1. CURRICULUM-VITAE
1. NAME : KARANAM MANORANJAN BABU.
2. FATHER’S NAME : K.NAGESWARA RAO.
3. MAILING ADDRESS : K. MANORANJAN BABU
OMIFCO
P.O.BOX ; 67, SUR
P.C : 411, OMAN
4. MARTIAL STATUS : MARRIED.
5. PERMANENT ADDRESS : K.MANORANJAN BABU.
222, VENKATADRI APARTMENTS
SV & RS PROJECTS, KOTTA PETA
SARUR NAGAR, DILSUKH NAGAR
HYDERABAD-500035
ANDHRA PRADESH-INDIA
6. DATE OF BIRTH & AGE : 10-08-1963, 51 YEARS.
7. CONTACT PHONE NOS. : 00968-95207669 & 00968-25532104 (In Oman)
E-mail ID: manoranjan.karanam@gmail.com
8. QUALIFICATIONS :
SR.NO EXAM PASSED
YEAR
PASSED
BOARD/
UNIVERSITY
SUBJECTS
PERCENT OF
MARKS
DIVISION
1.0
SECONDARY
SCHOOL
CERTIFICATE
1978
BOARD OF
SECONDARY
EDUCATION
HYDERABAD
ENGLISH
MATHES
GENERAL
SCIENCES
70.6 FIRST
2.0 INTERMEDIATE 1980
INTERMEDIA-TE
BOARD
HYDERABAD
MATHES
PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY
72.4 FIRST
3.0
B.TECH
CHEMICAL
ENGG.
1985
ANDHRA
UNIVERSITY
ENGG.
COLLEGE.
VISAKHA-
PATNAM. A.P
CHEMICAL
ENGG.
SUBJECTS
68.0 FIRST
4.0
P.G.DIPLOMA
IN MARKETING
MANAGEMENT
1999
INDIRA GANDHI
NATIONAL OPEN
UNIVERSITY NEW
DELHI.
MARKETING
MGMT.
65.0 FIRST

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9. EXPERIENCE:
(A) NAME OF THE FIRST ORGANISATION: KRISHAK BHARATI CO-OPERATIVE LTD.
HAZIRA, SURAT. INDIA.
(B) ORGANISATION HISTORY: KRIBHCO had been operating a giant AMMONIA-UREA fertilizer complex
at HAZIRA, SURAT since 1985. The complex has two Ammonia plants each of capacity 1520 MTPD
designed by M/S M.W.KELLOG, USA and four UREA plants each of capacity 1310 MTPD designed by
M/s SNAM PROGATTEE, ITALY. The annual installed capacity of Urea plants are 1.729 Million metric
tons of urea. The complex has also set up a cogeneration plant to produce 30 MW power and 3x275
MT/HR of process steam. The complex had been provided with facilities to store Urea in bulk up to
90000 MT and Ammonia up to 20000 MT and also to bag 6000 MTPD Urea.
(C) DATE OF JOINING : 15 TH DECEMBER, 1986.
AS GRADUATE ENGINEER TRAINEE.
(D) LAST POSITION HELD : Chief Manager (Process).
(E) JOB PROFILE AT KRIBHCO:
SR.NO POSITION HELD
PERIOD
FROM
PERIOD
TO
TOTAL
DURATION
TOTAL
EXPERIENCE
1.0
GRADUATE ENGG.
TRAINEE
(PRODUCTION)
15.12.1986 15.12.1988 2 YEARS
2.0
ENGINEER.
(PRODUCTION)
15.12.1988 01.05.1992
3 YEARS
4 MONTHS
15DAYS
3.0
DY.MANAGER
(PRODUCTION)
01.05.1992 01.11.1997 5 YEARS
6 MONTHS
4.0
MANAGER
(PROCESS)
01.11.1997 01.11.2001 4 YEARS.
