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CEW Industry News Petronas Awards `1,500 Cr Order to Va Tech Wabag

Siemens to Invest One Billion Euro in India

Mumbai, India: Malaysia’s national oil and gas company, Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) has awarded an ` 1,500 Cr Order to Va Tech Wabag and Muhibbah Engineering. After the announcement, the share price of Va Tech Wabag jumped to 5 per cent. Petronas will build a construct an effluent treatment plant at its refinery and petrochemical complex in Malaysia.

Mumbai, India: Joe Kaeser, President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens, has recently announced that the company will invest about Euro one billion in India and create about 4000 jobs within the country. The company has already invested about two billion euros in the past ten years in India and according to the Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of the company, it will invest an extra one Chief Executive Officer, billion to support the ‘Make in India’ campaign.

Siemens The company may look for new mergers and acquisition to execute the new plans.

This is Petronas’ largest Greenfield project refinery capacity of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), and a steam cracker with combined annual production of over 3 million tonnes (mtpa).

The consortium will address the needs of the entire complex with the integrated effluent treatment plant. This is Va Tech Wabag’s first integrated ETP in South-East Asia in oil and gas sector.

Bazmi Husain Appointed ABB’s CTO Banglore, India: ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Bazmi Husain as Chief Te c h n o l o g y O f f i c e r ( C TO ) , e f fe c t i ve January 1, 2016. Husain, an exper t in power and automation who has been with ABB for more than 30 years, will report Bazmi Husain, CTO, ABB to CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. Husain is currently Managing Director of ABB India Ltd. In his new role, he will be based in Bangalore, India, with an office in Switzerland.

His successor will be announced in due course.

As Chief Technology Officer, Husain will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of ABB’s global R&D, which serves the entire company, its scientists and engineers, and for the R&D activities within ABB’s divisions.

Reporting to him, will be the heads of R&D at Group and division level as well as ABB’s venture capital arm, ABB Technology Ventures. With locations in seven countries, ABB’s corporate research centres bring together an international team of highly skilled scientists across a variety of disciplines. ABB spends USD 1.5 billion annually on R&D and employs some 8,500 technologists.

India Scouts Local Partner for Urea JV in Iran Delhi, India: The Government of India has nominated Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF) along with Gujarat Narmada Valley Fer tilizers and Chemicals (GNFC) and Gujarat State Fertilizer Corn (GSFC) for a urea joint venture plant in Iran.

A delegation is likely to finalise the local partners for the project soon. The project will be set up in Chahbahar in Iran using natural gas as feed stock with an investment of USD 903 million.

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Kirloskar Brothers Acquires Rodelta Pumps Pune, India: Kirloskar Pompen BV, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Kirloskar Brothers International (KBI) has completed the acquisition of Netherlands-based Rodelta Pumps International. Rodelta is engaged in manufacturing of API and Non-API pumps for oil & gas, pulp & paper, water, chemical and various other applications since 1946. With the local manufacturing, complementary products, product technology, anticipated synergies and qualified manpower, KBL group is primed to provide its customers with new technology and engineering solution. Speaking about the new development, Varinder Dhoot, Managing Director, Kirloskar Pompen BV, said, “Acquisition of Rodelta Pumps International will not only give fillip to KBL Groups desire to offer world-class products and technology in the global markets, but also strengthen our plans to offer localised packages and services through manufacturing plants in each geography that we operate in.”

Reliance Polymers to Launch World’s Greenest Sustainable Fibres Mumbai, India: Reliance Polymers is set to launch what the company claims will be one of the world’s greenest environment friendly sustainable fibres ‘Recron GreenGold’ manufactured from post-consumer waste PET bottles. The Recron GreenGold fibres are said to be one of the greenest fibres of the world in terms of Co2e. In terms of sustainability, these fibres help in reducing dependence on fossil fuels, natural resources by using post-consumer waste PET bottles which would otherwise have gone for land fill, oceans, or incineration whereas in terms of performance, these fibres are just like the virgin polyester fibre. These fibres also replace the wet colouring process in the production of dyed polyester staple fibre with a dry one, where the colours are added with the raw material instead of colouring the fibre in an additional dyeing process. As fibre comes out coloured, it eliminates the need of wet dyeing process all the way to the textile value chain from fibre to yarn to fabric, making it suitable for both apparel and technical textile players to offer certified green end-products and meet the increasing need for sustainable apparel from overseas buyers and brands. Open to business professionals of the technical textiles and nonwovens industry, these fibres will be showcased at the Techtextil India exhibition opening next week.

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CEW Industry News Ismatec Pumps Now Part of the Cole-Parmer Family

Grundfos Partners with CII-ITC Centre of Excellence

Mumbai, India: With the recent acquisition of Ismatec pumps from IDEX Health and Science, Cole-Parmer has expanded its already robust line of fluid handling and analysis products. The Swiss-engineered Ismatec pumps are renowned for their clocklike precision and manufactured according to strict ISO 9001:2008 standards. The Independent Channel Control (ICC) pumps provide lower pulsation, better reproducibility, and a longer tubing life. Variable flow and bidirectional capabilities in each channel add to their flexibility. The uniqueness of the ICC allows for individual channel calibration.

New Delhi, India: Grundfos Pumps India Pvt Ltd partnered with CIIITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development on its 10th Sustainability Summit and sponsored a session on ‘Smart Cities: Transforming Life, Transforming India’. With the central government’s recent announcement on the list of cities included under 100 smart cities program, there is a lot of expectation and excitement around the development of these smart cities in the country. This session on Smart Cities had industry leaders including Ranganath N K, Managing Director, Grundfos India discuss the challenges, opportunities and solutions that can ensure that the Smart Cities initiative succeeds.

“I am very excited about this acquisition as Ismatec expands our depth of micro flow products complementing our Masterflex Product Line. Ismatec has unique pump heads which reduce damage to cells, useful in biotech applications. Reglo ICC, is another unique potential multichannel pump in which each channel has variable flow adjustment,” said Rakesh Aggarwal, Managing Director – Asia Pacific, Cole-Parmer.

Covestro Up & Running Mumbai, India: One of the world’s leading polymer materials suppliers has a new identity. From September 1, 2015 Bayer MaterialScience is operating under the Covestro name. The company is now legally and economically independent, but will remain a 100 per cent subsidiary of Bayer AG. Bayer wants to float Covestro on the stock market by mid2016 at the latest in order to concentrate exclusively on the life sciences businesses. “Independence will enable us to bring our strengths to bear in global competition more quickly, effectively and flexibly,” said Patrick Thomas, CEO, Covestro. Covestro has a new, colourful logo. Its vision is also new: ‘To make the world a brighter place.’ “We fulfill this vision by inspiring innovation and driving growth through profitable technologies and products that benefit society and reduce environmental impacts,” said Thomas. Covestro supplies key industries around the world, such as the automotive, construction and electronics sectors, as well as the furniture, sporting goods and textiles industries.

KSB India’s ‘Make in India’ initiative Pune, India: KSB India bagged a prestigious order for the supply of 6 sets of boiler feed pumps for Alstom Bharat Forge Power Ltd. These Pumps will be installed at NTPC’s 2x660 MW supercritical power project located in Tanda, Uttar Pradesh. The scope of the order includes supply of high pressure boiler feed pumps, accessories like base plates, electric motors, hydraulic couplings, oil coolers, gear box, noise enclosures and related instrumentation. On receipt of this order, Dinesh Khanna, Director (Sales & Marketing) KSB Pumps Limited, informed that the supply of main boiler feed pumps and booster pumps for this order is a part of KSB India’s ‘Make in India’ initiative. These pumps will be manufactured in KSB’S Chinchwad plant, which is a dedicated unit for energy projects and is well equipped with modern manufacturing and testing facilities.

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Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Joint Secretary (Housing), Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation was also one of the key members of this panel discussion. Commenting on the occasion, Mahathi Parashuram, Head – Public Affairs & Marketing, Grundfos India, said, “The development of smart cities can be made possible only through the partnership of government and industry. It is therefore critical that we have such platforms where industry and Government can come together to discuss key aspects of how efficient implementation and sustainable solutions can help make the Smart Cities initiative a reality. Energy and water efficiency will play a critical role in the success of the smart cities and we hope that this session has highlighted the same.”

Lanxess & Saudi to Form JV for Synthetic Rubber Mumbai, India: The specialty chemicals company Lanxess and Saudi Aramco plan to establish a joint venture for synthetic rubber. Lanxess and Saudi Aramco subsidiary, Aramco Overseas Company, will each hold a 50 per cent interest in the joint venture, with annual sales of approximately Euro 3 billion in 2014. Saudi Aramco is to pay approximately Euro 1.2 billion in cash for its 50 per cent share after deducting debt and other financial liabilities. The total joint venture is valued at Euro 2.75 billion.

The transaction still requires the approval of the relevant antitrust authorities and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2016.

LANXESS will contribute its synthetic rubber business to the new joint venture. This will include the Tire & Specialty Rubbers (TSR) and the High Performance Elastomers (HPE) business units, their 20 production facilities in nine countries and some 3,700 employees and additional support staff. The high-performance rubbers manufactured by LANXESS are mainly used in the production of tires and technical applications such as hoses, belts and seals.

The main customers include the automotive and tire industries but the products are also used in the construction industry and by oil and gas companies. Saudi Aramco will provide the joint venture with competitive and reliable access to strategic raw materials over the medium term. The joint venture brings together the world’s largest producer of synthetic rubber and the world’s largest oil and energy producer to form a far-reaching strategic partnership.

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CEW Industry News Shell Boosts Production for Chemicals Customers in Asia

AkzoNobel to Invest in Performance Coatings Activities in Vietnam

Singapore: Shell announced new investments at its Singapore site that will add to its portfolio of world-class manufacturing facilities and boost its chemicals footprint in Asia. The company has taken a final investment decision to build new petrochemicals production units on Jurong Island to supply customers in the region. The new investments will be built over some 35,000 square metres of land, about the size of seven football fields.

They include a high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) purification column with an initial capacity of 140,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) and two world-scale ethoxylation units with a combined capacity of 140,000 tpa.

Hanoi, Vietnam: AkzoNobel has announced plans to invest in its Performance Coatings business in Vietnam. Alongwith doubling capacity at its powder coatings facility in Dong Nai, the company also intends to open a new office for Performance Coatings in Ho Chi Minh City. The new production line in Dong Nai will be ready in November and will be supported by a 20 per cent increase in workforce. In addition to serving the local market, the expanded plant will also supply customers across Southeast Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand. “Vietnam has proven to be strategic market for AkzoNobel in Southeast Asia and we are strongly committed to expanding our position,” said Alan Alex, Business Manager, AkzoNobel’s Powder Coatings Business, Southern Asia. “With focused investment, we aim to sustain our high double-digit growth in the domestic market in Vietnam, as well as Southern Asia overall.”

These will add to Shell’s existing capacities for HPEO (65,000 tpa) and alcohol ethoxylates (40,000 tpa) from the company’s 2010 acquisition of its partner’s shares in Ethylene Glycols (Singapore) Private Limited.

The new investments also include associated facilities, such as product tanks and a HPEO pipeline grid. The pipelines will deliver HPEO to new and potential ‘over-the-fence’ customers, some of whom have already signed up with Shell and are building facilities nearby.

BASF to Increase Production Capacity for Tertiary Butylamine Plant in Nanjing, China Ludwigshafen, Germany: BASF will expand the production capacity of its existing world-scale production plant for tertiary Butylamine (tba) at the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in China. The company plans to increase the existing production capacity by 60 percent, from 10,000 tons to 16,000 tons per year. The expansion is expected to come on stream in early 2015, subject to regulatory approval. The capacity increase will further strengthen BASF’s leading position as a global supplier to the rubber and tire industry. “The expansion will enable us to continue meeting the notably increased demand of our customers in Asia especially China reliably out of our local assets in China,” said Dr Guido Voit, Senior Vice President, BASF Intermediates Asia Pacific. “We are proud to support the growth of our customers as their reliable local supplier with our commitment in product stewardship and high safety standards.”

Perstorp Signs Distribution Deal with Nexeo Solutions M a l m ö , S w e d e n : Pe r s t o r p a n n o u n c e d t h e s i g n i n g o f a distributorship agreement between Perstorp Polyols Inc. (Toledo, Ohio) and Nexeo Solutions, LLC (formerly Archway Sales, St. Louis). As of September 2015, Nexeo Solutions will be responsible for distributing a wide range of Perstorp’s specialty products, including Capa caprolactones, Char morcarbon sources for intumescent systems and Alkoxylated polyol product lines. The distributorship agreement covers the Southeast, Ohio Valley and Central United States regions, excluding the West Coast and Northeastern regions.

Brenntag to Expand its Business by Acquiring TAT Group

Solvay to Build South-East Asia’s Largest Bicarbonate Plant in Thailand

Ruhr, Germany: Brenntag has signed an agreement to acquire TAT Group, a Singapore based distributor for industrial chemicals. The company’s facilities in Singapore cover supply chain requirements and value added services including modern blending, packaging, storage and logistics facilities. Via its subsidiaries in Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Indonesia, TAT offers its local and overseas customers a broad product range of solvents and related products.

Brussels, Germany: Solvay has announced that it plans to build SouthEast Asia’s largest sodium bicarbonate plant. Located in Thailand and with a total capacity of 100,000 ton per year, this new facility will help meet the growing demand for high quality products from the region’s dynamic healthcare and food markets. Solvay will invest 20 million euros in the plant due for start–up in the first half of 2015 to supply its high-quality BICAR product range throughout the region. The plant will be located on Solvay’s existing site in Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate (Rayong province, Thailand) and will consequently benefit from strong synergies in infrastructure, utilities and supply chain. BICAR is a highquality range of products used in a variety of industries, including food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and in industrial applications.

Steven Holland, CEO Brenntag Group, said, “TAT has a strong market position and reputation as well as high coverage in South East Asia, Hong Kong and South Korea. The acquisition is a significant complement and important investment into Brenntag’s geographic and strategic position in Asia Pacific. TAT’s distribution network serves a broad customer base in the coatings, pharmaceutical, plastics, electronics and other industries and will contribute to further enhance Brenntag’s relationships with its Global Key Accounts as well as major suppliers.” The business is expected to generate total sales of approximately Euro 145 million in the financial year 2015. Closing of the transaction is expected in Q4 2015, subject to the approval of shareholders of TAT’s holding company and certain other closing conditions.

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CEW Industry News Acella Acquires Premium Spray Products Missouri, USA: Accella Performance Materials announced the acquisition of Premium Spray Products, a leading manufacturer of spray foams for insulation and roofing as well as specialised polyurethane systems for niche applications. Premium Spray Products, based in Marietta GA, and Regina, Saskatchewan will continue its outstanding product line and customer service as part of the Accella family.

“The acquisition supports Accella’s strategy to build the leading polyurethane systems house in North America. We are attracting, investing in and developing the ‘best of the best’ in polyurethane technology and service. In combination, our nationwide manufacturing and technical sales network will bring enhanced value and services, as well as an expanded offering, to provide even more solutions to our customers. Customers may continue to expect the same level of high quality products, service and support from Premium, with additional resources to bring even greater customer value,” remarked Andy Harris President and CEO of Accella Performance Materials. Mac Hess, President, Premium Spray Products, who will stay on with Accella said, “We are very excited about the potential to leverage the technical, financial and personnel resources from Accella across North America.

This is truly a great cultural fit to bring the best value and opportunities to customers and employees alike. ”

IOI May Acquire Cremer Oleochemicals Business Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: IOI Corporation Bhd is buying Cremer Oleo GmbH & Co KG entire’s oleochemicals business in Germany for Euro 89.4 million (RM 433.3 million) as it expands its value chain. The plantation heavyweight said on Thursday the oleochemical business’ production facilities were in Witten and Zur Hafenspitze. The production plant in Witten offers a broad array of mostly branded oleochemical specialty products for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food and performance chemicals markets worldwide. The Wittenberge plant provides high performance capacities for esterification with multi-step short-path distillation, distillation and fractionation of fatty acids and production of medium-chain triglycerides. IOI Corp said both plants combined offered a processing capacity of approximately 39,200 tonnes per annum. It said the net book value of the assets (net of liabilities) based on the latest audited financial statements for the financial year ended Dec 31, 2014 was Euro 90.3 million. IOI Corp said currently its oleochemicals division was one of the leading oleochemical producers in the world. The proposed acquisition represents a timely and synergistic opportunity for the group to move further up the value chain with an investment in more specialised downstream oleochemical manufacturing business which has two production plants and an established customer base comprising a number of multinational and large European companies.

“Lastly, the proposed acquisition will enable the transfer of advanced technical, research and development, application development and process know-how back to Malaysia and benefiting the existing oleochemical production sites within the Group’s oleochemicals division,” IOI Corp said.

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Montero will Acquire 75% Stake in Greenflash Phosphate Project Toronto, Canada: Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd (Montero) has entered a binding letter agreement with Greenflash 251 (Pty) Limited to acquire up to a 75 per cent interest in the Greenflash Off-Shore Phosphate Project in South Africa (the Greenflash Project). Montero has also entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ovation Capital (Ovation) to co-fund the due diligence investigation and ultimately provide project finance for the Greenflash Project. Upon completion of successful due diligence Ovation will have the right to earn 49 per cent of Montero’s interest by providing funding to complete a compliant resource.

Ovation has already committed to complete a pre-feasibility study on Montero’s Duyker Eiland phosphate and fertiliser project for equity in the project. The Greenflash Project could potentially provide additional feedstock to a fertiliser plant envisaged to be developed in Saldanha Bay by Montero and Ovation.

Dr Tony Harwood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Montero commented, “Montero is expanding its portfolio of phosphate projects in South Africa with funding partner Ovation Capital. The Greenflash Project has seen extensive drilling providing Montero with meaningful information to serve as basis for developing a resource. Montero and Ovation will focus initially on developing a resource from existing drill core where large areas of phosphate rich sediments have been identified. The acquisition fits with our strategy of developing phosphate rock assets to support a fertiliser plant in Saldanha Bay port.”

Henkel Adhesive Expands Expertise in Surface Treatment Düsseldorf, Germany: Henkel Adhesive Technologies is further driving its innovation capabilities and leadership forward. As part of its innovation strategy, the Henkel business unit is continuously strengthening its technical scouting and engagement with promising start-up companies.

The most recent result is the signing of a joint development agreement with US-based DropWise Technologies Corp. DropWise, founded in 2014, is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The start-up company has developed technology, intellectual property and lab-scale manufacturing know how for a novel method of hydrophobic coating applications. The partnership will enable Henkel further expand its leading position in the global surface treatment business and drive growth with new applications.

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CEW Industry News Evonik Acquires Hydrogen Peroxide Producer Essen, Germany: Evonik Industries signed a definitive agreement for acquisition of PeroxyChem Netherlands BV, Delfzijl, from PeroxyChem Holdings, LP, the business with its site in the Netherlands, the 47 employees, and the customer portfolio will be transferred to Evonik at the closing of the sale. It is envisaged to close the transaction in the last quarter of 2015. The business will increase Evonik’s hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) capacity in Europe. The Dutch site supplements the company’s existing production network of three sites in Antwerp (Belgium), Rheinfelden (Germany), and Weissenstein (Austria). Evonik produces hydrogen peroxide and its derivatives for eco-friendly oxidation and disinfection in a wide range of applications. With an annual global capacity totalling more than 900,000 metric tons produced in twelve production plants, Evonik’s Resource Efficiency Segment is a leading supplier.

