for safe and efficient operation.
Identifies operational problems, investigating complaints, root cause analysis, suggestion
for system improvement and completing troubleshooting procedures.
Assessing system objectives - efficiency, productivity & quality, cost savings, energy
conservation, safety, and environmental quality.
Improves plant operations by evaluating, implementing changes, contributing information
and opinion to unit design and modification to the teams.
Provides operational management information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing
operation engineering data & trends, cost, resource consumption.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JBF RAK LLC, UAE- Assistant Manager Production

Oct 2008 - Present

Polyethylene Terepthalate (PET) manufacturing- 1170 TPD, CTIEI, China
Overseeing process operations, process monitoring and parameter control & ensure smooth operation.
Operational performance monitoring and optimization of Process column, stripper column, off-gas scrubber, screw pumps,
reactors, vacuum system, compressors, vaporizer, hot oil system and catalyst bed reactor.
Tracking and recording the production datas and operational performance of equipments & Instruments.
Material & Heat balance utility calculations, resource optimization & energy conservation.
Planning & execution of equipment and process preventive maintenance.
Process failure and deviation analysis and corrective action plan implementation.
Inventory control of products and raw materials, specific consumption analysis, supervising production costs, ERP entries,
costing, analysis of energy & resource consumption and MIS.
Taking part in daily operations meetings, safety meeting and joint safety inspection.
Enforcing the best production practices, developing SOPs, training & development programme to subordinates.
INDIAN OIL PETRONAS LIMITED, HALDIA, INDIA-Junior Executive Process
Feb 2003- Sep 2008
Cryogenic LPG and Propane unloading & loading facilities, 34500 MT - TOYO Engineering, Japan
Well versed in ABB DCS and Tank Farm Management & Terminal Automation Systems (TAS) for loading operations.

Involved in the operations of the (2 x 16500 MT) each Propane and Butane cryogenic storage tanks with in tank cold pumps,
screw compressor, propane mixer, vaporizers and loading gantries.
Two numbers 600 MT each pressurized Propane Mounded Bullets with compressors, pumps, two numbers 150 MT each
Mounded LPG Bullets with pumps.
2 nos of Screw Flash Gas compressors & 2 nos of screw boil of gas compressors capable of catering a vapor load @ 6MT/hour
& 2MT/hour, Flare system and LP boilers operation.
Well versed in Precooling, LPG ship unloading, vapor pushing, vapor recovery & compression, condensation of LPG.
Dexterously involved in the Plant Emergency action planning, Fire & Safety Programme and safety mock drill.

HALDIA PETROCHEMICALS LIMITED, HALDIA, INDIA-Process Operator

Mar 1999- Feb 2003

Naphtha cracker- Olefin plant- ABB Lummus Global Inc, USA- Deputation from SPIC Petrochemicals Limited.
Successfully commissioned Pyrolysis module SRT III and SRT IV HS type Gas fired Heaters.
Operated Hot Oil Fractionation Columns: Gasoline Fractionator, Pyrolysis Fuel Oil Stripper and Quench Tower.
Handled Cracked Gas Compressor (5 stages, 1.5 lakhs NM3/Hr.), Make: Mitsubishi Compressor, Japan
Involved in the operation of Methanation and Hydrogen Purification (Pressure swing adsorption)
Well versed with the operation of Fractionation Columns: Demethaniser, Deethaniser, Depropaniser, Debutanizer, Ethylene
Fractionator, and Propylene Fractionator.
Hot and Cold Pumps: Pacific Hiro Pumps, Japan. Multi stage vertical submergible centrifugal Pumps, Capacity: 228 & 7.9
M3/Hr (Handling temp: - 54oC).
Experience in advanced DCS - Tata-Honeywell TDC 3000.

SPIC PETROCHEMICALS LIMITED, CHENNAI, INDIA-Process Operator

Aug 1995- Mar 1999

Ammonia plant 1260 TPDNaphtha Hydrofining and steam reformer, Deputed to SPIC Limited, Tuticorin, India.
Effectively involved in the operation of the following units
Naphtha storage tanks Floating roof type and Fuel Oil Tanks.

Naphtha Hydrofining unit.-Designed to remove the sulphur content in Naphtha from1500 ppm to 0.5 ppm based on IIP-IFP
Process @ 27 TPH, which consist of Naphtha vaporizer, COMOX bed reactor, stripper column, reciprocating Hydrogen
compressors.
ICI steam Naphtha reformer unit. - Catalytic steam reforming section produce mixture of gases H2, CO2, CO, CH4 and H2O @
26.5 TPH. Top fired furnace and consists of 264 tubes and 90 burners & Nickel metal as catalyst.
Process air compressor. -Multistage centrifugal compressor driven by 12 KSC, condensing type turbine with anti-surge control
system and deliver process air to secondary reformer. Capacity: 45,000 NM3 / hr, Make: HITACHI

TRAINING

Undergone special training in Fire Fighting, Emergency Response, work permit system, use of
personal protective equipment SPIC Ltd., India.
ISO 9001, 22001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards & policy training by Real Time Quality
Management Services and certified auditor- JBF RAK LLC, UAE.
Advanced Excel Training conducted by Atlas Institute - JBF RAK LLC, UAE.
Total Quality Management conducted at JBF RAK LLC, UAE.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
2013
1994

B.Tech. - Chemical Engineering (AMII-che) from The Indian Institute of

Chemical Engineers, India, September-2013 and life time Associate
Member: LAM-48819.
Bachelor in Science (Chemistry) from St. Joseph College, Trichy.

IT SKILLS

Well versed with MS Office Suite, Orion and SAP, HYSYS (Process Simulation) & Internet applications.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth
Languages Known
Permanent Address

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03rd June 1974.

Tamil, English, Hindi and Bengali.
78-Maruthi nagar, Trichy road, Turaiyur-621010, Trichy (D.T), Tamil nadu, India.