Shri Sunil Vinayak Pevekar has been appointed on 9th August 2024, as Chief Operating Officer (Down Stream) of Talcher Fertilizer Limited. (TFL)

He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Mumbai. He has started his career as a Management Trainee (Mechanical) on November 1991 at Rashtriya Chemical and Fertilizers (RCF) Limited, Thal Unit.

He has 33 Years of diverse experience in Mechanical maintenance departments of Suphala Plant, Steam Generation Plant / Yard Piping, Ammonia I Plant, Maintenance Engineering Services department and Urea /ABC Plant during his tenure at Thal and Trombay unit.

He was involved in following activities while working in various Plants at Thal & Trombay unit.

• Planning and execution of day to day, preventive and shutdown maintenance jobs
• Planning of preventive maintenance jobs, based on the check list & reports from CMC / NDT Cell.
• Ensuring the availability of critical equipment spares, Contract agency for day to day and Shut down maintenance jobs.
• Following the Safety procedures and ensuring safe execution of maintenance jobs.
• Ensuring no tripping of Plant due to failure of mechanical equipment.
• Initiating and implementing the Improvement, Capital budget, Improvement & Energy conservation jobs in the Plant.
• Identification of areas of concern, analyzing the problems in Plant & taking necessary action.

He has successfully carried out following technical modifications and energy conservation measures at Trombay Unit:

Steam Generation Plant:

• • Reduction in Oxygen in flue gas from 4.5% to 2.3% by modification of linkage mechanism of Vane Controller assembly of ID/FD fans of Boiler no.1,2 &3
  • Replacement of nine stage BFW Pump by eight stage BFW Pump of KSB make in Boiler no.1 & 2
  • Overhauling of 1 no. of (spare) Reduction gear box (M/s FALK USA make) for Air Preheater

Urea Plant:

• Hook up and commissioning of various Static and Rotating equipment’s which were installed under Casale revamp Project in Urea Plant. Achieved specific energy consumption of 5.9 MKcal /MT against 6.5 MKcal/MT.
• Replacement of a kettle type Carbamate Condenser (E 604 A).
• Procurement of a Stripper having Bimetallic Tubes from M/s L&T Hazira & successful replacement in March 2023.
• Procurement, installation and commissioning of 2 nos. of Burckhardt make Air Compressors and motors for supply of Passivation air to new Bimetallic Stripper.
• Procurement of a new Carbamate Condenser and Carbamate Ejector assembly.
• Replacement of FRP blades by Energy efficient blade Assembly of 2 nos. of Cooling Tower fans in Urea Plant.