Syed Zain Ali

Mechanical Engineer (Static Equipment Design)

Email:SyedZainAli7901@gmail.com
Cell No: +966-58-3027747 (KSA),
+92-321-5240275 (PAK).

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A proactive and self-driven professional mechanical engineer with the ability to lead multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, having 6+ years experience of design, engineering,
procurement, construction, pre commissioning and commissioning of static and rotary
equipment in both greenfield and brownfield environment.

EXPERTISE

Static Equipment Design as per codes and standards.

Piping Stress Analysis.
Structural Stress Analysis.
Finite Element Analysis.
Project Management.
Drawing development on AutoCAD and part development in Autodesk Inventor.
Construction, Pre Commissioning, Commissioning and Installation of Equipment.
Cost Estimation for the Engineering Procurement and Installation of Equipment.
Non Destructive Examination.
Construction and Installation of Mechanical Equipment.
Commissioning and pre commissioning of Mechanical Equipment.

TOTAL EXPERIENCE:
1. SIPCHEM Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

(6+ Years)
(from June 2015 to date)

DESIGNATION: Mechanical Engineer (Design).

RESPONSIBILITIES:
As an effective team player in Project and Engineering Services (P&ES) department I am working as
Mechanical Engineer mainly dealing with preliminary and detail design, engineering, procurement,
construction and installation for new and existing static and rotary equipment. Development of ITBs,
FEED documents, preliminary design to invite vendors to provide engineering design and fabrication
for the equipment to be purchased, technical evaluation of bids, Review of engineering design
documents and drawings in both FEED and DETAIL Engineering phases and ensuring that vendor must
comply companys obligatory engineering standards, and applied codes.

PROJECTS COMPLETED:
Successfully completed EPCC of following projects in SIPCHEM.
IMC November Turnaround 2015.
Major turnaround has been started in the Nov 2015 in Methanol unit SIPCHEM to replace 10 static
equipment (Boilers, Pressure vessels and Heat Exchangers) with new equipment having improved
metallurgy, scope of this project under the domain of Mechanical Engineer covers scope study,

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preparation of ITB, development of preliminary design calculation for FEED stage. Reviewing of design
calculations for their concurrence with ASME codes and SIPCHEM Standards, checking of GA and detail
drawings and approving vendor documents for fabrication and transportation of equipment. Plant
commissioning has already been started in early Dec 2015.
Replacement of Salt Cooler in IDC plant (Diol plant-SIPCHEM affiliate).
Replacement of NG Preheater in IGC plant (Gases Plant-SIPCHEM affiliate).
Replacement of Net Gas Bottom Scrubber in IDC plant (Diol plant- SIPCHEM affiliate).
Replacement of Water Removal Column Condenser in IAC plant (Acetyl plant- SIPCHEM affiliate).
Engineering, Design, Construction and Installation of Carbonylation Reactor columns in IAC plant
(Acetyl plant SIPCHEM affiliate).
FEED for the addition of Knock out skid at the inlet of propylene compressor for the removal of
vapor at the inlet of compressor in IPC plant (Polymers plant SIPCHEM affiliate).
IAC (International Acetyl Company) Turnaround Feb-March 2016.
IGC (Gases-SIPCHEM Affiliate) Turnaround March 2016.

2. DESCON ENGINEERING LIMITED

(June 2011 to June 2015.)

DESIGNATION: Design Engineer.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Worked as Design Engineer in Process Equipment Department of Lahore and Sharjah UAE business
areas of Descon to prepare mechanical design calculations, preparing CAD drawings and reviewing
design documents for pressure vessels, Heat Exchangers and Storage Tanks as per codes and
standards for both international and national clients dealing both FEED and DETAIL engineering
phases, developed calculations for the components having different design philosophies besides
codes and standards using good engineering practices, mechanical design methodologies like FEA etc.
Had an experience of designing more than 150 pressure equipment for both indigenous and
International clients for both green and brown field projects.

PROJECTS HANDLED:
Working as a design engineer I have successfully completed following list of detail design
projects with mentioned clients and EPC contractors.

