Rohit S. Tabhane
Head Operations
Visakhapatnam
Summary
An Engineering professional with over 18 years of diversified experience in energy sector encompassing commissioning, plant operation, process standardization, Performance & efficiency, MTP and Ash utilization.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Addl. General Manager (Head Operation & TS)
Hinduja National Power Corporation
04.2024 - Current
- Responsible for overall Plant operations
- Technical Advisor to CEO HNPCL.
- Review and approval of technical proposals and contracts on behalf of CEO HNPCL.
- Responsible for budget preparation and review.
- Heading operations and efficiency ensuring plant availability, Fuel management, operational cost monitoring, Energy Efficiency and monitoring of compliances.
- MIS Preparation for senior management review & fuel inventory reconciliation for strategic operation.
- Responsible for maintaining SAP for PM (Plant Maintenance) & MM (Material Management) modules.
- Working as Head-Operations, P&E, MTP, MIS and Technical advisor to CEO at Hinduja National Power Corporation since May-2020
Deputy General Manager (Operations & TS)
Hinduja National Power Corporation
04.2022 - 03.2024
- Technical Advisor to CEO HNPCL.
- Review and approval of technical proposals and contracts on behalf of CEO HNPCL.
- Responsible for budget preparation and review.
- Heading Performance and efficiency ensuring plant availability, Fuel management, operational cost monitoring, Energy Efficiency and monitoring of compliances.
- MIS Preparation for senior management review & fuel inventory reconciliation.
- Responsible for maintaining SAP for PM (Plant Maintenance) & MM (Material Management) modules.
- Senior Manager (Performance and Efficiency) May’20 to March’22.
Deputy Manager
BALCO a part of Vedanta Group
10.2014 - 05.2020
- Achieved 100% ash utilisation with more that 30% ash utilisations in brick manufacturing and coal mine backfilling.
- Spearheaded the ash utilisation in coal mine back filling with over 2 lakh tonnes ash filling.
- Spearheaded in increasing ash utilisation in brick plants by 6 times and achieved condition of consent to operate clause for 4X300MW units.
- Liaison with government bodies for smooth execution of dyke management and ash utilisation.
- Worked as Unit in charge for 4 X 300MW PFF power plant:
- Received Technical Star award-2017-18.
- Participated as lead member for first synchronisation of 2x300MW units
- Worked as key member in reviewing and finalising of plant performance guarantee test procedures.
- Responsible for effective plant operation, execution of performance guarantee test and plant reliability run.
- Responsible for plant performance monitoring such as boiler efficiency, turbine heat rate and performance of various power auxiliaries.
- Responsible for implementation of process safety: PSSR, HAZOP, Interlock protections and management of change.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Working as Ash dyke associate
Deputy manager
CGPL - (TATA Power Company Limited)
05.2010 - 10.2014
- Effective operation of 830MW unit by continuous monitoring of the process & equipment parameters taking preventive & corrective actions in case of any deviation.
- Performance monitoring on continuous basis such as Heat Rate, Auxiliary consumption etc.
- Strict adherence to pollution norms.
- Safe & planned unit start-ups and shut-downs.
- Handling emergencies & normalising at the earliest.
- Maximising unit reliability.
- 400 KV switchyard SCADA operation, 6.6 kV / 415 V switchgear operations & outages.
- Carrying out & issuing equipment / system outage.
- Co-ordination & communications with all areas in-charge of the Plant (i.e., boiler, feed Cycle, turbine, electrical, CHP, ash plant., fuel, chlorination plant, H2 plant etc.) for normal / emergency operations & equipment / system outages.
- Preparation of various reports i.e. daily, monthly and annual generation reports, shutdown reports etc.
- Worked as commercial controller. Managing station load as per WRLDC/ Procurers requirement.
- Communicating with various external agencies such as WRLDC, Substations for the same.
- Worked as simulator instructor for 800MW simulator.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Working as Senior Control room Engineer in 5 X 830MW PFF power plant.
- Commissioning experience:
- Worked as commissioning engineer in 5 X 830 MW PFF plant.
- Worked in boiler commissioning i.e. hydro, chemical cleaning, steam blowing, first light-up etc.
- Worked in turbine and feed cycle commissioning i.e. hydro, chemical cleaning, MOV commissioning, lube oil flushing, first turbine rolling and unit synchronisation.
- Worked for auxiliary boiler, fuel area and RO plant commissioning.
Operation and maintenance engineer
ESSAR power
07.2008 - 05.2010
- Worked as commissioning engineer in Frame 9E gas turbine (110 X 2 MW) in ESSAR power, Jamnagar.
- Member of Hazop Team for combined cycle power plant (110 MW)
- Commissioning of various gas turbine auxillaries and fire fighting system.
- Worked as operation engineer for 77MW oil fired Power Plant at ESSAR power, Jamnagar.
- Worked as field engineer in boiler and turbine area.
- Responsible for maintaining plant healthiness and equipment condition monitoring.
- Working for IMS for 77MW plant i.e. ISO-9000, ISO-14000 & OSHAS-18000.
- Handled MIS for 77MW plant i.e. preparation of daily, monthly and annual report and monitoring plant performance parameters.
- Worked as mechanical maintenance engineer at ESSAR power, Hazira, Surat.
- Worked as maintenance engineer in Combined Cycle Power Plant.
- Hot Gas Path Inspection (HGPI) of Gas Turbine. Major Inspection (MI) of Gas Turbine.
- Predictive and preventive maintenance of GT and HRSG.
- Maintenance of fire fighting system.
Education
Degree - Power Engineering
NPTI- Nagpur
01.2007
HSSC -
Dharampeth High Schools
03-2003
SSC -
Progressive English Medium School
03-2001
Skills
Operations management
Customer relationship management
Team leadership
Project management
Training
- Dyke designing and retrofitting training received at NIT Rourkela.
- Simulator training programme of 830MW supercritical plant at Yong-Hong plant, S. Korea.
- Simulator training programme of 210MW thermal power plant at NPTI, Nagpur.
- 15 days Training at Dahanu Thermal Power Station, Reliance Energy Ltd.
- Project management.
- Internal Auditor training For IMS.
Timeline
Addl. General Manager (Head Operation & TS)
Hinduja National Power Corporation
04.2024 - Current
Deputy General Manager (Operations & TS)
Hinduja National Power Corporation
04.2022 - 03.2024
Deputy Manager
BALCO a part of Vedanta Group
10.2014 - 05.2020
Deputy manager
CGPL - (TATA Power Company Limited)
05.2010 - 10.2014
Operation and maintenance engineer
ESSAR power
07.2008 - 05.2010
Degree - Power Engineering
NPTI- Nagpur
HSSC -
Dharampeth High Schools
SSC -
Progressive English Medium School
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