The Chief Process Advisor will advise with regards to the detailed checkout, precommissioning activities, heater and reactor circuit dryout, catalyst and/or adsorbent loading, startup, initial operation and testing of the unit, as well as providing instruction and direction to the operating staff. The UOP Chief Advisor will have the overall on site responsibility for ensuring that UOPs commissioning, startup, and initial operations services are fully executed. Before the completion of construction, the Chief Process Advisor will compare and evaluate the specifications of the supplied equipment with those specified in the UOP Schedule A Package, Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams, and various UOP Standard Specifications and Drawings. This detailed examination procedure will enable the Chief Process Advisor to identify, evaluate and provide advice to avoid problems that could interfere with a smooth startup and successful performance of the Process Unit. B.E/B.Tech Chemical Engineering with experience in Oil & gas Industry As the checkout is being completed, the UOP Chief Process Advisor will provide direction for the development and implementation of a precommissioning program. Activities carried out during this phase of the startup will include hydrostatic testing, water flushing, leak testing, pump and compressor run in, refractory dryout, high temperature field tests, inspection, catalyst loading, and instrument loop checking. After completion of the precommissioning phase, the UOP Chief Process Advisor will review and evaluate the startup schedule and offer advice on possible improvements. The Chief Process Advisor will provide operating instructions to Operations and Engineering staffs to ensure that they have knowledge of the UOP procedures for startup, normal operations, and shutdown, and that they understand UOPs recommended procedures for handling emergency situations in a safe and efficient manner. The Chief Process Advisor will advise the customers engineers and operators to achieve a smooth and beneficial startup. The Chief Process Advisors experience on similar units will help to avoid pitfalls during the startup. The Chief Process Advisor will issue daily instructions to shift-working Process Advisors, in concert with the customers operations management team. UOPs prime objective is a smooth continuous startup, beginning with introduction of feed and concluding with on-specification products. Once initial startup has occurred, the UOP Chief Process Advisor will advise on the daily operation of the unit and recommend adjustments to optimize unit performance. The Chief Process Advisor will establish process guidelines to line out and prepare the unit for a successful performance test. The performance test will verify the units ability to achieve the yields represented by UOP during the design phase and will serve as a benchmark against which future process unit performance can be compared A detailed study of the unit may also be conducted during this period. The study may include calculations of product yields and catalyst activity/selectivity. The unit can be evaluated from both a process and hydraulic viewpoint, thus establishing a base condition that would be useful in troubleshooting and planning future expansions.