5.0
SR.MANAGER
(PROCESS)
01.11.2001 01.05.2006 4 YEARS
6 MONTHS
6.0
CHIEF MANAGER
(PROCESS)
01.05.2006 17.07.2009 > 3 Years 22 years
6 Months.
Resigned from M/S KRIBHCO Surat and Joined Oman India Fertilizer Company, SUR-OMAN on
18.07.2009 as Process Engineer.
Promoted as Senior Process Engineer from 01.07.2010 onwards in OMIFCO and working as Sectional
head for Process Engineering Section.
Also earlier worked as Process Engineer in OMIFCO on deputation from M/S KRIBHCO from 15.04.2006
to 15.08.2008.

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Total experience in OMIFCO has been seven years and is presently working as Senior Process Engineer
looking after all modification jobs in the entire OMIFCO Complex.
Overall Experience is 28 Years (As on 15.12.2014).
ON JOB EXPERIENCE:
AMMONIA PLANTS OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE:
Worked in Ammonia production department in different capacities as GET, Shift Engineer, and Deputy
Manager for 11 years. Handled many plant emergencies with ease, to the best satisfaction of the
Management.
Actively involved in Plant operations during the period when the initial teething troubles were
experienced by the plants. Critical troubles were solved single handedly with ease and confidence.
Fully conversant and thoroughly involved in all the major revamps of Ammonia plants like PGRU
installation, Converter Retrofits, Reformer tube Retrofits and other major modifications.
Worked as a member of the HAZOP study team and involved in the implementation of important
modifications, which have made plant operations safer and user friendly.
Fully conversant and involved in the implementation of DMC (Dynamic Matrix Controller), a
multivariable controller which operates the entire plant on closed loop control for optimization and
process safety.
Independently handled the Ammonia plant cold startups, many critical emergencies and change of
Catalyst activities for different Reactors.
PROCESS ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE:
Worked in Process engineering department for more than 17 years performing jobs related to process
engineering and projects implementation.
Fully conversant with all the process department activities and worked on jobs related to Ammonia
plants, Urea Plants and Utility plants having facilities to produce power, steam, DM Water, Nitrogen,
Instrument Air, Plant Air, cooling water to the process plants.
Apart from doing the regular process engineering jobs, independently proposed nine useful energy
saving innovative schemes, all of which had a pay back period of less than a year.
After in principle approval of these schemes by management, the complete detailing of the schemes
involving, sizing of piping, control valves sizing, pressure drop estimation and integration with the
existing plant systems, and other related jobs were done independently.
Six schemes were implemented during my tenure in KRIBHCO and proved to be successful while passing
on the intended benefits to the company. Remaining three schemes were under implementation/
material procurement when I last resigned from KRIBHCO.

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Fully conversant with the application of Steady State Simulator PRO-II version 5.11 of Sim-Sci of USA and
development of process modeling.
Also had experience with Aspen plus process engineering simulation software and ASPEN HYSYS software
for developing PFDS. Conversant with all process engineering activities like preparation of P & IDs,
Material and Energy balances, Process Flow Diagrams, Designing and design check of equipments like
Heat exchangers, pumps, piping, pressure vessels, PSVS, evaluation of distillation & stripper columns.
Involved in Gas and Naphtha contracts review and negotiations with the suppliers like M/S GAIL, BPCL,
GSPC, GGCL, IOCL etc. for short term and long term raw material purchases.
As the designated Energy Auditor of KRIBHCO, held the additional responsibility to look after Energy
related activities, and had conducted internal and external Energy Audits of the Ammonia-Urea fertilizer
Complex at regular intervals
As Energy Auditor also held the responsibilities of communicating with the external agencies like Bureau
of Energy Efficiency, and other Government of India Statutory bodies.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
A. Fully involved in the project work of the Argon recovery plant. As a key member of the project team
worked on the jobs like technical Bid preparation, fixing the guarantee norms, evaluation of prospective
bidders, till the finalization of the award of contract. This Argon plant was successfully commissioned in
December 2007 while meeting all the product warranties.
