Starting your own process plant is a dream come true. So many people work countless number of hours to plan, procure, construct, understand process, ensure safety and take care of every minute detail. Its like creating a new world which for many years in future will breathe, thrive and give employment to generations of people. Five years later after the first kick off meeting with our technology licensors finally the day came when we were ready to take Ethylene in pipelines inside our plant's boundary area or battery limit (ISBL). All we had to do was reverse one of the spectacle blinds and open isolation valves at upstream of spectacle blind. But, Mr Murphy's laws killed the fun. As we were opening bolts of blind's flange, we heard our gas meters screami ng. Both the valves at upstream of this spectacle blind were passing. We made a plan, Let's connect few hoses and vent the pressure to flare. When pressure comes down we will open the flange bolts and revers...
Millions of years ago many marine lives died beneath the weight of sediments eroded from the land. Everybody thought their story was over, but it had just begun... With sediments they made source rock which gave value to our lives. The value that enabled us to rise in Maslow's level of hierarchy and think about big ideas like democracy, capitalism, socialism, Medicine, Spiritualism and raise our eyes to space.