About

Pritam Awati is a Chemical Engineer with over 5 years of experience in the Process and Commissioning Engineering field. He has expertise in commissioning and process engineering, having worked on various projects such as distillation columns, multiple effect evaporator plants, reactors with columns, and ATFD. Pritam has also been involved in the erection of multiple effect evaporator plants. He has extensive knowledge of BFD, PFD, UFD, and P&ID, as well as valves and their applications. Pritam is familiar with relevant standards and codes used in the chemical and process industry, including API, ASME, IS, TEMA, IBR, GPSA, and more. He is skilled in line sizing, liquid, steam, and compressible fluid line sizing pressure drop calculations, and hydraulics line sizing by hand calculations and on software PSV inlet and outlet line sizing. Pritam has experience in pump calculations, sizing, and datasheets, including centrifugal pumps and positive displacement pumps, pump characteristic curves, affinity laws, NPSH available, differential head, process datasheet, cavitation problem in pumps, and troubleshooting. Pritam has worked on storage tanks and agitators, selection of storage tanks calculations, and preparation of process datasheets. He has experience in air moisture separator process datasheet and calculations as per GPSA and breather valves (pressure vacuum relief valve) in-breathing and out-breathing flow rates calculations venting requirements as per API 2000, process datasheets. Pritam is skilled in control valves (pneumatic valves), pressure safety valves (PSV & PRV) & rupture disk (RD) datasheet and calculations, types of PSV, PSV location, relief events, pressure relieving events, pressure setting criteria, external fire case, control valve open 100% case, thermal expansion, closed block out, tube rupture case, in-advertent power failure case, etc. PSV sizing and calculations on software. He has experience in cooling tower, distillation, steam ejector, flame arrestor, static mixer, de-superheater, and mass-enthalpy balance calculations. Pritam is familiar with special piping material datasheets item, including filters, strainers, steam traps, sight glass, and flexible hoses. He also has knowledge of utilities, preparation of utility summary list and calculations, heat exchangers design, and heat transfer operations. Prit