S.

SIVAKUMAR
Current Location: UAE| Nationality: Indian| Phone: +971508620785 | Email: ahtirma@gmail.com

Career Objective

Accomplished professional with 20 years of progressively experience in petrochemical and gas processing
industries with enhanced achievements in commissioning, plant operation and process optimization.
Provide technical, engineering and business skills in process and operations engineering for increased
productivity in adherence to the quality policy of the organization.

Seeking a challenging role in process and operation engineering in a leading organization where my

Education

The Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, India.

B.Tech-Chemical Engineering (AMII-Chem) - March 2013. Membership LAM: 48819.
Project completed on the Manufacturing of cellulose acetate by acetic acid solution process.

St.Joesph College, Trichy, India.

B.Sc Chemistry ----------------------------------June 1994.

Career skills

Excellent leadership, communication, attention to detail, goal-oriented research, analytical and

organizational capabilities.
Strong project planning, process control, execution, and management utilizing data analysis, problem
solving, and creativity.
Performance and results driven help contribute and generate innovative ideas while taking products from
concept to manufacturing completion.

Career Responsibilities

Manage and ensure safe efficient production operations, development & effective implementation of detailed
plans, procedures and standing instructions, P & ID review and PFD modeling.
Identifies operational problems, investigating complaints, root cause analysis, suggesting for system
improvement and completing troubleshooting procedures, debottlenecking & HAZOP studies.
Monitor plant operation performance, review, monitor equipments efficiency and ensure reported data are
accurate and within design operating range.
Improves plant operations by evaluating, implementing changes, contributing information, opinion to unit
design and modification teams.
Assessing system objectives - efficiency, productivity & quality, cost savings, energy conservation, resources
optimization, ensuring safety and environmental policy.
Lead the production team & plan, organize and motivation for efficient and safe plant functions.

Experience & Training

Experience snapshot:

Ammonia Plant: Hydrofining, Steam reformer

operation, High pressure boiler & Turbine driven
compressors.
Naphtha crackers- Olefin plant: SRT III & IV
cracking heaters, CG compressors and
downstream units.
Cryogenic LPG & Propane handling: Storage,
liquid transfer, Vapour compression and liquid
recovery.
Ammonia Gas cracker: Nitrogen generation and
deoxo unit.
High pressure boiler & turbine Operation:
Commissioning, feed water & condensate water
chemistry.
Hot Oil Heaters: FO & NG gas fired,
commissioning and operation.
Polymerization process: Esterification and
Polycondensation in PET polyester process.
Utility units & Flare system.

Computer/Programs:

MS Office, Windows, Orion and SAP.

Aspen V 8.0- HYSYS & Aspen Plus.

Process Equipments Handled:

Centrifugal & Reciprocating compressors and

pumps, High pressure gear pumps.
Fractionation column and distillation units,
packed beds, off gas scrubber.
Hydrogenation reactor, Methanator and
Oxidization reactors, polymerization reactors.
Cracking heaters, hot oil system, Boilers and
Turbines.
Heat Exchangers, Cold Box, Fin fan cooler.
Ejector & vacuum units,
Cryogenic liquid storage tanks, floating roof
tanks, pressure bullets and Spheres.
Desulphurization unit, COMOX catalyst bed
reactor, Pressure Swing Adsorption unit.
Refrigeration & chillers.

Special Training:

Undergone training in Fire fighting, Emergency

response, PPEs Use, work permit system- SPIC Ltd,
India.
ISO policy, audit and documentation by Real time
quality management and certified auditor- JBF RAK
LLC.

Total quality management training at JBF RAK LLC.

Advanced excel training conducted by Atlas Institute
at JBF RAK LLC.

resourceful experience and academic skills will add value to the organizational operations.

Professional Experience
JBF RAK LLC, UAE- Assistant Manager Production
Oct 2008 - Present
Polyethylene Terepthalate (PET) manufacturing- 1170 TPD, CTIEI, China & Associated Utility units.

Overseeing operations and process monitoring, parameter control & ensure smooth plant functions.

Operational performance monitoring and optimization of Process units.

Tracking and recording the production datas as well as equipments & Instruments.

Material & Heat balance utility calculations, resource optimization & energy conservation.

Planning & execution of equipment and process preventive maintenance.

Process failure, process deviation analysis and corrective action implementation & system modifications.

Inventory control of products and raw materials, specific consumption analysis, supervising production costs,
ERP entries, costing, analysis of energy & resource consumption and MIS, budget planning & cost control.

Attending daily operations meetings, safety meeting and joint safety inspection, subordinate training programme.
Operational Responsibilities:

Raw materials blending and feeding, Esterification & Polycondensation reactors, distillation column & EG
recovery, Ejector vacuum system, stripper column, product filtration and pelletizing unit.

Hot oil and therminol vapor heating unit, high pressure gear pump, off gas scrubber and fin coolers.

Therminol Fluid heater- NG fired, make: BSPC, Model:YQL14500Q, Capacity: 12.5 Mkcal/hr (4 Numbers)

IR centrifugal air compressor- Capacity: 12652 m3/hr @ 5.7 bar, Model: C200MX3.

Vapor absorption type chiller- 1100 TR( lithium bromide as absorbent)

Induced draft closed loop cooling tower- Capacity: 4000 m3/hr @ 3.5 bar & cooling water chemical treatment.
Achievement: Presently involved in the process column top outlet mixed vapor heat recovery project which uses
effective utilization of vapor heat with flow rate @ 6732 kgs/hr to input as heat source for chiller to produce 850TR
capacity. This will reduce around 80% load of exiting chiller and stop all fin fan coolers with energy saving.
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.
Handled Two numbers 600 MT each pressurized Propane Mounded Bullets with compressors, pumps, two
numbers 150 MT each Mounded LPG Bullets with pumps.
Operated 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.
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 @ 32TPH feed.
Operated Hot Oil Fractionation Columns: Gasoline Fractionator, Pyrolysis Fuel Oil Stripper and Quench Tower.

Handled Cracked Gas Compressor (29 MW,5 stages, 1.5 lakhs NM 3/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, Demethaniser, Depropaniser,
Debutanizer, Ethylene Fractionator, and Propylene Fractionator, MAPD & Acetylene convertor operation.

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- Dec 2001

Ammonia plant 1260 TPDNaphtha Hydrofining and steam reformer, Deputed to SPIC Limited, Tuticorin, India.

Effectively involved in the operation of the following units through YOKOGAWA centum-CS DCS system.
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 antisurge control system and deliver process air to secondary reformer. Capacity: 45,000 NM3 / hr, Make: HITACHI

Personal Information
Date of Birth
Permanent Address
Languages Known

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03rd June 1974

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