Paresh Haribhakti
Managing Director, TCR Advanced; Chief Metallurgist and Global Technical Consultant to the TCR Group, TCR Advanced Engineering.
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Overview
Mr. Paresh Haribhakti is MD of TCR Advanced Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara, India (a TCR Engineering Services partner company) and the Global Technical Consultant to TCR group of companies. With over two decades of experience in the field of metallography and microstructure examination Mr Haribhakti has solved more than 5000 industrial problems.
He is pioneer in promoting in situ-metallography as an acceptable and reliable technique for process plant monitoring and components in the industries.
Background and experience
He has experience of failure investigation, remaining life assessment and FFS of power plants, fertilisers, chemicals and petrochemicals industries, Mr Haribhakti has intensive work experience to his credentials.
He has solved materials engineering problems and performed failure analysis on components from petrochemical plants, oil and gas transmission pipelines, offshore structures, ships, pharmaceutical plants, food processing equipment, gas turbine engine components, and weldments.
Having expertise in corrosion Mr Haribhakti was a principal team member in conducting the study on high temperature electrochemistry study to select the boroted stainless steel for thermo nuclear reactors, a project led by France along with 8 countries consortium. He has solved many critical corrosion problems pertaining to chemical and petrochemical industries. The expertise lies in identifying the root cause including MIC, selective leaching, SSCC, hydrogen embrittlement, PASCC.
Mr Haribhakti investigates the available physical evidence, and performs the necessary tests to develop the most probable accident scenario. He simplifies complex engineering theory into easy to understand and useable concepts. He uses simple analogies, every day examples, and laymen terms to explain data and findings so clients, corporate executives, government officials, or attorneys may easily understand engineering concepts.
Mr Haribhakti has specific experience in welding, heat treating and materials technology for oil & gas drilling and production applications, including production tubing, casing and down hole motor failures. Recently, Mr Haribhakti was lead member of the Failure Investigation team consulting to Asia’s largest refinery, RIL-Jamnagar, India for damage assessment work during a fire incident in their VGO-HT2 Plant. He has provided damage assessment of Hydrocracker reactors at Baiji refinery Iraq and also helped a customer procure second hand equipment from Taiwan by a Health assessment approach.
He is skilled in the use and application of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in support of failure analysis and fracture identification. Mr. Haribhakti also undertakes Optical metallography and interpretation of microstructures, Remaining Life Assessment, provides Heat treatment solutions and studies the degradation of microstructure under high temperature high pressure conditions. He has done extensive research in study of hydrogen embrittlement of steels and stainless steels.
Research oriented creativeness of Mr. Haribhakti spearheaded the development of a powerful image analysis software for Metallurgical use - the Microstructure Characterizer Software (MiC). He has also developed a well-respected chemical composition mapping method for identification of dilution in weld zone. He performs colour metallography to increase the capabilities of interpretation of microstructure. He has also developed custom electrolytic polishing for carbon and alloy steel material.
Mr. Haribhakti has extensive knowledge of failure investigations on metallic components related to chemical/refinery plants and to general engineering. Experience ranges from cast iron, engineering steels, aluminium, copper alloys, stainless steels, and nickel base alloys to titanium. This includes all aspects of metallurgical investigations of offshore, marine, refinery and automotive components such as; turbine blades, compressors, gearboxes, motors, pumps, rotors, shafts, valves, pipe work, fasteners, boilers, pressure vessels, plain bearings, rolling bearings, gears, pistons, spark plugs, crankshafts, camshafts, engine valves and associated valve components.
Mr. Haribhakti is the co-author of the book titled “Failure Investigation Of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach” which has been published by ASM International
Mr. Haribhakti is a Founder member of Metallography Society of India. He is an active member of the Institute of Engineers, Institute of Foundry Man, Indian Institute of Metals and Indian Institute of Welding. Mr. Haribhakti is a B.E. (Metallurgy) and M.E. (Materials Technology) from M.S. University, Vadodara.
