What i understand on Organization in the GDC (P) Plant 1

 

Organization in the GDC (P) Plant 1

         There is three department running in this plant. Every department has its own function and related to each department and will bring balance to the plant operation.

 

No	Department	Roles
1	Operation	Operating all the equipment in the plant in 24-hour basis
2	Maintenance	Managing the service and maintenance works in the plant
3	Administration	Fulfill administrative requirement of the plant
4	HSSE	Responsible to health, safety, security and environmental

Table 2.02: Department and its own roles in the plant.

 Operation Department

        Operation department become the heart of the plant. It is functioning as the operators of all equipment, coordinating the works flow, highest authority in approving or denying any activities in the plant. Operation department has its own organization from management department up to the technician itself.

Since it is the most important department, this department must exist in the plant on 24 hours basis. This department work on 12 hours, 2 shift rotation and every shift consist of a shift supervisor, a boiler operator, a panel operator and three field operators. Every personnel have their own set of skills and responsibility and ever activity is under direct supervision of leader in the shift (shift supervisor).

Operation department activity.

Operation department role is quite important to the plant. Since the plant is running on 24- hour basis, most of the activities in the plant coordinated, controlled and approved by the operation department itself. It also must be the first line to predict, troubleshoot and make sure every equipment working accordingly to process and instrument flows.

Most of the equipment operating in semi – automatic mode that required technical personnel presence at site. Instead of Direct Control System (DCS) installed in every equipment that usually make it unmanned control, this semi – automatic control happened due to old plant status with old equipment and component such as manual valves and eyes monitoring temperature thermometer and gauge, and parameter defect from the malfunction sensors and transmitter.

 Yes, most of the new replacement come with pre – installed DCS and this is helpful to overcome burden on site – based personnel especially during start and stop sequence.

Semi – automatic mode is really requiring expertise and experienced site-based personnel. Without yearly experienced, no one will know where to go and how to operate equipment. Field operator must record temperature reading every hour for every equipment. Same goes to boiler driver, they must record natural gas consumption and steam generation to the header hourly for every boilers and heat recovery. Unit start and stop sequence also require their presence especially to manually filling basin in cooling tower and to start the pump.

 

Photo 2.2 Boiler installed in the plant

             Panel operator is always stationed in the control room where all of the remote monitoring workstation located in there. Starting from main plant direct control system workstation, the numbers of workstation increasing after twenty years operating in Putrajaya. Panel operator has to monitor all of the system such as brine chiller workstation, Annex workstation, customer monitoring workstation, gas turbine generator workstation and remote Wisma Putra workstation. Never forget to mention the personal workstation for emails, applying leave, data mining and analyzing upon request by manager.

Photo 2.3: Discussion at the workstation