With its offer of a range of H2O2 grades and services and its excellent geographical situation, Evonik has close proximity to its customers. In the application and decomposition of hydrogen peroxide the only products released are oxygen and water; this means that H2O2 is among the most eco-friendly and versatile of chemical products. Typical application fields include chlorine-free bleaching of pulp and paper and of natural fibres for white textiles. In the areas of medicine, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and foods the product is used for sterilisation as well as treatment of aseptic packaging materials. Hydrogen peroxide is also used in eco-friendly treatment of waste gases and wastewater as well as for disinfection purposes.

Slovanaft Has Installed New technology at the New LDPE4 Production Plant Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovnaft, a member of MOL Group, has completed installation of technology in new facility for the production of low density polyethylene - LDPE4. The company has invested more than Euro 300 million in units with the latest technology and other petrochemicals components which include reconstruction of steam cracker, construction of a logistics infrastructure and other technology. The production unit was inaugurated at the Slovnaft refinery by State Secretary of Slovak Ministry of Economy Miroslav Obert, Chairman and CEO of SLOVNAFT, a.s., Oszkár Világi and representatives of contractors, Maire Tecnimont Chairman, Fabrizio Di Amato and TALKE Group CEO, Alfred Talke.

The production unit is capable of producing new types of higher quality polyethylene with minimal emissions, greater operating security and lower energy consumption. The LDPE4 will replace all Slovnaft’s previous operations in polyethylene production. Annual low density polyethylene production capacity will increase by 40,000 tons to 220,000 tons, mainly to be sold in foreign marketplaces. Slovnaft not only exports polyethylene to neighbouring countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Austria but also to demanding West European markets including Germany, France and Italy. After completion of construction, technology testing, start-up and guarantee tests will run up to the end of November.

Commercial production will then start at the beginning of 2016. The production unit will produce a plastic granulate which is further processed by customers to produce end products.

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DEINOVE and Tyton BioEnergy Collaborate to Produce Green Chemicals Montpellier, France: DEINOVE and Tyton BioEnergy Systems (Tyton) have entered into a technological and commercial partnership. The main goal of the partnership is to combine Tyton’s energy tobacco feedstock, process and production infrastructure with DEINOVE’s Deino-based fermentation solutions in order to produce green chemical compounds of high commercial value. Tyton’s energy tobacco technology combines advancements in plant sciences, agronomics, and processing to produce cost-competitive sugars, oils, proteins and other green chemicals at high profits. One acre of Tyton’s patented non-smoking tobacco outperforms corn, soy and other cellulosic feedstocks. Tyton’s tobacco technology platform achieves significant environmental improvements through enhanced crop production techniques and clean, fast industrial processing. DEINOVE’s CBP (Consolidated BioProcessing) solutions are currently optimised on a variety of sugar sources like corn, wheat and urban waste, and they can flexibly utilise simple, starch or cellulosic sugars. The energy tobacco crop developed by Tyton provides a compelling opportunity to diversify applications for Deinococcus, and the two companies will explore various renewable chemical options for commercialisation, beginning in the southeast region of the United States.

Sinopec to Become a Strategic Investor in SIBUR Beijing, China: China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group), a major global energy and chemicals company, and SIBUR, a leading Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company, have entered into a framework investment agreement during a state visit by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to China whereby Sinopec Group is to acquire a stake in SIBUR. The transaction represents an important step for both parties to cement their existing strategic cooperation. The parties believe that the transaction between Sinopec and SIBUR will further strengthen the companies’ leading market positions and the partnership between Russia and China. The deal is expected to be closed upon approvals by corporate governing bodies and regulators.

Rosneft to Buy a Stake of 30% in CCPC Beijing, China: Ren Jianxin, Chairman of ChemChina and Igor Sechin, President of Rosneft, signed a Heads of Agreement on Cooperation in Equity Investment of Rosneft in ChemChina Petrochemical Corporation (CCPC) and other documents in presence of the President of People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping and the Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 3, 2015.

According to the agreement, both sides will actively promote the signing of the final transaction documents. Upon the completing of the transaction, Rosneft will subscribe for a 30 per cent stake in CCPC. The two sides will continue to carry out cooperation in investment in petrochemical projects, oil products trade and so on. The signing of the Heads of Agreement marks a breakthrough in the cooperation between the two sides after the signing of a memorandum in June at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

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CEW Industry News H yo s u n g C h o o s e s W R G r a c e ’s U N I P O L PP Technology

C B & I Aw a rd e d C o n t r a c t fo r L AC C E t h a n e Cracker Project

Maryland, USA: W R Grace & Co will provide its UNIPOL polypropylene (PP) technology and services to Hyosung Corporation of Seoul, Korea for its new facility in Ulsan, which is expected to open in 2017. Hyosung is a Korean industrial conglomerate operating in various industries, including machinery, IT, construction, and textiles. Its Ulsan facility is expected to produce polypropylene at a rate of 200 kta, or kilotons per year. This is the second UNIPOL PP license for Hyosung.

Texas, USA: CB&I has been awarded an early works contract by LACC, LLC, a joint venture between Axiall Corporation and Lotte Chemical Corporation, to provide additional detailed engineering and early procurement services associated with the proposed LACC Ethane Cracker Project in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This new scope of work follows CB&I’s previous supply of its proprietary ethylene technology and front-end engineering design (FEED) services to LACC, LLC. The parties continue to evaluate the construction of a cracker with the capacity to produce approximately one million metric tons of ethylene annually employing CB&I’s latest, proven ethylene technology, including highly selective SRT cracking heaters and its innovative recovery section design, featuring low pressure separation and mixed refrigeration to minimise investment costs.

Al Beninati, President of Grace Catalysts Technologies, said, “We are pleased that Hyosung has experienced such success with its first license that its leaders have decided to contract with us again for their new plant in Ulsan. Our reliable technology can be implemented with low investment and operating cost, is easy to operate, and produces state-of-the-art PP products. But what truly helped us earn additional business from Hyosung was our commitment to customer service.” Young-Gyo Choi, Hyosung’s Division President, said, “We are delighted to partner again with Grace, the world’s leading independent PP technology licensor and catalyst producer. Their UNIPOL PP process technology offers us the most advanced PP product capability available. We are already producing market-leading PP products in our existing UNIPOL PP technology line, and with this new line, we are planning to produce even more advanced PP products.”

Sadara to Supply BTG to Juffali’s Chemical Complex Jubail, Saudi Arabaia: Sadara Chemical Company and EA Juffali & Brothers have signed a second supply agreement, this time for Butyl Tri-Glycol ether (BTG), following the successful execution of an MDI supply agreement in July 2015. With this new agreement, Sadara will supply BTG to one of the new plants that will be built in the planned Juffali chemical production complex to be based among other plants in PlasChem Park in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Industrial City II. The new Juffali complex will consist of several manufacturing plants designed to produce highly differentiated chemicals and products slated for use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s various industries.

Some of the plants will receive a direct feed of Sadara’s products, namely the MDI plant and the BTG plant that have been announced thus far, while other plants will rely on raw materials provided by other suppliers.

The Juffali BTG project will encompass several specialty chemical products and includes production of about 5,000 tons / year of different grades of premium brake fluids. It will be the first brake fluid production unit in the Middle East and North Africa and will supply the Middle East’s growing demand for these products, replacing imports. This Project is almost totally dependent on raw material from Sadara and its location is most advantageous. Juffali will license state of the art technology, process design and engineering advisory to complete its project, and the resulting brake fluid products will serve OEM, related accounts, aftermarket and commercial transportation customers.

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Unipetrol to Launch a New Polyethylene Unit Prague, Czech Republic: Unipetrol and Italian Technip signed a contract on construction of a new polyethylene unit (PE3) at Litvinov plant. The biggest investment in the history of the Czech petrochemical industry will be one of the most modern production facilities of this kind in Europe. The value of the signed agreement amounts to 5.76 billion CZK. The overall project costs are estimated at 8.5 billion CZK. The unit is expected to be put into operation in the middle of 2018. The new polyethylene unit PE3 will have a production capacity of up to 270 kt per year and will replace polyethylene unit PE1. The polyethylene unit PE2 (with a capacity of 200 kt per year) is remaining in the operation. The investment will help to increase the utilisation of the ethylene unit and will contribute to greater integration of the petrochemical and refining production of Unipetrol Group. With the new technology, the company will be able to reach out for new industrial segments, including cosmetic or packaging industry.

The beginning of the construction works is scheduled for the second quarter of the next year. The new polyethylene unit will be built on the basis of the technology license from the company INEOS that Unipetrol gained at the end of 2013.

Carbios Launches Pilot Plant for Production of Biodegradable Plastics Clermont-Ferrand, France: Carbios, an innovative green chemistry company specialising in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste and the production of bio-polymers, has launched operations at its pilot plant for the production of biodegradable plastic, incorporating its exclusive enzyme-based technology. This new production platform, enables the pilot-scale reproduction, with a capacity of 40 kilograms per hour, of all steps required to produce plastic film.

With the new production platform, Carbios has the ability to demonstrate the performance of its biodegradation technology for the first applications (such as plastic films, mulching films for agriculture, and plastic bags) at the pre-industrial stage. The company thus foresees initiating the first industrial and commercial demonstrations in the near future.

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WHEN CONDITIONS HEAT UP DON’T LET CORROSION SHUT YOU DOWN Whether it’s higher temperatures, rising pressures or more acidic media, conditions in oil refineries have never been more extreme. Tube and pipe corrosion are a constant threat, causing as many as half of all major shutdowns. This is why hundreds of the world’s most demanding petrochemicals refiners are turning to the next generation of corrosion resistant alloys. Like one German oil refinery, which used Sandvik SAF 2707 HD hyper-duplex heat exchanger tubes to reduce the number of shutdowns from 8 to 1 over a period of four years. The result was massive savings on material replacement.

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Highly Efficient Catalyst Eases Way to Hydrogen Economy Wisconsin, USA: Hydrogen could be the ideal fuel: Whether used to make electricity in a fuel cell or burned to make heat, the only byproduct is water; there is no climate-altering carbon dioxide.

Like gasoline, hydrogen could also be used to store energy. Hydrogen is usually Bathed in simulated sunlight, this photoelectrolysis cell in the produced by separating water with lab of Song Jin splits water into electrical power. And although the water hydrogen and oxygen using a supply is essentially limitless, a major catalyst made of the abundant elements cobalt, phosphorus and roadblock to a future ‘hydrogen economy’ sulphur. Photo: David Tenenbaum is the need for platinum or other expensive noble metals in the water-splitting devices.

“In the hydrogen evolution reaction, the whole game is coming up with inexpensive alternatives to platinum and the other noble metals,” says Song Jin, a professor of chemistry at the University of WisconsinMadison. In the online edition of Nature Materials, Jin’s research team reports a hydrogen-making catalyst containing phosphorus and sulphur — both common elements — and cobalt, a metal that is 1,000 times cheaper than platinum. Catalysts reduce the energy needed to start a chemical reaction. The new catalyst is almost as efficient as platinum and likely shows the highest catalytic performance among the non-noble metal catalysts reported so far, Jin reports. Read more about this research on http://news.wisc.edu/24010

A New Type of Solar Power through Nanoscience California, USA: Imagine, we could do all that without adding a single molecule of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. It sounds almost magical, yet green plants and some bacteria basically do this every day. Through photosynthesis, they turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar. Sugar is an organic fuel that stores the sun’s energy for plants to use at night or when they awake leafless in the spring. What if engineers could tweak this natural process to produce natural gas or gasoline?

Advances in nanoscience are rapidly bringing that vision closer to reality. In a pair of ground-breaking papers, published this past April and August, respectively, Peidong Yang, co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, led a team that achieved synthetic photosynthesis by marrying nanoscience and biology. Yang and his colleagues created a biologically inspired but completely artificial system that converts the sun’s rays into liquid fuel.

Their first system employs long nanoscale filaments – nanowires – to turn sunlight into electrons, which bacteria use to convert CO2 and water into complex chemicals. In the second system, nanowires generate electricity that splits water (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen.

Bacteria then combine the hydrogen with CO2 to form methane, the largest component of natural gas. Read more on the research at www. kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights 20 • September 2015

One Step towards Faster Organic Electronics Linköping, Sweden: For years it was believed that ordered polymer chains increase the conductivity of plastic. And a new generation of polymers has been developed. It is true that these new polymers are more conductive, but for completely different reasons – according to researchers from Linköping University and Stanford University.

Organic electronics has many advantages; it is inexpensive, flexible and lightweight it does not consume any scarce resources. In terms of applications, we are only limited by our imaginations. There has been a lot of development in polymers since the phenomenon of conducting and semi-conducting plastics was discovered and in 2000 awarded a Nobel Prize. A polymer consists of long chains of hydrocarbon, where other elements are bound, which give the particular plastic its properties. Research is underway, and researchers and developers in the chemical industry have developed new polymers that conduct better. “The charge is transported two to three times faster in the latest generation polymers,” explains Dr Simone Fabiano, researcher at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping. He is the lead author of the article being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS. But to their surprise, the researchers observed during their experiments that the charge seems to travel as quickly in an unordered polymer as in an ordered, crystalline one. Read more on the research at www. liu.se/forskning

Methanol: A Renewable Fuel for The Future?

Warrendale, USA: Imagine powering your laptop computer or cell phone with alcohol? This idea might not be so far-fetched, as a number of organisations are already actively developing methanol-powered fuel cells for electronic devices, according to a newly published paper in MRS Energy & Sustainability—A Review Journal. In fact, forecasts highlighted in the paper indicate that the market for methanol fuel cells may reach USD 1.1 billion by next year. The paper by a group of scientists from the Colorado School of Mines provides an overview of recent research in this intriguing area. The authors examine the technological, environmental, and policy aspects of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), which convert the energy stored in liquid methanol fuel to electrical energy. As a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, fuel cells based on potentially renewable fuels, such as hydrogen and methanol, have received considerable scientific attention. The authors report that the attractive properties of methanol in terms of its energy density, ease of distribution, and potential for production from clean fossil-based resources (natural gas) or from renewable sources (biomass, solar) make the DMFC an appealing power technology that may eventually be used as a renewable source for the transportation sector.

The authors, Dr Prabhuram Joghee, Dr Jennifer Nekuda Malik, Professor Svitlana Pylypenko and Professor Ryan O’Hayre from Colorado School of Mines, predict that new breakthroughs in DMFC performance—particularly increases in power density and efficiency, coupled with cost reduction—could eventually make methanol-fuelled vehicles a compelling option in future.

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CEW Technology News Rice Researchers Demonstrate Solar Water-Splitting Technology

Single Molecule Detection Machine for Nucleic Acid Analytics

Houston, USA: Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to capture the energy from sunlight and convert it into clean, renewable energy by splitting water molecules.The technology, which is described online in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters, relies on a configuration Rice University researchers of light-activated gold nanoparticles that have demonstrated an harvest sunlight and transfer solar energy efficient new way to to highly excited electrons, which scientists capture the energy from sunlight and convert it into sometimes refer to as ‘hot electrons.’ “Hot clean, renewable energy by electrons have the potential to drive very splitting water molecules. useful chemical reactions, but they decay very rapidly, and people have struggled to harness their energy,” said lead researcher Isabell Thomann, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and of chemistry and materials science and nanoengineering at Rice. “For example, most of the energy losses in today’s best photovoltaic solar panels are the result of hot electrons that cool within a few trillionths of a second and release their energy as wasted heat.” Capturing these high-energy electrons before they cool could allow solar-energy providers to significantly increase their solarto-electric power-conversion efficiencies and meet a national goal of reducing the cost of solar electricity. Read more about the research on http://news.rice.edu/

Munich, Germany: Fraunhofer FIT will present a Single Molecule Detection Machine for the analysis of ultra-small amounts of nucleic acid. The system can be used to identify biomarkers that are early indicators of a disease or allow forecasting the response to a therapy.

Fraunhofer FIT will also demonstrate their ZETA imaging software that is used in drug research. Supersensitive detection systems are becoming an important element of today’s Life Sciences.

High-Efficiency, Hi-Reliability Perovskite Solar Cells Ibaraki, Japan: The ad hoc Team on Perovskite PV Cells (Team Leader: Kenjiro Miyano) of the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN) at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) succeeded in producing highly reproducible and highly stable perovskite solar cells by using a lowtemperature solution process, which is essential for realizing nextgeneration solar cells with such characteristics as low-cost, lightweight and flexible (Figure). Conventional perovskite solar cells produced by a low-temperature solution process had problems in terms of stability and reproducibility, and details of their operational mechanism were difficult to clarify. In this research, the team newly developed a chlorinemediated interdiffusion method, in which chlorine is added in the process of forming perovskite crystals, and realized high-efficiency perovskite solar cells having the following excellent characteristics by using a low-temperature solution process.

1. A process temperature of less than 140°C at the most (high compatibility with flexible substrates, etc.)

2. Excellent stability exhibiting consistent output characteristics for a long period 3. Excellent durability maintaining stable output characteristics even under continuous light exposure for about two hours 4. Highly reliable output characteristics and reproducibility exhibiting consistent conversion efficiency irrespective of the voltage sweep direction, etc.

Read more on the research at http://www.nims.go.jp/ 24 • September 2015

Their development aims to achieve utmost sensitivity and smallest possible sample consumption in detecting and determining the amount of bio molecules, in order to be able to diagnose diseases earlier, to find new active ingredients faster and more reliably, to prove the presence of environmental pollutants, or to control the quality of biological processes. Fraunhofer FIT researchers now present a Single Molecule Detection Machine (SMDM) developed especially for these application fields. It uses a highly sensitive confocal microscope, also developed by Fraunhofer FIT, and fluorescence detection.

Fluorescent markers are attached to bio molecules, e.g., DNA, RNA and proteins; a laser is used to induce fluorescence.

This detection mode is not only highly sensitive, but it can also produce a wide range of information about the type and behaviour of the marked bio molecules. To read more log onto http://www.fit. fraunhofer.de/en/

New Nanomaterial Maintains Conductivity in Three Dimensions Ohio, USA: An international team of scientists has developed what may be the first one-step process for making seamless carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior thermal, electrical and mechanical properties in three dimensions. The research holds potential for increased energy storage in high efficiency batteries and supercapacitors, increasing the efficiency of energy conversion in solar cells, for lightweight thermal coatings and more.

In early testing, a three-dimensional (3D) fibre-like supercapacitor made with the uninterrupted fibres of carbon nanotubes and graphene matched or bettered - by a factor of four - the reported record-high capacities for this type of device. Used as a counter electrode in a dye-sensitised solar cell, the material enabled the cell to convert power with up to 6.8 per cent efficiency and more than doubled the performance of an identical cell that instead used an expensive platinum wire counter electrode.

Carbon nanotubes could be highly conductive along the 1D nanotube length and two-dimensional graphene sheets in the 2D plane. But the materials fall short in a three-dimensional world due to the poor interlayer conductivity, as do two-step processes melding nanotubes and graphene into three dimensions.

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Simulating their Way to Engineering Solutions “Opportunities are tremendous due to the growth potential of the chemical industry in India. With the growth and demand, the only way the chemical industry can innovate at a rapid speed and manufacture at reduced cost is when the latest technology is available to help them deliver.” said Dr Ravindra Aglave, Director-Chemical Process, CD-adapco while speaking to Mittravinda Ranjan at ACHEMA on their ingenious simulation software and discussing trends and opportunities in the Indian market.

