Week 5 in HLL

This week was another busy one for me. It started with the completion of the interim report, which in itself was quite a task. Now I had to start concentrating on the two projects along with the third one, which was the implementation, in some ways of the first one. So on Saturday I had a review meeting with my guide, to whom I had to show the entire conveying system and the places where re-routing would be required. I spent the afternoon with him and by the end of it, he seemed satisfied with my explanations. On Monday, I learned the lessons that only an actual industry can teach you, and that is breakdown. We had a total breakdown of the DG set in the factory, and since it was summers, when not much electricity is available form the government’s side, the factory came to a standstill for about 3-4 hours, resulting in a loss of production. Although there were indications throughout the week with frequent cuts that something is wrong, this is where the worst became true. On initial inspections, it was found that the power factor had increased due to high consumption and the wires were not adequately designed to take that much amount of load and coupled with the 50 degree C temperature on Monday, the got burnt. The GM of the region was called for consultation, and he suggested some changes n the system, along with more maintenance, which would make the thing work. Then I moved on to the second project, in which I made the design analysis, which consisted of the details of the various instruments that were to be used in the system, along with the various logics that were to be followed. Then I made the logic statements for the same, which would in fact determine the entire system, an example of such statement that I made was
For the Final Solution (from E3)- If (Temperature Indicator= (Bandwidth Required)) & (Pressure Indicator= (Bandwidth required)) Then (Discharge (for further Processing)= Open) & (Discharge (To Feed Tank)= Close) Else (Discharge (for further Processing)= Close) & (Discharge (To Feed Tank)= Open)

After that, I got the descaling of the heat exchanger done, which is quite an important process as far as heat exchangers and their use in the industry goes, esp. in Orai, they use cooling tower’s water in the heat exchangers which results in scales being formed on the shell side where water is operating. So the descaling is done in which the descaling tank with the chemical dissolved in water is attached to the heat exchanger and then pumped through it for around 4-5 hrs which results in all the scales getting dissolved, this resulted in bringing down the air temperature in the system by around 3.5 degree C. then I also learned another key aspect of the industry and that is budgeting where I at with the two officers with who I have had interactions and helped them and learned how budgeting is done for various quantities required, and how they are classified as “urgent�, medium and less priority actions.
Along with this I also had another interaction with my tutor who has told me prepare a project report on the entire conveying system with the bottlenecks and the suggestions required for improvements.