Sumitra Ghosh has over 21 years of experience in engineering design and management roles in the refining and petrochemical industry. She currently works as a senior heat transfer engineer and team lead at Shell India Technology Centre, where she assesses technology selection, troubleshoots processes, and supports regional assets. She has successfully handled various positions focusing on heat transfer design, managing teams, and ensuring alignment with business goals. Ghosh has a proven track record of delivering solutions across multiple organizations through leadership, technical expertise, and strong performance.

1. SUMITRA GHOSH
L-1702 Brigade Metropolis; Mahadevapura, Bangalore – 560048, INDIA
Ph. No.: +91 725 921 4936; E-mail: sumitra.ghosh33@gmail.com
Personal Profile
I am a motivated and enthusiastic professional with analytical mindset, passionate about integration and
collaboration. With 21 years of experience in the refining and petrochemical industry, I have successfully handled
various engineering design and management positions in large EPC contractor, consulting, process licensing and
operating MNCs. Currently, I, as a subject matter expert, assess, identify and select appropriate technology and
equipment configuration in the area of heat transfer for refinery and chemical process plants. Selection of vendors,
troubleshoot approach and impact assessment on process and HSSE aspects are several integral parts of my
responsibilities, providing views and outlooks to clients through research reports, client talks and speeches in
conferences. Regional asset support, lifecycle plan and developing reliability centric maintenance strategies around
heat transfer equipment are by direct accountability in current role in Shell. In team leadership role I ensure my
technical team’s high engagement level, compliance to “goal zero” safety compliance, career and competence
development needs staying aligned with company’s business goals.
Professional Experiences1
Jan, 2013 – Till Date : As Team Lead and Senior Heat Transfer Engineer – Shell India Technology Centre
Bangalore, managing fired and unfired heat transfer team and simultaneously working
in the area of fired heat transfer as individual contributor for projects and asset support
in the East (mid-East to Japan). Alignment with overall Shell business goals, discipline
quality policies and standards, coordination between three major global engineering
hubs and assets are major benchmarks of this role.
Apr. 03 – Dec.12 : As Team Lead and Senior Heat Transfer Engineer in UOP, designed and delivered
right heat transfer solutions to UOP optimizing competing requirements such as,
minimum cost, reliable operation, desired start-up, ramp up and turndown, runlength,
process safety, reliability etc. For better understanding of process technologies moved
over to process for hands-on experience and later led process delivery team.
Subsequently I moved back to heat transfer to lead the team. In parallel worked as
individual contributor in critical technology deployment applications.
Sept.97 – Mar 03 : As Senior Engineer in Heat and Mass Transfer division in Engineers India Ltd.
New Delhi, learned critical design aspects of fired heaters, boilers, incinerators etc. in
the process of thermal and detail design for refinery complexes. Design basis
finalization, licensor’s requirement consolidation, coordination with multiple technical
disciplines, vendor bid analysis, burner model and technology selection, burner testing
at vendor shop, commissioning and site troubleshoot were integral part in this role. I
worked as process commissioning engineer in a grassroot refinery complex in India as
well as in another big refinery unit at KNPC, Kuwait.
Jan, 97 – Sept., 97 : As Sr. Process Engineer, in Larsen and Toubro. Ltd., India in process, was
responsible for process design and commissioning of Cement plants. Worked as
commissioning engineer.
Mar.,95 – Jan., 97 : As Sr. Engineer in BHPV Ltd. (now a BHEL unit), Visakhapatnam, India, I was
responsible for thermal design of industrial boilers, fired heaters, deaerator systems.
Achievements
• TA3 professional competence level for Fired heat transfer (Shell internal evaluation process)
• Consistently “Top Quartile” performer in UOP
• Awarded with special recognition awards and Bravo awards in UOP
• Certified green belt lean practitioner at UOP / Honeywell
• Consistently “Top Quartile” performer in Shell as individual contributor
• Chartered Chemical engineer certified by IChemE
• Ranked 2nd in M.E. in IISc, Bangalore, India
• Ranked 2nd in B. Tech., Calcutta University, India
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Please refer next page for Detail Professional Experiences