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hanges in the process industry According to Dr Aglave, the chemical and process industry has been under pressure because of rising raw material cost, manufacturing cost and environmental regulations for many years. To ease this pressure, engineers h ave t o p r ov i d e n ew a n d i n n ova t i ve s o l u t i o n s i n b u s i n e s s r e l eva n t t i m e scales. This is either accomplished by formulating new products or engineering new processes to manufacture chemicals on a large scale on 1000s of tonnes per year.

terms of their precise requirements when their clients are trying to design new processes. With ever y release of t h e i n g e n i o u s S TA R - C C M + s o f t wa r e, a v i r t u a l s a n d b ox fo r e n g i n e e r s, t h e company is better equipped to respond to the future wishes and demands of the clients. CD-adapco is the only known company in its domain that offers three releases of STAR-CCM+ software every year and delivers a fast cycle of response to its customers.

CD-adapco products are useful in engineering new manufacturing methods because they reduce the designing time and also help analyse those designs for sufficiency. If cer tain designs are not perfor ming to the expected level, the situation can be rectified by performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to reduce the amount of expensive experiments in the laboratory.

Trends across Simulation Software domain Dr Aglave notes that there is growing complexity and bigger problems which means that people need bigger computers to perform simulations. People are eager to resolve different aspects of a problem simultaneously; such needs can only be handled by bigger computers. The benefit of having bigger computers is that the problems will be solved efficiently in a shor t span of time.

Dr Aglave infor ms that CD-adapco products are essentially designed to create those experiments in a vir tual space and thereby reduce the time required to take the product to the market. Thus CD-adapco products perfectly respond to fulfilling the market demands of any new market. This also e n a bl e s t h e c o m p a n y t o r e s p o n d i n

More often than not, users are eager to look into fluid flow and heat transfer, motion, corrosion, and acoustics as all these factors influence how products will be designed. CD-adapco responds by including cutting edge technologies which enable one to study the complex motion of bodies using overset meshes or Chimera meshes, par ticle flows using

As the market changes; obviously the technology needs to be upgraded and these upgrades occur as new updated version of the software is made available every four months. This helps to be responsive to customers because solutions are already present to take care of new demands, without having to wait for a longer duration.

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Discrete Element Method (DEM) where f l ow o f f l u i d i s c o u p l e d w i t h f l ow o f par ticles – a very unique benefit offered

by CD-adapco. The company recently did a benchmark study at NCSA in Illinois, USA where a problem with billion cells was scaled up to 102,000 cores by getting close to 75 per cent parallel efficiency.

The solutions offered by this company are in line with the trends of the industry and based on physics, motion, chemistry and scalability.

Receptiveness of Indian companies to buy new software The Indian companies star ted accepting the software because many international companies began using them, bringing in the benefits. Indian companies also need to be competitive as the market has become completely global which means that most of the hurdles have been removed.

The company is currently in talks with some of the largest chemical companies in India who want to acquire this technology and to use it in-house.

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CEW News Features With the growth and demand, the chemical industry is eager to step up and manufacture to fulfil this demand. However, it has to be done in a competitive manner and prevent producing something that is expensive. The only way to manufacture at a rapid speed is when the technology is available to help them deliver. solutions are already present to take care of new demands, without having to wait for a longer duration.

Competition with peers and share in India market Dr Aglave stated that chemical industr y division has experienced a growth of 22-23 per cent over the last 3-4 years.

He attributes this success to their philosophy in simulation, suppor t of the users and cutting edge tools.

Growth Drivers and Focus The focus of CD-adapco is to make tools perfect for solving a given problem. Dr Aglave said that the market share enjoyed by their competitors do not drive the company to be better in the industry. The driving motto of this company is solving engineering problems, to create a tool that is useful in solving those problems. The company was founded by engineers, is run privately by engineers, and the focus is solely to offer solutions to a diverse range of industries.

Opportunities in Indian industry Oppor tunities are tremendous due to the growth potential of the chemical industry in India, says Dr Aglave. The population is upwardly mobile where everyone needs carpets, rugs and paints and other essential utilities which are essentially driven by the chemical industry. With the growth and demand, the chemical industry is eager to step up and manufacture to fulfil this demand. However, it has to be done in a competitive manner and prevent producing something that is expensive. The only way to manufacture at a rapid speed is when the technology is available to help them deliver.

amount of time. The simulation was performed so as to detect the root of the problem so that appropriate elimination routes could be devised at the ear liest. The simulation not only detected the problem but also helped to pick out the best method to resolve the issue. However, post implementation of this solution; difficulty was experienced in star ting the reactor from a standstill point.

A proper procedure was devised that specified the steps that need to be followed on an hourly basis. Once the star tup procedure was thoroughly followed, the problem of explosion was eliminated completely which helped the company achieve the desired product quality. This entire process helped the (clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) company to improve the overall perfor mance and utilise 5 per cent less raw material which translates to millions in Euros.

Dr Aglave added that when designing chemical process plants or trouble-shooting of chemical process plants, people use two main methods â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one is conducting many experiments and the other is based on experience and both have limitations. Adding another tool to these methods can help to remove limitations easily. Sometimes, a single tool is not enough and combinations of tools are needed to resolve the problem. CD-adapco tools have a cer tain strength that can help the process of resolving problems. The users only need to have an open mind to expand their por tfolio for the benefit of their own company and the benefit of the industry at large.

CD-adapco is keen to explore the Indian market and is ready with examples to provide validation of success stories. Dr Aglave said that the company is looking forward to getting in touch with management level industr y players that can understand the depth and breadth of what such technology can do in terms of cost and competitiveness. With the tremendous number of skilled engineers produced every year in India, a behind-the-scenes process is in motion that can help expansion.

Simulation for problem solving While elaborating about the simulation software, Dr Aglave shared an incident where the reactor head of a chemical m a n u fa c t u r i n g c o m p a ny wa s e n c o u n t e r i n g t w o d i f fe r e n t problems. One was hindering the functioning of the reactor as the explosion in the reactor would require the process to be shut down for maintenance and would consume a considerable 28 â&#x20AC;˘ September 2015

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Leveraging All-encompassing Presence: Calderys India Calderys India Refractories Limited (Calderys India) is one of the leading companies offering a wide range of refractory solutions and services in India. Its market share varies from 30 to 42 per cent in sponge, aluminium, petrochemicals, cement and power segments. In blast furnace runners – which are using refractory castables, the company claims to have captured 40 per cent of market. Harshal Y Desai seeks views of Mr Hakimuddin Ali, Managing Director, Calderys BU India, Middle East and South Africa on company’s growth, its portfolios, technological know-how and the refractory industry in India.

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ost of the end customers have no access to proper refractory ser vice for selection and application of material as they are not equipped with refractor y exper tise.

According to Ali, they are dependent on old and outdated specification-based procurement of refractor y and local unqualified contractors for application of the products which is always costly in terms of cost performance ratio.

This concern is very well addressed by Calderys India that has always focussed on providing the best refractory services, claims Ali. The company has launched C a l d e S e r ve t o p r ov i d e r e f r a c t o r y services to customers through services such as refractory health audit, selection of right refractory material to get optimum performance at least cost, shutdown p l a n n i n g a n d s h u t d ow n exe c u t i o n , application of refractory with the help of modern equipment and application methods and application supervision.

It has has made efforts to create these service centres in strategic locations to reach its customers quickly. “We have made sure that dedicated technical team with refractory installation and project management capability are just a phone call away for our customers through these service centres. Modern and well maintained equipment suited to various installation processes like

dismantling, anchor welding, casting, gunning and ramming are available along with some critical equipment like alva gunning machine, laser pyrometers, etc,” Ali explains.

Product and Services Calderys India claims to be the ‘pioneer’ in providing monolithic solution to sponge iron industr y. “In 90s, we conver ted sponge iron kiln lining from br icks to monolithic which gave enor mous operating easiness to the industry and entire sponge iron industry is following the same. Today, we are the number one monolithic supplier to coal-based DRI kiln,” Ali exults. Company’s business share in aluminium industry has also gone up drastically dur ing the last three years.

Calderys India emerged from ACC hence refractory solution for cement plant is part of its legacy. According to Ali, its coating repellent and high performing castables are widely used for raised duct, smoke chamber, tip casting and burner pipe application. With the new government’s focus on infrastructure products, the company is expecting good growth in cement segment business. It also claims to be ‘nicely placed’ in power segment and according to Ali, who also head company’s operations in SA and ME, company’s plastic refractories have

Leveraging on the experience gained over the time while executing global operations as well as access to wide range of refractory raw materials, the company has been able to earn accolades in the steel plant related monolithic segment as well.

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replaced those Chinese refractory in many power plants in India and giving ver y good life. During the last three years, lot of refractory material has come to India from Chinese suppliers along with power boiler mechanical parts as package supply. Calderys India has also developed solution for waste incineration boilers which, as Ali believes, is going to be very popular in India in days to come. “All municipalities are going to install such boilers for incineration of waste material to generate cheaper and environmentally friendly source of power,” he predicts.

Calderys India is an established leader in the monolithic refractories with a vast experience of more than 100 years in this field. Leveraging the experience gained over the time while executing global operations as well as access to wide range of refractory raw materials, the company has been able to earn accolades in the steel plant related monolithic segment as well.

“Calder ys India, however, has been a l u m i n a fo c u s e d o r g a n i s a t i o n a n d virtually had no product for steel segment.

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Petrochemicals Division Ali further talks about company’s presence in petrochemicals and chemical segment.

“Our presence in Indian petrochemicals and chemical is quite significant.

Presence in PSU, private refineries and chemical plant is noticeable. After 1989’s par tly liberalisation, we were termed as the largest refractory producer o f fe r i n g g l o b a l e q u i va l e n t s. Te a m s from major units visited our plant and research and developments units to witness our manufacturing and testing facilities. Calderys is approved by major consultants, EPC companies like EIL, LINDE, TOYO, TECHNIP, PDIL, L&T etc.”

Calderys India has been doing turnkey projects in petrochemical sector over 25 years with an impressive completion of over 25 numbers of heaters/crackers, 1 3 nu m b e r s o f S RU, 5 nu m b e r s o f primary/secondary reformers refractory projects. Company has in-house r e s e a r c h a n d d eve l o p m e n t c e n t r e, d e s i g n d e p a r t m e n t s a n d exe c u t i o n engineers for petrochemical sectors. It has done projects with IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, RELIANCE, ESSAR, HMEL, etc all leading refinery and petrochemical producers. At present, the company is executing one big order from RIL J3 for 5 numbers of steam superheater through LINDE. Calderys India’s petrochemical segment fully focuses on petrochemical, refiner ies and fer tilisers. “We have global petrochemical team based at Netherland. This PGBT is suppor ting various countries providing technical support, procurement help, approvals, shar ing new techniques, hot repair experience sharing, etc. Calderys’ R&D has been developing new products like XL Range of insulating castables for

heaters, ferrule PCPF, PCPF dome for secondar y reformers, etc along with various services like hot spot repairs in FCCU/ heaters, innovative gunning, etc,” Ali reveals.

Calder ys India has done both direct EPC and has also worked under EPC for refractory projects. With a pool of 60 numbers of refractory installation experts and design experts, Calderys India has complete manpower strength for such jobs.

Research and Development Research and Development has been the core of Calderys India’s business method, Ali states. “Although the primary inputs originate from our marketing colleagues, we have a process of evaluating each of the needs identified against the backdrop with our business synergy, our strength in the segment and obviously whether the R&D effort to turnover is favourable or not. Once we decide to venture into a new segment we make a whole hearted effort for creating successfully solutions,” he continues.

Ali further mentions the development of MgO - C castable.

“As all of us are aware development of MgO – C castable has been a dream of all researchers in the field of refractories.

Calderys had been working for some time and I am happy to infor m you that this product has been developed successfully by my colleagues in India.

As I understand, the route adopted for this for mulation is such that the well-known hydration issue of MgO has been eliminated. The product has undergone field trial successfully in China. Calderys India has applied for patent for this product in major countries and I am proud to mention that all the authors of this patent are from Calderys India.”

Refractory Industry Ali is of the opinion that the current refractory industry is divided into two schools of thoughts. One group believes in working only on specifications of the material. Matching the specification and supplying material as per customers specification is their primary objective whereas the other group - few number works on serving solution to customers.

Ali further highlights that the biggest concern of working only with the specification is specification itself.

“We have seen that most of the times the specifications are over specified with respect to the application area. It is an age old method without any test standards and is based on raw materials which are not available in India. But many of India refractor y manufactures are instantly ready with the so-called equivalent product against any specification without even understanding the derivatives of the specification. Eventually problem is faced by the customers as most of the cases products do not perform and cost performance ratio is very high,” he explains.

He also comments on the dumping of the Chinese refractory material and terms it as another critical issue affecting the performance of production equipment in present days. Transit time from China to Indian customers after port clearances is high and most of the times materials are installed when its shelf life is almost lost.

Eventually, refractory performance is not good with Chinese material.

“Calderys India is closely working with many of our valued customer on performance based solution and striving to come out from specification based supplies. Creating awareness on the above amongst customers is the main challenge which we are trying to do through our Calde Serve drive,” Ali concludes.

Calderys India has been doing turnkey projects in petrochemical sector over 25 years with an impressive completion of over 25 numbers of heaters/crackers, 13 numbers of SRU, 5 numbers of primary/ secondary reformers refractory projects.

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Taking the Pain Out of Requirements Management and Traceability Long gone are the days when you could just get a plot of land, bolt some equipment together and call it a plant.

Nowadays a plant has to be designed and maintained in accordance with a wide range of requirements, imposed by numerous authorities and standards bodies. Plant owner/operators also have to demonstrate how they identified each requirement and how it is implemented in the plant (traceability). An effective RMT tool should ensure cost-effective regulatory compliance and support change management and the construction, operation and maintenance of a plant.

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equirements Management and Traceability has its roots in the highly-regulated nuclear power and life sciences industries. Operators in these industries have long had to demonstrate to the authorities that their proposed and operating plants comply with all relevant safety and environmental regulations.

They also have to provide extensive audit trails for the design and modification of their plants. Although RMT might at first seem a costly, bureaucratic burden, it can actually be a valuable tool for plant owner/operators. Hence, other industries (conventional power, oil & gas, chemicals and process) are implementing RMT, not just for regulatory compliance, but also to improve control of the design and operation of increasingly complex plants which involve dozens of contractors, consultants and other parties, spread all over the world.

Increased focus on Asset Integrity and Process Safety Management is a significant driver of this interest in RMT. In essence, RMT means knowing what you are supposed to do (requirements), on what grounds you are supposed to do it (underlying regulations), and who said you had to do it (traceability/audit trail). In addition, it traces how individual requirements are to be satisfied by design specifications and plant configuration items such as tagged equipment.

In the past plants were smaller, regulations were fewer and the owner and the contractors could meet around a conference 36 • September 2015

table. In those days, RMT could be implemented using standard office software such as spreadsheets and word processing documents. However, these tools are inappropriate in today’s environment.

They cannot cope with the number of requirements, cannot effectively define relationships between the requirements or deal with changes to requirements, and cannot provide audit trails. Hence, there is a clear need for RMT software, which should preferably be tightly integrated with an enterprise engineering software suite to improve efficiency.

Drivers for the introduction of RMT in the process industries: • Growth in regulations • Need to demonstrate compliance to regulators • Larger, more costly and more complex plants engineering/procurement • Plant construction involving many parties, worldwide • Expansion of process safety management and asset integrity programs • Need for better management of change to avoid rework and overruns Owner/operators are faced with a range of different requirements. Some are binding and imposed by the authorities, eg, laws, health and safety regulations, environmental requirements, permit/ license conditions, etc. Compliance with such regulations is monitored by these authorities who expect owner/operators to

demonstrate that they have identified the relevant requirements and that the plant is designed and operated in accordance with them. Other requirements may not be legally enforceable but any responsible plant owner/operator would want to comply with them as being good practice. These includes standards set by standardisation bodies, industry organisations (ISO, IEC, ASME, API, etc,) and Company best practices. There may be requirements relating to other stakeholders such as plant personnel or local residents. The basis of design of a plant also introduces a large number of demands, which may be dealt with in a similar way.

Identifying requirements The implementation of a RMT solution starts by identifying the requirements using the Document Decomposer. This software component can process Word, RTF and structured PDF files, as well as any other file format which can be converted to RTF. Essentially, the Decomposer treats documents as containers holding requirements. It allows subject specialists to go through all relevant documents and highlight the requirements in them.

These requirements are then assigned a unique identifier based on a configurable numbering scheme. The subject specialist also classifies each requirement (regulatory, functional, performance, safety, etc,) and enters other data such as a description, priority etc.

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Figure1: Management of Change providing bi-dirctional impact analysis between Requirements and the Engineering Design Basis.

include design specification documents, design control documents or the design basis.

Once the requirements have been identified and entered into the system, they are reviewed and approved. The next and essential step is to relate the requirements to each other and to aggregate them, where required. The requirements are also related to design basis items such as design specification items and items in the plant configuration: units, systems, tags etc.

When requirements change, the defined relationships are traced to clearly indicate the impact of the changes on the engineering design basis. Any property changes and relationship changes are date/time stamped and identified by user to provide a complete audit trail for traceability.

Once the data is entered into the system, demonstrating regulatory compliance and traceability is relatively straightforward as all the information is available through the system RMT solution and its data analysis tools.

Conflicting requirements & Change A key issue in RMT is that requirements (internal or external) may well conflict with each other. Such conflicts need to be resolved at an early stage so that the design can progress efficiently, and avoid unnecessary redesign effort. This may require further analysis of the requirements or discussions with the stakeholder who contributed them. At the end of this stage, all requirements should be captured, clearly defined, unambiguous and compatible with all other requirements.

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RMT solutions also reduce the amount of time wasted addressing questions such as “Are we sure that’s the appropriate component?”, “Why are we doing it this way?” and “Who changed that?” Improved relationships with the authorities (and insurance company inspectors) during inspections and investigations, and the ability to answer their questions promptly and correctly are also major benefits. It is a valuable tool for Management of Change.

Management of Change is facilitated as regulatory requirements and design requirements are managed together. This means the impact of an envisaged plant modification can be analysed quickly, as can the implementation in the plant in terms of systems, structures, and tagged components – simply by following the relationships managed in the system.

Bringing all together One of the solutions in the market that provides data relationships between the requirements and manages conflicting requirements and change is Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO) software suite, which includes packages for all aspects of process plant design, operation and management. The SPO Requirements Management and Traceability Solution (SPO RMT) package integrates tightly with the work processes supported by the rest of the suite and ensures that data only needs to be entered once. SPO RMT builds on and uses the engineering design basis managed in the SPO Core solution.

The tool creates a direct link between every requirement or design criterion

and the affected plant systems, structures, and components (SSCs) and associated documentation. This makes it straightforward to identify requirements which have not yet been met (orphan requirements). Similarly, the impact of any changes to the requirements or the design basis can easily be identified.

Consequently, owner/operators can reduce the costs of ensuring full regulatory compliance, while at the same time improve the safety and efficiency of their operations and practice better Management of Change (MoC), SPO RMT Solution. There are also efficiency gains from the integration with other Intergraph SPO solutions such as SPO Project Execution, SPO Systems Completion, SPO Operating Plant etc.

Using such highly automated solutions throughout the lifecycle of a plant, from initial design through to decommissioning, can give owner/operators effective and efficient control of plant data at all stages, hence reducing costs while improving safety and efficiency. In a broader context, SPO RMT supports industry-standard taxonomy structures such as the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Plant Information Model as well as proprietary structures.

