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P.R.
CHANDNA
Metallurgical Engineer
with Business Management, Experience in Consultancy, EPC, Project Management,
Financial Appraisals, Process Plant Operations & Maintenance &
General Management |
DIN:00018676 (P), Min. of Com.
Affairs, GoI. Indian Passport : F7230716 Email: prchandna@hotmail.com Tel:+ 91
80 41537499 (R) Cel:
+9198453 81222 Web: http://prchandna.tripod.com/resume.pdf |
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Professional
Membership:
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Directors Identification No. (DIN):
00018676 (P), issued Ministry of Company Affairs, Govt. of India.
·
Life Member, Indian Institute of Metals (IIM),
Kolkatta, India.
·
Member, Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), New Delhi, India –
An associate of FIDIC.
·
Member Sectional Committee on Light Metals & Alloy (MTD-7),
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), India.
·
Process of being nominated to Member Sectional Committee on
Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, and other Non-Ferrous Metals (MTD-9), Bureau of Indian
Standards (BIS), India.
·
Empanelled as an Independent Director by ONEID – Institute of
Directors, India
Experience:
Summary:
I am a First Class graduate in
Metallurgical Engineering, with business management, having held various senior
technical, managerial, lead project management, and general management
positions in the Consultancy, EPC, Project management, Metals & Mining
industries. I have in depth appreciation of national and international business
environment in these industries.
More than three decades of professional career in the base metals & mining and metallurgical engineering industry
working on more than thirty multi – disciplinary Green & Brown fields/
De-bottlenecking/ Expansion/ Performance improvement projects – from concept to
commissioning & Operations & Maintenance in India and overseas. This
experience includes:
·
More than 18 years in consulting – management & engineering,
due diligence, EPC, project management, procurement, contract management,
construction, and commissioning of zinc, lead, cadmium, gold, silver, copper,
nickel, tin, titanium sponge, copper rod plants, and Natural Gas – Piped / CNG
supply and distribution systems. I
have been rewarded with number of appreciation letters for executing projects
within budget and ahead of time schedule.
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More than 12 years in non – ferrous smelters operations
including six years as Assistant Plant Manager working in both Indian Primary
Zinc Smelters and associated Pyro & Hydro Metallurgical leach plants,
Sulphuric acid, Mercury Removal and fertilizer & phosphoric acid plant
operations. I have been rewarded
with appreciation letters for trouble shooting during breakdowns and reviving
back the plant into operation within the shortest period and highest
productivities/ productions achievement during operations. I was also
associated with the execution and commissioning of a pioneer Environmental
Mercury removal project right from the discovery of mercury in the smelter
sulphur off gases utilized for manufacture of Sulphuric acid at the Zinc
Smelter Hydro metallurgical plant.
I have visited numbers of Pyro & Hydro
process based Metallurgical smelter plants for Lead, Zinc, Cadmium, Sulphuric
acid, Mercury Removal & Recovery, Silver & Gold Refineries, Integrated
Secondary Copper Refineries & Copper rod (CCR), abroad in Norway,
France, and USA.
I have also been empanelled as an Independent
Director by ONEID – Institute of Directors, India.
I have represented governing councils of
Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), and Consulting
Engineers Association of India (CEAI) – both an associate of FIDIC.
I am also a member of CDC. I am also on the team of internal auditors for Total
Quality Systems (ISO 9000 - 2000).
I have also served as Honorary Treasurer/
Secretary/ Joint Secretary, etc., of Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and
organized number of International Seminars/ Conferences/ Exhibitions on
Metallurgy, Metals & Minerals.
Detailed
Experience:
M/s MECON LIMITED: India’s frontline engineering, consultancy,
EPC, and Project Management organisation. Presently working with M/s MECON
Limited, New Delhi & Bangalore offices since 16/11/1987 as:
Ø
Dy. General Manager: 01/04/2006
till date
Ø
Assistant
General Manager: 01/04/2000
to 31/03/2006
Ø
Senior
Manager: 01/04/1995 to 31/03/2000
Ø
Assistant
Engineering Manager: 01/07/1991
to 31/03/1995
Ø
Senior
Design Engineer: 16/11/1987
to 30/06/1991
Worked in Non – Ferrous Metals, Project Management
and Management Advisory Services/ Techno – Economic and Estimating Sections.
Industries covered – Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, Precious Metals Refineries – Gold
& Silver, Copper & Secondary Copper Refineries, Tin, Nickel, Titanium,
Continuous Cast Copper Rod plants, Compressed NG/ Piped NG & Cross country
gas pipelines.
