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JMD DTA Contd.
Though my exposure and experience with project engineering dealing with water can run into several volumes, I shall limit with 10 incidents only, which may give the reader the whole picture !
In DTA days, the estimated consumption of fresh water was 3100 M3/Hr and this whole requirement has to be generated only out of sea water . In those days, there was no other source for fresh water in Padana area and even Narmada water availability at Sikka came only in the beginning of new millennium. As the Reverse Osmosis technology development has not taken place then ,membrane availability was scarce and the power consumption rate too high for RO process, the projects team opted for Desalination process and identified the company IDE from Israel. Even on date, that is the company who are world leaders in Desalination technology.In DTA days, we have limited ourselves with 5 X 500 +1 X 600 M3/Hr desalination modules. That party carried out the sea water analysis , its TDS etc. and specified the quantity and quality requirement of sea water for operating their modules in the refinery area. Sea water requirement was 10500 M3/Hr. Bechtel/Reliance ordered turn key responsibility to IDE for setting up the desalination modules.
As sea water is so corrosive, all sections and tubing of desal modules are made of Titanium.
Though given as turn key responsibility, all of us were jittery because of Israel's local conditions- Gaza Border fight between Israel and Palestine! But somehow IDE managed the situation by undertaking all the fabrication in open yard near the sea coast and shipped them without causing any delay. We must say the whole credit should go to Mr Henry of IDE and at field end Mr Tuvia took all the care. On lighter side, Mr Tuvia can seek Indian citizenship as he has completed more than 20 years at Jamnagar- he has continued to stay here for Reliance DTA, then Essar, followed by Reliance SEZ and now J3.
Let us look into the messy /tricky issue what we have faced in handling/transporting sea water.
Here I have to narrate my bitter experience.Keeping the company's interest and cost saving as primary objective, I was the hero who vouched for internal epoxy coating against conventional cement lining. My colleague ( experienced in marine projects- civil engineer) Mr Gopalan was vouching for 1" thick cement lining Vs AR recommending Epoxy coat of 1.5 mm layer. The said epoxy was developed by Dr Kurtz of Germany and that was the chemical used for coating the inner aspects of English Channel- London Dover to Paris. My recommendation basis justification was to choose 3 X 42" dia. CS pipe of 16 Kms. long each instead of cement lined 3 X 48" dia. CS pipe of 16 Kms long each . Naturally everybody agreed with my recommendation and the field execution- internal coating with jigs and mandrels, contract was placed on M/S PSL. At the beginning ,to set the process in motion, Dr Kurtz himself was present in the field. From PSL side M/S Sehgel and Ahuja were the job managers and the field installation went smooth. As per the process and procedure, coating inspection went on ,holiday identification and rectification process went on. Unfortunately in midway schedule Dr Kurtz died. The whole system were boxed up and cleared for commissioning .
Nobody was aware and ready for surprise shocks! Contd....
Key Aspects :- Accountable, Critical challenge, Incident analysis, Responsible,Ups&down
JMD DTA Contd.
Though my exposure and experience with project engineering dealing with water can run into several volumes, I shall limit with 10 incidents only, which may give the reader the whole picture !
In DTA days, the estimated consumption of fresh water was 3100 M3/Hr and this whole requirement has to be generated only out of sea water . In those days, there was no other source for fresh water in Padana area and even Narmada water availability at Sikka came only in the beginning of new millennium. As the Reverse Osmosis technology development has not taken place then ,membrane availability was scarce and the power consumption rate too high for RO process, the projects team opted for Desalination process and identified the company IDE from Israel. Even on date, that is the company who are world leaders in Desalination technology.In DTA days, we have limited ourselves with 5 X 500 +1 X 600 M3/Hr desalination modules. That party carried out the sea water analysis , its TDS etc. and specified the quantity and quality requirement of sea water for operating their modules in the refinery area. Sea water requirement was 10500 M3/Hr. Bechtel/Reliance ordered turn key responsibility to IDE for setting up the desalination modules.
As sea water is so corrosive, all sections and tubing of desal modules are made of Titanium.
Though given as turn key responsibility, all of us were jittery because of Israel's local conditions- Gaza Border fight between Israel and Palestine! But somehow IDE managed the situation by undertaking all the fabrication in open yard near the sea coast and shipped them without causing any delay. We must say the whole credit should go to Mr Henry of IDE and at field end Mr Tuvia took all the care. On lighter side, Mr Tuvia can seek Indian citizenship as he has completed more than 20 years at Jamnagar- he has continued to stay here for Reliance DTA, then Essar, followed by Reliance SEZ and now J3.
Let us look into the messy /tricky issue what we have faced in handling/transporting sea water.
Here I have to narrate my bitter experience.Keeping the company's interest and cost saving as primary objective, I was the hero who vouched for internal epoxy coating against conventional cement lining. My colleague ( experienced in marine projects- civil engineer) Mr Gopalan was vouching for 1" thick cement lining Vs AR recommending Epoxy coat of 1.5 mm layer. The said epoxy was developed by Dr Kurtz of Germany and that was the chemical used for coating the inner aspects of English Channel- London Dover to Paris. My recommendation basis justification was to choose 3 X 42" dia. CS pipe of 16 Kms. long each instead of cement lined 3 X 48" dia. CS pipe of 16 Kms long each . Naturally everybody agreed with my recommendation and the field execution- internal coating with jigs and mandrels, contract was placed on M/S PSL. At the beginning ,to set the process in motion, Dr Kurtz himself was present in the field. From PSL side M/S Sehgel and Ahuja were the job managers and the field installation went smooth. As per the process and procedure, coating inspection went on ,holiday identification and rectification process went on. Unfortunately in midway schedule Dr Kurtz died. The whole system were boxed up and cleared for commissioning .
Nobody was aware and ready for surprise shocks! Contd....
Key Aspects :- Accountable, Critical challenge, Incident analysis, Responsible,Ups&down
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