A Good Builder Who Shoulders Heavy Burdens and Overcomes Various Diffculties

Yang Bingfeng

Joined CNBM in July 2002

The Director of Engineering Management Department No.2 of CDI and the Project Manager of PCC 7700TPD Clinker Cement Production Line and Captive WHR and 24MW Coal Power Plant Project undertaken by CDI in Pakistan

The PCC project with a daily output of 7,700 tons of clinker cement production line is the first EPC project of Chengdu Design Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co., Ltd. in Pakistan, including supporting 12MW waste heat power generation and a 2x12MW coal-fired power station. The high-quality and efficient performance of the project has established a good corporate image in the local area. Every deep footprint of project construction is a mark of the hard work forging ahead.

In April 2019, when the installation of machinery and equipment for the project was drawing to a close and no-load commissioning was scheduled to begin, the construction of the steel comprehensive corridor of the whole plant was delayed due to the postponed arrival of personnel as a consequence of the air war between India and Pakistan. On this steel corridor laid the main cables to each electrical room, water and compressed air pipes to each workshop, steam pipes for waste heat generation and control fibers linking the central control to each electrical room. Only with completion of this corridor could the commissioning of the whole plant be commenced. In order to open this artery in the shortest possible time, Yang Bingfeng organized teams to work 8 hours per shift and 3 shifts per day to have the overhead corridor paired and hoisted within 20 days instead of the usual 2 to 3 months!

The cement production line was successfully started on January 15, 2020. The first ton of qualified clinker was successfully produced on January 21. The first ton of qualified cement was successfully produced on January 27. The first-class project management ability shown by Yang Bingfeng and his team has won the full recognition of the owner.

The PCC project was commissioned at the beginning of the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. All European equipment service engineers at the site were evacuated. Pakistan completely shut down all commercial flights, which  made it impossible for the project that was in the pre-assessment production line commissioning stage to obtain external support, and the project was stagnant. However, Yang Bingfeng led the project team to focus on pandemic prevention and control together with commissioning, and solved the difficulties and problems one by one.

It is by relying on the spirit of "Never Give up Easily" that the Project Department completed all the performance assessments of the cement clinker line and packaging plant within three months.

The installation and commissioning of the power plant supporting the project were also stopped due to the unavailability of the manufacturer's service personnel. Installation and commissioning of the power plant was a new challenge for the project department.

Steam turbine, as the heart of power plants, required high equipment operation accuracy and complex interlocking. Wrong parameters or unreasonable interlock setting may well cause irreparable damage to the equipment. Yang Bingfeng quickly organized the professional and technical personnel related to the electrical and mechanical discipline of the project to set up an attack team. Everyone studied the equipment instructions and drawings, consulted various relevant materials, and connected with the manufacturer's personnel by video to guide and solve problems online. After more than half month’s efforts, parameter setting and interlock testing of the steam turbine has been successfully completed. Finally, the steam turbine was successfully impulse-started. The project was located at the foot of the mine mountain range. In September 2020,the project site experienced a once-in-a-century torrential rainfall, and the road in the plant was waterlogged up to half a meter. Yang Bingfeng actively discussed with the owner to find a solution. On one hand, temporary flood interception ditches were excavated outside the plant to drain the water,and the gaps in the plant wall were blocked in time to avoid more floods entering the plant area. On the other hand, temporary drainage ditches were excavated in the plant to eliminate waterlogging. After our joint efforts, despite the torrential rain and the flooding outside the plant, the project site was still rumbling with the sound of machines and cheerful operation of equipment.

In his spare time, Yang Bingfeng set up the project basketball team and table tennis team, opened a gymnasium, organized fun games and karaoke competitions to enrich everyone's spare time,and created a "home" atmosphere for overseas employees. In order to help external engineers and local employees integrate into the team, he also actively invited them to participate in activities to enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the department.

September is an autumn month in Pakistan. In a rare moment of leisure, Yang Bingfeng, who has not returned to China for 11 months, imagined this scene in his mind: after the completion of the project,he would personally record a video of the project panorama and production, so that his wife and daughter who have been silently supporting his work could see it and could feel his pride of being abuilder of this project!

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