TRUE KNOWLEDGE (CURRICULAM VITAE)

Ganesan Damodaran,
E-mail: paramgmad@gmail.com, paramgmad@yahoo.com,
Contact Phone No: In India: +91-9944900489 (Mobile),

Mechanical Engineering in Diploma with 12 Years’ experience in Rotating and

Static Equipment Maintenance of Oil & Gas (Offshore & Onshore), Petrochemical,
Refineries and Fertilizer Plant Industries from Technician level to Engineer level.

Maintenance Activities for rotating equipments:

1. Installation, Commissioning, major Overhauling, Preventive, predictive, Break down

and shutdown maintenances and trouble shooting of all types of Rotating
Equipments (Pumps, compressors, steam and Gas turbines , Gear boxes, Blowers &
Fans, Agitators, Centrifuges).
2. Hot & Cold Alignment for all rotating equipments by using Laser alignment kit (Opt
align smart) Reverse dial and Rim & Face Dial Indicator method.
3. Reading & Understanding of all P&ID, Technical Drawings & Vibration Data Collection
Analysis.
4. Implementation and Data collection of Reliable Centred Maintenance (RCM).
5. Training given to the New Employees about Turbo Machineries& Plant Equipments
6. Hand Experience on Bucket elevator, Conveyors, Vibrating screen and spherodizer
Granulators in Fertiliser plant and petrochemical plant.
7. Worked about Pump Performance test calculation curve match with Industrial curve.
8. Experienced in installation and servicing of liquid film seal and Dry gas seal
9. Erection & Commissioning of Pumps in Construction with using of Dumpy level,
Theodolite, plum and Water tube for Elevation transfer as per National Survey Data.
10. Hand experience in Overhauling of rotary valves and motorised valves.
11. SNYDER switch over special valve for Coke cutting in refinery plants.
12. Pump compressor and Turbine Erection, Commissioning and Maintenance
Experience.

Maintenance Activities for static equipments:

1. General maintenance of Static equipments (Shell & Tube heat exchangers, Fin Fan
coolers, Valves, Columns, vessels, Reactors, Tanks and pipe lines).
2. Hydraulic/Pneumatic Testing of valves, PSV, Vessels, Exchangers and Pipe.

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 3. Maintenance and servicing of all types of Valves, Steam traps and valve actuators
and Calibrated as per Manufacture Requirements.
4. Maintenance and servicing of Boilers, Heat exchangers, Vessels, Reactors, columns
internals, Cooling Towers, Fin-Fan Coolers, Filters and Storage tanks
5. Loading & Unloading of O-xylene, Benzene, Diesel and Furnace oil with Railway
Wagons and Lorry Tankers as per Safety Precautions.
6. Towers, Columns and Tray fixing - Mixed bed, lift check tray, sieve trays (2, 4, 8
passes) and alignment and fabrication working knowledge about column TSR.
7. Knowledge about Storage Tank Base elevation calculation update, as per National
Survey Data

General workshop maintenance activities:

1. Good knowledge in Gas cutting & welding, All Machine shop Machineries like.
(Lathe, Drilling, Milling, Grinding surface grinding) and all types of Field instruments.
2. Assist with Heavy Equipment and Riggers for carrying the material and equipments
3. Fabrication knowledge about Mitter bends and cut bag calculation.
4. Knowledge and worked about NDT and working of UT, MT, RT, DP tests
5. Thickness measurement of Pipe lines and Vessels with Ultrasonic thickness Gauge
6. Column tray fixing and alignment working knowledge about column TSR.

Maintain records related for equipments and safety:

1. Spare parts Management Using Maximo and SAP software’s.

2. Strongly adhere to SHEMS & TPM policies and Procedures.
3. Documentation of Equipment Maintenance History records, Spare part
consumptions, yearly Budgeting of maintenance cost, Plant down time calculation
and Technicians time sheets
4. Planning the jobs, arranging work permits and other department assistance
5. Conducting Toolbox meetings, drafting Standard Maintenance procedures, Critical
Task analysis and Job safety analysis, and Hazard studies
6. SMP-Standard Maintenance Procedure taken for Hourly based Equipments
7. Co- ordinating with other departments for scheduling and execution of work.
8. Well versed with reading and understanding of P&I diagrams and equipment
manuals
9. Preparation of failure reports and major overhauling reports
10.Knowledge about SCADA system – Supervisory control and Data Accusation

Additional Qualifications:

1. Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application for Computer related works.

2. Personnel Survival Training (PSD) for Offshore works.
3. CNC Machine Operation and program for production lathe & AutoCAD 2007 for
designing works.

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 4. Type Writing in English Higher & Short Hand course.
5. India Driving License for Heavy Motor Vehicle & Light Motor Vehicle.

Experience Summary:

Notore Chemical Industries Limited, Onne, Rivers

state, Nigeria,
(Sep 2009 to Dec (Under Spic – Edac Engineering limited, Guindy, Chennai)
2010) Position : Urea plant Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent,
Responsibilities: Planning and executing of all Equipments
(Fertilizer Industry)
( 1- ½ Years ) Erection & Commissioning and Maintenance Activities for Urea
Plant.

