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It is said if you are passionate about something you will not be afraid to fight for it. You will take risk to demonstrate your passion for it.
In fact, if you want to test yourself whether you are really passionate about something, ask yourself if ever you have stood for it against all odds. If the answer is an emphatic yes, that is your passion - protect, preserve and nurture it. If the answer no, then that is not your calling.
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More often, engineers at project sites keep themselves busy resolving man made problems than designing for the natural forces of nature using applied science and technology. But if everything works as per design, and people do not make mistakes, or management does not change opinion, an engineer’s life will be very uninteresting and unromantic. It is the intellectual challenges that springs up every day on projects out of nowhere that keep the project field engineers life interesting and engaging.
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At times the problems look so difficult and complicated but solutions are simple if right stake holders are involved in resolving.
Gas turbine foundation is the most important concrete foundation of a combined cycle power plant. Starting right from design engineering to pouring of concrete, a group of specialist very carefully review and approve the every aspect of design including the details of concrete pouring methodology.
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Many Projects create records. Some create history. But there are some that become history itself.
One of the biggest civilian development projects on the face of the earth - the Great Man-Made River or GMMR as it is known, was one such project. In 1990, it was history in making. You may be wondering that this story is about a crude oil pumping station or a refinery. No, it is the sweet water dream project known as the “Great Man Made River Project”. Normal water is in abundance in a country like ours, but the same water is a precious commodity (called sweet water) in the North African Sahara. Every drop of sweet water is extracted from saline sea water. And in those parts of the world, you possibly pay more for a litre of water than a litre of gasoline.
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Engineering Design usually has a very definitive approach and one has to work through a given input conditions for an intended output utilising calculated/predicted performance/behaviour of individual equipment and systems. But commissioning is always a challenging and thrilling task as we try to match the behaviour of actual equipment and systems at the site with predicted design values under different environmental conditions as well as uncertainties in the process of equipment manufacture.