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Sky Loo

Chief Operating Officer, Engineering


Professional Background

Over a decade of experience in project management. Wide experience in boilers, turbines and gearboxes, dredgers, paper machines, pressure vessels and bogies. Third party inspectons, quality assurance and control services.

Areas of Expertise

  • Project management, budgeting and planning
  • Outage management
  • Asset management and life assessment
  • Condition assessment of pressure equipment
  • Root cause investigation into the failure of metallic and non-metallic components.
  • R&D in materials performance
  • Boilers (HRSG, brown coal, black coal, CFB, Vibrating grate boiler)
  • Dredgers assessment
  • Preparation and assessment non-destructive metallographic replications for the purposes of plant life assessment.
  • Acoustic Emission testing of high energy piping systems

Relevant Project Experience

  • PROJECT | Payra 1320MW Thermal Power Plant Project
    Client: Bangladesh China Power Corporation Limited
    Role: Project Manager
    Key achievements:
    -QAQC and third party inspections across major equipment, including boiler, turbine, mills, transformers, etc. Inspections carried out across China and the United Kingdom.
    -Expert witness during commissioning test and performance test
    -Factory audits.
     
  • PROJECT | Loy Yang B Power Station
    Client: Alinta Energy
    Role: Project Manager and Inspector
    Key achievements:
    -Long term inspection strategy and risk mitigation
    -Inspection of boiler and turbine
    -Acoustic emission testing on the entire pressure piping system from boiler to turbine to monitor for any crack growth
  • PROJECT | Piping flexibility Tenage National Janamanjung Power Station
    Client: TNB Janamanjung
    Role: Project Manager
    Key achievements:
    -Piping analysis using CAESARII
    -Stress analysis using ANSYS
    -Hanger survey and strain gauging.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Engineering (Materials)
  • Honours Monash University, Clayton

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NATA accredited AtS/NZS ISO 17025, AS/NZS ISO 17020NATA Accredited Laboratories number 561

ISO 9001 Quality Management

ISO 9001 Quality Management certified by BSI under certificate number FS605116.