M/s. Cairn Energy India Limited, Ravva Plant

(Onshore/Offshore) A.P, India, (Under Bashgo Mechanical
Maintenance Services) Position : Mechanical
Equipment Maintenance Supervisor, Responsibilities: IPM
(Aug 2007 to Aug Follow-ups, Planning and executing of all Rotating and Static
2009) Equip. Maintenance.
(Offshore Industry)
Kuwait National Petroleum Company, (KNPC - MAB)
(Onshore Industry)
( 2 Years ) (Under Contract of Kharafi National Company Services
Limited), Position :Rotating Equipment Supervisor,
Responsibilities: Planning and executing of all Rotary
Equipments maintenance and Mechanical Seal Updating form
John to Burg man.
(Mar 2006 to
July2007) Saudi Petrochemical Company (SADAF) in Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, (Under Contract of M/s Al - Suwaidi Industrial
(Refinery Industry)
Services Limited), Position: Sr. Mill Wright Technician,
( 1–½ Year )
Responsibilities: Executing the maintenance jobs on all types
of the rotating equipments and preventive maintenance
checks.

M/s. Thirumalai Chemical Limited, Ranipet, Tamilnadu, India,

(March 2004 to Feb
Position: Mechanical Supervisor,
2006) Responsibilities: Planning & executing of all Static & Rotary
(Petrochemical Equipment maintenance.
Industry)
( 2 Years )

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(June 1999 to Feb
2004 )
(Petrochemical
Industry)
( 5 Years )

Equipments Handled:

Pumps:
 Single and Multistage centrifugal pumps with different material of construction.
 Positive displacement pumps(plunger, Gear, Screw, Lobe and Diaphragm pumps)
 High pressure Boiler feed water pumps and fuel injection pumps
 Axial flow propeller pumps, Vertical turbine type pumps
 Make: SULZER, GOULDS, KSB, BAYRON JACKSON, EBARA, LAWRANCE, and IR.

Compressors:
 Single and Multistage centrifugal compressors Horizontal and Vertical split(Barrel
type) compressors(Make: ELLIOTT, MITSUBISHI INGERSOLL RAND, HITACHI, DEMAG,
NUOVOPIGNONE,)
 Axial flow centrifugal compressors (Make: SIEMENS Used in 135MW Gas turbines)
 Screw and Lobe Compressors (Make: HOWDEN, ATLAS CAPCO)
 Reciprocating compressors (Make: JOY, KHOSHALA CRIPPLE, CHIGCO PNEUMATICS)

Turbines:
 Steam turbines single and multistage Condensing, Extraction, and Back pressures
steam turbines Capacity from 35Hp to 25 MW with different types of Governing
system (Make: MURRAY, ELLIOTT, SHANGHAI TURBINE WORKS, WORTHINGTON, TERRY, )
 Gas turbines capacity 135MW (Make: SIEMENS, Centaur 40 Solar gas turbine)

Gas & Diesel Engine:

 Hourly Based Maintenance of Gas engines - ET, DDS Tools used for Periodical
testing and Overhauling Depend upon the Hours, (Make: Caterpillar, Waukesha,
GMWA –Cooper Bessemer)
 Hourly Based Maintenance of Diesel Engine – Overhauling the Engine. Time Based
Maintenance.(Make: Caterpillar, Kirloskar, Cummins, Leyland)

Centrifuges, Blowers and Fans:

 ID and FD fans, FD and ID Fin fans, Cooling tower fans and Lobe Blowers
 Pusher, Basket and Horizontal split Screw type centrifuges (make: SULZER)

Other Rotating Equipments and Alignments:

 Top and Bottom entry Agitators mounted in High pr Reactors, tanks, crystallizers

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  Gear Drives (Spur, Helical, Double helical, Worm and Spiral Bevel type Gears)
 Conveyors ( Belt, Screw and Chain conveyors)
 Rim and Face, Reverse dial Graphical & Analytical method and laser alignment.

Condition Monitoring and Vibration analysis:

 Vibration data collection and analysis with IRD 880, CSI – 2130, Adash DDS 2000,
Entek IRD Odyssey Software
 DP and UT test to find cracks in Mechanical parts and welding joints
 Thickness measurement of Pipe lines and Vessels with Ultrasonic thickness Gauge
Educational and professional Qualification:

Year of Marks
Course Studied Name of the Institution
passing Obtained

Diploma in Mechanical Rajagopal Polytechnic college,

April – 1999 83 %
engineering. (DME) Gudiyattam, Vellore District, TN.

Diploma in Industrial Safety. Nilem Institute, Adayar, Chennai.

April – 2007 75%
(DIS) TN.

Diploma in Business Nilem Institute, Adayar, Chennai.

April – 2007 75%
Management. TN.

Secondary School Leaving H.H.S.School, Ambur, Vellore March -

85 %
Certificate. District. 1996

Personal Details

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Name Damodaran Ganesan.
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Date of Birth 05-03-1980
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Marital Status Married, Have 2 Children
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Nationality Indian and Hindu
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English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu
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0 Passport Details H 7374394, Valid Till : 10.01.2020

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0 Reading of technical books and Collection of Notes from Net. Tennis
Hobbies
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Declaration: I hereby declared the above said details are correct up to my knowledge and
belief

Date: 10th of November 2010.

Yours Faithfully

Place: Ambur, Vellore District, Tamilnadu, India.

(Ganesan. D)