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Paresh Haribhakti
[[File:PUH office.jpg|alt=Paresh Haribhakti|thumb|Paresh HaribhaktiManaging Director,

TCR Advanced Engineering Pvt. Ltd. ]] A passionate metallurgist with over 30 years of proven expertise in transforming industrial plants through scientific solutions. As the Managing Director of TCR Advanced, Paresh Haribhakti leads a dynamic team comprising of nearly 150 brilliant minds providing material engineering and corrosion services to the chemical, oil & gas, power, fertilizer, and insurance communities.

Innovative mindset that approaches mechanical engineering issues with an understanding of materials and computer sciences. Paresh Haribhakti has developed an online cloud-based asset integrity management solution that allows plants to increase their turnaround window and increase productivity incorporating all principles of API 580/581 risk-based inspection guidelines.

Paresh Haribhakti has extensive experience consulting on a national and international basis in the areas of metallurgy/materials, corrosion, root cause failure analysis, RBI, mechanical integrity, and fitness-for-service.

Working with a variety of end-user companies, equipment manufacturers, and insurers, Paresh Haribhakti has conducted over 6500 root-cause failure analysis investigations including selection of materials, mechanical failures, ambient and elevated-temperature corrosion failures.

He has worked with a variety of end-user companies, equipment manufacturers, and insurers on root-cause failure analysis, inspection and testing, and specification and selection of metals, alloys, and paints and coatings. This work has included materials selection for corrosive environments and new design applications, problem solving, and investigating the fitness-for-service of in-service equipment and components.

As an innovator, Paresh has developed and patented robotic based NDT inspection tools for reformer tubes and IOT based metallographic replica solutions. He is currently working on Artificial Intelligence driven microstructure image interpretation and the next generation of the Microstructure Characterizer (MiC) software.

Paresh has presented more than ten papers and publications including being the author of the best-selling book, “Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach”; published by ASM International (USA). Well regarded as a subject matter expert, Paresh has been conferred with awards and appreciation for his contribution to the global QA/QC industry. Paresh is a board member of TCR Arabia (KSA) and advisory board member of a few startups.

= AREA OF EXPERTISE = ·    Asset Integrity Management

·    Root-Cause Failure Investigation

·    Fitness for Service

·    Remaining Life Assessment

·    Corrosion Prevention & Metallurgy

·    Boiler Tube/Pressure parts

= INNOVATIONS =

ASSET INTEGRITY OPTIMIZATION & MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Paresh lead a unique team that included fracture mechanic and corrosion damage mechanism experts along with brilliant software engineers to develop the “Asset Integrity Optimization & Management (AiOM)” tool that truly helps plants bring about transformational changes resulting in higher productivity and increased profits. The singular objective of the software solution is to eradicate all disasters in process industries and enhance the asset life with optimum cost reliably and safely.

The software solution integrates the knowledge of Damage Mechanisms, Advancement in Maintenance Practices and Critical Operating Parameters. Using Data Analysis, the software presents the Availability, Reliability, Total Downtime Hours, Total Maintenance Cost, Total Number of Failure in year, and more which are critical information to enhance the management of assets.

Effective usage of the AiOM tool helps the process industry achieve production targets efficiently and effectively.

ARTiS (Automated Reformer Tube Inspection System)
Indigenously developed an automated robotic crawler (named “ARTiS”) to aid ultrasonic inspection of reformer tubes. ARTiS simultaneously collects tube data including the ultrasonic dB level of attenuation, diameter of the tube and bowing angle at every location. The crawler presents its output in a digital format that allows NDT inspectors to quickly evaluate the tubes.

INSIPOL-2000
As a metallurgist, Paresh took upon it as a challenge to develop a tool that reduced human errors when undertaking the NDT task of in-situ metallographic replicas on metals and alloys. This resulted in creation of the INSIPOL-2000, a product that has now helped industries enhance their efficiency by reducing decision-making time while preparing large number of on-site microstructures.

