Robert Ironside Email & Phone Number

Career achievements include:• Control system design and implementation for a variety of power generation and industrial projects, including Suralaya coal fired power station, Gunung Salak and Darajat II and III geothermal power plants in Indonesia, multiple projects for Fonterra in New Zealand and the sugar industry in Queensland and Fiji, and Northern and Playford Power Stations in South Australia.• Provision of cost effective energy management solutions to Fonterra at numerous sites, NZ.• Unique design & implementation of effective use of measured CO to optimise boiler excess air and boiler efficiency at Suralaya Power Station, Indonesia.• Expert witness for a case involving an EPC contractor and a control system supplier.• Control system design and process commissioning to cater for a variety of different biomass fuels on two multi-fuel fired co-generation units in northern NSW Australia.• Design and commissioning of a partial replica simulator for a 100MWe geothermal power-generating unit in Indonesia.• Combustion, output and stability improvement of a variety of bagasse-fired boilers in the sugar industries of Australia and Fiji.• Management of the design and implementation of power generation I&C refurbishments in Australia & Indonesia.• Management of the implementation of two Rolls-Royce Trent industrial gas turbines as part of a combined cycle plant in Copenhagen, Denmark.• Managing the commissioning of the cauldron for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.• Ultra-low NOx gas burner commissioning and optimisation at Visy Paper in New York.• Commissioning a variety of plants installed by Rolls-Royce Australia Limited in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.• The commissioning of coal fired Northern Power Station 275MWe once through boilers, the only true once through boilers in the Australian power utility industry at that time, particularly in relation to their combustion and control systems.

Listed skills include Power Plants, Commissioning, Boilers, Dcs, and 35 others.

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  University Of Adelaide

  Bachelor Of Engineering (Mechanical)