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JMD DTA Commissioning
No one in the company had thought the possibility of such occurrence ! But the PP Business head SM Vakil posed a question to HRM - that having invested huge sum and made mechanically complete, why not we import Propylene and commission that plant? Added to that he identified two sphere availability at Porbandar for storing the imported material and put that case to management. Having got convinced, the management asked VVSR and me to visit Porbandar and give a report on those sphere status, CCE licence condition etc.
One fine morning, VVSR and me drove to Porbandar about 230 Kms one way to inspect and take first hand status of those spheres. It so happened that those two spheres belonged to M/S VTV only and their local team received us with warmth. It seemed that they were built when there was LPG demand in market and they were designed for Propane storage! Then the issue cropped up. As the person handling SMPV Act regulations regularly, I asked for the vessel data sheet to look at the design condition and Relief valve setting at 55 Deg C. Then came the catch. As they were designed only for Propane, the ROV setting was 21.5 Kg/Cm2g only whereas for Propylene storage, the requirement is 22.3Kg/Cm2 g at 55 Deg C. So I gave a recommendation that those spheres cannot be used for Propylene service.
The matter did not end there! By mere coincidence, on the next Monday myself, HRM, VVBhatt, APoddar happened to travel to Jamnagar in the company plane. There HRM raised the question" since when you have become CCE?" I explained to him that since Reliance may have to utilise that temporary infrastructure for more than six months that too at different seasons, we cannot afford to take that safety risk. He could not believe that I am so stubborn but having said safety risk, he requested me to look for some other workable solutions to receive imported Propylene and store at site. I promised him that I will come back.
After reaching site, I convened an emergency technical meeting with my team -Baumgartner,Pathak, PBM Rao, Kallol Patra and toyed with idea of importing cryogenic Propylene in refrigerated carriers and unload in LO LO jetty and transfer to site spheres through the heaters meant for the MTF Cryo tanks. Knowing its importance, the team analysed the pros&cons and identified an execution philosophy. Pathak was made center point for this task since I was to go to Israel next day. During the day, Pathak worked out all the involved steps as well as various essential pre-conditions to execute this challenge in shortest schedule.
If we look back, some of the conditions jotted by him were imposing! e.g- The detailed engineering for this has to be issued to H&GC on nomination and only Subhash Deshpande of Humphreys should project manage. The construction team should have the liberty to draw any piping materials from stores for which V Srdhar should be informed accordingly. We should be allowed to fabricate the sub station with structures and porta cabin for control system. We took the decision to fabricate fire water tank with the storm spoiled tank plates.. Knowing its importance and urgency, HRM signed off the same day at 9.30PM. For info. including provisioning of temporary fire network and the requisite infrastructure and laying LTCS pipeline from LO LO jetty to MTF and hook up to main LPG line, the system was completed in flat 6 weeks and the management was surprised with the capability of this task force team. That made the commissioning of PP feasible before the refinery start-up and the system got commissioned. Contd.....
Key Aspects :- Conviction, Critical challenge, Delegation, Incident analysis, Multi discipline exposure, Planning, Proactive approach, Reputation, Team building
JMD DTA Commissioning
No one in the company had thought the possibility of such occurrence ! But the PP Business head SM Vakil posed a question to HRM - that having invested huge sum and made mechanically complete, why not we import Propylene and commission that plant? Added to that he identified two sphere availability at Porbandar for storing the imported material and put that case to management. Having got convinced, the management asked VVSR and me to visit Porbandar and give a report on those sphere status, CCE licence condition etc.
One fine morning, VVSR and me drove to Porbandar about 230 Kms one way to inspect and take first hand status of those spheres. It so happened that those two spheres belonged to M/S VTV only and their local team received us with warmth. It seemed that they were built when there was LPG demand in market and they were designed for Propane storage! Then the issue cropped up. As the person handling SMPV Act regulations regularly, I asked for the vessel data sheet to look at the design condition and Relief valve setting at 55 Deg C. Then came the catch. As they were designed only for Propane, the ROV setting was 21.5 Kg/Cm2g only whereas for Propylene storage, the requirement is 22.3Kg/Cm2 g at 55 Deg C. So I gave a recommendation that those spheres cannot be used for Propylene service.
The matter did not end there! By mere coincidence, on the next Monday myself, HRM, VVBhatt, APoddar happened to travel to Jamnagar in the company plane. There HRM raised the question" since when you have become CCE?" I explained to him that since Reliance may have to utilise that temporary infrastructure for more than six months that too at different seasons, we cannot afford to take that safety risk. He could not believe that I am so stubborn but having said safety risk, he requested me to look for some other workable solutions to receive imported Propylene and store at site. I promised him that I will come back.
After reaching site, I convened an emergency technical meeting with my team -Baumgartner,Pathak, PBM Rao, Kallol Patra and toyed with idea of importing cryogenic Propylene in refrigerated carriers and unload in LO LO jetty and transfer to site spheres through the heaters meant for the MTF Cryo tanks. Knowing its importance, the team analysed the pros&cons and identified an execution philosophy. Pathak was made center point for this task since I was to go to Israel next day. During the day, Pathak worked out all the involved steps as well as various essential pre-conditions to execute this challenge in shortest schedule.
If we look back, some of the conditions jotted by him were imposing! e.g- The detailed engineering for this has to be issued to H&GC on nomination and only Subhash Deshpande of Humphreys should project manage. The construction team should have the liberty to draw any piping materials from stores for which V Srdhar should be informed accordingly. We should be allowed to fabricate the sub station with structures and porta cabin for control system. We took the decision to fabricate fire water tank with the storm spoiled tank plates.. Knowing its importance and urgency, HRM signed off the same day at 9.30PM. For info. including provisioning of temporary fire network and the requisite infrastructure and laying LTCS pipeline from LO LO jetty to MTF and hook up to main LPG line, the system was completed in flat 6 weeks and the management was surprised with the capability of this task force team. That made the commissioning of PP feasible before the refinery start-up and the system got commissioned. Contd.....
Key Aspects :- Conviction, Critical challenge, Delegation, Incident analysis, Multi discipline exposure, Planning, Proactive approach, Reputation, Team building
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