Harshal Khedkar, MIETElectrical Engineer

Bengaluru Area, IndiaOil & Energy

Previous Shell, SABIC, IPCL Gandhar manufacturing division

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BackgroundSummaryEngineering & project management, construction supervision, pre commissioning, commissioning & turnover of electrical equipment in petrochemical, oil & gas and refineries.--Provide engineering inputs & engineering documents review such as design philosophies, SLD, equipment layout, GA drawings, equipment sizing, relay coordination, load schedules, wiring schematic, interconnections, DCS and PLC interface, cable layouts etc.--Review contractual terms and conditions, project specifications, design philosophies, data sheets.--Review work schedule, sequence of activities, tie inn schedules, commissioning schedule etc and monitor the progress. 

Technical support and maintenance management for electrical equipment in petrochemical, oil & gas and refineries.--Technical Support to operating parts for planning & execution of regular maintenance, turn around maintenance and troubleshooting.--Ensure integrity and reliability by monitoring performance of electrical power system and analyzing power disturbance.--RCA analysis of various plant failures.--Studying technical problems & reliability issues from plants, issue recommendations and monitor compliance. 

Maintenance management using SAP PM and MM.--SAP PM implementation and roll out, end user support as power user--Generation of equipment master data.--Reviewing maintenance policies for electrical equipment in line manufacturer’s guidelines and company standards.

--Generation of maintenance plan, maintenance task list, maintenance frequency.--Reviewing SAP maintenance plan to improve maintenance effectiveness.--Improve utilization of SAP PM by close monitoring and regular auditing.

Work instructions and checklists development for various pre commissioning checks, maintenance and troubleshooting activities.

Preparation of training material and development of new staff and junior colleagues.

Software skills:Various CMMS and engineering software.

Experience

Electrical ConsultantShellJune 2013 – December 2013 (7 months)Shell Project and Technology Centre , Bangalore, IndiaConducting conceptual studies for selection of electrical concept for oil field development, oil and gas plant development.

Technical support to Shell manufacturing sites in eastern region.

Electrical EngineerSABICJune 2005 – May 2013 (8 years)Jubail- Saudi ArabiaEngineering , projects, Maintenance and Technical Support to Ethylene plant, MEG plant ,LAO plant , and associated utilities..

Engineering documents review, providing technical inputs for new projects and plant modification jobs.

Studying various problems in operation and maintenance, conduct root cause analysis, study behavior of electrical power system components during power disturbance, identification of bad actors, issuing recommendations for reliability improvement.

Reviewing maintenance policies, maintenance task, maintenance frequency, spare management using SAP PM and MM module. 

Writing maintenance procedure, troubleshooting procedure, commissioning procedures, function test procedure for various electrical equipment.Deputy ManagerIPCL Gandhar manufacturing divisionApril 1998 – May 2005 (7 years 2 months)IndiaProject management, engineering document review, construction supervision, pre commissioning checks, commissioning and turnover of :-Utility substation (33 KV/6.6KV, 25 X 3 MVA), -Ethylene plant, 

-Ethylene Glycol Ethylene Oxide plant-Ethane Propane Recovery Unit.

Team leader for electrical maintenance of Ethylene plant -Planning and execution of day to day maintenance activities. -Planning and execution of turn around maintenance activities.-Managing spare parts for plant maintenance.-Maintenance team development with knowledge sharing and direct on job training.Electrical EngineerIPCL NagothaneOctober 1992 – March 1998 (5 years 6 months)IndiaSupporting plant operation team for all electrical activities in rotating shift for day-to-day maintenance jobs, troubleshooting, repair and maintenance work .

Electrical maintenance team lead for Low Density Polyethylene plant with team of 13 technicians handling plant electrical maintenance, turnaround maintenance, spare part management, development of team by direct on job training.

Monitoring and maintenance of cathodic protection for underground pipeline network

Languages1. English

Full professional proficiency2. Hindi

Full professional proficiency3. Marathi

Full professional proficiency

PublicationsELECTRICAL SWITCHING SAFETY – IMPORTANCE IN CONTINUOUS PROCESS INDUSTRYIn 10th Conference of American Society of Safety Engineers- Middle East Chapter - Bahrain.February 2012Unplanned loss of electricity can create huge business loss as well as massive safety hazard in hydrocarbon processing industry like oil and gas,refinery or petrochemical plant. Electrical switching error is one of the causes having huge potential to create human safety hazard as well as unplanned loss of electricity. This is exclusively a human factor which can be completely mitigated through proper management. Paper describes various safety aspects to be considered for conducting electrical switching.In conclusion, authors believe that having good management system for control and execution of electrical switching activity will not only improve safety record but also increase productivity of organization.Authors:

Harshal Khedkar, MIET ,  Majdi Abdulmajeed Alfaraj

Reliability Improvement of Electrical Protection System.SABIC Technical & Innovation Meeting - 10November 2012Electrical protection scheme do not play significant functional role in normal operation, when all parameters are in limit. But its operation becomes very important, moment any

parameter exceed its safe limit. Sometime it is observed that protection system do not respond in desired manner to certain electrical fault or power disturbance. Paper focus on improvement of reliability of electrical protection system with appropriate maintenance, function testing and analyzing behaviour or protection system with respect to every electrical fault or power disturbance.

Maintenance of Electrical Systems for large refineries,chemical,fertilizer plants.    * Maintenance of Electrical installations including Switch gears,substations,transformers,Motor control center UPS,DG sets , Earthling, Cable Laying/Routing, Plant & Emergency Lighting etc    * Preparation and review of Annual Budget Requirement for Department Comprises Of Annual Overhauling, Modification- Development & Plant Reliability.    * Quality Audits at every stage after receiving the material to Commissioning of Equipment.    * Determine material suitability and availability for various engineering tasks.    * Coordinating With Various Agencies like contractors, and other departments    * implementation of Various Schemes.    * Prepare and review technical test documents required for certification.    * Implement diverse technical Procedures by performing and system tests & certification.    * Prepare and review Standard Operating / Maintenance Procedures / manuals & equipment Service sheets British Safety Council Checklist.