Microstructure Characterizer (MiC) Software
Enhancing the usage of Artificial Intelligence coupled with the metallurgical strengths, Paresh lead a team that developed a powerful image processing software.

This software, used by several research labs across the world including National Oilwell Varco (USA) allows metallurgists to characterize different types of microstructural images for grain size, coating thickness & phases. Usage of this software has helped companies to solve their manufacturing, welding and in-service quantification of damage causing parameters.

= EVOLVE BY TCR = Creating the next generation of QA/QC professionals with a deep knowledge on Asset Integrity Management, Paresh is the principal expert at Evolve – a training school by TCR Advanced. At Evolve, Paresh along with other trainers and industrial experts train, mentor and guide the next leaders of the industrial inspection field.

= QUALIFICATION =

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda | Vadodara, 1991
Masters of Engineering - MEng, Metallurgical Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Metallurgical Engineering

= EXPERIENCE =

Managing Director | Business Partner
TCR ADVANCED ENGINEERING PVT. LTD.

1999 to Present

Acclaimed as a one-stop solution provider for plant related issues, TCR Advanced has worked with prestigious clients including Reliance, Saudi Aramco, Sabic, GE, Shell, QAFCO, QCHEM, KOC, Halliburton, OMIFCO, Godrej, Unilever, and more on many complex metallurgical challenges and Failure Analysis assignments.

Paresh was the lead consultant for Reliance Industries representing TCR in investigating the damages caused by the major fire incident in the refinery crude unit of the VGO-HT2 plant and assessed the metallurgical integrity of different components and equipment’s including Pipelines, Flanges, Heat Exchangers, Reactors.

TCR undertook the complete health assessment of an entire hydrogen plant for Godrej Industries which was relocated as a used unit from England to Valia in Gujarat, India.

Paresh led the team doing the fitness for service of isomerization reactor handling hydrogen in a refinery of an oil and gas major. Work was done as per API 579 ASME FFS1 guidelines and the ensuing work resulted in a direct cost saving of over 15 million US Dollars to the plant.

The expert of TCR comprising of TCR including metallurgists, corrosion research scientists, NDT level 3 and technicians, fracture mechanic evangelists, engineering design specialists and software engineers have worked on prestigious projects of national importance including the detailed study of the outershield of the nuclear reactor for the ITER project undertaken by the consortium of 8 countries headquartered in France.

The company is a key contributor to the “Make in India” vision of the government and works to the stringent guidelines of ISO 17025. Acclaimed as experts in Boiler RLA and tube failure investigations, the company has been recognized as a “Well-Known” Lab by the Indian Boiler Regulatory.

Paresh leadership skills has built an organization that is deeply committed to high moral and ethics while pushing performance improvement at each step. The company has been delivering growth every year since inception. Paresh works closely with the firm’s partners and provides advice, recommendations, and information to enable the firm to grow whilst maintaining its regulatory responsibilities. Paresh provides direct leadership to the managers of the finance, HR, business development and IT departments.

Sr Research Engineer
GUJARAT STATE FERTILIZER & CHEMICALS LTD. 1990 to 1999

Troubleshooting Metallurgist, Failure Investigation and Remaining Life Assessment

= NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS = ·      Helped solve marine corrosion along with underwater and metallic structures in the humid environment such as seashores, dams, bridges & components of sea transport.

·      Metallurgical Damage assessment- provided consultancy at Asia’s largest grass root refinery, RIL Jamnagar, India for damage assessment work during fire incident in VGOHT2 Plant.

·      Health assessment of entire Hydrogen plant for Godrej Industries limited Valia, Gujarat. Remaining life assessments of Power and Utility Boilers of Hindustan Lever Limited.

·      Provided repair weld solution on used Incoloy 800H Header of Ammonia Plant of Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited- India’s largest Fertilizers and Petrochemical complex.

