Day 29: Plant Visit GPP A.... continues

Once checked in at the Awana, Mr Azwanizam invited me to join him for dinner. Actually, one of his old friends is buying that night. He picked us up with his sports car... DAMN!! i wish i could have one..... HONDA EURO!! very nice manufactured sports car. Mr Azwanizam introduced me to him. After several chit chats, he is actually an Uniten Ex-student. He worked with a contractor company soon after he graduates. JEeeeZZZZ...

Hopefully im lucky as him.

Dinner at "Tomyam restaurant" located at ............."damn! i cant remember the place... the foods are quite nice... maybe im actually starving to death that time.. my last meal is at 12pm... and the time shows 1030pm when we are having dinner that time.... what a day.!! By the way.... i guess, since the foods is free... all the foods seems to be nice...hahhahahaha... FREE is ALWAYS GOOD!!.. hahahahaha

----- Back to the plant visits--- i've been toured around the GPP accompanied by the 2 skillel master of the plant itself. They brought me to the MCC panel room. This room is actually prohibited to non-permitted personnel to enter. Luckily, they are all friends, and i managed to leak myself in the room. The room is cold... this ventilation needed in order to maintain the temperature of the running MCCs. Those MCC and Switchgears are the main component of the plant operation. The heat could burn and thus damage the MCCs. Worst case, PETRONAS will loose a lot of money just by 1 minutes lagging..  So, prevention method is still applies to be the most effective ways of maintaining the operations.   

Inside the control Room, there are a person incharged as knwon as the " keeper" for all the equipments inside. This is due to the vital operation of the MCCs in order to ensure the production is running without any failure, faulty and difficulties.

Through the touring period, i could see bulky generators, compressors, all sizes of pipes... heard a lot of noises due to the operations of the machines... There areas inside the GPP A is almost equal to 15-20 soccer fields.. so you can imagine how spacious it is.... 

The spacey surrounding between the pipes and the machines, kept to my attentions.. Actually, those space are required for several purposes. There are:

1. For Safety purposes - the space could slower the effects of damages towards the vital loads
2. for Improvisation - the space could be the reserve area for new constructions
3. The Lengthy Pipes need some space and it is due to the effects of the gas... certain gas needed to be reduce the heats before certain processes...

 

Day 28: GPP A ambush!!hehehe

Oraitz....Settled with the outfits, now.. i am ready to ambush the GPP A areas. The one and only question which still inflating in my mind is.... how am going inside the plant...?? With Foot?? Wargh... damn stress if it is gonna be real...

Mr Shafie, approached me and told me that i need to undergo safety class before i could enter the plant area. Thus, One of the HSE officer give a safety briefing to me on whats do's & don't's during my visit inside the plant. Soon after finished, Mr Shafie bring me to the front yard and ....quoted.. " hah.... kita ada kenderaan best utk mask ka dalam"... Hurm.... i guess it must be a petronas rotten pick up which i just saw not far from me. " Kita naek BASIKAL..!!"... " Hah sebelum tu, ambik Pam ni... Pam tayar basikal..."...he added. Hah, WHAT??? A Bicycle?? 

Serious man.... im laughing at myself while pumping the bicycles. They gotta be joking with me.... but it is too late that i knew, they are actually serious on what have they voiced out...hahhahaha. 

Basikal pon basikal lah.......

Once i hopped on the bike, we started our journey to ambush the GPP A plant. Actually, Bicycle is the main transport used by the site workers at the Gas plant. In other perspective it  could be true in terms of the safety awareness. Since we are at the Gas plant, any spark could leads to major damages. Fire could be lid once the 3 combustions factors take place ; Oxygen, fuel and ignition. 

My touring visit to GPP A, was accompanied by Mr Shafie & Mr Azmi Jusoh. They toured me around all the 4 GPP A area. Theres a lot of questions that i have been asking during the visit. Both of them is really helpful and cooperative. You all know what, the design of the plant is really complicated and use a lot of spaces. The pipes was very long, go upside down, turn back and the interesting part is.... everybody is really into their work..  So i guessed,  even the lower levels of workers, have been polished to show and practice professionalism of conduct inside the plant. What a well organisation.........   

Day 27: Plant Visit continues....

The Journey from K.L to Kerteh is around 5 hours..(90 KM/H driving practice).. Hurm.. it is quite tiring plus,the scenery is not like what i expected... i thought, the beauty nature could be perceived along the way there... but, the journey is accompanied by the rubber estate and some parched land... We cant hardly see communities all the way long.. you can imagine how boring it is...