My area of expertise in these industries had been in country’s
premier metallurgical engineering consultancy organization in Complete Project
Engineering, Management and Consultancy; comprising of identification of
projects & complete execution, i.e., from concept to commissioning; Capital
/project cost estimations, Bankable Feasibility studies; Economic analysis,
Process/ technology selection and successful absorption, Technology status review;
New technology opportunities/ strategies; Due diligence, Business Planning and
Strategy; Market appraisals; Site selection, Detailed engineering, Contract
Management, Procurement, Consultancy, Construction & Erection, Start-ups
& Commissioning, Project Leader, Project monitoring and Project Management
and General Management for the past more than 18 years – Led a team of multi – disciplinary team consisting of design, detailed
engineering, planning, projects, cost control, procurement, inspection, construction
and commissioning engineers, finance, etc.
Received numbers of appreciation
letters from client as well the management – will be made available on request.
The list of major
Projects executed are given at Annexure - I.
M/s Hindustan Zinc Limited: (Now M/s Vedanta
Resources Plc.):
I
had an experience of more than 12 years in operations & maintenance,
production, planning & control, bench marking, technology audit, and to
optimize the process & production performances, manufacturing costs and improve
energy & metal output recovery efficiencies, commissioning and general
management of both the Zinc - Lead Smelters plants at Debari and Visakhapatnam
(including Pyro & Hydro metallurgical based leach residue plants and
associated metallurgical gas based Sulphuric acid plants and fertilizer plants
– SSP and phosphoric acid plants) of M/s Hindustan Zinc Limited (now M/s
Vedanta Resources Plc).
Worked with M/s
Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, from 01/08/1975 to 15/11/1987:
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Assistant
Plant Manager (Met.): 1/07/1981
to 15/11/1987
Fluo – Solid Roaster & Acid plant, Zinc Leach Residue plant
(Waelz Process), Leaching & Purification and Mercury Removal plants at Lead
and Zinc Smelter, Visakhapatnam (AP).
The nature of duties included production,
planning, coordination and control within the sections to ensure smooth
working, cost control, process and technology improvements, and general
administration – led a team of engineers
from multi disciplines, operators/ workmen and finance personnel consisting of
around one and half hundred people and achieved excellence in operations and
highest productions/ productivities. A few of the appreciation letters are
enclosed.
Ø
Assistant
Engineer: 1/02/1977
to 30/06/1981
Fluo – Solid Roaster & Acid, SSP, Phosphoric acid plants,
Leaching & Cadmium and Zinc Leach Residue Treatment (Jarosite -Conversion)
plant at Zinc Smelters, Debari and Visakhapatnam units.
The nature of duties included control of operatives, shifts and
to ensure proper balancing between sections to maintain continuity of
operations – led a team of engineers and operators/ workmen.
Ø
Probationer
Engineer from 1st August 1975, for a period
of two years:
A reduction of six months in training period was awarded
to me on the ground of merit and I was absorbed as Assistant Engineer in
advance on 1/02/1977.
During this period I had the opportunity to go around all the
units namely, Zinc & Lead Smelting and Mining, Ore dressing, Fertilizer
plants – SSP and Phosphoric acid plants, Rock phosphate mines, Project and
planning department, Finance, Maintenance, Marketing departments and In-plant
training in Zinc Smelter.
M/s
Process Engineering Corp.: 01/09/1974
to 31/07/1975
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Sales
/ Design Engineer:
The nature of duties
included pre-selling, designing, preparation of tenders, negotiating technical
and commercial terms, system detailing and executing projects, process
engineering, market survey, project pre – feasibility studies, evaluation and
report preparation.
ASSIGNMENTS/
VISITS ABROAD:
Countries
visited: Norway, USA, and FRANCE
1.
From 21/05/1984 to 01/06/1984 at M/s Norzink A/s, Odda, Norway:
v Training
in operation and maintenance of Mercury
removal plant based on Boliden –
Norzink Process route for the SO2 off gases from Zinc Roaster
plant.
v Overview
of Zinc Smelting hydro-metallurgical operations (RLE – Roast Leach – Electrowin Process Route) at Norzink plant for
extraction of Zinc, Cadmium and Jarosite leach residue treatment processes and
Sulphuric acid plant.
2. From
02/06/1984 to 06/06/1984 at M/s Noyelle
Godault, France:
v
To
study and recommend the process of Pyro
– refining of Lead and Silver bullion.
v
An
overview of process and operations of sintering and Imperial Smelting Furnace (ISF) for the simultaneous extraction of
both Lead and Zinc.