B. Involved in the preparation and evaluation of Technical Bids of the KRIBHCO Hazira Phase-II expansion
project for 1850 MTPD Ammonia and 3200 MTPD Urea plants. Technical and commercial bids of
Snamprogetti and Tecnimont were evaluated before finalizing the prospective Bidder.
C. Also worked on KRIBHCO’S ambitious project of Revamp of Ammonia Plants with Purifier Installation, to
reduce the Energy consumption by 0.4 Gcal/MT and increase the Capacity to 1890 MTPD from the 1520
MTPD level.
In this context, visited M/S KBR Houston-Texas and held discussions with M/S KBR engineers during Oct-
2004 for freezing the Revamp features of KRIBHCO Ammonia Plants.
Subsequently this revamp was implemented successfully with the selected technological features by
KRIBHCO in both the Ammonia plants during the years 2011 and 2012. Post revamps both the Ammonia
plants achieved production levels close to 2 X 2000 MTPD of Ammonia.
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT:
Worked on deputation to OMIFCO (Oman India Fertilizer Company) located in Sur-Oman as Process
Engineer for a period of twenty eight months starting from 15.04.2006 to 15.08.2008.
BRIEF ON SECOND ORGANISATION OMIFCO:
OMIFCO is a joint venture project of Oman Oil Company, KRIBHCO and IFFCO. OMIFCO operates a Natural Gas
based Fertilizer complex having two Ammonia Plants each of 1750 MTPD capacity and two Urea plants each of

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2530 MTPD Capacity. The plants were commissioned in April-2005. Ammonia Plants technology license was
provided by M/S Haldor Topsoe, Denmark and Urea plants were designed by M/S Snamprogetti, Italy.
OMIFCO complex has facilities to produce 2X 30.0 MW of captive power, four boilers for steam Production
along with supporting facilities, 3 X 125 M3/Hr of Desalination water plants and Jetty to export Ammonia &
Urea products by sea.
Responsibilities at OMIFCO:
Heading the Process Engineering Section and responsible for all the process engineering jobs related to
the Ammonia, Urea and Utility plants including off-sites.
Providing solutions to plant problems by developing and implementing suitable modifications.
Evaluating and implementing Engineering Work Requests received from Production and other service
Departments for enhancing plant reliability and improving the productivity.
Developing new strategies for sustaining plant operation and increasing production and reducing energy
losses.
Imparting technical training on Plant facilities to OMANI Engineer Trainees and Operator trainees as per
the schedule on regular basis.
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ON CAREER PATH:
AT KRIBHCO-SURAT-INDIA:
Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE).
Qualified the “Certified Energy Auditor” National level exam jointly conducted by National Productivity
Council, Chennai & Bureau of Energy Efficiency-New Delhi in 2004.
Qualified, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) organized Certified Energy
Manager (CEM) program with 98% marks and secured second rank. Based on the performance in the
CEM program FICCI has selected as a guest Faculty, for their Energy management programs. Attended
three programs as faculty member.
On nomination by KRIBHCO attended the AICHE-2004 Annual Ammonia Safety Symposium held at
Denver-CO, USA during September-2004
Awarded by KRIBHCO on three different occasions for two modifications implemented and for one
modification recommended for implementation.
Co-authored a paper presented on 7th
Nov 2002 in the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) workshop held in
Mumbai, on the topic “Best practices followed for Energy conservation.”
Presented a paper at the behest of KRIBHCO, in the Fertilizer Association of India (FAI) workshop
conducted in New Delhi on 3rd
& 4th
March-2003, on the topic “Energy conservation and Management in
Fertilizer Industry”.

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Presented a paper at the behest of KRIBHCO, in FAI workshop on 7th
& 8th
April. 2004 conducted in New
Delhi, on the topic “Role of Catalysts in Fertilizer Industry-KRIBHCO Experience”.
