CHP Head at Adani Power | 27+ Years of Operational Leadership, Erection, Commissioning & Maintenance Innovation
The system he runs: coal from wagon to boiler.
To pursue the creation of value in all dimensions of life through self-development and consistent value addition across all organizational business processes at every opportunity.
With over 27 years of dedicated experience in the thermal power plant sector, Arun Srivastava specializes in end-to-end Coal Handling Plant (CHP) leadership. His strengths reside in strong team building, strategic leadership, and motivating cross-functional teams to achieve target reliability while maintaining high morale.
His adaptability and discipline drive optimal work outcomes under high-pressure plant environments. Known for driving in-house modifications and cost optimizations, he consistently delivers substantial operational savings.
Adani Power
25+ years
Focused directly within thermal power plant operations.
Six areas that keep a coal handling plant available, safe and inexpensive to run.
Maximizing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) while optimizing MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) for critical equipment.
How much of its planned time a machine actually produces at the right speed and quality. Higher is better.
The average time to get equipment running again after a failure. Lower is better.
The average running time between breakdowns. Higher is better.
End-to-end operational planning, erection, commissioning, and plant modernization.
Budgeting, scheduling, and strict monitoring of plant operations and maintenance activities.
Deploying Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Failure Modes & Effects Analysis for critical machinery innovations.
RCM chooses the maintenance task that best protects each machine's function, based on how it can fail.
FMEA lists how each part can fail, what happens when it does, and which failures to fix first.
Productivity optimization, zero-IR (Industrial Relations) conflict resolution, and high-morale team management.
Driving strategic in-house technical modifications to save capital and maximize plant uptime.
Declaring the Commercial Operation Date (COD) is the point where a new plant is proven ready to sell power. The coal handling plant has to perform reliably through it, and this case focuses on the operational challenges met and resolved along the way.
In-house modifications and cost optimizations that consistently cut running costs.
Industrial relations handled without conflict, with team morale kept high.
A closer look at the coal handling problems that surface when a thermal power plant moves toward COD, and how they are resolved.
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