3. From
12/11/1995 to 22/11/1995 at USA:
v
To
study operations of Continuous Cast
Copper Rod (CCR) plants at:
Ø
M/s Southwire Company, Carrollton,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Ø
M/s Amrod Corp., Newark, New Jersey,
USA.
v
To
evaluate the plant and equipment and study process and operations of the Secondary Copper recovery and Continuous
Cast Copper rod plants of M/s
Southwire Company at Gaston, Columbia, USA – A due diligence study for purchase
recommendation to the client in USA.
TRAININGS IN INDIA:
|
SL. No. |
Training Programme |
From |
To |
Organisations |
|
1. |
Summer Internship in a "Foundry
Plant" |
05/06/1972 |
09/07/1972 |
M/s Peerless Foundries, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad. |
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2. |
Summer Internship in a "Copper Smelter Plant" |
17/05/1973 |
26/06/1973 |
M/s Hindustan Copper Ltd., Khetri Nagar. |
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3. |
"Industrial Engg. & Business
Management" |
18/03/1977 |
31/03/1977 |
M/s NITIE, Powai, Bombay. |
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4. |
"Operation and Maintenance of Package
Boilers" |
01/08/1977 |
03/08/1977 |
M/s IAEC, Bhandup, Bombay |
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5. |
"Industrial Safety" |
14/11/1981 |
16/11/1981 |
M/s NSC, Bombay |
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6. |
"Computer Appreciation" |
23/03/1982 |
25/03/1982 |
M/s Howard Finley, Madras |
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7. |
"Organisational Effectiveness" |
13/09/1982 |
18/09/1982 |
M/s SIET, Hyderabad. |
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8. |
"Value Engineering' |
12/09/1983 |
12/12/1983 |
M/s R. P. Billimoria Consultants Pvt. Ltd.,
New Delhi. |
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9. |
"Computer Orientation & PC
Application" |
20/04/1987 |
15/05/1987 |
M/s NITIE, Powai, Bombay |
|
10. |
"Internal Audit of Quality
Systems" |
08/09/1994 |
09/09/1994 |
M/s CII, New Delhi |
|
11. |
"Contract Management & Contract
Strategy" |
10/02/2006 |
11/02/2006 |
M/s AIMS, Chennai |
PAPER PRESENTED:
Ø
"Lead
Zinc Smelter at Chanderiya - Concept towards realization"
at ILZIC Silver Jubilee Conference - Lead, Zinc and Cadmium Into The 90's New
Delhi, 1st-3rd November 1988.
Ø
"Recent
developments in Lead Smelting and Refining Technologies" NMD'92
Indian Institute of Metals held at Udaipur between 14th–17th
November 1992.
Ø
"Recent
developments in Lead Smelting and Refining Technologies" MECON
JOURNAL Vol. 13 No.1 September 1993.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF
METALS (IIM):
1. Hony. Secretary
for IIM, Delhi Chapter: Year 2003 – 04 (up to September ’03).
2. Joint Hony. Secretary
for IIM, Delhi Chapter: a) 1998-1999 & b) 1999-2000 & c) 2000-03
3. Worked
as rapporteur on the following occasions:
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Annual Technical Meet (ATM) seminar of NMD '88 of the Indian Institute Metals
held at New Delhi between 14th–17th November 1988.
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Seminar on "Hydromet '90" held at Udaipur between 7th–9th
February 1990.
4.
Organisation
of Exhibitions and International Seminars:
Ø
Organization of "Metals and Metallurgy '98 and 2nd International Trade
Fair" and International Seminar on "Advances in Metallurgy" held at Pragati Maidan, New
Delhi between 7th–10th October 1998.
Ø
Organization of International Seminar on “Bars, Wire Rods and Wire Products” held
at Scope Complex, New Delhi between17th–18th February
2000.
Ø
Organization of "3rd International Trade Fair and International
Conference on Mineral, Metals and Metallurgy in 21st Century”
held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi between 27th–28th
September 2000.
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Organization of "4th International Trade Fair and International
Conference on Metals & Materials for Automobile Industry” held at
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi between 12th–15th September
2002.
ACHIEVEMENT
1. COLLEGE:
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Recipient
of Merit Scholarship of
Govt. of India (GOI) from 1970 – 1974.
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Senior Reporter for Daily Bulletins
during the “Inter-Collegiate
Football Tournament, University of Rajasthan, 1973-74”.
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Running Commentator for “9th and 10th Annual Games and Sports
functions of the College”.
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Summer internship at Khetri Copper Complex
(KCC), Hindustan Copper Ltd., Khetri Nagar.
2. HINDUSTAN
ZINC LIMITED:
Ø
A
reduction in training period by six months based on the induction
training comprising of rotational programs at all the plant units and mines and
functional sections/divisions, on the job training and written examination.
Ø Discovery of presence of Metallic mercury in the wet gas cleaning plant (GCP) s