Objective: An accomplished FEA analyst with good software development skills specialized in linear and non-linear analysis of oil and gas refinery components using international codes and FEA tool ANSYS.

 

Professional Qualifications:

·       7 years professional experience. 2½ years of experience in structural analysis and 1½ year experience in thermal rating of heat exchangers.

·       Experience in interface designing and implementation. Possesses object oriented programming skills for software development.

 

Skills:

·         Codes and Standards : ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel, WRC, ASME Piping Standard B31.3, TEMA, API, CICIND, BS-Standard

·         Special Software: ANSYS 10.0, NozzlePro, FE Pipe, HTRI, AutoCAD, PVElite

·         Languages : Visual Basic 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Basic 6, C, FORTRAN, UML2.0, APDL

·         Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98

·         Office Tools: Microsoft Office Xp, Microsoft Visio 2003 and its SDK

 

Professional Experience:

 

·       Toyo Engineering India Ltd, Mumbai India

Senior Engineer

Oct 2006 – Till Date

 

Working as a structural analyst.

Responsibilities:

-          Finite Element Analysis of oil and gas refinery components using commercial software ANSYS and ASME B&PV code for various domestic and international projects.

Problem study, model preparation and calculation using APDL.

3D, Axi-Symmetric modeling. Use of Shell, Solid, Interface, Contac-and-Target elements.

Static, Harmonic, Modal, Transient analysis. Linear and Non-linear analysis. Structural and temperature analysis. Result evaluation. Report preparation.

-          Nozzle integrity verification with by PVElite CodeCal module as well as WRC 107/297/368.

-          Development of Web site TEAMS (TEC Easy Input ANSYS Modeling System for Web) along with supporting application at server side and remote calculation machine for communication and to trigger ANSYS.

 

·       Toyo Engineering Corporation, Chiba, Japan

Engineer

Sept 2004 – Sept 2006

 

Worked in the Applied Analysis group as a structural analyst.

Responsibilities:

-          Finite Element Analysis of oil and gas refinery components using commercial software ANSYS and ASME B&PV code for various domestic and international projects.

Problem study, model preparation and calculation using APDL.

3D, Axi-Symmetric modeling. Use of Shell, Solid, Interface, Contac-and-Target elements.

Static, Harmonic, Modal, Transient analysis. Linear and Non-linear analysis. Structural and temperature analysis. Result evaluation. Report preparation.

-         Develop in-house software tool “VIRFAP” for the vortex-induced resonance and fatigue analysis for stack. Program calculates vibration mode shape, stresses in the stack members, bending moments and performs stress evaluation by ASME and CICIND code.

Interface design, coding and testing, preparation of design documents.

Technology: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visio 2003.

 

 

·       Toyo Engineering India Ltd., Mumbai, India

Engineer

June 2003 – September 2004

 

Worked in the static equipment-heat exchanger team as a heater engineer.

Responsibilities:

-          Thermal rating of shell-and-tube heat exchangers, air fin coolers using commercial software-HTRI for various domestic and international projects.

-         Develop in-house software interface tool ”Samsara” for HTRI Xchanger Suite and in-house tube layout program UTAMARO and database center KRONOS.

Interface design, coding and testing, preparation of design documents.

Technology: Microsoft Visual Basic.Net 2003, Microsoft Visio 2003 and its SDK, UML2.0

 

·       THERMAX Ltd., Pune, India

Project Trainee Engineer

January 2001 – January 2002

 

Project Title: Generalized heat exchanger network simulation model

Responsibilities:

-         This is an application of pinch technology.

-         Mathematical model is prepared to simulate the exchanger network. Simulation program is made to obtain pressure and temperature distribution in the network using fluid input conditions and exchanger geometries in the network.

-         Program is based on Finite Element Analysis of heat exchanger network considering individual heat exchanger as a node.

-         Detailed design of various types of heat exchangers (shell-and-tube, fin type cross flow exchangers, double-pipe exchangers, and plate exchangers) is introduced in the program.

Interface design, coding and testing.

Technology: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0.

 

·         Crane Process Flow Technologies (India) Ltd., Satara, India.

Project Trainee Engineer

August 2000 – December 2000

 

 

Project Title: Design, Installation and Testing of PLC Based Control Valve Test Rig.

Responsibilities:

-         Design of pipeline layout for pressure drop and flow control in the test rig.

-         Fabrication and erection of test rig.

-         Valve testing for determination of valve flow coefficient for various valve openings and pressure drop in the test rig

 

Other Experience:

 

·         SRES’s College of Engineering, Kopargaon, India

Lecturer

March 2002 – May 2003

 

 

·         Bharati Veedyapeeth’s College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai,

Lecturer

January 2000 – May 2000

 

 

Education:

• M E in Mechanical Engineering from Government College of Engineering Karad,

Shivaji University, Kolhapur in June 2002.

• B E in Mechanical Engineering from SES’s College of Engineering Kopargaon,

Pune University in June 1999.