·      RLA/failure investigation and condition assessment jobs for high pressure high temperature components including advise on repairing and on site decisions for the world’s largest integrated fertilizer plant at QAFCO, Qatar

·      RO plant corrosion problem investigation. Investigation of inlet flange of furnace reactor. RLA of furnace tubes based on Omega method of API 579         specification for Saudi Aramco, KSA

·      Failure investigation, RLA and FFS jobs for high pressure high temperature components for SABIC, KSA

·      Fertilizers plant components including reactor out lines, gasket failures and reformer tube failure investigation at OMIFCO, Oman

·      Life assessment of reformer tubes with ARTiS at Pemex, Mexico

·      Failure investigation of ammonia storage tank, life assessment of reformer tubes with ARTiS at Natore, Nigeria

·      Consultancy to provide weld procedure to meet with stinger quality test requirements of Snamprogetti specification for Urea Plant for a fabricator

·      Crevice Corrosion & Electrochemical Study for ITER- India

·      Material selection for Corrosion service at Solvay

·      RLA Study at Reliance Patalganga plant

·      Fitness for service - Isomerization reactor of refinery Fitness for service – VGO reactor and exchanger

·      Damage assessment of hydrocrack reactors of Baiji Refinery, Iraq

·       Metallurgical input for health assessment to procure second hand equipment from Taiwan for Gujarat Flurochemicals Ltd.

·      Remaining life assessment for a package Boiler for Bangladesh Lever Limited

·      Conducted NDT for The ball mill assessment at Kuwait Cement company, Kuwait

·      Conducted On-site evaluation Shell Gas terminal Sri Lanka

= TECHNICAL PAPERS = ·      12th National Conference on Boiler & Steam Systems – 2019

·      Two Day symposium on Corrosion & its Control, SCES - 2018

·      Non-Destructive Testing - 2018

·      Society of Metallurgical Engineering (SME) - 2017

·      SABIC STM 12 organized by SABIC - 2016

·      HADEED Reliability Campaign, SABIC, KSA - 2016

·      Saudi Aramco: Corrosion Awareness Day - 2014

·      Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) - 2013

·      1st NACE - Jubail Industrial Forum - 2011

·      NACE West Africa (Africa Region), Dhahran - 2010

·      American Society of Metals: Heat Treat Show - 2010

·      Saudi Aramco GO Inspection & Corrosion Forum - 2010

·      13th Middle East Corrosion Conference by NACE – 2010

·      5th Middle East NDT Conference by ASNT - 2009

·      6th International Conference by MICMEP - 2009

·      Inspection Technical Meeting by Saudi Aramco - 2008

·      4th Middle East Conference by ASNT - 2007

= APPRECIATION & AWARDS = '''Indian Institute of Metals (Baroda Chapter) confers the IIM-KK Award in recognition of outstanding, selfless & meritorious contribution towards Professional field in particular and Metallurgical society in general, in the state of Gujarat. (2016)'''

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at 4th Middle East Conference by Saudi Arabian Section of ASNT (2007)

·     Recognition of Active Participation at Inspection Technical Exchange Meeting & Exhibition by Saudi Aramco, Inspection Department (2008)

·     Appreciation from 5th Middle East NDT Conference by Saudi Arabian Section of ASNT for Active Participation as an invited speaker (2009)

·     Recognition of Participation as an invited speaker at 6th International Conference by MICMEP (2009)

·     Appreciation from ‘NACE West Africa (Africa Region), Dhahran (Saudi Arabia section) & Bahrain society for engineers’ for presenting a technical paper at the 13th Middle East Corrosion Conference & Exhibition (February 14th – 17th 2010)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at International conference & exhibition by American Society of Metals (Heat treat show in 2010)

·     Appreciation from 13th Middle East Corrosion Conference by NACE, Middle East Section for Active Participation as an invited speaker (2010)

·     Appreciation from Saudi Aramco GO Inspection & Corrosion Forum, Shedgum Gas Plant for Active Participation as an invited speaker (2010)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at 1st NACE – Jubail Industrial Forum organized by NACE – Jubail KSA Section (2011)

