Mentors

Prakash Joshi

Name: Mr. Prakash Joshi

 

Education: B.E.(Mechanical), 1972
Professional Experience: Over 39 Years
Profile:

During his professional career spanning 39+ years, Mr. Prakash Joshi worked in the areas of Plant Design, fabrication, Inspection, including in-service inspection of Pressure vessels, Heat Exchangers, Piping Systems and Tank-farms for Oil Refineries, Petrochemical plants, Oil terminals, Fertilizer plants, Gas sweetening plants, LNG plants etc. He represents a rare blend of versatile knowledge and experience in the domains of mechanical Design, Fabrication, integrity administration, reliability, inspection, production, maintenance and engineering disciplines in Oil and gas industry. He is well versed in:-
ASME Sec. VIII, Div. 1, Sec. VIII, Div. 2
ASME Sec. III (Nuclear Vessels), ASME Sec. I (Power Boilers)
ASME Sec. II, Sec. V, Sec.IX, API 1104, AWS D 1.1 TEMA codes
All piping codes like ASME B 31.1, B31.3, B31.4,B 31.8 etc
AD-MERKBLATTER codes, British Codes, European Pr.Vessel Directives
Tank codes API 650, 620, Bs 2654, Bs 2594 etc.
Inspection codes like 510, 570, 653, 579, 580. etc.

He helped several industries in India and abroad for review and updating their company standards and specifications. He also reviewed, scrutinized and approved process engineering standards, design specifications and general technical requirements for in-house as well as contracted jobs.

Mr. Prakash Joshi has worked with several Multinational companies worldwide and was, involved / interacted with leading multinationals such as:
Mobil Oil – Princeton, New Jersey
Umm-Al-Nar Refinery , Abu Dhabi
M.W. Kellogg.
Toyo Engineering

Balcke-Durr GMBH
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Thermax Limited.India

Prior to commencement of training activities, Mr. Prakash Joshi was Technical Advisor to Balcke-Durr GMBH, a Group Company of Deutche Babcock.