PUBLICATIONS
- Book on “Failure Investigation of Boiler Tube - A comprehensive approach” 2019 | ASM International
- Article on “Optimizing Tube Life” 2019 | World Fertilizer Magazine
- Published article on “Knowledge Based Life Management of Boilers” 2018 | SteamTech-2018
- Paper given on “Preventive Approach for Failure Free Boilers” 2016 | SteamTech-2016
- Presentation and Paper on “An Integrated Approach for RLA of Reformer Tubes by NDT (ARTis)” 2014 | APCNDT 2013 Session: NDT for Life Assessment
- Paper on “Boiler Tube Failure, Root Cause Investigation & Mitigation: Case Studies” 2014 | SteamTech-2014
- Paper on “Corrosion Failures in Water-Wall Tubes” 2014 | Corcon-2014
- Paper on “Material Testing and Characterisation” 2014 | ASM International
- Paper on “Fitness For Service: Using NDT & Inspection” 2013 | 14th Asia Pacific Conference on NDT
- Paper on “In-situ Metallography for the Plant Health Assessment study and Failure Investigation” 2008 | MENDT-2007
- Technical Paper titled “Fitness for Service: Using NDT and Inspection” by Paresh Haribhakti, Katan Upadhyaya, Jaidev Patel & V.K. Bafna presented at the 14th Asia Pacific conference on NDT (2013)
APPRECIATION & AWARDS
- Indian Institute of Metals (Baroda Chapter) confers the IIM-KK Award in recognition of outstanding, selfless & meritorious contribution towards Professional field in particular and Metallurgical society in general, in the state of Gujarat. (2016)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at 4th Middle East Conference by Saudi Arabian Section of ASNT (2007)
- Recognition of Active Participation at Inspection Technical Exchange Meeting & Exhibition by Saudi Aramco, Inspection Department (2008)
- Appreciation from 5th Middle East NDT Conference by Saudi Arabian Section of ASNT for Active Participation as an invited speaker (2009)
- Recognition of Participation as an invited speaker at 6th International Conference by MICMEP (2009)
- Appreciation from ‘NACE West Africa (Africa Region), Dhahran (Saudi Arabia section) & Bahrain society for engineers’ for presenting a technical paper at the 13th Middle East Corrosion Conference & Exhibition (February 14th – 17th 2010)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at International conference & exhibition by ASM International (Heat treat show in 2010)
- Appreciation from 13th Middle East Corrosion Conference by NACE, Middle East Section for Active Participation as an invited speaker (2010)
- Appreciation from Saudi Aramco GO Inspection & Corrosion Forum, Shedgum Gas Plant for Active Participation as an invited speaker (2010)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at 1st NACE – Jubail Industrial Forum organized by NACE – Jubail KSA Section (2011)
- Recognition of Joint partnership with Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) for delivering an advance workshop on Remaining Life Assessment of Power & Progress Boilers (December 13th – 14th 2013) Awarded for valuable participation at Saudi Aramco: Corrosion Awareness Day (June 5th 2014) Appreciation from ASM International as author during International Conference on Material Testing and Characterisation (December 4th - 6th 2014)
- Appreciation from Jeddah Refinery for a valuable presentation on “Fitness For Service” (2015)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at SABIC STM 12 organized by SABIC (2016) Appreciation from HADEED, SABIC, KSA for active participation in Reliability Campaign (2016)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at M.S. University (Baroda) for Meta-Fiesta organized by Society of Metallurgical Engineering (SME) (March 30th 2017)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (September 1st 2018)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at “Two Day symposium on Corrosion & Its Control, SCES 2018” organized by Society of Metallurgical Engineering at M.S. University Baroda (October 3rd & 4th 2018)
- Recognition of Active Participation as an invited speaker at 12th National Conference on Boiler & Steam Systems (SteamTech 2019)
A B.E. (Metallurgy) and M.E. (Materials Technology) from M.S. University, Vadodara, and a founder member of the Metallography Society of India. He has been at the helm of TCR Advanced since its inception, leading a bench of over 200 engineers and consultants, and is the pioneer who established in-situ metallography as a reliable technique for process-plant health monitoring in India. Over thirty years he has solved over 9,000 industrial problems and is an acclaimed boiler-tube-failure investigation expert. He is the author of “Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach”, published by ASM International, USA, and a senior signatory on the group’s fitness-for-service, remaining-life, knowledge-base, and ARTiS reports. His marquee failure-investigation work includes damage assessment for the VGO-HT2 fire at Reliance Jamnagar, hydrocracker reactor assessment at Baiji refinery in Iraq, and a high-temperature electrochemistry study to select borated stainless steel for a France-led eight-country thermonuclear reactor consortium. He developed the Microstructure Characterizer (MiC) image-analysis software, now used by research laboratories worldwide including National Oilwell Varco in the United States, along with a chemical-composition mapping method for weld-dilution identification and custom colour-metallography and electrolytic-polishing techniques.
His innovation record carries patents. He developed and patented the robotic crawler behind ARTiS, the reformer-tube ultrasonic inspection system, and the IOT-enabled in-situ metallographic replica system marketed as INSIPOL-2000. He led the team that built the Asset Integrity Optimization and Management (AiOM) cloud platform on API RP 580 and API RP 581 risk-based-inspection principles, and is currently extending the Microstructure Characterizer work into artificial-intelligence-driven microstructure interpretation.
As lead consultant he has signed the group's highest-stakes integrity work. The fitness-for-service of a hydrogen isomerization reactor for an oil-and-gas major, run to API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, returned a direct cost saving of more than 15 million US dollars. He has directed remaining-life and fitness-for-service work on high-pressure high-temperature components at QAFCO in Qatar, the Omega-method furnace-tube remaining-life study for Saudi Aramco, failure-investigation and RLA programmes for SABIC in the Kingdom, reformer-tube and gasket failure investigation at OMIFCO in Oman, and reformer-tube life assessment with ARTiS at Pemex in Mexico and at Notore Chemical Industries Plc in Nigeria. The full health assessment of a hydrogen plant relocated from England to Valia in Gujarat for Godrej Industries, and the Incoloy 800H ammonia-header repair-weld solution at Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals, sit in the same record.