Although RMT may have its roots in regulatory compliance, as part of an integrated software suite it offers opportunities to build, operate and maintain a plant more efficiently and safely.

Author’s Details Adrian Park Business Development Manager Process, Power & Marine Division Intergraph E:Adrian.park@intergraph.com

This article originally appeared under the title “Painkillers” in Hydrocarbon Engineering.

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Flammability & Thermal Ignitabilty Diagram for Lycopodium Dust This paper presents results of experimental study of flammability and thermal ignitability of an organic dust- lycopodium (2-400ﾂｵm) characterized by minimum explosible concentration (MEC) and minimum ignition temperature (MIT) of dust-air cloud measured with CSIR-CBRI 20-L Sphere and Godbert-Greenwald furnace.

The MEC became insensitive to particle size below some characteristic size and increased significantly above this until a critical size was reached, beyond which the dust was non-flammable for any concentration at ambient temperature and pressure. The MIT displays behaviour similar to that of MEC, except that heating of the mixture to the elevated temperature required for such thermal ignitability studies increases its flammability range. The data collected lead to an extension of the published data for the dust and will be used for hazard analysis to estimate the explosion potential of lycopodium dust under a given set of operating conditions and designing explosion preventive measures for installations handling the dust with similar nature.

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ust explosions are common hazards encountered in many industries handling combustible powders. Several examples of such industries are coal mining, storage and processing of agricultural products, organic dusts and manufacture of metal powders. The conditions required for dust explosion are: the dust present within a volume is dispersed or mixed with air; the dust concentration is above the minimum explosible concentration for dust; and an ignition source of sufficient power density and total energy to initiate combustion wave whose propagation generates the explosion is present. The probability of having a dust-air explosion in such a dust-air cloud in any given space, Pr(exp), is therefore the product of the separate probabilities for each of these conditions being met i.e. the probabilities of dust dispersion, Pr(dis), dust-air cloud flammability, Pr(fl), and ignition, Pr(ign). Thus,

Pr(exp) = Pr(dis).Pr(ﾆ値).Pr(ign)

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The probability of existence of a flammable volume, Pr(fl) is determined by measuring the explosible concentrations of the substance and it is simply quantified for gases or dusts as the fraction of time that the system exists in a composition domain 40 窶｢ September 2015

that is between minimum and maximum explosible concentration of fuel. For fuel substances in air, wider the domain of flammability, the more hazardous is the substance. For dusts, which have essentially no practical rich limit, only lean limit is determined, and lower the minimum explosible concentration (MEC) the more hazardous is the dust. Pr(fl) and Pr(dis) are not entirely independent because the dispersion process affects the concentration of the dispersed dust.

A complete quantitative risk assessment for a given facility is beyond the scope of this paper, however, Equation 1 provide the logical starting point for such an assessment.

For a given combustible dust loading on the interior surface of an industrial unit or other facility and in presence of an aerodynamic disturbance, the ease with which a dust can be dispersed into air is a function of various factors like density of dust particles, their size, shapes and their cohesive properties with respect to each other. External factors playing a role in dispersion process are: structure and intensity of aerodynamic disturbances, location of dust loading, the geometry of surfaces and other parameters related to the operation of industry. The problem is self-contained in systems in which the

dust is dispersed by design. In case of pulverizer or pneumatic transport system for dust, probability of dust dispersion, Pr(dis), is one. Ignition sources are characterized by their type of energy electrical, chemical or purely thermal and can have a variety of geometric sizes/ shapes and time dependent profiles for their power density and energy delivery rate. The effectiveness of ignition source is assessed by its capability to initiate a freely propagating combustion wave in a flammable volume. Probability of ignition, Pr(ign), is defined as fraction of time if an effective ignition source is present within the system volume.

This paper deals with the probabilitiesPr(fl) and Pr(ign). The ignition source considered in this study is thermal, geometrically uniform in spatial extension, steady state in time and isothermal and its ignition behaviour is characterized by its temperature. For a uniformly predispersed dust-air in a large volume (Pr(dis)=1) at a dust concentration above its MEC (Pr(fl)=1), the entire volume of the system is to be raised to some specific temperature to ignite and explode the dust-air cloud. The initial state of a phase-heterogeneous dust-air suspension is defined by the variables - temperature, pressure, concentration Chemical Engineering World

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CEW Features and dust particle size. The present work focuses on study of minimum explosible concentration (MEC) and minimum ignition temperature (MIT) of an organic dust- lycopodium - over a range of particle sizes and presents the results in the form of a diagram characterizing domains of flammability and thermal ignitability of the dust for use of industries to evaluate probability of explosion of dust-air mixtures in a stated dust-air environment and designing explosion preventive measures. Lycopodium is a fine powder composed of dry spores of club moss plants. This powder is a popular tool for demonstrating dust explosions as when dispersed into air it ignites and burns explosively because the particles of lycopodium have a high fat content and large surface area surrounded by oxygen molecules. The uses of this powder includes fireworks, pyrotechnics, explosives, fingerprint powders, as a covering of pills in pharmaceutical industry, dry parting compound in foundry work to prevent metal from sticking to wooden moulds, homeopathic medicines, cosmetics, lubricating the skin contacting latex. There exist some explosibility data of lycopodium dust in technical literature on various aspects including MEC and MIT (Conti, Cashdollar, Hertzberg & Liebman, 1983; Conti & Hertzberg, 1988; Eckhoff, 1991; Going, Chatrathi & Cashdollar, 2000; Hertzberg, Conti & Cashdollar, 1984, 1985). Data reported on MEC and MIT of lycopodium dust using CSIR-CBRI 20-L Sphere and Godbert-Greenwald furnace in present study differ in particle size of the dust.

Study of Mec and Mit- Experimental Work The organic dust lycopodium (volatility-85.2 per cent) is a naturally occurring plant spores with an H:C ratio of 1.72. It contains a substantial amount of oxygen atom in its structure together with a small amount of nitrogen. Some 85 per cent of the lycopodium mass volatilises upon pyrolysis, leaving a char (fixed carbon) and ash residue of only about 13 per cent of its original mass.

Sizes of particles for lycopodium dust selected for this study are: 2,22,38,74, 42 • September 2015

125, 150,180,212,250,300 and 355µm.

The moisture content of the dust samples was ~2-3 per cent.

MEC, the lowest concentration of dust in air that will ignite on contact with an ignition source and propagate a dust explosion, is determined in CSIR-CBRI 20-L sphere as per standard procedure (ASTM, 2007; Mittal, 2012) using two chemical ignitors with total energy of 2 kJ. The test commences with experiments at a high dust concentration. If this concentration of dust ignites, the dust concentration is reduced in steps until no ignition is evident. An ignition is deemed to have occurred if the maximum explosion pressure is at or above 2 bar(a). The test is then repeated with a lower dust concentration which is reduced further until a concentration is reached at which no ignition of dust/air mixture is observed in three consecutive tests.

MIT, the lowest temperature of a hot surface that will cause a dust cloud to ignite and propagate flame, is measured with Godbert-Greenwald (G-G) furnace (heated section: 3.9 cm diameter, 23 cm long, 0.27 l volume) as per standard procedure (ASTM, 2006;Mittal, 1996).

The initial tests are carried out at dust concentrations at which the maximum pressure, Pmax, and the maximum normalized rate of pressure-rise, KSt, are found as per standard procedure (ASTM, 2010). The dust is placed in a dust holder at the top of temperature controlled furnace with an open bottom.

The temperature of the furnace is set at a predetermined value. The dust is dispersed by the compressed air downwards past the hot surface of the

furnace to see if ignition occurs and flame is produced. Ignition is defined as the flame exiting from the furnace chamber. Furnace temperature, as well as dust concentrations are varied to ensure that the auto ignition temperature is measured at the most easily ignitable concentration. At least five tests over a range of concentrations are run at the highest temperature at which ignition is not observed. The temperature at which ignition is observed, dust concentration is varied to determine the range over which ignition occurs. To assure repeatability of data, at least 3 ignitions are observed over a range of dust concentrations at the lowest temperature at which ignition occurs.

Results and Discussions - Flammability and Thermal Ignitability Data Experimental data for measurement of MEC and MIT for lycopodium dust were collected for particle sizes 2,22,38,74, 125, 150,180,212,250,300 and 355µm as per procedure described above and analysed. The results on flammability and thermal ignitability for lycopodium dust are presented in Figs. 1 & 2, respectively.

The lowest MEC of lycopodium in Fig. 1 is about 30 g/m3 and its minimum MIT in Fig. 2 is 420 O C for particle sizes 2, 22 and 38 µm. The curves in Fig.1 and 2 are initially flat at the finer sizes until a characteristic size is reached at which point the curves turn upward. Particle size dependence for MEC and MIT appears at ~ 74 µm. For particle sizes above this characteristic size, the MEC increases rapidly with increasing size until a critical size- 250 µm- is reached above which the dust was found non-ignitable at any concentration under the experimental conditions of MEC tests.

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For the finer particles below the characteristic sizes, the MEC and MIT are insensitive to particle size because the devolatilisation rate of the particles is so rapid that the overall combustion process is controlled by chemical reaction and diffusion rate processes in the gas-phase mixture of volatiles in air. At the larger particles sizes above the characteristic size, the rate of devolatilisation appears to limit the overall rate of flame propagation through the mixture and only the surface region of the particles, or their sharpest corners, can contribute volatiles to flame front. Therefore, for coarser particles, the mass concentration of dust required for generating a limit concentration of combustible volatiles increases markedly and particle size dependence appears.

The MEC and MIT data reported in present study are consistent with the data of other researchers (Conti et al., 1983; Conti and Hertzberg, 1988; Eckhoff, 1991; Going et al, 2000; Hertzberg et al,1984, 1985). The data reported here include a wider range of dust sizes.

The experimental data on MEC and MIT have been used to establish a diagram (Fig. 3) presenting the flammability limits and thermal ignition probability for lycopodium dust in air. Explosibility of a system is described as some limiting geometric surface in a thermodynamic state-space separating a domain of flame propagation within from a region outside of that surface where flame propagation is not normally possible. Fig. 3 is the temperature verses dust concentration cross section from the thermodynamic state-space of the system taken at constant pressure plane of 1 atm and presents the domains of flammability and thermal ignitability of lycopodium dust in air. The data are for uniformly dispersed 44 • September 2015

dusts (Pr (dis)=1). The auto ignition and non-ignition points were measured over a range of dust concentration (30500 g/m3) that are near or above MEC of lycopodium dust, so that Pr(fl) =1.

Thus, Pr(exp.)=Pr(dis).Pr(fl).Pr(ign)= 1x1xPr(ign).

Explosion probability is equal to ignition probability. The presence or absence of an explosion is then related to the presence or absence of an adequate ignition source. Fig.3 shows minimum ignition temperatures of lycopodium dust for particle size range 2-355 µm. The boundary for thermal ignitability of the dust is formed by two curves – solid line (355µm size data points) and dashed line (2 µm size data points). The general behaviour of all the MIT curves is quite similar. Minimum ignition temperatures are quite high at dust concentrations closer to MEC but they decrease as the more reactive concentrations are approached. Eventually MITs level off to their minimum values at concentrations that are nominally very rich. The MIT which is approached asymptotically at high dust concentration is 420 O C for particle size range 2-38 µm. The MIT becomes independent of particle size for diameters below 74 µm. The existence of characteristic diameters below which the MIT becomes size-invariant parallels the existence of similar characteristic diameters for MEC. The lower square dot line curve is the MEC boundary in the same concentrationtemperature space originating from lowest MEC (solid circle data point30 g/m3) measured in 20-L Sphere at ambient temperature and pressure.

The experimental data point has been extrapolated to higher temperatures using the modified Burgess-Wheeler (BW) Law (Conti et al, 1983, Hertzberg et al, 1985) for hydrocarbons derivable from the established concept of a constant limit flame temperature for a given class of fuels:

C T = C 25

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298 T + 273

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1 - β( T - 25)

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Where, C T – MEC at any temperature T C 25- MEC at 25 oC β - a constant for a given class of fuels ( 6 to 7 x10-4 oC-1 for carbonaceous dusts) For lycopodium, the volatile constituents that are involved in the gas phase oxidation reaction that control its flammability contain substantial amounts of oxygen linkages in their structure. As they are already partially oxygenated, their expected lean limit flame temperature is probably higher than the value for the n-saturated hydrocarbons.

The temperature coefficient β is taken as somewhat lower value - 0.00065 OC-1.

The dusts become more flammable as the initial temperature of the unburnt mixture is increased as shown by square dot line curve in Fig. 3. MEC decreases with increasing temperature.

All states of the system below and to the left of the lower curve (square dot line) are non-flammable or non-explosible because Pr(fl)=0. Explosion probability is zero. The dust concentrations to the right of the dotted curve and above it are flammable or explosible and Pr(fl)=1. All regions above and to the right of thermal ignitability curves (solid and dashed lines) are regions where the explosion probability Pr(exp)=1. Explosion is certain in that region of state-space because the probability of the existence of the flammable volume, Pr(fl), and the probability of thermal auto ignition, Pr(ign), are both unity. No external ignition source is necessary within that area because the system ignites spontaneously as soon as those dust concentrations are dispersed at those initial temperatures. In the region between the dashed thermal ignitability curve and lower square dot line curve, although the mixtures are flammable, they are not thermally ignitable and in absence of any other ignition source, the net explosion probability is zero.

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Conclusions The flammability and thermal ignitability graph presented in this paper based on MEC and MIT data for lycopodium dust determined with CSIR-CBRI 20-L Sphere and G-G furnace may be used for hazard analysis and design of explosion preventive measures in facilities handling this dust. The present data together with data on explosion severity and limiting oxygen concentration, and minimum ignition energy, are sufficient to characterise the explosion safety measures. The particle size dependence of the domains of flammability and thermal ignitability for the organic dust –lycopodium showed that below some characteristic size the ignition behaviour approached that of an equivalent premixed gas. Above the characteristic diameter, the MEC and MIT increased with increasing particle size. For still larger particle sizes, a critical diameter was reached, above which the dust was non-explosible at ambient temperature.

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Importance of Efficient Force Distribution on Agitators in Continuous Stirred Tank Slurry Reactors This article demonstrates the significance of maintaining force balance along the agitator blades while debottlenecking stirred tank reactors. In this case study, uneven force distribution developed on agitator blades of HDPE reactor due to capacity expansion led to frequent agitator blade breakages. The force balance was achieved through simple modification suggested by a detailed CFD study.

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n Reliance, Multimodal HDPE is produced through two Continuous Stirred Tank Slurry Reactors in Series. The multimodal molecular weight distribution is built in the second reactor. The heat of reaction is removed through two external cooling legs and the reactor is agitated using 4 Intermig agitators separated along the axial direction.

In the second reactor, the injection point of two recirculation legs was separated radially by 30o angle. To improve the cooling (production capacity) as well as fouling behaviour in the second reactor, the recirculation rates of the slurry were increased by 1.5 times.

After this change, the top impeller blade started breaking frequently. Detailed CFD study was carried out to understand root cause for the behaviour through analysing velocity, force and torque distribution profiles inside the reactor due to this change. The study revealed that materials from two recirculation legs communicated with each other leading to very strong jet hitting on one side of top impeller blade creating huge force imbalance on the agitator which led to the frequent breakage. A simple modification was proposed, as result of CFD studies, one of the recirculation streams was moved away from another by 150o thereby avoiding the cross-communication between two recirculation streams. After it was implemented, no agitator blade breakage was seen for very long time and plant has been running very smoothly. This case study implied that force balance needs to be given importance while debottlenecking agitated vessels with recirculation loops. Computational tools like CFD can be effectively leveraged to precisely indicate the potential areas of 50 • September 2015

issues while carrying out debottlenecking or capacity expansion.

Introduction High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) is one of the largest synthetic commodity polymer which is widely used in the pipe, films, oriented structures, wires & cables and container industries due to low production cost and versatility in mechanical, chemical resistive and rheological properties. The major advantages of slurry polymerisation for HDPE production include mild operating conditions, excellent heat transfer capabilities, high monomer conversion rates and relative ease of processing.[1,2] In the petrochemical industry, mechanical agitated reactors involving multiple phases are very common such as slurry polymerisation for HDPE. The main function of agitator is to ensure intimate contact among all reagents.

Since petrochemical plants run continuously, achieving optimum plant reliability is the main goal of the petrochemical industry. Therefore, an equipment failure that may occur at an unexpected instant will result in production shutdown and its related costs. Such events can occur predominantly in rotating equipment, e.g., in large agitators usually when going for capacity enhancement.

Thus, they cause significant loss of plant availability. The complexity of the flow generated in the industrial size process

equipment (3 Dimensional, recirculating and often turbulent) is compelling the designers and practicing engineers to increasingly use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool to tackle the problems associated with the reliability enhancement, design and scale-up.[3] This work is mainly concerned with mechanical integrity of agitated system of HDPE Reactor. HDPE is produced through two continuous stirred tank reactors in series, with four impellers mounted on same shaft, rotating at fixed rpm. Feed streams consist of ethylene; catalyst and solvent enter the reactor at various locations. The reaction is exothermic and the reactor temperature is maintained constant by removal of heat by circulating the reaction mixture through external heat exchangers with suction at the side and discharge through two nozzles at the top. There are two such recirculation loops and their angular separation between the slurry discharge nozzles is 30o.

To improve the cooling and fouling behaviour of the second reactor, where the multimodal nature of polymer is built, and the recirculation rates were increased by 1.5 times. This had led to frequent breakage of agitators.

The objective of this study is to avert the frequent failure of agitator of HDPE reactor.

To understand the root cause of the issue

In the petrochemical industry, mechanical agitated reactors involving multiple phases are very common such as slurry polymerisation for HDPE. The main function of agitator is to ensure intimate contact among all reagents.

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CFD predictions are used to quantify detailed flow distribution inside the reactor and subsequent forces, moments on the rotating impeller.

Problem Formulation in CFD Detailed Reactor Geometry was created along with withdrawal and return lines (dip tubes). The reactor essentially consists of 4 equispaced Intermig impellers, and 900 orientations with each other. The well mixed solid-liquid reactor mixer is considered as pseudo homogenous fluid. Therefore, representative apparent density and viscosity is calculated and used for defining the fluid properties. Ansys design modeller and meshing are used for geometry generation and meshing, respectively. Entire geometry is discretised into hexahedral and tetrahedral cells.

As the flow regime is turbulent, it is modelled using the standard k-Îľ model. The multiple reference frame (MRF) approach is employed for accounting an interaction between the rotating impellers and stationary baffles. The location of the interface between the volumes was selected at the middle of the gap between the impeller tip and the inside edge of the baffle. Full three-dimensional, steady state simulations are performed for the different configurations using the computational fluid dynamics code FLUENT 13. This is a finite volume based computational fluid dynamics analysis programme which solves the non-linear set of equations formed by the discretisation of the Navierâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Stokes conservation equations.

Various geometry changes are made to the reactor, precisely to the dip tubes and their respective orientations and calculated the change in forces and moments distribution on the top impeller upon introduction of material through dip tubes. All the results are compared to the base case simulation in terms of flow distribution, forces, moments and the location of resultant force.

Results and Discussion The computational fluid dynamic study was carried out to quantify the impact of the increased recirculation flow by 50 per cent. The velocity contour inside the reactor for these cases is shown in Figure 1a (old operating condition) and Figure 1b (new operating condition).

