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Origin Energy 2016/2017 Vacation Student ProgramCourtney Bolton10/02/2017

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Introduction

• I’m a Mechanical Engineering Student

• Worked with the Rotating Equipment Team

• What does this team do?

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My Project – Type B Appliance Training Rollout Scheme• What is the rollout scheme?• Why are we doing it?• What is involved to complete it?• What is a Type B Appliance?

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What is a Type B Appliance?• Not a Type A Appliance• It exceeds a gas consumption of

10MJ/hr • Doesn’t have a certification

scheme.• Includes components and fittings

that contribute to operation and safety.

• Has a strict authorisation process.Master-Slave Microturbine Configuration

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What is the Training Rollout Scheme?• Training for Origin employees.• Help employees understand Type B

Appliances.• How asset authorisation works.• How Origin wants these assets

managed, maintained and remain compliant.

Screw Compressor

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Why Are We Doing It?• Ensuring Origin is abiding by Government Standards and

Regulations.• To ensure all assets are compliant.• Maintain adequate records.• More cost and time effective.• Improved productivity.

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What is Involved?• Creating a new AS3814 Appendix A

Design Submission Form.• Verifying/Locating certificates for

Type B appliances.• Verifying location of 600+ appliances.• Updating competency records.• Liaising with companies

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Challenges• Understanding what a Type B

appliance is.• Working with and understanding

the relevant standards (e.g. AS3814)

• How to read Process & Instrumentation Diagrams

• Work load with going through information of 600+ appliances.

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How Did I Overcome Them?

• Asked question after question.• Did my own research.• Confirmed my understanding with

my team.• Prioritised actions that needed to

be completed.• Organised my time accordingly.

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Opportunity: My Time Out on Site• Orana Train 1 Shutdown• Experienced permits to

work procedures.• Rotating Equipment Team

– Centrifugal Compressors• Borescoped

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Borescoping

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Our Findings

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Highlights• Flew for the first time.• Experienced office and site life.• Borescoping.• Gaining invaluable industry

experience.• Obtaining knowledge and wisdom

from engineers and technicians in the office and out on site.

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What’s Next for Me?• Go back to QUT to undergo my

3rd year of Mechanical and Medical Engineering.

• Continue my professional development.

• Gain more and widen my industry experience.

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Acknowledgements• Thank you to the Rotating Equipment Team.

• David Stevenson• Brett Rabbitt• Lacey Waller• Sam Manning• Angela Cam• Nathon Beasant-Commerford• Bruce Lawrence• Vadim Zhulaev• Ben Orchard• Michael Rowlandson

• Thank you to Ross Connor and Andrew Bazeley for the engaging daily conversations.

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Final Words

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, you tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I Can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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Questions

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Thank you for the Experience