Internship in Nestlé - 4-5th Jan 2017 (8am - 5pm)

Wednesday, 4^th Jan 2017 (8am - 6pm)                    

At 9.15 a.m., we had a daily review meeting with the operators.

At 10.00 a.m., as usual, I went to the DPRS site to conduct pipeline tracing. The metal fencing was installed and the concrete bund was constructed around the DPRS site. The purposes are to restrict the accessibility into the site by unauthorized personnel and to provide containment for the process liquid in the event of leakage when DPRS is under operation.

At 11.00 a.m., I summarized the information and prepared a note after reading the process description manual of the existing DAF unit, which involves physical-chemical process for particle removal from industrial effluent. 

At 2.30 p.m., Jaclyn and I went to WWTP. At the same time, the waste management company was at WWTP to remove the oil layer from the balance tank. The purpose is to minimize the impact on water quality at downstream processes due to the presence of an oil layer. 

At 4.45 p.m., Tee informed me there would be an important meeting that I must attend. The meeting agenda is regarding the FLOC (functional location) registration of equipment in DPRS. The FLOC contains information of equipment such as location, maintenance data and manufacturer data, which is required for maintenance tasks to be performed.

5.00 – 6.00 p.m., Jaclyn emailed me a file regarding the master record of FLOC of DPRS and asked me to help her check the information. I emailed her with the updated FLOC once I completed this task.

Thursday, 5^th Jan 2017 (8am - 6pm)

At 8.00 a.m., I checked the FLOC sent by Jaclyn after she had added some extra equipment data into the FLOC file.

At 9.15 a.m., as usual, we had a meeting with the operators.

At 10.00 a.m., I went to the DPRS site and noticed the chemical dosing systems were installed completely. At the same time, the installation site cleanup was carried out.

At 4.15 p.m., Tee, Jaclyn and I had a meeting with Fam Hon Koon, senior project engineer, who is the person in charge of the DPRS construction project. I was asked to start the meeting by describing the Maintenance Plan I had prepared, from the beginning to the end of the DPRS process flow.

During the meeting, Fam explained and shared with me the information and knowledge based on his years of valuable practical experience. Besides that, we streamlined the FLOC registration work of DPRS equipment by categorizing several instruments into a number of FLOCs.

At 5.20 p.m., the meeting ended. Tee had informed me that tomorrow he would show me the experimental procedure of coagulation and flocculation using a water sample.