Renganathan Muthusamy
Naperville,IL
Summary
Fired Equipment Engineer with extensive expertise in thermal/mechanical design of heater and its auxiliary system. In current role providing operational support for refinery fired equipment. Enhancing equipment availability through strategic troubleshooting, reducing downtime and improving safety standards across multiple fired equipment. Spearheads energy/margin improvement initiatives, NOx reduction projects while managing challenges associated with revamp of old units.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Site Fired Equipment Lead
ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery
06.2024 - Current
- Overseeing site-specific fired equipment for safe and efficient operations. Providing day to day operational support, monitoring OE/OL’s, real time troubleshooting. Championed safety and energy improvement initiatives while facilitating turnaround and maintenance support. Served as the primary contact for all fired equipment, including process heaters, HRSG and FCC boilers, SRU furnaces, and flare systems.
- Improvised coker heater reliability including all operational/control changes.
- Risk management and prioritizing appropriate maintenance activities.
- Bad actor identification and led troubleshooting efforts, reducing downtime by implementing effective solutions.
- Gained considerable experience in boiler troubleshooting.
- Initiated safety and energy/margin improvement projects.
- Coordinated turnaround support, ensuring equipment reliability.
Senior Fired Equipment Engineer
ExxonMobil Tech center Bangalore
12.2022 - 05.2024
- Assigned remote support engineer for operations, troubleshooting, safety, and margin improvement across Asia Pacific manufacturing sites. Delivered turnaround field support for refinery maintenance activities and margin enhancement initiatives.
- Facilitated operational troubleshooting to enhance safety standards.
- Instrumental in implementing Boiler safety best practices.
- Supported the assets for GHG emission reduction projects.
- Provided on-site support during refinery maintenance turnarounds.
Principal Engineer
Technip Energies (India)
03.2022 - 12.2022
- Lead thermal engineer for EPCM heater projects for IOCL Gujarat and NRL Assam. Overseen thermal design of non-licensed heaters, reviewing vendor design on heaters/ hydraulic sizing for transfer lines. Coordinated with vendors and customers on APS, VPS heaters, reboilers, reactor charge heaters, fractionator heaters, utility boilers, SRU furnaces, and waste heat boilers.
Heater Specialist
Honeywell UOP (India)
08.2019 - 03.2022
- Conducted thermal design for fired heaters across multiple clients including Thai Oil, Pertamina, Lukoil, and IOCL. Responsibilities encompassed heater thermal design, API datasheet preparation, P&ID and vendor document reviews, and debottlenecking/revamp support for heaters in various process technologies.
- Designed heaters with capacities from 5 MMBTU/HR to 400 MMBTU/HR.
- Collaborated with technology team to prepare Licensor design package with precise inputs for fired heaters.
- Opportunity to perform thermal design on heaters for various technologies including simple VC, box type heaters, arbor design, steam generation design for CCR heaters
- Implemented energy improvement strategies, including heat integration between multiple heaters and common air preheat systems
Manager, Thermal Systems
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Limited (LTHE, India)
07.2010 - 08.2019
- Responsible for thermal design and rating of fired heaters, selecting appropriate heater types for various refinery/petrochemical applications. Conducted mechanical design of heater components and duct/stack sizing, refractory selection, collaborated with multiple disciplinary engineers and vendors (burners, refractory, APH, dampers) to meet project specifications. Prepared Heater API datasheets and specifications for accessories like burners and fans. Reviewed vendor documents, conducted technical bid evaluations, and assist with site startup and commissioning.
- Spearheaded thermal design for projects with various oil & gas companies like ONGC, HURL and BPCL. IOCL
- Coordinated with inter-disciplinary teams to ensure project delivery meeting specifications.
- Facilitated vendor document reviews, enhancing project accuracy.
- Startup/Refractory dry-out support during heater commissioning.
- Supported troubleshooting and revamp of existing fired heaters.
Education
M-Tech. - Mechanical Engineering, Thermal & Fluid Engg specialization
IIT Bombay
Mumbai, India08.2016
Bachelors - Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering, Guindy
Chennai, IndiaSkills
- Thermal Design Expert
- Heater Troubleshooting Competent
- HAZOP Facilitation Competent
- Margin Improvement Expert
- Vendor Coordination Expert
- Operational Support Proficient
- API Datasheet Preparation Expert
- Safety Standards Proficient
- P&ID Preparation Competent
- FRNC-5
- HTRI
- MATLAB
- UNISIM, HYSYS (LIMITED SKILLS)
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Limited Working
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Site Fired Equipment Lead
ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery
06.2024 - Current
Senior Fired Equipment Engineer
ExxonMobil Tech center Bangalore
12.2022 - 05.2024
Principal Engineer
Technip Energies (India)
03.2022 - 12.2022
Heater Specialist
Honeywell UOP (India)
08.2019 - 03.2022
Manager, Thermal Systems
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Limited (LTHE, India)
07.2010 - 08.2019
M-Tech. - Mechanical Engineering, Thermal & Fluid Engg specialization
IIT Bombay
Bachelors - Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering, Guindy