·     Recognition of Joint partnership with Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) for delivering an advance workshop on Remaining Life Assessment of Power & Progress Boilers (December 13th – 14th  2013) Awarded for valuable participation at Saudi Aramco: Corrosion Awareness Day (June 5th 2014) Appreciation from American Society of Metals as author during International Conference on Material Testing and Characterization (December 4th - 6th  2014)

·     Appreciation from Jeddah Refinery for a valuable presentation on “Fitness For Service” (2015)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at SABIC STM 12 organized by SABIC (2016) Appreciation from HADEED, SABIC, KSA for active participation in Reliability Campaign (2016)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at M.S. University (Baroda) for Meta-Fiesta organized by Society of Metallurgical Engineering (SME) (March 30th 2017)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (September 1st 2018)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at “Two Day symposium on Corrosion & Its Control, SCES 2018” organized by Society of Metallurgical Engineering at M.S. University Baroda (October 3rd & 4th 2018)

·     Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at 12th National Conference on Boiler & Steam Systems (SteamTech 2019)

= TRAINING'S IMPARTED = ·      Risk Based Inspection (RBI) in process, petrochemical, Oil & Gas Plants

·      Heat Exchanger: inspection, condition assessment, Fitness For Service & Failure Investigation

·      Hydrogen Damage for Industries (Asset Integrity and Damage Mechanism)

·      REAC – Reactor Effluent Air Cooler: Damage Mechanisms, corrosion, FFS & Inspection

·      Pressure Vessel Mechanical Design as per ASME PV Codes

·      Failure Prevention, Repairs and Life enhancement of piping, vessels, and tanks

·      Reformer Tube: Damage mechanisms, failure investigation, inspection and RLA Boiler Tube Failure Interface between Operations & Maintenance

·      Damage Mechanisms and life Management of Gas Turbine components Damage Mechanisms, inspection and RLA of steam turbine components T-91/P-    91 High pressure welding technology

·      Low temperature service: Concepts on metal properties, manufacturing & testing

·      Damage Mechanisms for static equipment for refineries and process industries

·      Hydrogen Damage for Industries (Asset Integrity and Damage Mechanism) High Temperature Degradation of industrial component

·      Distillation operation, control & troubleshooting

·      Fitness for Service of Equipment and Piping per API 579 and ASME FFS1

·      Evolving approach to side operation and maintenance on substation equipment & advance monitoring system

·      Basics of Metallurgy for engineers Metallography for Engineers

·      Welding Metallurgy for engineers

·      Localized Corrosion in Stainless Steel

·       Corrosion Control Management – Engineering Approach Intergranular corrosion of austenitic stainless steel

= PUBLICATION'S = ·      Book on “Failure Investigation of Boiler Tube - A comprehensive approach” 2019 | American Society of Metals

·      Article on “Optimizing Tube Life” 2019 | World Fertilizer Magazine

·      Published article on “Knowledge Based Life Management of Boilers” 2018 | SteamTech-2018

·      Paper given on “Preventive Approach for Failure Free Boilers” 2016 | SteamTech-2016

·      Presentation and Paper on “An Integrated Approach for RLA of Reformer Tubes by NDT (ARTis)”  2014 | APCNDT 2013 Session: NDT for Life Assessment

·      Paper on “Boiler Tube Failure, Root Cause Investigation & Mitigation: Case Studies” 2014 | SteamTech-2014

·      Paper on “Corrosion Failures in Water-Wall Tubes” 2014 | Corcon-2014

·      Paper on “Material Testing and Characterization” 2014 | American Society of Metals

·      Paper on “Fitness For Service: Using NDT & Inspection” 2013 | 14th Asia Pacific Conference on NDT

·      Paper on “In-situ Metallography for the Plant Health Assessment study and Failure Investigation” 2008 | MENDT-2007

·     Technical Paper titled “Fitness for Service: Using NDT and Inspection” by Paresh Haribhakti, Katan Upadhyaya, Jaidev Patel & V.K. Bafna presented at the   14th Asia Pacific conference on NDT (2013)