It can be seen from the figures that the increased recirculation rate in other words, the increased velocity leads to intercommunication between these recirculation streams as they are separated by 30o. Due to the impeller nature of the agitator, it sucked the combined stream towards the intermig leading increase of velocity in the x and z direction where y is the flow direction. The forces acting on the direction of flow did not change significantly and were 7205N and 6965N while the forces on x direction increased from 297N to 827N. The forces in the z direction also decreased from -172N to -37N thereby creating huge imbalance in the plane of rotation. The centre of pressure on the top blade in x direction increased from 0.0052m to 0.018m and in the z direction, it increased from 0.022m to 0.06m. Increase in the centre of pressure indicates that it had moved away from the centre of the agitator significantly. This led to impingement of strong fluid currents 52 â&#x20AC;˘ September 2015

Figure 1a: Velocity contour of the old operating condition

Figure 1b: Velocity contour of the new operating condition

on the top blade on one direction leading imbalance of the top blade.

Blades broke very frequently in one year which is unacceptable for a continuous operation.

The objective of the study is to minimise the force imbalance on the top blade. Various options were evaluated and the best option which involved minimal change and the reactor is operating without any breakage after its implementation has been discussed in this article. To avert this problem, the communication between two recirculation streams need to be broken and best possible way to establish this is to separate them in radial direction. One of the recirculation legs was moved away by 150o radially from other. The velocity vectors of the new operating condition and proposed operating conditions are given in Figure 2a and 2b, respectively It can be clearly seen from the figures that the creating impinging jet is completely avoided by spacing the recirculation jets radially thus reducing the force imbalance on the top blade. The force acting on the x direction and z direction for the proposed option came down Chemical Engineering World

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Figure 2a: Velocity contour of new operating condition indicating the combined stream is being sucked into the impeller as jet leading to significant force imbalance of the top blade.

Figure 3: Plant behaviour after the blade changeover indicating no significant change in the normalised operating current and normalised throughput

operating performance was observed for long period of time. There are no blade breakages and operation has become smoother. The normalised operating behaviour of the plant can be seen from Figure 3. It can be seen from the figure that the normalised current did not change significantly due to the implemented modifications and mixing pattern has improved as shown in Figure 2b.

Figure 2b: Velocity contour of proposed operating condition which does not allow merging of the recirculation streams thereby not creating a jet which impinges on the top blade.

significantly to 46N and -16N from 827N and -37N respectively. One can also note that force imbalance in the plane of rotation in the proposed case is 60N whereas in the operating case is 850N. The forces acting on the flow direction did not change as the recirculation rate is not altered and is 6948N against 6965N of the new operating condition.

Also, the centre of pressure on the top blade moved towards the centre in both x and z direction to 0.003m and 0.008m from 0.018m and 0.06m respectively.

The lead parameters such as velocity vector, contour, forces acting on top blade and centre pressure on the top blade suggested the proposed modification can avert the frequent blade breakage as well as improved mixing in the HDPE reactor. The recommendations were implemented and

A simple modification proposed, as result of CFD studies, to swap the injection points of reactor feed and one of the recirculation streams thereby avoiding the cross-communication between two recirculation streams resolved the blade breakage issue once forever. This case study implied that force balance needs to be given importance while debottlenecking agitated vessels with recirculation loops.

Computational tools like CFD can be effectively leveraged to precisely indicate the potential areas of issues while carrying out debottlenecking or capacity expansion.

Acknowledgment Authors would like to thank Jayant D Divey, V P Mishra from Technology Group, J B Patel, and Moolnarayan from HDPE Plant for the helpful discussions during this study.

References 1. Hakim, S., Moballegh, L., “Simulation of a series of industrial slurry

The lead parameters such as velocity vector, contour, forces acting on top blade and centre pressure on the top blade suggested the proposed modification can avert the frequent blade breakage as well as improved mixing in the HDPE reactor.

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riental Manufacturers based out of Gujarat - is a division of Oriental Enterprise Private Limited. Oriental Manufacturers is a fully integrated Design and Manufacturing company for process equipment and offers tailor made fabricated equipment to cater to the diverse needs of its clients. Located in the Petro Chemical Complex area of Ranoli, Vadodara, the company enjoys a prime location and logistical advantage. It offers easy connectivity by railways, road and dry port all within a 3 Km radius.

Motto The motto of this company is to deliver Quality Products with full customer satisfaction; during and even after the execution of a project.

Working hand in hand with the customers enables to be a part of their growth; Oriental Manufacturers termed it ‘Engineering Growth.’

Profile The company is equipped with a dedicated and well qualified Designing and Manufacturing teams that ensure the manufacture of top grade tailor made Process Plant equipment.

The company possess various registrations like EIL, PDIL, UHDE, Technimont, NPCIL, Department of Atomic Energy, National Fuel Complex, etc. Many multinational companies prefer Oriental Manufacturers as suppliers for Process Plant equipment. The company works with the customers to understand their specific requirements to deliver the desired equipment. The wide range of customised equipment finds application in the Oil and Gas, Chemical, Fertiliser, Pharmaceutical, Refinery and Petrochemical Sectors. Manufacturing Works is U, U2, R & NB Stamp certified shop with ISO 9001:2008 and OHSAS 18001:2007 certifications. With the manufacturing setup spread over 32 acres of land, Oriental Manufacturers can manufacture oversized equipment with utmost ease. The vast expanse of land also offers

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the opportunity for future expansion of the company’s manufacturing unit.

Expertise The expertise of the Designing and Manufacturing teams has helped manufacture a range of products like pressure vessels, shell and tube type heat exchangers, columns, reactors, storage tanks and centrifuges (pusher and vertical). Every equipment that is manufactured by the team is designed with utmost precision through relevant codes and software available with Oriental Manufacturers.

The company has hands on experience of handling various grades of CS and SS, Cupronickel, and are also qualified in Welding of Exotic and Critical Metallurgy’s for Base Metal and Overlay procedures in Duplex, Super Duplex, Hastealloy, Inconel-600 and Titanium.

Their EPC Company, Oriental Nicco Projects Private Limited (Erstwhile Nicco Projects) has successfully executed more than 200 LSTK projects, and further helps to strengthen the company’s designing capabilities through their extensive experience and expertise in various fields. Turnkey solutions involve engineering procurement, construction and start-up assistance for a project, supplied by a single engineering and construct ion contractor.

Oriental NICCO, the project division provides design-build for turnkey solutions in all major disciplines including civil structural, plant design, mechanical, electrical and process control automation playing a critical role in the core areas of industry and infrastructure.

Comprehensive support from pre-project development and planning stage to the startup of the facility is provided to customers for a seamless association; ‘From Concept to Commissioning.’

Dedicated Key Facility The company has a dedicated key facility for exotic material bay and 2 CS fabrication bays, with under hook lifting capacities varying

from 10 to 70 MT. Other key facilities include an open yard (Bay 4) for piping spools and structural fabrication, plate bending machine with a capacity of 50 mm thick and width of 4000 mm, plate shearing machine that can handle shearing up to 22 mm. The equipment manufacturers are also equipped with a battery of drilling machine that is capable of manufacturing 100 mm thickness with tube sheet weight of 4 MT, one Boom type Submerged Arc Welding Machines (SAWs) and two portable SAW machines. Heavy duty rotators of higher tonnage are present for handling heavy and very heavy equipment under fabrication (30 MT to 120 MT of more than 20 Sets). The CNC plate cutting machine with plasma and acetylene cutting facility can handle up to 200 mm thick plates while the CNC Drilling facility easily handles tubesheets of up to 300 mm thickness. Committed to deliver the best service to clients and patrons, Oriental Manufacturers strive for continuous improvement of the business processes by using internationally accepted standards. The corporate policy is a reflection of an Integrated Management System for Quality, Occupational Health and Safety, along with implementing globally acceptable standards such as ISO 9001:2008 and OHSAS 18001:2007. Periodic internal audits and corrective action with management reviews at various levels prevent non-compliance throughout the process and lead to continual improvements.

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Aerzen Machines India Pvt Ltd Aerzen Machines was established in Germany and is over 150 years old with subsidiaries in more than 40 countries. It has been in India for the last 9 years. Aerzen has manufacturing facilities in Brazil, South Africa and India, besides Germany. The manufacturing facility in China will be inaugurated next month. Hegde states, “Most Sujan Hegde, Director (Sales, Marketing & Services) other subsidiaries have a sales and service setup, especially those in Europe where the attention is on timely service to be given to customers.”

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roduct Offerings The company offers a range of products viz, blowers and compressors and caters to the chemicals, petrochemicals, process, cement and food industry. The company manufactures oil free machines which have a wide application in various segments and industries. These oil free machines are highly reliable as the production downtimes are drastically reduced. Hegde adds, “The possibility of leakage of oil into systems or contaminants of food is practically negligible.”

Infrastructure Set-up The company is also involved in refrigeration applications for the petrochemical industry and can handle various gases such as propane, ethylene, etc, and has supplied these equipment to most refineries be it IOCL, HPCL, BPCL, Reliance and BORL. Hegde informs, “The heart pumps are imported from Germany directly while the complete system is put together in the factory in India.

Special Products required in the refinery are where mixing of gases is involved requires a lot of experiences and Aerzen has the ability to test and manufacture these based on the customer’s needs.”

Capturing the Market The industry does experience difficult times when there is a slope growth in the market.

The verticals that Aerzen caters to such as the petrochemical sector and others

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also face a slowdown and there are no greenfield projects being launched. This is one of the problems seen in the company’s growth strategy.

As far as the competition in the Indian market is concerned, Hegde elucidates, “Realiability is a catch word in the petrochemicals and other sectors. If an investment such as those made in the petrochemical sector as done then an unanticipated shut-down or down time can cause loses.” He believes that retaining the customer is easier than getting the new customer on board. There is a lot of competition in the low pressure market and limited competition in the medium pressure market. The competition varies greatly where specialised machines are concerned.

While talking about the specialised products which are high on efficiency, power saving and technology, the company has a stronghold there. He gave an example of Ultratech where Aerzen has supplied specialised products.

Aerzen’s technology allowed Ultratech to save almost 25 per cent of the power so that cost of equipment was recovered within a year and half.

Another sector that should adopt new technology is the water treatment sector where only 30 per cent water is treated in India while the remaining 70 per cent goes untreated.

Aerzen can also provide water treatment solutions and the treated water can be reused

by the industry and households. For the water sector, Aerzen has a range of energy efficient products such as the turbo blower and hybrid blower which consume less energy. The basic target is to achieve energy efficiency.

Hegde laments, “The real challenge here is education and technology accreditation in this sector as some people feel that the initial cost is too high. But eventually, these cost efficient technologies will have to be adopted.”

Future Plans At present the company has a turnover (direct and indirect) of ` 100 crores. The target for the next two years is to reach ` 150 crores. When asked about the company’s future plans, Hedge unravels, “Aerzen has begun localising all the standards and bearing in mind Prime Minister’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, it will not be limited to standard products. The thought is to be Indianised so that the company can be cost competitive. The products should become local so that it is easier to manage and manufacture.” He concludes that this is the thought in the long term.

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Vijay Tanks and Vessels Pvt Ltd

Anand Raghavan, Chairman & Managing Director

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ounded in 1956 by R Ramanujan, Vijay Tanks and Vessels Pvt Ltd (VTV) is ` 380 crore enterprise. It is amongst the leading EPC Contractors for Storage Terminals & Fabricators of Process Equipment. VTV has executed over 5000 projects across the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa & Australia. The company offers EPC contracting services for oil & gas storage terminals and fabricate pressure vessels & process equipment for a range of industries viz, oil & gas, refinery, petrochemicals, fertiliser, steel and power.

the company has gained strength from these adversities and is considered as a company to meet any and all challenges in project execution. VTV’s management strengths are borne from the fact that the company has been executing array of projects profitably and successfully over the last two and a half decades.” The company boasts of a prestigious list of clients from India and overseas viz, Saudi Aramco, KNPC, Bechtel, ADNOC, CB&I, British Gas, Essar Oil, Shell, Fertiil, BHEL, Toyo, Reliance, IOCL, EIL, BPCL, HPCL among many others.

Building Repute Over 6 Decades Now into the sixth decade of servicing global markets, VTV has an extensive and world-class portfolio of references, including some of the world’s largest oil & gas storage terminals and heavy process columns & pressure vessels with single piece weights of up to 1425 Metric Tons. The company is inspired by the new benchmarks and landmarks that it sets through successful implementation of various challenging projects, thus embellishing the strong credentials of VTV in the International market. VTV has a number of projects on hand; some of the important ones being for Petrofac, Petronet(IHI), GSPC(IHI), Isla Refinery, Reliance Industries, Kochi Refinery, Chennai Refinery & KRIBHCO both in the domestic and international market.

When asked about how the company has fared since it was established, V Sunderrajan, Director, VTV, says, “VTV has had an excellent period of growth during the 70’s and 80’s which gave VTV the reputation of a successful International Contractor. VTV’s growth over 60 years of its existence may not appear dynamic mainly due to its foray in Libya & Iraq. However

Management and Managing People Every critical aspect of a project is managed

by VTV, directly, with their highly skilled inhouse resources. This distinctive operational philosophy gives them hands-on knowledge and a greater ability to capture critical details relevant to project management; leading to enhanced value for its customers in terms of competitive costs, on-time delivery and highquality workmanship. VTV operates within a flat hierarchy where it believes in empowering and encouraging its people to take direct ownership of their work. This ensures a strong sense of personal commitment, allows a high degree of responsiveness, and sharpens result focus.

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Company Offerings VTV is an acknowledged global leader and is into two distinct equipment verticals viz, storage tanks and process equipment. It also offers atmospheric, pressurised and cryogenic storage tanks & storage systems. VTV’s process equipment vertical includes Pressure Vessels, Process Columns, Heat Exchangers, Reactors, etc.

Market Focus and Future Plans When asked about whether the company’s focus is the Indian market or overseas, Sunderrajan states, “Our focus has been on Indian projects with exports being 10-15 per cent of our turnover. Given the reduced investment in projects in India we are exploring fresh avenues in the African & South American Continents to sustain growth. Both these continents are in nascent stages of growth and therefore an element of unpredictability in governance. We expect that both these continents would offer us good opportunities.

However, the challenge for the management would be to manage the risks for a successful and profitable foray.”

Talking about the industries that it would like to expand further into, Sunderrajan concludes, “We are trying to see how we can get into process related industries with process engineering as our focus, such as Ethanol plants, Skid Mounted units for which we are in discussion with business associates from England/Australia and hope that we will be able to make a successful venture.”

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uper Industrial Lining Pvt Ltd is an end-to end solution provider in Corrosive Fluid Transfer.

The genesis of the company began with a young glass blower’s vision to explore new horizons in the business world. Through the help of friends and family, the young visionary moved from Mumbai to Vadodara to establish his own company in a small shed in the year 1982 and christened it SUPER SCIENTIFIC GLASS INDUSTRIES. The founder, Naresh Goyal has tasted great success and the company has grown and spread its activities into Borosilicate Glass Equipments, PTFE Products, Fluoropolymer Lined Pipes, Lined Fittings, Valves and Chemical Manufacturing. Goyal has guided his team with experience and insight and works with the vision to offer elevated quality standards, optimum value for money with guaranteed customer satisfaction. His son, Navdeep Goyal, is taking this vision to new heights ever since he has taken up the reins of management for Super Industrial Lining Pvt Ltd (SIPL).

Vision SIPL has created a strong legacy within a decade and made significant contributions across many industry verticals. This company is driven by the vision to be the global leader in the field of plastic and Fluoropolymer lined products, provide the best value to the customer by honouring commitments without compromising on quality by maintaining integrity and following honesty, openness, transparency, constructive self-criticism and mutual respect.

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Company Policy SIPL aims to provide best value to the customer in plastic and Fluoropolymer lined products through constant innovation and continuous improvements to deliver consistent product quality.

Develop newer, better and cost effective manufacturing processes and apply newer technologies and business practices, for environment friendly and sustainable growth. It is the chosen partner from Chemical to Paper Industry and from Pharmaceuticals to Power Plants and Efficient Corrosive Fluid Transfer. The management and employees constantly endeavor to develop diversified markets to provide stability and adequate financial returns to the company.

and approved by third party as per ASTM F1545-2003. The in-house lab, set as per international standards, facilitates testing of materials ranging from incoming raw materials to finished goods.

Market Share SIPL has a turnover of more than ` 150 crores and has market presence and its clientele spread in India, South East Asia, America, Latin America, Middle East, Far East and European countries.

An ISO 9001-2008 company, SIPL is part of the Super Group of Companies and is a member of DIPPN and all the manufacturing processes of the company are approved by The Chemours Company (formerly known as E I DuPont) and Technical Development Committee of India. With 40,000 square meters manufacturing and production plant near Vadodara, Gujarat, the company has capacity to assure timely delivery to its clients and patrons.

Manufacturing Unit The manufacturing unit of SIPL is well equipped to process PTFE/PFA/FEP/ PVDF/PP/HDPE under a single roof. Apart from this, the company also manufactures Lined Pipes from 1” (25 NB) to 24” (600 NB) in PTFE/PFA/FEP/PVDF/PP/HDPE, lined valves from 1” to 8”, antistatic lined piping system, and PFA/FEP/PVDF lined pumps. The company also has an inhouse computerised Test Type Facility where all the products are type tested

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ince 1931, Arvind Ltd stands tall as the flagship enterprise of Lalbhai group.

Today, Arvind employs 28,000+ people and evolved as one of the largest textile conglomerate having presence across the chain from yarns to finished goods. Advanced Materials a part of Arvind Ltd thrives to offer textile solutions for customer needs in all forms Industrial textiles and Personal Protection segments.

Its know-how of textiles and modern infrastructure in spinning, weaving and processing helps the company offer customers the solution for various technical applications. The manufacturing facility confirms ISO 9001:2008 certifications for producing high performance protective and industrial fabrics. Its fabrics comply with all the international standards and requirements in each of product groups. Arvind Advanced

Materials with its international joint ventures like Arvind PD Composites (For Glass and Composites) and Arvind OG Nonwovens (Needle Felts) brings a value to its customers for quality and reliable products in wide range of industrial and technical applications.

Philosophy • The company “BELIEVE in people and their unlimited potential. In content and focus in problem solving. In teams for effective performance, in intellect and its power.”

• It ENDEAVORS “to select, train and coach people to obtain higher responsibilities.

To nurture talent, and to build leaders for tomorrow’s corporation. To reward, celebrate and activate all intellectual business contributions.”

• It DREAMs “of excellence in all endeavours.

Of mutual benefit and prosperity. Of making the world a better place to live in.

We Make Things Happen.”

Product Range • Filtration Fabrics/Filter Cloths for Solid Liquid Separation • Flame Retardant Fabrics • Work wear Fabrics and Garments • Needle felts for Dust Collections • Speciality Technical Textiles for customised applications.

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Suraj Limited

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URAJ LIMITED an ISO-9001, 14001, BS OHSAS 18001 Certified Company are Manufacturers and Exporters of Stainless Steel Seamless & Welded Pipes, Tubes & ‘U’ Tubes and Large Diameter Welded Pipes in various sizes, grades & specifications as per customer requirements. Suraj has strong presence in global market and serving more than 70 countries such as EU, Gulf, South East, US & Latin America.