Supply of Qty. 02 Nos. of U-stamped Wet Gas Filters for ENGRO PAKISTAN.
Distillation Column, 4th Inter-stage Knockout Vessel for CO2 Compressor and
Vertical Slug Catcher certified as per ASME Section VIII Div. 1 for FFC PAKISTAN.
Designed 14 Nos. of Pressure vessels for project Makori Field Development Surface
Facilities for MOL GAS & CO. BV PAKISTAN.
Supply of 3 Nos. of Pressure vessel for the project Makori East-III, Manzalai-10
Development Project for MOL GAS & CO. BV PAKISTAN.
Mechanical design/drafting of 24 Nos. of ASME stamped pressure vessels and 02 air cooled
heat exchangers (ACHEs) as per ASME section VIII division 1 for the five different wellhead
up gradation projects for OMV PAKISTAN.
Supply of 02 Nos. of ASME certified, API 660 & TEMA complied AES type Shell and tube heat
exchangers for FATIMA FERTILIZERS PAKISTAN.
Mechanical design of 03 Nos. of U-stamped, NACE MR 0175 complied high pressure
contained vessels for MPCL (MARI PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED), PAKISTAN.
Design / drafting & cad development and checking for the 10 Nos. of Pressure columns and
Qty. 52 Nos. of Pressure vessels stamped as per ASME Section VIII division 1 and division 2

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for ARL UP GRADATION PROJECT 2013 in the collaboration with HYUNDAI

ENGINEERING CO. LTD. Korea for ARL (ATTOCK REFINERY LTD.) PAKISTAN.
Qty. 16 Nos. of pressure vessels, 04 Nos. of process columns and 10 Nos. of shell and
tube heat exchangers as per ASME section VIII, API 660 and TEMA standards for PAKISTAN
REFINERY LIMITED (PRL ISOMERAZATION PROJECT) in collaboration with UOP
AMERICA AS AN EPC FOR PRL (PAKISTAN REFINARY LIMITED), PAKISTAN.
03 Nos. of pressure vessels designed as per ASME Section VIII (Div. 1) for FLOW
ASSURANCE PROJECT, with CHIYODA ALMANA QATAR as an EPC contractor and RAS
GAS as client.
Supply of 08 Nos. of pressure vessels, 17 Nos. of S&T heat exchangers and 02 Nos. of
double pipe heat exchangers designed as per ASME section VIII Division 1, TEMA, API 660
and Borouge documents as preferred standards for design and fabrication with DEST
(Formally DIPL) as EPC Contractor for project BOROUGE PO FLARE GAS RECOVERY
PROJECT of ABU DHABI POLYMERS COMPANY LIMITED (BOROUGE), RAWAIS UAE
as client.
Mechanical design of 12 Nos. of ASME U stamped pressure vessels for ADMA UAE with
NPCC-TECHNIP Consortium as EPC contractor for their project of UMM LULU PHASE II
FULL FIELD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PACKAGE 2 in UAE.
Supply of design and detail engineering of 20 Nos. of U-stamped pressure vessels as
Filters and Scrubbers, with process engineering done by FRAMES PROCESS SYSTEMS
INTERNATIONS B.V., TECHNIP NPCC CONSORTIUM AS EPC CONTRACTOR AND ADMA
as client for the project of UMM LULU PHASE II FULL FIELD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
PACKAGE 2.
Mechanical design and fabrication of 01 Nos. of pressure vessel for OMW Pakistan as per
ASME Section VIII Division 2 this vessels is U2- Stamped and all requirements of division
II has already been met specially the requirement of fatigue screening and nozzles are
checked with fatigue analysis method using NOZZLE-PRO as FEA software.

3. Colgate

Palmolive

Pakistan

Limited

(July

2010

To

June

2011)

DESIGNATION: Trainee Engineer (Operation and Maintenance).

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Worked there as a Trainee (Static and Rotary Equipment Maintenance Engineer). In SULPHUREX Plant
in Detergent Unit of Colgate Palmolive Pakistan with several duties like scheduling shutdowns for
maintenance, planning maintenance during power breakdown, hands on experience of maintenance
and cleaning of pumps, motors, piping, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, ECPs, and furnaces, etc.

QUALIFICATION:
B.E MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (GPA 3.05/4.00).
(2006 -2009).

MUET

JAMSHORO

PAKISTAN

PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS
Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)

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SOFTWARE CAPABILITES
Having hands on command on following computer software.
COMPRESS / PV ELITE (for Static Equipment Design)
AutoPIPE (for Piping Stress Analysis)
STAAD Pro (for Structural Analysis)
Ansys (for Finite Element Analysis)
AutoCAD (Drawing development)
Autodesk Inventor (for part 3D modeling and assembly)
Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and word.
Adobe Acrobat.
REFERENCE: References will be furnished if required.

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