Darshan Prabakaran Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

www.applied-mt.comI develop APC applications for clients in the refining and petrochemical industry, primarily using AspenTech’s DMCPlus & DMC3 platform.- Key responsibilities: APC financial benefit estimates, PID-loop tuning, BPC-APC interface configuration, plant response testing, model identification, inferential development, logic development, APC application tuning, simulation and commissioning, operator training, and documentation.- Deployed BPC-APC interface applications in the Honeywell Experion platform, including CAB-based, SCM-based and CM-based versions.Key projects:• (’17) Ethylene Plant (C2 Splitter, Deethanizer, Demethanizer, Cold Box)• (’17) Hydrocracker (Reactor and Separation Train)• (’17) Refinery Gas Plant and Jet/Diesel Desulfurization Units• (’16) Urea Production Plant• (’16) Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (Reactor, Fractionator and Gas Plant)• (’16) Crude Vapor Recovery Unit (Depropanizer, Naphtha Splitter, Gasoline Stripper)• (’15) Ethylene Unit (C3 Splitter, Depropanizer, Quench Circuit System, Furnaces)• (’15) Ethylene Unit (C2 Splitter, C3 Splitter, Cold Box, Furnaces)

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

- Developed regulatory control applications and operator graphics, facilitated DCS and SIS acceptance testing, supported unit startups and system configuration.- Extensive use of the Honeywell Experion and HMIWeb platform.Key projects:• (’14) Polyethylene Unit – Replication of sister facility Experion DCS configuration to new facility - Configured basic regulatory control applications and batch SCM logic• (’13-‘14) Ethylene Unit – TDC3000 to Honeywell Experion DCS Upgrade - Programmed furnace burner light-off logic sequences - Developed advanced regulatory control strategies - Designed complex operator graphics - Supported SIS & DCS functional & site acceptance testing (FAT/SATs) - Provided systems support during unit startup• (’13) Refinery Utility Boiler – Experion DCS upgrade from analog control system - Developed boiler cross-limiting ratio controls strategy - Developed a simulator to train operators and demonstrate control behavior - Supported SIS & DCS functional & site acceptance testing (FAT/SATs)

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Lab support role in a research project between the Chemical Eng. department and the College of Medicine at Texas A&M.Basic research towards understanding chemical signalling between the mammalian immune system and gut bacterial communities with broad implications towards immune disorder research. Work/findings published in Nature Communications journal.