Materials:

Specification: Size Range:

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All Austenitic, Ferritic, Duplex & Super Duplex Stainless Steel As per ASTM, ASME, DIN, NFA, JIS Standard Welded: 6.0 mm OD – 1016 mm OD

Thickness:

Pipe Length: Tube Length: Specialization:

Application:

Seamless: 6.0 mm OD – 323.9 mm OD Welded: 0.6 mm – 25 mm Seamless: 0.8 mm – 25 mm Upto 12 mtr long Upto 30 mtr long Heat Exchangers, Heating Elements, Surface Condensers, Evaporators D igestors, Instrumentation Tubing and Fluid Piping PetroRefinery, chemical, Food, Pharma, Fertilizer, Oil & Gas, Breweries, Sugar, Ship Building.

Suraj also holds certificates for quality in accordance with AD2000 MERKBLATT W0 and Pressure Equipment Directives [PED] 97/23/EC from TUV Nord and offer material under all national & international Third party Inspection. SURAJ also have their own lab to examine various tests such as Hydro test, Eddy Current, PMI, IGC, UT, RT, Spectro analysis, Mechanical properties and many others as per customer requirements.

Suraj Limited ‘Suraj House’, Opp. Usmanpura Garden, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad – 380 014 Gujarat – India T: +91 79 2754 0720/21 F: +91 79 2754 0722 E: suraj@surajgroup.com W: www.surajgroup.com Chemical Engineering World

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DIP-FLON Engineering & CO

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ndustry leader since 1987, a company with primary objective of implementing hi-tech engineered polymer processing, throughout 26 years, Dip-Flon has gained specialisation in its target of achieving polymer processing.

Certifications: Dip-Flon is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company and a member of DuPont’s PPN Network.

It is approved by various TPI like EIL, UHDE, TATA Project, CE Certificate etc.

The Plant: The company’s manufacturing plant based in Chattral GIDC, Gujarat, spreads to about 3000 sq yards and employs about 100 people.

The Journey: Over the years, the company has learnt and strived hard to excel in quality of the products that it manufactures. Dip-Flon has emerged as one of the leading processors and fabricators of PTFE Moulded & Lined Components Like Spool Pipes & Fittings, Ball Valves, Plug Valves, Diaphragm Valves, Flush Bottom Tank Valves, Ball Check Valves, Dip Pipes, Spargers, Feed Pipes, Spindles, Sight glass and Spares For Glass – Lined Vessels and Reactors/Equipment.

The Clients: Its products are used in various industries across the globe including chemicals, petrochemicals, refineries, food and beverages, textile, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, fertilisers, mining industry and allied industries.

Equipped With Modern Machineries: Dip-Flon, equipped with modern machineries and hi-tech processing equipment, is backed by highly qualified

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team of technocrats and technical experts, after constant research and development efforts supported by world best technical guidance of M/s DUPONT, the company has perfected wide range of PTFE components of superior quality with excellent result oriented performance for ensuring cost reduction both in production and maintenance.

Great in Achievments: Dip-Flon’s business achievements are based on its continuous efforts to update and improve high innovation rate in processing PTFE moulded and lined products.

Great Processors: The company is processing all grades of fluorocarbon resins as per ASTM F-1545. Dip-Flon gives prime importance to quality and follows all the requisite quality standards starting from level of procurement of raw material till the final stage of production under the strict supervision of experts and inspections by qualified technical personnel to ensure that customer is served with best quality products and meet international standards.

PTFE Lined Products: The company is serving Indian industries since last 26 years. Dip-Flon has also launched PTFE Transfer moulding Technology with full indigenous efforts backed by in house research and development facility. It manufactures and supplies a wide variety of Lined Pipes, Pipe Fittings and complete range of lining system processed with hitech advance technology and experience.

Its various processing plastics are as – FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) FEP is a co-polymer of tetrafluoroethylene and hexaflouro propylene. It is suitable for continuous service temperature up to

180 0C to 200 0C and retains the chemical resistance with dielectric strength of PTFE. PFA (Perfluoroalkoxy): PFA is newly developed fluoropolymer, which is a Co-polymer of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoroalkoxy monomer. It has excellent mechanical strength and outstanding dielectric properties. It is unaffected by virtually all solvents and chemicals even at high temperature of 240 0C to 260 0C. Safety: Company’s products come with a guarantee of safety. “Dipflon believes in manufacturing products that are safe in nature.”

Innovation: “We innovate. We Build. We discover. We at Dip-Flon believes in doing things with brilliance.”

Quality: “Nothing can match a good quality. So, do we believe, here at Dip-Flon.”

Service: “Good service is the only mantra of modern day markets. How can we remain backwards from modern trends.”

Mukesh Parikh - Partner Dip-Flon Engineering & Company B-413, B.G. Tower,Outside Delhi Gate Shahibaug Road,Ahmedabad, PIN: 380004 Gujarat, India T: 91 079 2562 4003, 25624169, 25620554 F: 91 079 2562 5665 E: dipflon@dify.com; info@dipflon.com W: www. dipflon.com Chemical Engineering World

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Jay Ambe Engineering Co.

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ay Ambe Engineering Co was founded in 1996 and has since been offering an assortment of chemical process pumps, industrial pumps, pinch valves & centrifugal pump accessories. The founder, Mr Rajesh Patel has practical knowledge in the field of fluid handling and equipped with a natural flair in metallurgy, design and application. Under the exemplary leadership of its founder, JEC offers specialised and customised products of reasonable quality that offer utmost reliability to its clients and patrons. The diverse range of JEC products are a culmination of latest technology and precision so as to cater to the varied customer requirements. JEC pumps are designed with great accuracy to handle fluids transfers; ranging from clear, corrosive liquids or slurry pumping, making their product line versatile and utilitarian.

Rajesh Patel and his brother, Jaldhij, being visionary leaders, continue to expand their vision and explore unchartered segments of the industry. Their joint effort have led to the expansion of the product range in centrifugal pumps, along with the manufacture of pinch valves and a wide range of other industrial valves. Jay Ambe Engineering Co has an impressive range of top grade, versatile products and is among the leading centrifugal pumps and valves manufacturing company in India.

Vision JEC is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, is driven with the vision ‘to establish strong marketing channels to reach each & every part of the world.’ Values like team work, integrity, accountability, quality product, competitive pricing coupled with shortest delivery time have paved the way for the company to experienced extraordinary growth and success in a short span of time.

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Motto The motto is ‘to extend the product range as per the international standard with fully mechanised and state of the art technology to penetrate national and international markets’ in a bid to catapult the company’s success to new heights. Sound leadership coupled with the drive to rise up to challenges, has made JEC a well renowned name in the pump industry.

products like the PCF series, SCP series, PPC series, axil flow pumps and pinch valves are manufactured that offer a host of features and benefits. JEC products are versatile in nature and are commonly employed in chemical and process industries, paper and pulp industries, sugar industries, food & beverages industries, effluents treatment plants, evaporation plants, cooling towers, oil extraction and waste oil refiners and bulk drug & pharmaceuticals.

Quality Management Striving to offer high grade, precision products to its clients, JEC lays strict emphasis on the quality management system at each stage so as to implement it at every level of the organisation. This system offers the assurance that all JEC products are manufactured under close supervision & stringent Quality Checks.

Equipped with all latest technology and machinery, JEC is fully equipped to deliver world class quality products manufactured with utmost precision at every level.

Market Share The highly vigilant and resourceful management team of JEC is backed by the supportive and committed employees who are dedicated to their work and contribute to the company’s success. The united efforts of the management and the employees is clearly evident in the annual turnover of ` 2-5 Crore. Jay Ambe Engineering Co. does not enjoy popularity and patronage in India alone, but is a renowned name on foreign shores as well. With an export percentage of 20 per cent, JEC products reach the markets of East Asia, Central America, Middle East, South America, South East Asia, North America and the Indian Subcontinent.

R&D Team JEC believes in continual improvement in products and systems to keep pace with the changing nature of the industry and to cater to emerging requirements of customers. The R&D team of JEC comprises of a combination of highly qualified and well experienced technocrats who are well versed in multitasking manufacturing concepts. The R&D team works under the guidance of Mr Abyanbkar (Technical Advisor of Indian Pump Manufacturing Association), a distinguished name in the pump industry who innovates world class products / solutions to satisfy the critical requirements of the customers and enhance customer satisfaction.

Product Range and Application The R&D team and the founders of JEC have refined the product like and a range of

Jay Ambe Engineering Co. No. 1, Shree Jay Laxmi Industrial Estate, C.M.C. Compound, G.I.D.C., Odhav Ahmedabad - 382415, Gujarat, India T: +(91)-(79)-22874508/ 22894562 W: www.jayambepumps.com Chemical Engineering World

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Chempro Technovation Pvt Ltd

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stablished in 1992, Chempro Technovation Pvt Ltd (CTPL) is one of the leading turnkey project suppliers in the vegetable oil processing industry in India. It provides solution to the problem of process industries by identifying cost effective innovative technologies. The company first proves the conceptual idea in its R&D and pilot plant facility and later offers the solutions to the customers to meet their goals.

Chempro Technovation’s unit equipment includes: Filters: Pressure Leaf Filter, Agitated Nutsch Filter/Dryer, Basket Filters, Evaporators: Agitated Thin Film Evaporators, Short Path Evaporators, Mixers: High Shear Mixers, Process Equipment: Pressure Vessels, Columns, Heat Exchangers, Reactors.

The company has always kept records of newer developments and tried to integrate them by harnessing of technology sourced from world over. The fruits of innovation as it calls propel the growth and has set the ball rolling. The organisation has always tried to offer the best possible solutions to its customers by incorporating the best technology in its operations. The company is spread over 12000 square metre of area having all infrastructure and latest machinery available to manufacture plant and equipment in house.

Manpower The company boasts of an excellent team of qualified engineers synergises the experience and maturity of senior engineers and the dynamism of young and energetic engineers. On the home front, CTPL’s unwavering commitment to service excellence in manifested by extensive networking troubleshooting, de-bottlenecking and immediate on site assistance. The company has a competent site team to handle erection and commissioning of project.

Products and Services CTPL’s expertise and spirit of innovation means its clients can count on the latest technology and products to help meet their needs. From innovative methodologies to unique product designs and specialised components, the company meets customers’ requirements with solutions that feature utmost quality and reliability.

Company’s complete range of processes include Physical Refining, Chemical Refining, Dry Fractionation, Winterisation, Hydrogenation, Interesterification, Herbal Extraction Plants, Micronutrient Recovery, Essential Oil Distillation, High Vacuum Separation by Molecular Distillation, Lube Oil Rerefining and Pre-form and Bottles.

Infrastructure and Research and Development Chempro Technovation Pvt Ltd has established a sound infrastructure facility that comprise of latest machinery and tools to manufacture world-class range of products. It includes a range of overhead cranes and machines for plate bending, shearing, forming presses, plazma cutting, argon welding, riveting machine and others. Further, the research and development facility of the company is also equipped with modern analytical instruments, hot air oven, vacuum pumps, evaporators, Lab centrifuge, fridges, weighing balance (gm to kilogram), lab motors, glassware and computer system.

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More details on products are shown on web site www.chempro.in

Clientele Over the years, the company has built long list of satisfied customers. Some of them includes: • Gokul Refoils & Solvent Ltd • Shree Sainath Proteins Ltd • Akash Agro Industries Ltd • Kanel Oil & Exports Ind Ltd • Vimal Oils & Foods Ltd • Ashwin Vanaspati Industries Ltd • Hynoup Oil & Food Industries • Ramdeo Oil Industries Ltd • Balaji Agro Pvt Ltd • Kanel Oil & Export Industries Ltd • Chemical Construction Int Ltd • Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd • G-One Agro Industries Ltd

Chempro Technovation Pvt Ltd 802, Astron Techpark, Near Iskon, Satellite Road Ahmedabad, 380015, India T: +91 9099041743/743 E: info@chempro.in W: www.chempro.in Chemical Engineering World

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Chemical | Pharma & Biotech | Oil & Gas | Pumps, Valves Pipe & Fittings | Filtration & Separation

Who’s Who is an ‘Exhaustive Listing and Fact Book on Chemical Process Pharma & Biotech, Oil & Gas, Pumps Valves Pipe & Fittings, Filtration & Separation Don’t miss this unbeatable brand building opportunity. Advertise in the biggest & best of the India’s Process Industry & watch your Company grow. We look forward to your participation in our 15th issue.

Thank you for your support. You would like to know that Who’s Who has progressed by leaps & bounds over the last 14th editions. We are now in the process of compiling the 15th edition. Who’s Who is an exhaustive listing & fact book on the process engineering companies in the Chemical, Pharma & Biotech, Pumps Valves Pipes & Fittings, Filtration & Separation . It also carries extensive information on the Oil & gas industries & Industrial Automation. The database covers more than 10,000 participants at our Chemtech events.

Who’s Who is an important part of the literature accessed by purchase managers from this industry for their research before procurement. It is also made available to visitors to our stalls at international expositions who evince interest in Indian products. The whole compilation rendered on CD is a big hit with these visitors. The international audience can also access Who’s Who at the libraries of Indian Trade Chambers abroad.

Important Segments 2. Pharma Process Equipement / Packaging 4. Plant and Machinery 5. Pumps, Valves, Pipes & Fittings 6. Filtration & Separation 7. Industrial and Process Automation 8. Water and waste management 9. Material Handling & Logistics 10. Engineering, Procurement & Construction 11. Oil & Gas

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Alfa Pumps Pvt Limited

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LFA PUMPS (P) LIMITED is a highly specialised manufacturer of non-metallic pumps. Customers around the globe bank on its pumps whenever it comes to ensuring maximum operatingreliability in abrasive and aggressive service conditions. Delivering maximum benefit to its customers is company’s key principle. To this end, Alfa Pumps is prepared to abandon conventional approaches and explore new avenues.

At the same time, it makes sure not to neglect traditional value such as reliability, quality, trust and sharing experience. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in the awareness of company’s staff and reflected in its work strategies and production methods.

Standard Horizontal Chemical Pumps with PP and PPH Material

Alfa Pumps’ market success is founded on in-company research and development in conjunction with its knowhow acquired from decades of experience.

Research and Development Related to its sales volume, the company invests roughly twice the financial resources of the industrial average in in-company research and development. In pursuing its R&D activities and translating R&D results into its design and manufacturing operations, it can draw on high-end technologies and the latest methods. ALFA PUMPS consistently uses CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for the optimum hydraulic design of highperformance centrifugal pumps. The CFD results are then precisely implemented using the latest production technologies.

The company’s comprehensive test facilities combined with user feedback on field experience assure the continuous validation of development results.

“Your success is our objective Everything we do is focused on your need Innovative products, decades of experience and comprehensive service portfolio are the ingredients of our formula for your success” -Alfa Pumps

Alfa Pumps (P) Limited 29, Rajni Industrial Estate, Nr. Gujarat Bottling, Rakhial, Ahmedabad.

380023 INDIA. T: +91-79-329113760 | F: +91-79-22911376 E: cm@alfapumps.com 74 • September 2015

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Arvind Anticor Limited

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stablished in the year 1996, Arvind Anticor Limited (AAL) is expanding its business horizons at a steady growth rate. It is the youngest member in the Arvind Group and is a dynamically developing company that has evolved itself as a prime manufacturer and exporter of superior range of thermoplastics equipment, industrial thermoplastics equipment, thermoplast process equipment, multifarious products such as Storage Tanks, Pickling Plants, Tanks, Extraction System, Fume Extraction System, Industrial Fume Extraction System, Zinc White Fume Extraction System, Road Tanker from Thermoplastic material and AntiCorrosive Equipment made from various industrial thermoplastics.

The company employs and consults top professionals who are experts in the field of anticorrosive containers, all type of tanks, and whole plants. AAL has introduced to the world a state-of-theart Butt Fusion Welding technology for manufacturing thermoplastic chemical storage Tanks. AAL’s experts advise the best suitable options for the applications and suggest engineering solutions towards optimum performance for the client’s benefit.

products are known for their energy, cost efficiency and low maintenance operations.

Vision It believes that performance is the only language of quality. The quality in designing, manufacturing process and workmanship, results to greater performance and productivity. The company sees total satisfaction of the customers as its profit of first interest, because it believes that quality pays to company’s customers, and so to the company.

Why ‘Arvind Anticor Limited’?

• Products as per international quality standards.

• Outstanding services to customers.

• Creativity and teamwork in the workplace.

• Ultra-modern tools with updated technology.

• Respect for customers, associates, shareholders and vendors.

• Honesty and integrity in all that it does

With an outstanding range of products it caters to numerous national and international clients. Company’s satisfied customers have enabled it to expand its business horizons to the global market including Australia, Iran, Bangladesh, Philippines, Dubai, Oman and UK.

Anticor Proud to be member ofDVS – German Welding Society, ISHRAE – Indian Society of Heating Refrigerating And Conditioning Engineers, IWS – INDIAN WELDING SOCIETY, ITA – International Tube Association, ILZDA – Indian Lead Zinc Development Association , MESTEEL –Middle East Steel, GSPMA - Gujarat State Plastic Manufacturer Association, AMA – Ahmedabad Management Association, FIEO – Federation of Indian Export Organisations , IWMA – International Wire & Machinery Association.

The motivating and visionary approach of its directors has enabled the organisation to scale new heights in the industry. Its

Quality Policy To satisfy the needs and exceed the expectations of customers, the company

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offers products that are at par with various national and international standards of quality. Thus, AAL is committed to quality, innovation, timely delivery, customer satisfaction and value. To achieve total satisfaction of the customers, it tries and understands the quality requirements of the products. For this, AAL is committed to: • Understand customer needs and expectations • Maintain fully integrated Quality Management System (QMS) • Design products of the highest quality in the most efficient and cost-effective manner • Employ statistical techniques • Involve complete participation of the employees for continuous improvement.

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Arvind Anticor Ltd 563/1, Phase IV, Vatva GIDC, Opposite Hanuman Temple, On Mahemdavad Road, Ahmedabad, 382445, Gujarat, India T: +91 25840689 F: +91 25840958 T: +91 7878883400 E: info@plasticsstoragetank.com; arvindanticor@hotmail.com Chemical Engineering World

Safety valves for Oil & Gas industry LESER India launches Type 526 IC and 459 IC UV Stamp

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UV-stamped safety valves for Oil & Gas industry Type 526 IC designed according to API 526 standard Type 459 IC compact performance series for thermal applications to complement Type 526 IC API series Globally proven safety valves with German technology in a configuration especially for Indian requirements Very fast and reliable delivery time of six weeks ex works

Read more about the new safety valve Type 526 IC & 459 IC on the LESER India website www.leser.co.in Head office in Mumbai

LESER India 136/137, Sanjay Bldg. No. 3, Mittal Estate Marol, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400 059, India Tel.: +91 22 28532200 Email: info@leser.co.in

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LESER India D-3, M.I.D.C. Paithan, Dist. Aurangabad, Maharashtra - 431 148, India Email: sales@leser.co.in

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Steelfur System Pvt Ltd

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teelfur System Pvt Ltd is an ISO -9001 and Total Quality Management privately owned company. The company has a factory area approximately 35000 square feet and houses major manufacturing facilities under one roof at Vadodara. The company is devoted to provide well - designed and engineered storage and display solutions to customers along with prompt after sales services.

Vision This company upholds its vision to be the leader in the field of Industrial storage & display system through continuous innovations. With an aim to cater the best and appropriate storage and display solutions to customers, the company prides in offering thoroughly planned and designed, quality products and workmanship at competitive prices.

