P 66
JMD DTA Commissioning &Transit to Infocomm
One important thing to be particularly mentioned here. The pre-commissioning team has ensured to organize PF foam pigging of all headers in OSBL rack thus ensuring full cleaning &smooth flow of fluids during operation. That played an important milestone for smooth commissioning.
When it came to fire water system , Mr TRA Krishnan as Chartered Engineer carried out third party audit of entire network both in ISBL as well as in OSBL. There were some specific punch list points when it came to protection of fin fan coolers. There were several observations about the nozzle focus, full coverage of surface area, pipe supports etc.; but all of them were cleared by utilizing field engineering services and construction to appreciate their necessity.
One challenging incident ! In FCCU plant , one specifically designed gasket at the reactor-re generator joint, which has to face around 450 Deg C heat during operation was failing and that really held up FCCU commissioning. Mr A Venkataraman , as head of maintenance took personal responsibility in coordinating with the supplier factory at Madras (M/S IGP) and got the gasket replacement by special chartered air craft. Rather that has to be repeated twice before the problem was sorted out. The challenge was with respect to tempering of the gasket to meet that raise in temperature from atmospheric condition. But once that was sorted out, touch wood No issue at all and the plant is in operation for the last 17 years.
As mentioned earlier , entire DTA systems were commissioned in flat 39 months from the zero date and Bechtel earned their credit.
Then comes my transfer/transition story!
After plants commissioning, the whole project group members were engaged in preparing the project close out, material reconciliation, contract measurements and to jot down lessons learnt etc. While I was engaged on that task, one fine day a surprise took place!
On May 17th,2000, Monday, I had some discussions with M/S Techno Fire at Mumbai and did not go to Jamnagar. I phoned my wife at 4.30PM saying that I am with Praful and will not come home for dinner. So she knew my whereabouts at that time. After 6 PM, self and Praful closed our official discussions and retired to Flora Fountain, a Chinese restaurant in Worli Sea face. When I had my first sip of drinks, Praful got a call through his BPL module and it was from his father. His father said that Ramanathan's wife is badly looking for him and ask him to get in touch with her. Hearing that my thinking went awry and got worried. Using that hotel land line(as there was no mobile service existed at that period)I phoned home and got in touch with her under anxiety. She responded stating that MDA/Sanjay are looking for you and please contact them immediately. That made me more anxious but Praful controlled me saying that he can connect me to SM. When we got in touch with him, he responded-Nothing to worry; you better get in touch directly with MDA himself and he is available at Makers. So we dialled Makers board and he came on line within minutes. As usual his first question was- Ramu, What are you doing and how are you busy? When I explained to him that I intend to go to Jamnagar on Tuesday morning and engaged in DTA close outs, he said-Forget it and come down to Reliance Telecommunication and meet me in Makers.
Contd.....
Key Aspects :- Communication, Critical challenge, Responsible, Surprise&shock, Technical issue
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