Guest Lecture by Mr. Dinesh Kumar Aggarwal on ‘Piping Design’
On 11th November, 2016 Mr. Dinesh Kumar Agrawal, who is presently working as Manager (Piping) in ‘Valdel Engineers and Constructors‘, sector-126, Noida visited Manav Rachna University to deliver a guest lecture on ‘Piping Design‘ to pre-final year students.
Mr. Dinesh Agrawal has a total work experience of 13 years and 5 months in Piping Industry and has been involved in both Front End Engineering Design and Detail Engineering Design. He has successfully completed many inspiring projects for the industry like ‘SXL Mariner East2 Project (piping man hours consumed = 15000hrs), Lone Star NGL FRAC3, CPPD De-bottlenecking project’ and many more.
He started the lecture first by introducing about his organization, Valdel Engineers and Constructors and get students awared about the future scopes in Refinery, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Terminal & Surface Facilities and Cross Country Onshore Pipeline.Later on, Mr. Dinesh Agrawal addressed the need of piping design in the product development and also, discussed the various software’s available in the market for the design purpose. He focused on Piping Activities/Deliverables, Equipment and piping layouts, preparation of overall plot plans, 3D plant layout and preparation of support standards in the design field.
At the end, he let the budding Engineers know about various piping codes i.e, ASME,ANSI & API and motivated the students for the better future in design area.
Mr. R.C Chaturvedi, Ex GM, BHEL concluded the session by thanking the guest for his precious time and motivated the students through his fruitful words.
Some faculty members also attended the lecture along with the students. This was indeed a very enriching lecture and beneficial to the students as well as faculty.