The new normal in petrochemical revamp projects

Jagdish Prajapati is a Lead Systems Engineer for Linde Engineering North America. He received a Bch degree in chemical engineering from South Gujarat University and an MS degree from Dharmsinh Desai University. He began his career as a process engineer at Larson & Toubro-Chiyoda in Vadodara, India. In 2010, he joined the petrochemical group at Linde Engineering India and led several projects on conceptual process design and systems engineering. In 2014, he joined Linde Engineering North America and is responsible for the process systems engineering in petrochemical plants for cracking furnaces, cracker recovery section and polypropylene plants. Mr. Prajapati is a licensed professional engineer in Alberta, Canada. He is also working as a proposal manager and engineering manager for olefin recovery plants and hydrogen and synthesis plants.

Chetan Sheth is the Vice President and Unit Head-Engineering for Linde Engineering India. He has more than 25 yr of professional experience in petrochemicals, gas processing, refining, oil and gas, and fertilizer projects in leading multi-national EPC companies in the areas of plant layout and piping design, and project and engineering management. He manages engineering unit activities for local EPC projects and global work share projects with various Linde engineering entities around the world.

Nilesh Mangukia is Head of Process Engineering, Process and Environmental Safety and Sales Engineering at Linde Engineering India. He has more than 25 yr of experience, including concept development, process and safety design, and basic and detailed engineering, pre-commissioning and commissioning of hydrogen and synthesis gas plants, ammonia plants, PSA units, air separation, acid gas, sulfur recovery, cryogenic gas units, etc.