2. Educational Qualifications
M. Tech. - Chemical Engineering (1995), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; CGPA 6.8
(scale of 8)
B. Tech. - Chemical Engineering (1993), Calcutta University, India; 80.5%
DETAIL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (OUTLINING KEY ASSIGNMENTS/ ACHIEVEMENTS)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (SHELL, BANGALORE, INDIA)
AS SENIOR ENGINEER & TEAM LEAD (Jan, 2013 – Till Date):
• Safeguarding and IPF reviews for heaters, boilers, hot oil system, steam generators
• Thermal and hydraulics rating and revamp for waste heat recovery system for CO boilers,
regenerators and Platforming heaters
• Incinerator and thermal oxidiser revamp for Sakhalin LNG terminal
• Asset management review and life cycle plan for critical equipment of Shell Jurong Island Chemicals
plant
• Furnace efficiency and reliability improvement projects for SEPL, Bukom refinery
• Incinerator Design package for Pertamina, Donggi
• HDS Reactor Charge Heater Package for CNOOC, China
• HVU heater design for North Panjin, China
• Product fractionator feed heater design for Antipinsky, China
• HVU heater runlength improvement revamp for Thai Oil
• APH retrofitting for CDU heaters of Shell, Bukom refinery
• HVU heater feed change and turndown study for Yakkaichi Refinery, Japan
• LPG hydrotreater Charge heater turndown study for Seibu oil, Japan
• SRU main and line burner troubleshooting study for CPCL, Chennai, India
• Turndown and conversion study for thermal cracking heater for Shell, Bukom Refinery
• Reliability and asset management studies for Seraya Chemicals and Port Dickson refinery
• Flare system troubleshoot for SEP, Bukom refinery
• On-site support and troubleshooting for Shell sites – SEPL, Bukom, SJI-Singapore, Port Dickson,
Tabangao refinery
• Turnaround support on-site at Port Dickson and SEPL, Bukom refineries
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (UOP INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED)
AS SENIOR ENGINEER & TEAM LEAD (Apr. 03 – Dec.12)
[A] Heat transfer design related:
• Furnace Thermal design, Detailed Engineering and Specification of auxiliary equipments for: -
Multicell Arbor type Platforming Reaction feed furnaces with common steam generation convection
sections
Multicell Arbor type short residence time Oleflex Reaction feed furnaces with steam generation
convection sections
Mutlicell and VC type heat integrated hydroprocessing heaters (UOP Licensed)
Multicell vertical tube box type heaters for Hot oil and large Reboiler services for various UOP
licenced Process units
Arbor type heaters for Isomar, Pacol and Tatoray process
• Design and revamp adequacy checks of air cooled exchangers, shell and tube, hair pin and double
pipe heat exchangers for various UOP designed process units, viz., Platforming, Hydrotrating,
Unicracking, Butamar, Penex, Aromatics complex, Phenol, Ethyl Benzene, FCC, ED Sulfolane, Amine
Treating etc. for several global projects (Customers: Petrobras-Brasil, Fujian-China, Daqing-China,
HPCL-India, PIC-Kuwait, Rompetrol-Russia, Repsol, Petronas-Melaka, PetroChina, IOC-India, MRPL-
India etc.)

3. [B] Heat transfer troubleshoot related:
• CO Boiler troubleshooting for BPCL-Mumbai
• Platforming heater troubleshooting (tube thinning) and efficiency improvement study for RIL,
Patalganga
• Platforming heater troubleshooting (high tube wall temperature) for RIL, Jamnagar
[C] Process technology related:
• Process and Project works for Hydrocracker unit (HCU-I and II) revamp Sch-A for MRPL, Mangalore,
India
• Process and Project works for HPCL-Vizag DHT unit
• Revamp process study of hydrocracker unit for conversion from Max. Naphtha mode to Max. Diesel
mode for Valero, Benicia, USA
• Revamp Sch-A of Diesel Hydrotreating unit for HPCL, Mumbai, India
• Process design for Kerosene hydrotreating unit for Kirkuk Refinery complex, Iraq (Proposal)
• Process design for Unicracking unit for Kirkuk Refinery complex, Iraq (Proposal)
• Process design for Unicracking unit for PetroChina, Yunnan complex (Proposal)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (ENGINEERS INDIA LIMITED)
AS SENIOR ENGINEER (Sept.97 – Mar 03)
[A] Heat transfer design related:
Furnace Thermal design, Detailed Engineering and Specification of auxiliary equipment for: -
Mutlicell and VC type hydroprocessing heaters (IFP Licensed)
Multicell vertical tube box type heaters for Hot oil and large Reboiler services for various open art
and licenced Refinery and Petrochemical Process units
Double-fired Coker Furnace revamp with state-of-art technology & interaction with M/s British
Petroleum, USA for IOCL, Barauni, India
Vertical Cylindrical and Horizontal box type Crude & Vacuum Heaters for MRPL, IOCL, CPCL,
BPCL, HPCL etc.
[B] Heat transfer troubleshoot related:
Trouble-shooting of heaters for MRPL Phase- I, BPCL, Mumbai, M/s BANAGAS, Bahrain, HPCL-Vizag,
IOC-Digboi, Air preheater troubleshooting and capacity enhancement for hydrogen reformer of Tata
Chemical, Babrala, India
[C] Field experience related:
Commissioning, pre-commissioning of CDU / VDU & Delayed Coker Unit for Numaligarh Refinery
Limited, Numaligarh, Assam (INDIA) (As a part of EIL-Plant Operation team)
Rejuvenation of engineering design capability for war torn refinery units of KNPC, Kuwait
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (LARSEN & TOUBRO LIMITED, MUMBAI, INDIA)
AS SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER (Jan, 97 – Sept., 97):
Commissioning of Cement Plant at Binani Cement, Rajasthan, India
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (BHPV LTD, VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA)
AS SENIOR ENGINEER (Mar.,95 – Jan., 97):
• Design of Industrial boiler for CPCL
• Design and check rating of waste heat recovery convection coils for primary reformer for FACT,
Ambalamedu
• Design of Hot oil heater for a petrochemical plant
• Design of Deaerators for PDIL/NTPC