Can nuclear power plant methodologies help improve hydrocarbon processing reliability?—Part 1

Shiraz Pradhan is a mechanical engineer with extensive experience in high- and low-speed machinery and associated systems’ designs. He has worked in the steel, oil and gas, and petrochemicals industries and has been involved in several petrochemical mega-projects for ExxonMobil in the US, the Far East and the Middle East (joint ventures). With his experience in engineering designs, machinery maintenance and life extension, and failure avoidance, he has developed specialization in risk and reliability engineering and simulations of large, integrated, industrial complexes with demonstrable and significant improvements in uptime and failure and cost reductions. Mr. Pradhan has one patent, has authored several technical papers and has contributed engineering texts for well-known authors. He earned a B.Sc. degree from the University of East Africa and an MS degree from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Ali Abdelkhaliq Zamora is a Project Engineer for Tecnicas Reunidas and has worked on several mega-projects for clients that include ExxonMobil of USA, BP of Spain, and SADAF/SABIC and ARAMCO of Saudi Arabia. He has extensive experience working on energy, petrochemicals and oil and gas projects focusing on project management, including the mechanical design, installation and startup of critical machinery and associated systems. Mr. Zamora also acts as project advisor for mechanical model reviews for maintenance/reliability optimization of critical machinery and associated systems and static equipment. With his extensive experience with critical machinery, he provides valuable input to HAZOP studies, as well. He earned an MSc degree in process systems engineering from Cranfield University in the UK and a BSc degree in mechanical engineering from the American University in Cairo, Egypt.