Nikhil Anand

• Full cycle APC implementation which involves conducting APC scoping studies to evaluate the financial and technical viability of APC projects. Preparing APC implementation techno-commercial proposals for corporate approval. Preparation of APC projects scope of work, technical specifications and pre-qualification criteria for tender document, technical and commercial bid evaluation, vendor selection, leading APC implementation project execution, planning, risk mitigation and post-implementation sustenance. Interfacing of APC with DCS via OPC with read-write, interface point building on DCS watchdog configuration, etc. on various DCS.
• Maintenance of the already implemented RTO & APC applications at optimum level by regularly monitoring and conducting periodic performance audits of the applications. Ensuring continuous vendor support for regular maintenance of the applications.
• Conducting training sessions on APC, RTO and RTDBMS applications.
• Part of the digitalization team which is leading AI/ML Digitalisation initiatives for Process Analytics to improve APC efficiency and effectiveness and other digitalization initiatives.
• Integration of various third-party applications like DRYA (Data Reconciliation & Yield Accounting), EMS (Energy Management System), crude schedular etc. with the plant historian.
• Maintaining Refinery-wide Real-Time database historian (Honeywell PHD). Supporting multiple digitalization projects implementation requiring RTDB data; Data Reconciliation and Yield Accounting, Energy Management System, etc.
• Upgrade/Migration of software and hardware obsolescence by system upgrades as and when required. Cybersecurity compliance.
  Responsible for maintaining

Was hired through 3rd party on contract as a consultant for flexible working.

In this position

• Led APC implementation projects and APC migration projects.
• Conducted Maintenance and troubleshooting of APC controllers installed at various customer sites across India, mainly focusing on Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. refineries.

Was stationed at Alcoa Pinjarra Alumina Refinery as site engineer.

The responsibilities under the role were-

• Modification and maintenance of existing APC controllers for maintaining optimum plant performance.
• APC KPI development, monitoring, and improving APC KPI using performance monitoring tools.
• APC migration to the latest APC software with minimum APC downtime.

In this role, my main responsibilities were APC implementation & supporting APC project conceptualization activities- Scoping studies, project cost estimation and project planning. The projects

• Implemented APC projects using Aspen DMCplus-
  YANSAB- YANSAB- Technip Ethylene Cracker, Yanbu, KSA. The scope of the project included the Furnace-Hot section and Cold section.
• KNPC- Kuwait- Naphtha Hydrotreater and Reformer units at Shuaiba refinery. CDU-Naphtha Stabilizer & Ethane Recovery Plant at Mina Al- Ahmadi refinery.
• RasGas Qatar- APC implementation in LNG Train-3/4/5. The units in the scope were Inlet Facilities, Acid Gas Removal, Sulphur Recovery, LNG, Fractionation units of each train. Provided Post-implementation support, the configuration of APC performance monitoring using AspenWatch.
• Real-Time Energy Management System implementation using Visual Mesa software in KNPC Shuaiba refinery.

Shift In-charge and Panel officer In Ethylene Oxide Ethylene Glycol Plant.