Prompt and appropriate after sales services are also made available to clients and patrons so as to ensure continuous improvement and utmost customer satisfaction.

Expertise Steelfur is one of the leading manufacturer and exporter in the field of Storage Solutions. The company has developed their own standards to achieve the best quality product line. The extensive product line is developed through the ingenious efforts of technically qualified and experienced manpower. The products are constantly upgraded and the manufacturing capacity is increased through new and innovative techniques. The company uses prime quality HR, CR, Galvanised coils or sheets are directly procured from reputed steel manufacturers that comply with IS standards.

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Work Policy Equipped with a team of professionals, the team understands space and storage requirement of clients and provides optimum solution. The compact storage solutions offer 100 per cent direct access to all locations gives clients a competitive edge to increase their efficiency. As no two warehouses are alike, the solutions offered by the team are perfectly customised to meet the customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; requirements. This has helped the company provide successful solutions in major business sector. Steelfur System solutions can be used for setting up a new project, making small renovations and design modifications as well as for fullscale turn-key build outs.

Quality Control Committed to deliver only superlative quality products, Steelfur System Pvt Ltd has always maintained the highest standards of quality. Right from the selection of raw materials like steel, Powders, hardware etc. till the final product delivery; all the quality aspects are carefully inspected by expert quality control analysts.

The products are dispatched to the markets only after proper inspection

under the adept supervision of the quality personnel Application Steelfur System regularly supplies products to Corporate & Industrial Sector, Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals sector, Educational sector, Banking and Financial sector, Super stores and Hotel sector, Warehousing sector, Defence sector, etc.

Steelfur System Pvt Ltd 877/1, GIDC Makarpura, Vadodara - 390010, Gujarat, INDIA T: +91 265 3043494/ 6539574 E: info@steelfur.com W: www.steelfur.com Chemical Engineering World

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Suresh Enterprises

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n 1975, a company was set up in a very small place with some machinery to manufacture quality silicone products to the world and since then the company is known as Suresh Enterprises, an ISO 9001:2008 company. After four decades, Sevitsil was set up in 1992 and has been a pioneer in the field of silicone rubber products. The company has been working with silicone rubber and vitone rubber products for more than a decade. They are one of the rare Silicone Rubber Product manufacturing company in India to create Clean Room -Class 1,00,000.

Mission Sevitsil aims to constantly upgrade itself and upholds the mission to create value and make a difference. It also aims to achieve the unachievable by being a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.

Manufacturing Facility The manufacturing facility of Sevitsil is at Dediyasan - GIDC Mehsana (Gujarat) and is spread over 700 square meters. It is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery and testing equipment that helps to continuously produce top quality silicone rubber products. Being a pioneer in any field, has its challenges, however Sevitsil has maintained its position in the market by offering a wide and diverse range of product line that can be customised to the clients’ requirements and specifications.

Using a combination of state-of-the-art machinery and technical expertise, Sevitsil has made exceptional breakthroughs in processes. The company, now a master in extrusion, can produce silicone products in sizes as small as 0.2 mm ID to 200 mm ID in tubings. This is given the

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manufacturers a competitive edge over other silicone rubber players in the field.

Product Features Sevitsil silicone rubber products are stable and can be used over a temperature range of 80º C to 250º C (-110º F to 480º F). Being chemically stable, it can be safely used with many acids and alkalis.

The tough, strong nature of silicone rubber products makes them ideal for continuous operation, without breaking or cracking hazard coupled with the benefit of low flammability and low smoke. It is also resistant to ozone, oxidation, UV, corona discharge, and cosmic radiation.

The products do not exhibit any toxic or harmful physiological effects. All products are manufactured as per BS 2848 Type 5 and can be manufactured in any colour, as per the specifications of the customer.

Application Sevitsil silicone rubber products find application in high & low temperature tube requirements for industrial machinery and equipment, flexible electrical insulation sleeving and cable harnessing, tubing for home appliances and commercial appliances, beverage & vending machines, Corona treater machine, BOPP film plants, medical and laboratory tubing, and extruded dealing profile for high & low temperature application.

Most of the silicone rubber products manufactured by Sevitsil find application in Industrial Machinery & Equipments, Food & Beverages processing, Medical Equipments, Chemical & Adhesive filling systems, Transformer & other electrical equipments, Insulator in electronic & Electric equipments, Lighting Equipments, Pouch Packing Machine,

Thermal Insulation, Hospital & Medical, Pharmaceutical, Pharma Machines, Textiles & Garment Finishing equipment, Packaging Industries, Dairy & Automobile Engineering, Plastic Machine and Healthcare Industries.

Quality Policy Many products from Sevitsil’s product line are a part of critical applications and crucial processes. To ensure that consistent product quality is achieved with every production batch, only the best raw materials are employed in the manufacturing process. Every step of the manufacturing process is closely monitored and every Silicone Rubber Product piece leaving the manufacturing line is sent for stringent quality checks.

Continuous vigilance and strict quality control checks ensures that Sevitsil silicone rubber products comply and satisfy the quality standards of international as well as domestic clients.

The company has implemented the ISO9001:2000 Certification, by TUV Rhineland to ensure that the manufacturing process adheres to the set norms. In 2003, Sevitsil set up a Clean Room Environment for all silicone rubber products in a bid to ensure utmost customer satisfaction.

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Asia-Pacific is the highest growing market in terms of volume.

“The Asia-Pacific market for water treatment chemicals in terms of value is projected to reach USD 13,446.5 million by 2019, witnessing a CAGR of 7.8 per cent between 2014 and 2019. The Asia-Pacific region dominated the water treatment chemicals market in terms of value in 2013. It is expected to be the fastest growing market in terms of value, from 2014 to 2019, the Asia-Pacific market registers a huge growth potential in this market. The rising industrial growth and high demand for clean water are the key drivers in this region,” the press release reads.

It also states, “North America is the second largest market in terms value for water treatment chemicals market, globally.

Europe and North America together accounted for more than 49 per cent of the water treatment chemicals value in 2013.

North America is expected to continue in the same position in the water treatment chemicals market by 2019, because of the growing end-use industries which consist of power, pharmaceuticals, dairy, water treatment plants, pulp and paper, food and beverages, oil and gas, refineries, and others.’

The specialty chemicals market is also projected to register a CAGR of 5.42 per cent between 2015 and 2020. The speciality chemical market is also expected to witness the highest growth between 2015 and 2020 in Asia Pacific regions as well.

“This region is the largest and fastest-growing market for specialty chemicals with a CAGR of 6.35 per cent expected between 2015 and 2020. A significant demand from developing countries such as China and India is driving the global specialty chemicals market. Moreover, advancements in electronics industry in major electronics producing countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan has resulted in a solid turnaround in 84 • September 2015

• Water Treatment Market expected to grow at CAGR of 5.8% between 2014 and 2019 • Coagulants and Flocculants Accounts for 27.5% of the global water treatment chemicals market in 2013 • Asia-Pacific market is projected to reach USD 13,446.5 million by 2019 • Specialty chemicals market expected to grow at CAGR of 5.42% between 2015 and 2020 • Asia Pacific is largest and fastest-growing market for specialty chemicals with a CAGR of 6.35 • North America accounted for the maximum market share of around 86% in the global fracking fluid market in 2014 • India Engineering Plastics Market: CAGR of over 13% during 2015 – 2020. the consumption of specialty chemicals in the region. Most of the growth in China and India is being fuelled by rising investments in infrastructure development and construction projects in these countries,” ReportsnReports.com states.

Another report on ‘Fracking Fluid & Chemicals Market’ by Markets and Markets has revealed that the rising demand for fuels and electricity is expected to drive the growth of the fracking fluids and chemicals market at a rapid rate during the forecast period. The Asian unconventional gas development has increased resulting in the increase in fracking activities and the usage of fracking fluids and chemicals.

A recent study has shown that China has significant shale gas reserves. According to a statement, North America accounted for the maximum market share of around 86% in the global fracking fluid market in 2014. The increase in the fracking activities for efficient extraction of oil & gas from abundant reserves present in North America is driving the fracking fluid and chemicals market. India engineering plastics market is also projected to exhibit a CAGR of over 13 per cent during 2015 - 2020.

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Oval Wheel meter, Type OV Oval wheels displace a precisely known volume of liquid through the meter, from inlet to outlet. The number of revolutions therefore, is directly proportional to the measured volume. Oval wheel meters and turbine meters against foreign matter and solids contained in the liquids measured with these meters. These strainers may also be used for protection of piping systems for contamination. Strainers: Type N … without heating jackets Sizes 15-100mm (1/2” to 4”) Features • Direct measurement of volumetric flowrate • Measurement at high viscosities • High accuracy • Only 2 moving parts (oval wheels) • 2-wire technique

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CEW Products Single-stage Rotary Vane Vacuum Pumps Shree Siddhi Vinayak Industries offers quiet in operation air-cooled rugged in construction single-stage rotary vane vacuum pumps in glassfibre vane material for long life.

It is suitable for operating in continuous fluctuating vacuum level at high intake pressure. It has high water vapour tolerance; wire mesh inlet screen and non-return valve to prevent oil entry into the system. Continuous filtration of oil at separate oil reservoir keeps the pump free of contamination.

The pump use less than 10 per cent of oil when compared to oil immersed vacuum pump. The system is designed to operate at 80 per cent degree C enhancing moisture and vapour handling capacity.

For details contact: Shree Siddhi Vinayak Industries Plot No: 19 Kashimira Indl Estate Mira, Dist: Thane, Maharashtra 401 104 Telefax: 91-022-28458372, 28457073 E-mail: response@minivacpumps.com / minivac@hotmail.com or Circle Readers’ Service Card 1

Computerised LCRTZ Test System Computerised LCRTZ test system (CVCT-S20) is ideal for fast and fool-proof testing of coils and small transformers like SMPS transformers, telecom transformers (hybrid, POT-core, RM-core), pulse transformers, etc. The system scans at one stroke all the windings of the transformer and displays the result as pass/fail. Features programmable test frequency 50-Hz to 10-KHz step; test parameter: inductance L, leakage inductance Lk, turns – ratio Tr, DC resistance DCR, impedance Z and capacitance C, etc. It is built with 20-pin scanner. The test procedure can be pre-programmed and stored under user-friendly menu driven software.

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Auto Backwash Filter The automatic self-cleaning auto backwash filters Type PRVC are capable of filtering any solid particles larger than the specified degree of filtration. The water or fluid enters the filter inlet nozzle and flows from inside of filter elements to outside. The dirt particles are collected on the inside of the filter elements. As the dirt level increases the differential pressure between the dirty and clean side increases and when the differential pressure reaches the preset value back-flushing starts automatically. In the manual mode back-flushing (cleaning cycle) is activated by means of adjustable timer. During the cleaning or back-flushing cycle two signals are issued by the control panel, one actuates the motor, the other bottom valve.

Geared motor rotate the internal arm under each filter element at the same time valve opens causing a temperary reverse flow to accomplish the cleaning of dirty filter element and removal of accumulated dirt to drain through bottom valve. Most suitable for cooling tower water filtration (side stream filtration), river water filtration, process water filtration, sea water filtration, filtration before RO. It finds application in power station, process industry, steel industry, sewage treatment plant, environmental technology, mining, paper industry, machine to industry, etc.

For details contact: Sharplex Filters (India) Pvt Ltd R-664, TTC Indl Area MIDC, Rabale, Navi Mumbai 400 701 Tel: 022-27696322, 27696331, 27696339. 69409850, 69409860 Fax: 91-022-27696325 E-mail: sharplex@vsnl.com or Circle Readers’ Service Card 3

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Products CEW Pressure Reduction and De-superheating Station Chemtrols offers combined and split PRDS solution for pressure reduction and de-superheating applications in power plants. The key advantage of combined PRDA is a lower foot-print in the field which leads to tremendous space saving and operational ease. Proven design, long term usage references; ensure complete safety and suitability of their usage in severe applications, backed up by all the necessary mandatory certifications.

It finds application in pressure reduction and de-superheating applications; HP and LP heater bypass valves; feed forward dump PRDS with dump tube; HP/LP turbine bypass valves in power plants needing quick opening/closing functions, typically <2 secs. A good engineered system ensures that steam is not let out to the turbine exhaust, but cooled into the condenser.

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Vortex Flow Meter FLOWIRL 8700 is the only Vortex flow meter with integrated pressure (optional) and temperature compensation in 2-wire technology.

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CEW Products Thermocouples

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Industiral Plugs & Sockets Industrial plugs and sockets from Controlwell provide a versatile and robust connection system for industrial field and factory connection applications. These plugs and sockets are designed and manufactured as per IEC 60309-1 and IEC 60309-2 Standards. The housings of these industrial plugs and sockets are made of Halogen-free, VO Grade polyamide 6 material and hence are non-flammable with a very high impact resistance.

The contacts are made from electroplated copper alloy offering high corrosion resistance and very low contact resistance (<1 mOhm).

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These plugs and sockets are available in a choice of IP 44 and IP 67 Class of ingress protection ensuring that your connections always get the optimum level of protection.Availabe in 3, 4 and 5-pin configurations with rated current capacity of up to 125 A these plugs and sockets are the ultimate choice when it comes to powering up absolutely any industrial equipment.

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Products CEW Control & Signalling Devices Elcom International Pvt Ltd is pioneer in the field of professional grade electro-mechanical/electronic components. Elcom’s range of 22.5 Series pushbuttons, selector switches, illuminated switches and pilot lights in engineering plastic construction have been designed to provide economy of space, aesthetic elegance, selfwiping contacts and sturdiness.

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CEW Products Double Cone Blender

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Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flowmeters FLEXIM presents new generation of clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters: the FLUXUS F/G 721. With its new hardware design and improved, powerful digital signal, it sets standards in terms of accuracy, reliability and versatility.

FLUXUS® F/G721 offers non-intrusive flow measurement of virtually any kind of liquid or gas, from the smallest tubing to the largest penstock, independent of the pressure inside the pipe and over a very large temperature range. Highly sophisticated signal filters and substantially improved measurement algorithms together with the proven transducer technology and sturdy mountings make the FLUXUS F/G721 a state-of-the-art measuring solution even for the most challenging applications, such as flow measurement of liquids with gaseous of solid entrainments or even of wet gas. The meter adapts itself automatically to the respective measurement conditions and compensates for perturbations. Extremely fast measurement cycles allow for precise real time monitoring of highly dynamic processes. FLEXIM calibrates transmitters and transducers independently from each other, therefore ensuring highest accuracy in the field, regardless of the actual configuration of the measuring system. Explosion-proof versions for operation in hazard areas (ATEX, IECEX Zone 2, FM Class I, Div. 2, EAC TR TS, Inmetro) are available. The FLUXUS F/G721 comes with all common communication protocols. HART, Modbus, Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus PA and BACnet allow bidirectional field communication, parameterisation and online diagnostics. Further special configurations guarantee optimal customisation to the individual application.

The FLUXUS F/G721 is also one step ahead in terms of user guidance and diagnostics. It can easily be parameterised via USB. Its ethernet connectivity provides additional bidirectional communication capabilities.

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Products CEW Waterproof pH 450 and CON 450 Meters Cole-Parmer offers the latest fully-featured GLP compliant pH 450 meter and CON 450 conductivity meter from Oakton. The meters provide automatic and manual temperature compensation to ensure accuracy even with fluctuating temperatures. Get more data at a glance—view measurements with temperature and calibration data with % slope or cell constant on a large, backlit display. Select Celsius or Fahrenheit settings to best fit your application. Up to 500 data sets can be stored and easily downloaded with USB or RS-232 cable. A calibration alarm alerts users when it is time to calibrate. The Oakton pH 450 meter also features six-point calibration—choose USA, NIST, DIN or custom buffers. Convenient auto buffer recognition automatically identifies the correct pH meter buffer for rapid calibration. The Oakton CON 450 meter offers auto-range conductivity from 0 to 199.9 mS in five ranges with automatic calibration up to five calibration points. Selectable temperature co-efficient is adjustable from 0 to 10% per °0C for accurate compensation of almost any solution.

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Diaphragm Valves Custom valve types may be welded tandem valve assemblies, machined from solid block types or manifolds that incorporate both technologies.

Tandem valves (sterile access valves) are designed to optimise drainability and meet process design requirements for minimum dead legs. A main valve is ported and a second access valve is welded to the main valve to create a tandem cluster.

The machined tandem is a variation of the serial weir family. The machined form solid tandem valve type offers several adventages over the welded tandem.

Configuration of optimum process fabrication presents system designers with an ongoing challenge. Minimum space envelope, reduced hold up areas, reduced cost and facilitating ease of installation are all key considerations.

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ChemTECH Chennai 2015 Dates: 10-12 December, 2015 Venue: TNTPO, Exhibition Ground, Chennai Details: World meet of chemicals, petrochemicals, pharma and process industry in India encompassing exhibition and conferences.

Contact: +91 22 40373636 Email: sales@jasubhai.com Website: www.chemtech-online.com ChemTECH Gujarat 2016 Dates: 10-12 February, 2016 Venue: Ahmedabad, India Details: World meet of chemicals, petrochemicals, pharma and process industry in India encompassing exhibition and conferences.

Contact: +91 22 40373636 Email: sales@jasubhai.com Website: www.chemtech-online.com India Chem Gujarat 2015 Dates: 28-30 October, 2015 Venue: Gandhinagar, Gujarat Details: ‘Chemicals - A Way of Life.’ efforts to make India and more particularly Gujarat as the global manufacturing hub of quality speciality chemicals will be the focus point of this event.

Organiser: FICCI - DoC&P, Govt Of India Contact: +91 11 23316540 Email: prabhsharan.singh@ficci.com Website: www.ficci.com Chemspec 2016 Dates: 7-8 April, 2016 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai Details: Meeting and networking with existing and potential partners and business facilitators Organiser: Quartz Businesss Media Ltd, Contact: +91 22 240 44472 Email: rohit@chemicalweekly.com Website: www.chemspecevents.com India Pack 2015 Dates: 8-11 October, 2015 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai Details: 6th International Packaging exhibition concurrent with World Packaging Congress Organiser: Indian Institute of Packaging Contact: +91 22 28219803/ 9469 Email: iipend@iip-in.com Website: www.indiapack.org 92 • September 2015

2015 SNO Conference Dates: 8 - 10 November, 2015 Venue: Portland, USA Details: This year’s SNO conference sessions will be organised around selected ‘systems’ eg, air-water systems Organiser: Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Email: info@susnano.org Website: http://susnano.org/ POWTEX OSAKA 2015 Dates: 14-16 October, 2015 Venue: International Exhibition Centre, Osaka (INTEX) Details: The 11th Powder Technology Exhibition Osaka Organiser: The Association of Powder Process Industry & Engineering Contact: +86 10 6422 2898 Email: info2015@powtex.com Website: www.intex-osaka.com 4 th Annual BioChina International Summit 2015 Dates: 27-28 October, 2015 Venue: Shanghai, China Details: BioChina International 2015 Summit is a leading partnering and networking platform for bio industry.

Organiser: Shine Media International Contact: +86 021 5242 8147 Email: constance.shen@shinemediaworld.com Website: biochina.shinemediaworld.com Polyeolefin Additives 2015 Dates: 20-22 October, 2015 Venue: Cologne, Germany Details: 8 th edition of AMI’s international industry conference on polyolefin materials, compunding, additives and performance Organiser: Applied Market Information Ltd, Contact: +44 117 314 8111 Email: nc@amiplastics.com Website: www.amiplastics.com Plastics Recycling Show 2015 Dates: 25-26 November, 2015 Venue: Belgium Details: European exhibition & conference for plastics recycling Organiser: Engineering Conferences International Contact: +32 2 742 96 82 Email: info@plasticsrecyclers.eu Website: www.plasticsrecyclers.eu Chemical Engineering World

Project Update CEW New Contracts/Expansions/Revamps The following list is a brief insight into the latest new projects by various companies in India.