My life of excitement began, when our Kia Citra is actually arrive at Kemaman... Wow.. !! It is quite impressive.. better than other small town that i've known.. We are heading to The AWANA Hotels as Mr Azwanizam is sharing his room with me.. How lucky i am.. hahaha. 

...Back to Work...  Continuing about the apparel, the helmets and goggles harmonizes my appearance under the yellow coated cover all. Mr Azwanizam has assigned one of the chargeman to accompany me touring the GPP A. So...the basic idea... i have been passed to somebody else to bring me inside the plant...

Mr Shafiee provides me with as ear plugs... "Jangan lupa pakai..dalam tu Bising". Hurm... i wonder, is there any metal cutting operation inside the plant which needed me to plugged in my ears with this thing....huemm

Helmets and Goggles

Cover All Outfit

Safety Boots

Since i am a newcomer, the outfits, helmets and boots are all new given to me...hehehe... Actually, it was sponsored by the company. Oraitz.... Im ready to go.....!! hihhiihihi

  

Day 26: Plant Site Visit.... GPP A Kerteh!

Monday!! This the most exciting Monday since I've been training here at PGB. Mr. Azwanizam wants to bring me to visit the Gas Processing Plant (GPP) at Kerteh , Terengganu. Wow!! it is actually my 2nd visit to Terengganu and it is my 1st time trip to Kerteh. I heard, it is also called as kampung PETRONAS since there are numerous of plants under the name of PETRONAS.

For PGB (Petronas Gas Berhad), the plant is only on-land plant which is situated at Kerteh. My first thought before joining PGB, all plants are located in the middle of the sea..Offshore. Hurm.. Obviously, what i imagine is totally wrong.

Lets talk about GPP (Gas Processing Plant). GPP functions is to process the natural gas from the gas fields offshore of the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. There are actually overall 6 plants under PGB which is divided into two   location areas, A and B. So there are 2 plants locations which are GPP A at Kerteh, and GPP B at Paka. My visits is mainly focusing on GPP A. Inside GPP-A, there are 4 plants. and for GPP-B, there are 2 plants. Up to my concern, even though GPP-B only consists of 2 plants, the area of the location is approximately the same as GPP-A area.
 
The difference of GPP-A and GPP-B is only the operation of the plants. The Plants location was highly secured and there are a lot of procedures need to be followed. I have to wear appropriate outfits called "cover all"... a yellow colour of top and bottom attached clothes which a foreman usually wears. To be honest, it looks cool....but, only God knows how hot it is inside.... plus.... i am wearing an office wear, long sleeves and slacks...hahaha... Damn COOL MAN!! hahaha

Day 25: TFDD Communication Sessions

Finally... Friday come again.. seriously, since i have temporary changed my profession as what we called from a student to a " working" individual, Friday is the most exciting day to be waited. Yeah.. as what u guessed, the weekend 'mode' could cause everybody lifting long lastingness smiles. Surely, everybody have their own agenda @ plan during this weekend.. 

O.k... back to the desk, today we have a communication sessions meeting for TFDD. Hurm..You know what.. i've been invited to joined the session as well. WOW!! so happy dude!! .. I'm sure theres a lot of things i could enjoy... hehe.. i mean the knowledge that i could learn, not the refreshments after the sessions...hahhaha..

Of course, i'm dying to know what they will serve us for the refreshment.. save my coins for today ( actually, i left only coins in my pockets) huhuu.. 

The communication sessions meeting is ' like a two-way communication between the employees and the employers". During this sessions, the employer shares the accomplishments and problems with all the staffs. Here, staffs also could voice out their opinions and ideas in enhancing and improving the company's profits.    

This comm.sessions, is actually focusing in celebrating the accomplishment made by certain project teams that have completed their projects for last financial year. The team members were being honored and praised as of their projects successes. In addition, there were also some projects have been awarded due to their professional project development. By announcing the all the projects that have been successfully completed, the GM, Mr Hudal also shares some tips and motivational quotes in order to boost the morale among the staffs.  

I envied the achievement which being recognized by my superior. It is actually a self-satisfaction which could make us feel so proud of ourselves. Yeah.. i guess, this what the Comm.Sess is all about. So, the employers, should play their role by acknowledging the problems faced by the employees, share his experiences, counselled the staffs to be energetic and be able to handle and face all the obstacles onwards.

Today also, is a farewell party of  Mr Haji , one of the most senior staffs in PGB. He came to his end of the carrier in PGB since he already reached the max working age for PETRONAS. Through his speech, i believed that PETRONAS has taken care of him and his family so well until he decided not to jump to another job till the end of his retirement age. According to him, PETRONAS has been giving him for approximately RM 5 MILLIONS during his service here at PGB.... Those zeros suddenly taken my eyes out for a while and wondering if o ever could be accepted as a staff here... hurm.......

