How do we build Process Plants – Concept to Commissioning

(Advisable for All Branches & All Years of students to attend, incl. M. Techs)

Typically in an Undergraduate Engineering Course in India, and irrespective of the field (branch) of study the
stress is almost fully on teaching the fundamental principles that go into the design and engineering of items,
equipment, systems and complete plants. What however is not taught is how the principles are applied in the
industry to design individual items and to engineer the various items to create real life operating systems.

When a fresh Graduate Engineer starts his/her career in the industry, he/she often has high expectations that
they would get to learn a lot in the training period, which typically spans 1 year. However, not many companies
(and especially in India) invest enough to provide adequate and quality training, thus leaving the fresh
graduates with a bitter taste about a career in their organization and the young engineer starts to think of
changing his/her field by pursuing a career either by doing an MBA or a shift to the most happening fields such
as Software, Animation, Media etc.

Hence there is a necessity to provide a course on the actual industry work processes to the budding
engineers, no matter how much of Internship / Practice School they do in the few months that they spend in
Industry. No matter how strong a tie-up the colleges have with the Industry, the Companies seldom engage
the Internship students in their mainstream activities for them to learn the actual work processes that go into
actually building the Real Life Operating Systems, which in other words are called as PLANTS ! This is not
restricted to only Chemical Plants, but Power Plants, Steel Plants etc., which together are called as
PROCESS PLANTS.

When it comes to Career Opportunities, it is important for the students to know that while a Chemical Industry
does need Chemical Engineers, the number of Mechanical Engineers, Instrumentation Engineers, Electrical
Engineers, Civil Engineers and Software Engineers are needed in far larger numbers (but in what roles ?).
Similarly it’s not necessary that in the Power Sector only the careers of Electrical Engineers would grow fast !
And why so ?

Further it’s also important to give a perspective to the students about the JOB ROLES, which could arm them
with a fair bit of knowledge on what they should chose and what they rather not – the pros and cons.

In addition to the above, the lecture shall span the entire spectrum covering Concept to Commissioning of
Process Plants :

 Business Opportunity and Project Development

 Project Engineering
 Project Management, Project Control and Contract Management
 Project and Engineering Phases
 Various Steps of Engineering (Design Steps, Documents to be produced, Data Required, Review &
Approvals, Type of Tools (software))
 Knowledge of Vendors
 How are items purchased – Steps
 Manufacturing, Quality and Inspection
 Shipment
 Construction
 Pre-Commissioning Steps
 Commissioning & Start-up
 Guarantees

About the Speaker :

Mr Gautam Chakraborty, Vice President – Reliance Industries Ltd. is in the business of building large process plants –
heading multiple projects in Hydrocarbon Sector in the Jamnagar Refinery Complex, which is the world’s largest.

He is a 1992 graduate in Chemical Engineering from NITK, Surathkal and is a Project Execution Expert spanning a wide
bandwidth of the Process Industry – Upstream / Mid-Stream / Downstream - from Offshore Oil & Gas Platforms to Onshore Oil &
Gas Facilities, Refinery Units such as Hydrogen Generation Units, DHDS, Petrochemical Plants, Speciality Chemicals etc.

He has worked with several world majors, both in INDIA and ABROAD such as :

Larsen & Toubro (Mumbai), Petrofac (Sharjah), Sembawang Offshore Engineering (Singapore), Shell Petroleum (Nigeria), The
Dow Chemical Co. (Chennai, Shanghai / Seoul), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Mumbai) etc.
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