Sudeshna Chakrabarti has over 20 years of experience in thermal equipment engineering for process industries. She has led engineering projects as project manager, overseeing external interfaces, stakeholders, clients, consultants, suppliers and internal teams. Currently she is Head of Thermal Systems at L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, where she has mentored younger engineers and helped streamline quality systems. Her objective is a middle management position providing process and design solutions to the chemical/petrochemical industry, utilizing her technical and project management skills.

1. S U D E S H N A C H A K R A B A R T I
S K I L L S
Over twenty years of experience in field of Thermal
equipment in Process Industries. Basic and detail
engineering of Fired Heaters, Reformers and Cracking
Furnaces, Heat Exchangers, Air cooled Exchangers and
Waste Heat Boilers.
Mentored young engineers and developed excellent
relationships with Clients, Project management Consultants
and sub vendors related to Projects handled. To sum up my
skills will be the Technical acumen, managing external and
internal stakeholders for projects and hands on experience
of executed Projects as well as resource handling.
O B J E C T I V E
Middle management position with high
level of client interface in a Consultancy
/ Design company, preferably
specializing in providing process &
design solutions to the Chemical Process
Industry or Fired equipment design and
engineering.
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E X P E R I E N C E
DGM and Head of Thermal Systems discipline |
Engineering Services, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering | 01-
09-2003 - to date
 Joined as Senior Engineer in 2003
 Became Head of Discipline in 2014
Key Responsibilities
 Business development in area of operation
 Mentoring and developing discipline members for gap
area
 Streamlining quality systems in the discipline to ensure
error free engineering
 Diversifying to newer areas to ensure workflow
 Engineering management of Fired equipment projects
Recent Key Projects handled
Fired Heaters of NHT to ISOM conversion Project,
BPCL – Mumbai, India
Activities undertaken as Engineering manager for this
three heater project,
• Overall co-ordination between L&T and Client BPCL
& PMC EIL
• Review and approval of various vendor documents.
• Procurement support activities.
• Deliberation with Project management Consultant
and client for clearance of different engineering
documents, resolution to site queries during
construction stage.
Fired Heaters of Aromatic Reforming Complex,
OMPL, Mangalore,
Activities undertaken as Engineering manager for this
seven heater project,
• Overall co-ordination between PMC, L&T LSTK group
and Heater suppliers
• Review and approval of various vendor documents.
L E A D E R S H I P
 Steered Projects as Project
Engineering manager- managing
multiple interface points, external
and internal stake holders, Client,
PMC, suppliers and internal
workforce.
 Managing group consisting of
managers, Engineer and drafting
workforce

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• Procurement support activities.
• Deliberation with Project management Consultant
and client for clearance of different engineering
documents, resolution to site queries during
construction stage.
Fired Heaters of Lube Oil Base Stock project, HPCL,
Mumbai.
Activities undertaken as a lead engineer for this three
heater project,
• Thermal design
• Detail engineering and activities. Job involved
preparation and updation of P&IDs, process instrument
datasheets, logic documents
• Procurement support activities. Job involved
preparation of requisition for vendor offers for
different items, evaluation of vendor offers and vendor
finalization, post order document approvals
• Deliberation with Project management Consultant
and client for clearance of different engineering
documents, resolution to site queries during
construction stage.
IOCL Panipat Naphtha cracker project for
Grassroots 800 kTPA Ethylene Plant
Activities undertaken as a lead engineer for this seven
cracking furnace assembly project,
• Design evaluation and procurement of all thermal
equipment. These included Burners, Radiant coils,
Refractory and Insulations
• Detail engineering activities like updation of concept
P&IDs available from licensor, preparation of process
datasheets and coordination with internal Engineering
disciplines for effective implementation of the project.
Fired heaters for 225 TMT Motor Spirit Project,
Numaligarh Refinery, Assam
Responsibilities handled were,
• Engineering co-ordination across functions for quality
delivery in scheduled timeframe.
• Evaluation & finalization of Thermal design of the
heaters.
 Vendor engineering

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-commissioning assistance for CPCL, Ref III - NHT
& CRU fired heaters, IOCL-Mathura, MSQ Project – NHT
& TGT fired heaters.
Senior Engineer | Engineers India Limited | 1997 -2003
Key Responsibilities
 Learning of design methodologies of Heat transfer
equipment
 Pinch analysis of Heat exchangers
 Hands on experience of working with packages of HTRI
etc.
Important Projects was part of
Thermal DeNOx for Fired Heaters
Thermal DeNOx process is a selective non-catalytic reaction,
which injects a mixture of ammonia, hydrogen and LP steam as
carrier medium into the heater flue gas at appropriate
temperature. This reduces the NOx emission level in
atmosphere through stack.
Detail engineering of this process involves
 Optimization using design software
packages developed by Process Licensor,
 PFD and P&ID, Instrument and Equipment
Datasheets
 Preparation of Operating Manual.
Clients:
 Thermal DeNOx for heaters of Refinery
Modernization Project, BPCL
 Thermal DeNOx for heaters of Refinery III
Project, CPCL
Other assignments in EIL
 Heat Exchangers & Air coolers for Refinery
Modernization Project , BPCL
 Heat Exchangers, Waste Heat Boiler & Air coolers for
Refinery III Project , CPCL
 Heat Exchangers & Air coolers for Eastern India
Refinery Project , IOCL

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 Heat Exchangers & Air coolers for Panipat Refinery
Expansion Project , IOCL
 Heat Exchangers for Sulphur Recovery Unit Revamp,
IOCL (Haldia).
 Heat Exchangers for LPG Extraction Unit, CRL.
 Pinch analysis of Crude Preheat Train:
 IOCL - Mathura, AVU Revamp.
 Eastern India Refinery Project, Paradip.
 Refinery Modernization Project, BPCL.
 Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Ltd., HPCL.
Joined as PGET at L&T in 1995. Worked in Thermal
engineering group till 1997 – mainly for Waste heat
recovery systems in Cement, Process and Power plants.
E D U C A T I O N
M.E. | 1995 | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
CGPA 6.8 / 8.0
B.E. | 1993 | Jadavpur University, Kolkata
90%, 2nd
in Class
P E R S O N A L D E T A I L S
Married with two children
Spouse working as Business Head,
Contract Manufacturing, VVF(I) Ltd.