As a Co-Author presented a Paper on the topic “Ammonia Plant Catalysts-KRIBHCO Experience” to the
JUNE-2004 issue of Fertilizer News monthly magazine. Subsequently this Paper was awarded Second
prize from FAI-New Delhi in the Production & Technical category in the year 2004.
On behalf of KRIBHCO, presented a Paper titled “Energy Saving measures implemented at KRIBHCO” in
the FICCI (Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) organized Fertilizer Technical meet
held in New Delhi on 7th
August 2004.
On behalf of KRIBHCO, presented a Paper titled “Energy performance at KRIBHCO” at the technical meet
of Hazira area industries forum, organized by NTPC-KAWAS on the eve of National Energy Conservation
Day celebrations held on December-14th
2004.
As a Co-Author wrote a Paper on the topic “Energy saving measures implemented at KRIBHCO in recent
years” to the August-2005 issue of Indian Journal of Fertilizers published by FAI-New Delhi.
AT OMIFCO-SUR-OMAN:
Qualified and was certified as the Lead Auditor for the ISO 9000-2000 Series Quality Management
Systems by NIGEL BAUER & ASSOCIATES during March-2007.OMIFCO has successfully achieved the ISO
9001certification in September-2007.
Under the sponsorship of OMIFCO attended a five day work shop at Dubai on Safety Auditing, Hazard
Identification & Site Inspection conducted by Haward Technology Middle East.
Core member of the Management team that visited M/S SAIPEM, Milan, Italy during August 2010 to
decide on the technical features of the OMIFCO expansion and revamp projects.
From OMIFCO jointly presented a technical paper in AICHE 2011 Ammonia Safety Symposium held at
Montreal-Canada about a major Ammonia leak incident that took place in Urea plant.
At the request of M/S OMAN OIL-OMAN to M/S OMIFCO, in first week of December-2011 visited Ca Mau
Fertilizer plant, Vietnam along with the OMAN OIL Team for doing the Technical due diligence of the Ca
Mau Fertilizer Project to facilitate the equity participation decision by M/S OMAN OIL.
Simultaneously also working for the projects, OMIFCO Expansion, OMIFCO revamp, Argon Recovery Plant,
and Urea Formaldehyde Chemical plant.
On nomination from OMIFCO attended a Program on Effective Tendering, Award of Contract and
Managing your Provider in London from 15.10.2012 to 26.10.2012.
On nomination from OMIFCO attended a Program on Project planning and Management in Madrid-Spain
from 26.08. 2013 to 30.08.2013.

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Independently designed and developed a modification project for recovery of Ammonia from LP section
vent gases which otherwise were going to the flare stack in Urea plants. This project helped to recover 2 X
30 MTPD of additional Ammonia in Urea plants. Implemented in both the Urea plants successfully
between 2010 & 2012. The annual savings after implementation of this modification project are more
than Six Million USD. The payback period of the scheme is about 2 months only.
Jointly presented as an Author and Speaker a Technical paper on this Ammonia recovery scheme in the
N2 & Syngas-2014 International conference held in Paris-France from 24.02.2014 to 27.02.2014 which
was organized by CRU-London.
Presented as an Author and Speaker Technical paper on Ammonia Recovery from LP vent gases of Urea
plant in the 27th
AFA International Fertilizer Technology and conference & Exhibition (Arab Fertilizer
Association) held at Agadir, Morocco from 23rd
to 25th
of June 2014.
On nomination from OMIFCO attended a five day Certified training program in Advanced Process
Simulation and Modeling using ASPEN-HYSYS software at Frankfurt Germany during the period
10.11.2014 to 14.11.2014. This program was conducted by M/S ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC.
Presently as Process Engineering sectional Head responsible and looking after all the modification jobs
implementation which includes design development, PFD integration, HAZOP, procurement and
implementation in Ammonia, Urea, Utilities-Off sites plants of OMIFCO Fertilizer complex.
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