ASOK K. DATTA, P.E.
Structural Engineer
Master
of Science in Civil Engineering, Cooper Union, New York.
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Calcutta University,
India
Registered Professional Engineer: New York
Structural
Engineer
Mr.
Datta is responsible for structural design and
detailing on Energy Associates' projects.
* CH2M HILL. Samalaju Industrial Port, Sarawak, Malaysia. Structural
elements of an EPC tender documents for a complex, multi-dry bulk commodity,
conveyor belt system, with four dry bulk berths, multiple ship unloaders, shiploader, stackers, reclaimers,
truck loading terminal, multiple paths, and interface with Industrial Park’s
distribution conveyor belt system.
* Longview Power.
Prepared structural designs and supervised drafting for the detail design of a
three (3) fuel systems with an approximate value of $100 million for a
greenfield, 700MW plant; including the plant’s coal handling system, an
adjacent coal-blending yard, and a 4.5 mile overland conveyor system with a
surge stacking/reclaim system.
* AES Cayuga.
Prepared structural designs and supervised drafting for the detail design of a
unique feeder/conveyor addition to the 50-year old AES Cayuga coal-fired plant.
* Ameren Services
Company, Meramec Rail Receiving. Prepared structural designs and
supervised civil draftsmen for a $64 million coal handling system addition to
the Meramec Plant.
* Ameren Energy
Generation Company, Coffeen Crusher House
Chutes. Responsible for the structural redesign of surge bins, chutes,
and skirtboards at the Coffeen
Plant.
* Ameren Services
Company, Meramec Rail Receiving Study. Responsible for the layout of the
rail loop radial stacker and estimate of the structural steel.
* Tri-State Generation
& Transmission. Responsible for the structural engineering of a
rotary coal breaker addition to 110 MW Nucla Station,
Nucla, Colorado
* Foster Wheeler
USA. Responsible for the layout of the crusher dryer silo arrangement for
the City of Lakeland PFCB Project
* Foster Wheeler, AES
Beaver Valley Project. Conceptual design calculations and general
arrangement configuration for structural loads imposed on the boiler building
by high angle and silo fill conveyors.
* Ameren Services
Company, Sioux PRB coal and Petcoke Blending
Study. Responsible for the layout of conveyors and structures and
structural steel estimate.
* Union Electric
Company. Responsible for the structural/civil aspects of an engineering
investigation for upgrading the coal handling system to support fuel changes at
the Meramec Plant.
* Foster Wheeler
USA. Responsible for the structural/civil aspects of coal handling
engineering services to support their proposal efforts on the Lagisza Power Project in Poland.
* Union Electric
Company. Responsible for the structural/civil detail engineering aspects
of the relocation of the take-up for the South No. 6 conveyors at the Labadie
Plant.
* Foster Wheeler
USA. Responsible for the structural/civil engineering services for a coal
handling system, in to support of proposal efforts on the Duburi
Power Project in Orissa and the Ghogha Project in
Gujarat, India.
* Tri-State Generation
& Transmission. Responsible for the structural design of the in-plant
coal handling system modifications.
* Union Electric
Company. Responsible for the structural design and foundation of the
south No. 6 take-up tower relocation.
* Tri-State Generation
& Transmission. Responsible for investigating structural improvements
for the coal handling system of the 110 MW Nucla
Station, Nucla, Colorado
* Union Electric
Company. Responsible for the structural engineering of the retrofit of
six self-cleaning magnetic separators to the Labadie Plant.
* Union Electric
Company. Investigated structural improvements to the Labadie Plant's coal
handling system to solve plow feeder tunnel washout problems.
Structural
Engineer
Mr. Datta
provided structural engineering and detailing consulting services to a wide
range of clients and projects. These include:
* Power Tech Associates
for Central Termica San Nicolas (CEA/AES/CMS/ORMAS
Consortium). Evaluated the upgrading of structural components of a coal
handling system at the San Nicolas Power Plant in San Nicolas, Argentina.
* CSX
Transportation. Palletized ash unloading system for Curtis Bay Piers.
* EBASCO Services.
Rehabilitation of all belt conveyor chutes, equipment, and structural supports
for the Bayshore Station of Toledo Edison.
* Hendrick
Associates. Surge bin loading system for CARGIL's Watkins Glen, N.Y.
facility.
* CSX
Transportation. Bid specification for dust collector modifications at a
soda ash facility in Philadelphia, PA.
* Willis & Paul
Group. Equipment layout and structural load calculations for a mechanical
ash handling system.
* CSX
Transportation. Design of a soda ash facility at the East Side Yard
facility in Philadelphia, PA.
* Robins Engineers &
Constructors. Mechanical and structural design of tire and rail mounted
trailers for Hycroft Resources, Nevada.
* NEF. Civil and
structural design of a 3000 sf office building extension in the Bronx, N.Y.
* Unifoil
Corp. Engineering and detailed design of a support structure for an incinerator.
* Nackawick
Mechanical. Prepared shop fabrication drawings of a shiploader
cradle.
ORBA
CORPORATION
Structural Engineer
Mr. Datta
was assigned to multi-million dollar bulk handling projects with project and
civil/structural engineering responsibilities. He worked on projects for
both US and international clients. Mr. Datta's
assignments included the following:
* O.N.E. Coal handling
system for the Mohammedia Power Station, Morocco.
* Union Electric. Coal
blending system for the Labadie Power Station, Missouri
* Tarahan
Coal Terminal, Indonesia.
* Transshipment
facility for Toledo Ore Railroad Co.
* Xi-Ji
Coal Terminal, Huangpu, China.
* Energy Terminals,
Inc. Facility upgrading for a coal/coke handling facility in
Philadelphia, PA.
* Williams Pipeline
Co. Preliminary engineering of the Williams Coal Export Terminal,
Southport, North Carolina.
* DM&IR. Two
Harbors Storage and Shiploading Facility - Duluth, Minnesota.
Structural Engineer
Mr. Datta
was responsible for civil/structural engineering on his assigned
projects. His assignments included the following:
* Washington Irrigation
and Developments. Coal handling operation at Centralia, Washington.
* Western Energy
Co. Coal Handling Facility No. 3, located in Colstrip, Montana.
* Square Butte Electric
Cooperative, Inc. Coal handling facility at a power plant located near
Center, North Dakota.
* Lower Colorado River
Authority. Fayette Power Project , La Grange,
Texas.
* Texas Municipal Power
Agency. Coal handling system for the Gibbons Creek Station, Texas.
* Haifa Port Coal
Terminal, Israel.
* Negev Phosphate LTD., Beersheve, Israel.