Er Dr D N Sinha's Heroic Feat at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Volume 2011, Issue No.7, Dt. 3rd July 2011: time: 17h30mPM

A heroic feat of decommissioning of the Horton Sphere storage tank

of a Private company in Kakinada

by

Er. Dr. Duvvuri Narasimha Sinha, F.I.E, Ph.D, M.B.A., AIII

GUEST FACULTY IN Andhra university College of Engineering and

Qualified Auditor, ISO14000, EARA Recognised-UK, ISO9000IRCA-UK,

CE &Registered Valuer, Competent Er (Safety) CCE Nagpur, Loss Assessor

B2, 1stFloor Dolphins Apartments, Naoroji Road, Visakhapatnam-530002

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Keywords: Industrial Safety, Industrial storage Tanks, decommission, explosive expertise, India progress

For three days on June 30th to late night 2nd July 2011 a private company requirement of decommissioning the Ammonia storage Horton Sphere has been successfully carried by me a team of youngsters. This gave confidence the Indian expertise is available with the local talent to undertake major decommissioning major outdated and old technology based storage and other huge constructs of metallic basins and reservoirs. Few photographs are presented giving the details of the different stages of the maneuver.

 

My experience as an explosives expert gave me immense confidence to undertake such an hazardous and dangerous job and I have undoubtedly set an example of indigenous talent to help India to further the cause of its modernization and development towards the adoption in Industry, manufacture and production based on more safe and sound technologies of the 21st century.

 

The team work was carried out with a clock-work precision and collection of the samples was made almost every hour. First the nitrogen was pumped in to flush out the ammonia that has been transported away to distantly located vapor flare tower. And later the rotation spray technique has been used to flush in the water to gather away the residual ammonia. Traces of ammonia if any have been gauzed and carefully handled with the appropriate detection instruments. The entire operation has been meticulously carried out with almost a full twenty-four devotion.

 

The heroic feat has by International standards has set a yardstick that India also is a developed nation to cater its own Industrial needs of technology expertise.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author wishes to express his deep sense of gratitude to all those involved in this maneuver and have undertaken the safety measures with full devotion.