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Irfan Ali Khan

Irfan Ali Khan

COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT OPERATIONS
Gulshan, Karachi

Summary

Looking to work in a reputable power plant with a diverse working experience in operations and commissioning of power plants.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Deputy General Manager Operations

248 MW CCPP Korangi Creek
Karachi
12.2011 - Current
  • Responsible for overall safe, reliable, and efficient operations of plant
  • Responsible to Manage the Plant Operations as per the country power regulator NEPRA.
  • Responsible for implementation and continual improvement in PTW system for safe execution of maintenance activities at the plant
  • Responsible for Integrated Management System [ISO-9001, ISO-14001, ISO-45001] implementation at plant
  • Responsible for all plant employees training on PTW system
  • Responsible for classroom and on job technical training of the operations employees
  • Responsible for timely hiring of new manpower resource and there training to fulfill the posts vacated due to staff iteration
  • Responsible to conduct regular Audits of PTW, Quality, Safety and Housekeeping
  • Conducting root cause analyses of plant recurring defects
  • Preparation of incident reports in case of any process or personal safety related incident
  • Preparation of Reliability Incident Reports for all plant generating units or complex tripping events and implementation of the recommendations to prevent reoccurrence
  • Responsible to prepare standard operating procedures for different plant equipment
  • Responsible to ensure the quality of diesel used as per the Specs provided by GE
  • Quality assurance is being done from the storage facility of suppliers to the last chance filter at the GT liquid fuel system inlet
  • Responsible to manage safe and efficient HSD tankers decanting through operations team
  • Responsible for effective utilization of SAP for plant Maintenance Management system
  • Responsible to manage the chemical department and to ensure that HRSG, STG and RO chemistry is maintained at desirable level all the time.
  • Team member of the team for the implementation of PSM at CCPP.
  • Team member of the team for process optimization working for KE Generation processes.
  • Responsible for staff training and Quality initiatives like 5S, KIEZEN etc. implementation at CCPP.
  • Team Lead for the HAZOP & LOPA study being conducted for CCPP with third party SGS.
  • Responsible to prepare PPA (Power Purchase Agrement) for CCPP with KE Load Dispatch Center.


Shift Manager

MW CCPP Korangi Creek Karachi
12.2007 - 12.2011
  • Safe and reliable operation of GE LM6000PC Sprint, Steam Turbine including auxiliaries’ system attached to run the complex
  • Providing necessary training to the plant operators to ensure that they have adequate knowledge to carry of respective roles
  • Implementations of safety work permit LOTO to achieve safety while working on plant or equipment
  • Operation of Natural Gas Compressors (Capacity 26000Nm3/hr, Discharge pressure 46Bar)
  • Operation of 220KV (HV), MV & LV switch gear with the coordination of KESC LDC (Load Dispatch Center)
  • Reliable Operation of Reverse Osmosis plant
  • Operation of Chiller System for Gas turbine intake Air
  • Plant operations through Distributed Control System (DCS)
  • Preparation of standard operating procedures for different plant equipment
  • Planning plant Outages in coordination with maintenance sections
  • Preparing plant forced outage reports
  • Conducting root cause analyses of plant recurring defects.

Assistant Manager

Korangi Thermal Power Station
Karachi
11.1999 - 12.2007
  • Configuration is 125 MW Hitachi TCDF Steam Turbine (02), 66 MW GE Steam Turbines (02)
  • Responsibilities:
  • Water tube Boiler (900,000lb/hr) Natural gas/ Furnace oil fired Start up, Shut down, Normal & Emergency operation
  • Tandem Compound double flow reheat condensing turbine Start up, Shut down, Normal & Emergency operation
  • Operation of important Auxiliaries like Boiler feed pumps, CW pumps, Condensate pumps, FD fans GR fans, Air compressors etc.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

NED University of Engineering And Technology
Karachi, Pakistan
08.1994 - 09.1999

Higher Secondary Certificate - Engineering (Pre-Engineering)

Board of Intermediate Education
Karachi, Pakistan
08.1992 - 08.1994

Skills

Combined Cycle Power Plant Operations

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Accomplishments

  • Commissioning of 220MW CCPP, Configuration is 48.5 MW GE Aero-derivative LM6000 PC Turbines (04), 26 MW GE Steam Turbine (01) as a shift manager
  • Implementation of PTW system, SAP WCM, and ISO certifications first in K-Electric
  • Commissioning of CCPP Extension project [Addition of HRSG and STG at Block-1, GT1 /2]
  • Rehabilitation and commissioning of Liquid fuel system, including diesel tanks, pipelines, pumps, centrifuges, filtration system and GTs commissioning on liquid fuel
  • Designing, construction, commissioning and successful operation of the diesel tankers decanting facility
  • Commissioning of islanding and black start facility, first power plant in K Electric fleet.

Affiliations

KV, MV & LV switch gear operation. Demineralizer plant operation Member of firefighting Team.

Timeline

Deputy General Manager Operations

248 MW CCPP Korangi Creek
12.2011 - Current

Shift Manager

MW CCPP Korangi Creek Karachi
12.2007 - 12.2011

Assistant Manager

Korangi Thermal Power Station
11.1999 - 12.2007

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

NED University of Engineering And Technology
08.1994 - 09.1999

Higher Secondary Certificate - Engineering (Pre-Engineering)

Board of Intermediate Education
08.1992 - 08.1994
Irfan Ali KhanCOMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT OPERATIONS