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PX at PG Contd.
The third one is peculiar but very important in my life.
One day afternoon I was busy on the job and walking from PX plant area to control room for checking some loop response. I did notice S/Sh Dhirubhai Ambani -RIL Founder Chairman,and KK Malhotra were standing and exchanging. As they were too senior in the management I thought it is not right to stop and wish them, thinking that I might disturb their exchanges. But to everybody's surprise KKM called me towards them and wanted to introduce me to the Founder Chairman of the company. He asked DHA whether he has seen me or know. Can somebody guess what was DHA's smart response ?
"Who does not know the Company's maternity warden!"
KKM was puzzled and asked him, what does that mean? DHA answered stating that Ramanathan will be present where there is a problem and he will find a solution. That is equivalent to a maternity warden in labour ward. On hearing that KKM had a hearty laugh. But I took it as a Best Compliment
one can get from the company chairman.
Technical issues &challenge during PX commissioning.
During line flushing and system box-up I used to remind and caution the operations time&again that they should ensure to drop the in-line control valves to ensure that the foreign articles/ weld scrap&rods etc. should not get entangled in the valve seat. But operations being themselves thought they are smart and did not practice that approach strictly. That overlooking really caused more pain to me/DGS and UOP start-up team particularly Don and Richard.
I can never forget 8th Nov. '88 in my life. As that was Deepavali day for Madrasis, I celebrated the function early morning and reached site only by 9AM or so. KKM was taking round and he crossed me. He said that your friend is waiting for you, go and meet him. I was puzzled that who has come so early in the morning. Then he showed his hand up and pointed towards top of PAREX manifold.
Immediately I could understand that the control valves FV 6016 and LV 6018 are giving trouble. In UOP Technology,these two control valves have to act within 30 secs from close to open to ensure the finished PX product quality to 99.6% purity in PAREX manifold. Myself, Richard and DGS did not suspect the line flush as culprit but suspected the copper tubing, Fisher valve interior design and looked at every possible factor as Instrument engineers. After struggling for 2 days, we dropped both the valves and took to mechanical workshop for stripping them open for interior configuration check.
To our horror we found that the foreign media have given several cuts to the plugs and valve seats.
Immediately AV and Saxena came to our help; they took the shaft and plug in different lathes and machined finely.Then they got them lapped to have uniform seating. That only rescued us from the challenge and thereafter commissioning was smooth. Rather, after that whenever KKM met me, he used to say,Ramanathan you are the right person to handle/tackle these operation personnel.
He only advised me stating that you have reached top in instrumentation and high time you start taking exposure in other disciplines like compressors/ pumps etc. Taking cue from him, AV asked me to stay back in PG itself promising that he will ensure promoting me to Chief Engineer. But I flatly rejected that offer saying that I am cut for projects and cannot function in regular maintenance routine. So on Dec.31st I closed my innings at PG and moved back to Tulsiani chambers.
Key Aspects :- Multi discipline exposure, Motivation, Recognition, Technical issue
PX at PG Contd.
The third one is peculiar but very important in my life.
One day afternoon I was busy on the job and walking from PX plant area to control room for checking some loop response. I did notice S/Sh Dhirubhai Ambani -RIL Founder Chairman,and KK Malhotra were standing and exchanging. As they were too senior in the management I thought it is not right to stop and wish them, thinking that I might disturb their exchanges. But to everybody's surprise KKM called me towards them and wanted to introduce me to the Founder Chairman of the company. He asked DHA whether he has seen me or know. Can somebody guess what was DHA's smart response ?
"Who does not know the Company's maternity warden!"
KKM was puzzled and asked him, what does that mean? DHA answered stating that Ramanathan will be present where there is a problem and he will find a solution. That is equivalent to a maternity warden in labour ward. On hearing that KKM had a hearty laugh. But I took it as a Best Compliment
one can get from the company chairman.
Technical issues &challenge during PX commissioning.
During line flushing and system box-up I used to remind and caution the operations time&again that they should ensure to drop the in-line control valves to ensure that the foreign articles/ weld scrap&rods etc. should not get entangled in the valve seat. But operations being themselves thought they are smart and did not practice that approach strictly. That overlooking really caused more pain to me/DGS and UOP start-up team particularly Don and Richard.
I can never forget 8th Nov. '88 in my life. As that was Deepavali day for Madrasis, I celebrated the function early morning and reached site only by 9AM or so. KKM was taking round and he crossed me. He said that your friend is waiting for you, go and meet him. I was puzzled that who has come so early in the morning. Then he showed his hand up and pointed towards top of PAREX manifold.
Immediately I could understand that the control valves FV 6016 and LV 6018 are giving trouble. In UOP Technology,these two control valves have to act within 30 secs from close to open to ensure the finished PX product quality to 99.6% purity in PAREX manifold. Myself, Richard and DGS did not suspect the line flush as culprit but suspected the copper tubing, Fisher valve interior design and looked at every possible factor as Instrument engineers. After struggling for 2 days, we dropped both the valves and took to mechanical workshop for stripping them open for interior configuration check.
To our horror we found that the foreign media have given several cuts to the plugs and valve seats.
Immediately AV and Saxena came to our help; they took the shaft and plug in different lathes and machined finely.Then they got them lapped to have uniform seating. That only rescued us from the challenge and thereafter commissioning was smooth. Rather, after that whenever KKM met me, he used to say,Ramanathan you are the right person to handle/tackle these operation personnel.
He only advised me stating that you have reached top in instrumentation and high time you start taking exposure in other disciplines like compressors/ pumps etc. Taking cue from him, AV asked me to stay back in PG itself promising that he will ensure promoting me to Chief Engineer. But I flatly rejected that offer saying that I am cut for projects and cannot function in regular maintenance routine. So on Dec.31st I closed my innings at PG and moved back to Tulsiani chambers.
Key Aspects :- Multi discipline exposure, Motivation, Recognition, Technical issue
read your entire blog, really interesting, waiting for your GIS experience. Hats off to your memory power :) ---- Gayathri(Subha)
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