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.