The Indian Institute of Metals, Baroda Chapter, conferred the IIM-KK Award on him in 2016 for outstanding and meritorious contribution to the metallurgical profession in Gujarat. He is an invited speaker across the Saudi Aramco inspection and corrosion forums, the NACE and AMPP Middle East corrosion conferences, the ASNT Middle East NDT conferences, the SABIC technical meetings, and ASM International events, and he is the principal expert at Evolve by TCR. He sits on the board of TCR Arabia. Before building the TCR Advanced practice he spent nine years as a troubleshooting metallurgist on failure investigation and remaining-life assessment at Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals.
Paresh Haribhakti on video
TCR publishes its own work on YouTube. 6 films are below, recorded on the bench, in the field and at the plant. Each one loads only when you press play: nothing is requested from Google before that.
- "Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes" book launch by Paresh Haribhakti
- Book Launch "Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach" By Paresh Haribhakti
- Paresh Haribhakti's book on "Boiler Tube Failure" featured on India News
- TCR Advanced MD, Paresh Haribhakti on News 18
- ૨૫ વર્ષની સફળતાનો ઉત્સવ: શ્રી પરેશ હરિભક્તિ દ્વારા TCR એડવાન્સ્ડની સફરની ઉજવણી | રજત જયંતિ પ્રસંગ
- Paresh Haribhakti, MD TCR Advanced remembers Mr. V.K. Bafna the Chairman Emeritus of TCR Engineering
On the podcast
Paresh Haribhakti appears on the TCR Engineering podcast channel, where TCR discusses failure investigations, asset integrity and the standards the work is held to. The episodes are published on TCR Engineering’s own channel.
In the Insights
Paresh Haribhakti is named in 42 published articles in the TCR Engineering Insights archive, covering the investigations, accreditations and technical work Paresh has been part of. Each one is dated and on the record. The 12 most recent are shown first.
Boiler Tube Failure Analysis
Ferrography Wear Debris Analysis for Lube Oil
TCR Engineering and Chugai Technos Sign MOU to Connect India and Japan in Inspection and Asset Integrity
The Pipeline That Lost 40% Capacity (And Nobody Knew Until C-Value Analysis Revealed the Truth)
Boiler Tube Failure Analysis: A Complete Investigation Guide for Power Plants
How TCR Advanced Ensures Storage Tank Integrity Through Comprehensive Condition Assessment
TCR's Specialized Training Programs: Elevating Fertilizer Industry Excellence Through Expert-Led Technical Education
Why Failure Analysis Metallurgical Laboratory India Services Prevent Million-Dollar Disasters
Boiler Inspection Services India IBR Approved: Your Complete Guide to Safe, Compliant Operations
Reliability by Design: Lead with Life Cycle Integrity
Free Masterclass on Asset Integrity Management
The other 30
- Integrity Despite Defects Podcast on FFS
- Paresh Haribhakti on the 'Metallurgist’s Insight' Podcast
- Evolve by TCR: Bridging Education and Industry
- Webinar on RLA of Boilers
- Hindalco Commends TCR for Failure Analysis Expertise
- TCR Advanced: 25 Years of Innovation and Excellence
- Free Webinar on Metallographic In-Situ Replica
- Boiler Tube Failure - Book Launch Event
- Paresh Haribhakti - Plant Integrity Solution workshop
- STEAMTECH - 2017
- TCR Advanced celebrates milestone year 2015-16
- Boiler and Steam Systems - STEAMTECH
- Paresh Haribhakti wins the KK Award
- Paresh Haribhakti addresses at IITM
- Rohit Bafna welcomes HE Dr Abdul Hussain Bin Ali Mirza
- Workshop on Fitness for Service by Paresh Haribhakti
- ‘Materials of Construction for Chemical Process Plants’ at IIChE (NRC)
- MET ‘14 + Heat Treat Show
- INS National Workshop on Corrosion and Condition Monitoring
- Paresh Haribhakti at International Corrosion Conference
- TCR Engineering at Fertilizers Association of India seminar
- TCR Advanced gets approval from Cameron
- V.K. Bafna, Paresh Haribhakti at ASM Heat Treat Show
- Paresh Haribhakti speaks at MICMEP-EAC 2009
- TCR PPSimtech agreement
- TCR chairs CII session on Condition Monitoring
- Article from TCR now Published on NDT.net
- Middle East Nondestructive Testing Conference and Exhibition
- TCR participates at NDE 2007, India
- 61st Annual Technical Meeting - Indian Institute of Metals (IIM)
The rest of the bench
Paresh Haribhakti is one of 28 named leaders across TCR Engineering, TCR Advanced and the group functions. Every one of them is on record with their role, their credentials and the work they sign for.