Finally, Lunch TIME!! waa.. theres a lot of foods u know.. i wonder how the PETRONAS's staffs could manage their weights by eating all  this stuffs all the while. Hurmm... but,, i guessed, this is how they get 'bumper and flabby ' things all over their body..hahahhahaha... serious!! Obese is a disaster here man!!    

   

Day 24: MCCB - Moulded Case Circuit Breaker

For today.. i have a task which needs me to understand the operation of the MCCB. Hurmm... What is MCCB?

MCCB stands for Moulded Case Circuit Breaker. It is commonly used in designing the Switchgear, UPS, MCC and etc.. In my understanding, the MCCB is a device which we used to protect our electrical equipment from being burn due to overload current or lightning. It works by  isolating the circuit either because we want the power off or to isolate because there is a fault. It use trip units which monitor the current flowing through the breaker and trip when it gets too high.

Hence, It is one of the obligatory device to be installed in the design for the vital protections.

                                   Example of the Breaker                Maintenance of the breaker

Previously during the FAT, i reckon that almost 70% of the manufactured design was installed with the breaker. There are many types of breaker actually..

i)   VCB    - Vacuum Circuit Breaker

ii)  Oil CB  - Oil Circuit Breaker

iii) Air CB  - Air Circuit Breaker...etc

Operation

The circuit breaker must detect a fault condition; in low-voltage circuit breakers this is usually done within the breaker enclosure. Circuit breakers for large currents or high voltages are usually arranged with pilot devices to sense a fault current and to operate the trip opening mechanism. The trip solenoid that releases the latch is usually energized by a separate battery, although some high-voltage circuit breakers are self-contained with current transformers, protection relays, and an internal control power source.

Once a fault is detected, contacts within the circuit breaker must open to interrupt the circuit; some mechanically-stored energy (using something such as springs or compressed air) contained within the breaker is used to separate the contacts, although some of the energy required may be obtained from the fault current itself. Small circuit breakers may be manually operated; larger units have solenoids to trip the mechanism, and electric motors to restore energy to the springs.

The circuit breaker contacts must carry the load current without excessive heating, and must also withstand the heat of the arc produced when interrupting the circuit. Contacts are made of copper or copper alloys, silver alloys, and other materials. Service life of the contacts is limited by the erosion due to interrupting the arc. Miniature and molded case circuit breakers are usually discarded when the contacts are worn, but power circuit breakers and high-voltage circuit breakers have replaceable contacts.

When a current is interrupted, an arc is generated. This arc must be contained, cooled, and extinguished in a controlled way, so that the gap between the contacts can again withstand the voltage in the circuit. Different circuit breakers use vacuum, air, insulating gas, or oil as the medium in which the arc forms. 

So..... How is it? get any idea bout circuit breaker? Actually we also could see MCCB in our home. The current terminal detector, which normally located high attached to our walls, was built by combining the circuit breakers. 

residential common usage

 ha...... so we always see it.. but now only i know what the device we called during this practical sessions... hahahahahahaah....

Day 23: FAT Report..

Today maybe differs from my previous days in TFDD PGB...WHY?? coz i still feel fresh and revive from previous FAT sessions which helps me a lot in understanding the engineering phase especially in the technical work.

Those engineers, technicians and sales persons involved in yesterday's FAT session, leads me to the new phase@era of my mindset ...widen my knowledges and also boost my morality in gaining knowledge as much as i can during this 3 months period. What i could see, the professionalism credibility shown by all of the respective persons such as, in house engineers, sales person, manufacturer  are extremely enormous. They actually polished my inner sides and take them as my models in improving my way of life.. How they conduct meeting with their high level of confidence and very clear explanation regarding this project also open my eyes and yet still fluctuates inside my brain.

Hurmmm... i'm 100%ly sure, it could be difference if they are in the gov sectors. It is what we should learn and improve in order to bring our gov management to the top satisfaction, efficient and be professionals in doing our work... That's WHAT I'M GOING TO BE!! i will ensure that i could achieve the same confidence level and professionalism in my way to be an engineer.

For today's work, i need to sketch or actually type a report due to yesterday's FAT. With all the pictures and and informations that i captured, it is an easy task for me... I do really hope, i could be involved in this kind of agenda or activities again... Plus, They treat you an expensive meals as well....!! hahaha... But, im too shy to show my passions towards FOODs..!!