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Ghameswari Shunmugam

Manufacturing Process Engineer
SELANGOR

Summary

Chemical engineer with 6years of experience in the field of oil and gas process engineering, project management & research and development in semiconductor industry. Competent engineer with strong exceptional technical abilities in process simulation and troubleshooting complex plant operation technical issues. Known as a versatile and resourceful professional in dealing multiple projects to ensure the relevant targeted milestones are achieved. Actively develop process improvement to the plant operation via process monitoring to troubleshoot failures, brainstorm design improvements and led the root cause analysis determination. Abide with strong analytical skills to project data analysis of plant equipment performance to ensure smooth operation.

Overview

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Certifications
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years of post-secondary education
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years of professional experience

Work History

Manufacturing Process Engineer

ExxonMobil Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
04.2019 - Current

Project Involvement:

Project Location:

  • Baytown Olefins Plant,Texas
  • Singapore Olefins Plant
  • Kuala Lumpur Technology Centre

1. Run length extension study for process gas parallel driers for Ethylene plant

-Established a quality prediction and conducted risk assessment for drier desiccant run length that resulted for extension of drier run for 2 years using maximum capacity study.

-Single drier operation data was used to established the preliminary case for the maximum weight % of absorbent for breakthrough and downstream equipment hydrate formation studies

Achievement: Extended 3 desiccants change out cost by 2 years, 900K USD as a total.

2. Multi stream bank heat exchangers foulant management program

-Spearheaded to examine the effectiveness of foulant removal through offsite cleaning method compared to inhouse cleaning method using plant data improvement post offsite cleaning.

-Proposed for continuous fouling inhibitor injection by increasing the restriction orifices (RO) size and continue with in house cleaning method for significant heat recovery through a improvised foulant management program for the 2 bank heat exchangers around Quench tower.

Achievement: Total win of 120KUSD/year due to significantly lower in-house exchanger cleaning cost.

3. Feasibility study for C2 Splitter tower flooding for high production capacity

-Performed estimation of column flood points or maximum operating capacities using Pro II for production creep of 15%.

-Pressure drop correlation predicts both capacity of the system and flood point that matches the plant flood test conducted during start of run. Temperature and composition profiles were considered to showcase the accuracy of the study.

Achievement: Increased by 0.5Mlb/day of production which brings profit of 100K USD/month

Base Work:

  • Responsible for remote monitoring of high frequency, long-term process monitoring and troubleshooting activities for an Olefins Plant in Baytown USA.
  • Accountable for furnace, quench system, distillation towers, reactors, steam compressors and turbine, caustic treatment section, chill trains, driers, and refrigeration and condensate system
  • Generate mass balance, heat balance for all the relevant operational unit to optimize the operation and for production creep.
  • Perform risk assessment and economic evaluation to assist site in planning for the Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP)
  • Leads coordination between platform monitoring team and engineers to generate quarterly business driving performance metrics and benchmarking studies for Dryer & Absorber and Chill Train/Cold Box technology across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific Olefins Network.
  • Coached junior engineers to be well verse of Olefins technology and equip them with knowledge for site operation troubleshooting.

Technology Development Engineer

SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd
, Kedah
06.2018 - 03.2019

Project: Pacific Science(PacBio) Sequal Lens – Etch Improvement

Strategized and implemented the complete process development projects to improve etch profile with the optimum etch rates for power and photonics technology by understanding failure modes and defects

Base work:

Responsible in designing and optimizing vapor and plasma etch processes for semiconductor devices, integrated circuits and life science to ensure robust etch processes that meet the precise physical and electrical requirements as per customer.

Research and Development Engineer

Panasonic Energy Malaysia
, Kedah
06.2016 - 06.2018

Projects:

1. New texturing technology from (powder additive to liquid additives) for mass production

Location: Panasonic Energy Osaka, Japan

Led the team for technology transfer from Japan in new texturing process method and achieved mass production implementation with Pmax +0.30% using Design of Experiment approach.

2. Development of total etching reduction for Wet Etch Process

Location: Panasonic Energy Malaysia

Spearheaded and implemented a new development of etching reduction and achieved output power improvement of 0.11% and cost down worth MYR333K/yr by using Continuous Improvement Method

Base work:

  • In charge of Wet process & Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) of solar cell fabrication and responsible to ensure the performance of the line product align with engineering target control.
  • Lead capital equipment acquisition projects using continuous process improvement (CPI) and new technology introduction (NTI) efforts to maximize product yield, reduce cycle time, and lower product cost

Trainee Engineer in Facilities and Engineering Dep

Carigali Hess Operating Company
, Kuala Lumpur
09.2014 - 04.2015

Project:

Successfully conducted a detailed study and used the Six Sigma DMAIC method in choosing AISI 316L stainless steel, material of higher fatigue strength that causes pitting corrosion or chloride stress cracking by root cause analysis (RCA) implementation

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical

Universiti Teknologi Petronas
01.2011 - 11.2016

Skills

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Accomplishments

    1. President’s Safety, Security Health & Environment
    (SSH&E) Excellence Award (2019)

    ExxonMobil Research Engineering (EMRE)
    Award recipient under eliminating high potential event category.
    Successfully developed and deployed an innovative tool enabling
    process monitoring of Baytown Olefins Plant for more than 60 units
    within 3 hours during a fire incident for cold ends towers and drums during transient operations.
    2. Focus Recognition Sport Award in “Technical Experts”
    (2020)

    ExxonMobil Kuala Lumpur Technology Centre (KLTC)
    Awarded with Focus Recognition Sport Award in “Technical Experts”
    category for establishing new troubleshooting method for furnace
    technology across EMCC KLTC team.
    3. Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) Competition -
    Second Runner Up (2018)

    Panasonic Energy Malaysia
    Second runner up for "Rework Improvement to Boost Cell
    Performance" project by reducing scrap value of 18K USD/year and
    improved rework cell output power by 1.8%

Certification

Board of Engineers Malaysia - Graduate Engineer: G1183797A (Chemical)

Timeline

Associate Member IChemE: ID200093695

07-2021

Graduate Technologist by MBOT – Oil and Gas

07-2021

Board of Engineers Malaysia - Graduate Engineer: G1183797A (Chemical)

08-2020

Manufacturing Process Engineer

ExxonMobil Malaysia
04.2019 - Current

Technology Development Engineer

SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd
06.2018 - 03.2019

Research and Development Engineer

Panasonic Energy Malaysia
06.2016 - 06.2018

Trainee Engineer in Facilities and Engineering Dep

Carigali Hess Operating Company
09.2014 - 04.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical

Universiti Teknologi Petronas
01.2011 - 11.2016
Ghameswari ShunmugamManufacturing Process Engineer