• CHEMICALS BMS Starch is implementing a 300-TPD starch manufacturing unit and a 6-MW biomass based co-gen power plant in village: Kurandi, district: Bastar, Chhattisgarh The project will be spread over 26 acres of acquired land. The estimated cost of the project is ` 1,350-million.

Equipment supplier is yet to be appointed. Civil work is in progress. The project is expected to be completed by 2016.

Globex Laboratories (R&D) proposes a pigments manufacturing unit at village: Dabhasa, district: Vadodara, Gujarat. According to MoEF sources, the project will come up in the existing land on 9,312 sq m. Kadam Environmental Consultants, Vadodara is the environmental consultant. The project will entail manufacture of 40-TPM red pigments, 40-TPM yellow pigment and 450-TPM dilute phosphoric acid. Environment clearance has been obtained for the products – red pigments and yellow pigments. Construction work has begun, as EC and NOC have been received. Effluents generated will be treated in effluent treatment plant having MEE. The company has applied for Amendment in Environmental Clearance dated 26th September 2012 for change in fuel from LDO to agro waste briquettes and addition of one raw material, ie, phosphoric acid and generation of dilute phosphoric acid (25 per cent basis) as by-product.

Bohra Industries is implementing an expansion of its chemical and fertilizer manufacturing unit at Umarda, district: Udaipur, Rajasthan on 14,500 sq m of existing land. The project will entail expansion of single super phosphate capacity from 400-TPD to 600-TPD, granulated super phosphate from 200-TPD to 300-TPD and addition of new products namely 150-TPD triple super phosphate, 550 - TPD synthetic gypsum, 30 - TPD di-calcium phosphate, 160TPD phosphoric acid, 0.3-TPD potassium fluoride, 150-TPD H2SO4 and 0.3-TPD Sodium Tri Polyphosphate (STPP). Machinery has been ordered from China. Civil work is in progress.

The project is scheduled for completion in 2018.

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Ami Lifesciences proposes expansion of its synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing unit (viz, pharmaceutical bulk drugs and drug intermediates) from 65.70-TPM to 131.60-TPM in Padra, district: Vadodara, Gujarat. The estimated cost of the project is ` 87.046-million.

Environmental Consultant to this project is Envisafe Environment Consultants. According to MoEF sources, total plot area is 23,760-sq m (existing 10,270-sq m and 13,490-sq m for expansion). The unit currently manufactures 2-TPM 1-Acetyl Naphthalene, 1-TPM 2-Acetyl Naphthalene, 6-TPM itopide HCl, 1.20-TPM loxapine succinate, 0.30-TPM amoxapine, 6-TPM venlafaxine, 6-TPM progunil HCl, 6-TPM CB-2-L-Valine, 0.60-TPM nateglinide, 0.60-TPM quetiapine, 24-TPM carbomazepin and 12-TPM oxacarbomazepin. The expansion will involve addition of new products. Water requirement from ground water source will be increased from 34.53-cu m/day to 181-cu m/day after expansion. Effluent generation will be increased from 9.35-cu m/day to 79.5-cu m/day after expansion. Highly concentrated effluent will be sent to captive incinerator for incineration. Remaining effluent (70-m3/day) will be treated in the ETP comprising primary, secondary and tertiary treatment. Treated effluent will be sent to CETP for further treatment. ETP sludge, inorganic residue and incineration ash will be sent to TSDF. Spent carbon, organic residue will be sent to incinerator.

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Astrica Laboratories is implementing a 240-TPA synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing project at a cost of ` 78.8-million in village: Ananthsagar, district: Medak, Telangana. Team Labs & Consultants are the environmental consultants. The project will come up on 6.97-acre of land. According to MoEF sources, it is proposed to treat all HTDS effluent in stripper followed Chemical Engineering World

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by MEE and ATFD. All LTDS effluent including domestic effluent shall be treated in biological treatment followed by RO system. RO rejects sent to MEE and permeate is used for cooling towers as make up.

Solid wastes are generated from the process, solvent distillation, collection/neutralization tank, waste oil from DG sets, used batteries from DG sets. The ash from boiler is sold to brick manufacturers. The solid wastes; evaporation salts, wastes from the process in inorganic form, ie, process salts and filtration aids shall be disposed to the TSDF, while the hazardous wastes of organic nature, i.e, distillation residues shall be disposed to authorized cement units and other wastes like used oil and used batteries shall be sent to authorized recyclers.

The sludge from treatment plant shall be sent to TSDF. The basic technology involved in the manufacturing of bulk drugs is the process kettles, heat exchangers, centrifuges and storage tanks. To support the process, equipment boilers, chilling plants, cooling towers, etc, are required. All the above equipment can be sourced indigenously.

80 per cent of civil work has been completed and remaining 20 per cent is in progress. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2015.

Adi Finechem is planning a 40-TPA specialty products manufacturing project on a 2-acre land at an estimated cost of ` 400-million in village: Chekhala, district: Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The project is waiting for environmental clearance.

Lakhani Dyestuffs is implementing a 100-TPM reactive dyes manufacturing project in MIDC, Ambernath (W), district: Thane, Maharashtra. Environmental clearance has been received for the project. Land has been acquired and civil work is in progress. The project is scheduled for completion in H2 2015.

RSPL is planning a 1,500-TPD soda ash plant and 40-MW captive power project in village: Kuranga, district: Jamnagar, Gujarat. Land acquisition is in progress. 85 per cent of land has been acquired. The project is waiting for environmental clearance. The entire project is planned for completion in 5 years from zero date.

Superhouse is planning an expansion of its chemical mix-manufacturing project from 200-kg/day to 500-kg/day in UPSIDC Industrial Area, district: Unnao, Uttar Pradesh. The product will be used in leather tanneries.

The project will involve installation of containers. The project is in planning stage.

Stellar Chemical Laboratories is planning an expansion of its organic chemical manufacturing project from 7.1-TPM to 84.1-TPM in village: Derol, district: Panchmahals, Gujarat. Machinery is yet to be ordered. Work on the project is expected to commence after receipt of environmental clearances and the completion date is yet to be finalized.

• MINING NTPC is planning the Kudanali-Luburi coal mining project in district: Angul, Odisha. The company has signed an agreement on June 15, 2015 with Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDCL) for promoting a joint 94 • September 2015

venture company with 67:33 equity participation for undertaking exploration, development and operation of jointly allocated Kudanali-Luburi Coal Block at Odisha by the Ministry of Coal.

Bharat Coking Coal is planning the Pootkee Balihari coal mining project in district: Bokaro, Jharkhand. Tenders have been floated for development of Pootkee Balihari project and extraction of coal from Pootkee Balihari project, Pootkee Balihari area by mass production technology package for a minimum guaranteed production of 8.1 -million tonne of coal during 9 APP subject to maximum 1.04-million tonne of coal in any one year (APP) on turnkey basis. Work includes additional exploration (if desired so by the contractor); preparation of mining plan, detailed Project Report and obtaining approvals from concerned authorities. The last date for submission of bids is 21 st September, 2015.

DSP Associates is planning a 15,17,600-TPA sand (minor mineral) mining project in the mines of Tikola-1 Sand Unit at village: Tikola, district: Gurgaon, Haryana. Mining lease area is 42.50-hectare. The estimated cost of the project is ` 55-million. The project is waiting for environmental clearance. Mining work is expected to commence in December 2015. According to MoEF sources, out of the total area, 31.50-hectare area falls in the river bed and 11-hectare area falls in agricultural land (outside river bed). Method of mining will be opencast semi-mechanized without drilling and blasting. The mine will be excavated out in layers up to a depth of 3-m in riverbed and 9-m in agricultural field. Letter of Intent (LOI) for mining contract has been granted for a period of 9 years.

Barmer Lignite Mining Company, a JV between Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals & Raj West Power, a subsidiary of JSW Energy is planning an expansion of the Kapurdi Open Cast Lignite Mining project from 3.75-MTPA to 7-MTPA in Kapurdi, district: Barmer, Rajasthan at an estimated cost of Rs 18,000-million inclusive of a new lignite mining project at Jalipa mines. The project is waiting for environmental clearance.

• NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY Hubli Electricity Supply Company is planning solar RTPV grid connected power plants in district: Belagavi, Karnataka. E-tenders have been floated to design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of solar RTPV grid connected power plants on the roof-tops of 31 of HESCOM office buildings in Belagavi Zone Jurisdiction for total load of 136-KWp including operation and maintenance for a period of five years. The approximate amount put to tender is Rs 18.62-million.

Kranthi Edifice is implementing a 20-MW solar photovoltaic power project in village: Tadoor, district: Mahabubnagar, Telangana. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 1.2-billion. The project is being set up on 100-acre of land. Equipment supplier is under negotiation. Civil work is done in-house. Power generated will be sold to Telangana State Transmission Corporation (TSTRANSCO). The project is scheduled for completion in September 2015.

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CEW Book Shelf Energy Management and Efficiency for the Process Industries 1st Edition Author : Alan P. Rossiter, Beth P. Jones Price : USD 67.05 Pages : 400 (Hardcover) Publisher : Wiley-AIChE About the Book: This book provides a unique overview of energy management for the process industries. It provides an overall approach to energy management and places the technical issues that drive energy efficiency in context. It combines the perspectives of freewheeling consultants and corporate insiders. In two sections, the book provides the organisational framework (Section 1) within which the technical aspects of energy management, described in Section 2, can be most effectively executed. It includes success stories from three very different companies that have achieved excellence in their energy management efforts. It covers energy management, including the role of the energy manager, designing and implementing energy management programs, energy benchmarking, reporting, and energy management systems. Technical topics cover efficiency improvement opportunities in a wide range of utility systems and process equipment types.

Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges Author : Gwen Ottinger Price : USD 85 Pages : 240 (Hardcover) Publisher : NYU Press About the Book: Refining Expertise argues that the answer lies in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible—committed to operating safely and to contributing to the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery’s health and environmental effects. Gwen Ottinger here shows how industrial facilities’ current approaches to dealing with concerned communities—approaches which leave much room for negotiation while shielding industry’s environmental and health claims from critique—effectively undermine not only individual grassroots campaigns but also environmental justice activism and far-reaching efforts to democratise science.

Planning and Integration of Refinery and Petrochemical Operations, 1st Edition Author : Khalid Y. Al-Qahtani, Ali Elkamel Price : USD 76.84 Pages : 206 (Hardcover) Publisher : Wiley-VCH About the Book: Clearly divided into three main sections, this practical book familiarizes readers with the area of planning in petroleum refining and petrochemical industry, while introducing several planning and modelling strategies encompassing single site refinery plants, multiple refinery networks, petrochemical networks, and refinery and petrochemical planning systems. It equally provides an insight into possible research directions and recommendations for the area of refinery and petrochemical planning. Furthermore, several appendices are included to explain the general background necessary, including stochastic programming, chance constraint programming, and robust optimisation.

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Uttam Ray Chaudhuri USD 129.12 411 (Hardcover) CRC Press

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Staying Ahead of Time “Some thirty years back, as the market was not that evolved due to lack of environmental consciousness, it took us almost twenty five to thirty meetings to convince our customer to buy a reverse osmosis system for waste water treatment,” r e c a lls Ra j e s h S h a r m a , Chairman and Managing D i r e c t o r, I o n E x c h a n g e (India) Limited. Mr. Sharma shares his experience of the evolution of water and waste water treatment market in the countr y. In a candid interview with Mittravinda Ranjan, he talks about his experience of four decades with Ion Exchange, which recently celebrated its golden jubilee of serving the water industry.

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CEW Interview There was a time when water treatment was never considered as a critical aspect of running an industrial facility in India, but today the end users are much more sensitive towards the water challenge in the foreseeable future. Please share your experience of the evolution of market over the last four decades.

Early sixties was the dawn of industrialisation in India. Refineries, chemical and petrochemical manufacturing facilities, steel plants, power plants were mushrooming all over the country and there was significant demand for process water from these industries. This was also the time when, due to lesser awareness and lack of regulations on waste water discharge norms, waste water treatment was not really a core area of focus for the industry. Ion Exchange was ready with solutions for waste water treatment at that point of time but perhaps we were ahead of time for the Indian market.

By the eighties, industry had started becoming sensitive towards waste water treatment and this segment grew significantly towards the nineties. The last two decades, I would say, have witnessed the fastest growth of the waste water treatment market with the increase in corporate social responsibility coupled with stringent regulatory norms imposed by the pollution control boards at the state as well as central levels. However, the last decade has witnessed a fast growing demand for water and waste water solutions that have gone one step ahead, as there is more emphasis on recovery, recycle and reuse to conserve fresh water resources and minimise pollution.

How have the allied technologies sectors evolved with the changing market dynamics and how has Ion Exchange expanded the portfolio?

I am proud to say that Ion Exchange played a pioneering role in bringing water and waste water treatment solutions to the Indian market. In 1965 we pioneered the production of world-class 98 â&#x20AC;˘ September 2015

ion exchange resins in India, we now export 40 per cent of total production to Europe and the USA. Later we set up facility for engineering and fabrication in Hosur to become a wholly integrated water solutions provider.

It has been our constant endeavour to bring new technologies to the Indian market. In 1978, we introduced reverse osmosis (RO) to the Indian market, which can now be seen in almost every household. If I can recall correctly, it took us almost twenty five to thirty meetings to sell the first industrial RO unit. Later, we went on to set up our own RO membrane manufacturing facility in Gujarat in 1987.

What are your thoughts on changing end user behaviour?

Willingness has certainly increased among the end users, which clearly reflects in the way the demand for water and waste water treatment solutions has increased. Customers are more open to embrace new technologies, although they are a bit expensive, but this is confined to mainly large and medium scale companies who have invested in setting up captive effluent treatment plants. Awareness levels are high even among small scale players but it is economically not feasible for them to set up individual effluent treatment plants but instead rely on the common effluent treatment plants (CETP) set up for industrial clusters to treat waste water.

These CETPs are designed to handle a certain quality of effluent; it gets upset due to sudden increases in plant load factor or high toxic chemicals discharged by industries. It is the responsibility of individual industries to ensure that permissible quality of effluent is sent to the CETP. Often, one reads about industries flouting norms or CETPs not working at various places or industrial effluents or sewage being dumped in the fresh water bodies. These are issues that need serious attention.

Companies are setting up goals for sustainable development through a cleaner environment, reducing pollution, producing less waste by adopting advanced technologies and conserving the environment and many MNCs and major Indian groups have set up internal goals.

This is the reason many companies are adopting recycling technologies.

Those who are more environmentally conscious are opting for zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology though it is a bit expensive as zero waste means that waste at the end has to be thermally evaporated or by solar evaporation. We have done five projects so far, one outside India and the rest in India, and a couple more are currently under execution.

What are the key drivers for the changing trends in the industry?

Increasing water scarcity and stringent regulatory norms on waste water discharge are compelling industries to find alternative sources of water to meet the growing water demand. Many industries are now being set up in the coastal areas due to water scarcity in land locked areas and these are relying on desalinated sea water as the resource to meet their requirements. Industries are now realising the need of adopting waste water treatment solutions as a value proposition; since the cost of fresh water supplies and cost of discharge of waste water when put together turn out to be more than the cost of recycled water, this justifies investment in waste water recycle.

Despite having regulations in place, we keep reading stories about industries flouting norms or CETPs not working at various places or industrial effluents or sewage being dumped in the fresh water bodies.

What is the exact picture of pollution today in the country in your opinion?

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Interview CEW user mind sets, as a result of which the market has significantly evolved and can broadly be categorised into two groups.

First, it is the large and medium scales who have invested in setting up their own capacities and the second is the small scale players who independently cannot install and run effluent treatment plants (ETPs). The government has set up CETP with the aim to treat the waste water generated by multiple small scale industries to a basic level. This is later transferred for final treatment before being discharged into the environment.

As I mentioned earlier, these CETPs are designed to handle a certain amount of load and chemicals, which get upset due to sudden increase in plant load factor or chemicals that it is not intended to handle. It may be difficult to draw an exact picture, but by and large industries are trying to treat the waste although exceptions exist.

One of the major factors in the industries flouting the norms is the high cost of running the ETP facility. In my opinion, industries must be mandated to pay for effluent treatment costs just as they pay for other utilities such as power.

Talk about the overseas projects Ion Exchange has been working on and how is it to work on projects in other countries vis-Ă -vis India?

Ion Exchange has been involved in project exports for almost three decades and exports accounts for around 25 per cent of our revenue at present. We have diverse geographic presence across South East Asia, Middle East and South Africa where we have set up our offices.

Each of these markets is unique and has their own set of challenges.

In South East Asia, we are present in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia which are similar to the Indian market to a certain extent yet different as they are more progressive and sensitive towards water issues. Middle East is a tough market as the customers are very particular about high quality standards and they believe in investing in high Chemical Engineering World

end technologies. In Africa, South Africa is much more westernised. The rest of Africa has similar conditions like us.

They want cost effective solutions which meet their requirements.

Municipal sewage waste (MSW) treatment is one of the most discussed in various forums but there is hardly any work done in that space in India, while in other countries like Singapore they are recovering water from sewage water and reusing water for various purposes. What kinds of opportunities exist in this space in a country like ours?

Municipal sewage waste treatment market is huge in our country. It may be difficult to give particular numbers as far as sewage waste generation is concerned, but as per our internal estimates, only ten percent of waste in rural areas and thirty percent of waste in urban areas is treated.

Singapore is another great example which is highly water stressed but they have chalked a clear cut road map to secure water supplies and have built the infrastructure to support the demand for the next 100 years. There, they have been blending treated sewage water with fresh water which they call New Water, but in India we have a mind-set and so this approach may not work in our country. Such steps can reduce the use of fresh water by almost 60-70 per cent and simultaneously reduce the stress on fresh water resources.

Ganga Rejuvenation is just one example of sewage treatment before it is discharged into the river. The plan was chalked out almost 25 years back and partly implemented. But the river has remained polluted because of underdesign of plants and improper operation and maintenance.

What are the critical deciding factors for success of projects in this space?

These projects entail huge investments and require proper operation and

maintenance post implementation. Type of waste and the plant load are critical factors at the design stage which requires the segregation of municipal waste from industrial waste before the waste enters the recycling and recovery units. Urban planners are taking care of these issues now but in many old cities, where small cottage industries are present, harmful chemicals are discharged into the common municipal stream that upsets the sewage treatment programme. One such example is Dharavi in Mumbai, home to many leather processing and manufacturing units.

Traditionally, urban planners have been looking at integrated treatment plants; however I feel that having decentralised plants would make more sense. Each large colony should have an individual treatment plant instead of transporting the effluent across the city to a common place for treatment or a set of small colonies can have a common recovery and recycle unit. In fact, if such units are close to the agricultural land, water can be treated for removal of pathogens and used in agriculture as well.

We have been propagating the idea of setting up water recovery units in big societies in urban areas to recover and treat waste water which can be used for purposes other than in the kitchen, like it is done in the Middle East.

Scope and opportunities for players from the private sector in waste-water treatment industry For example in France, the water industry was completely privatised a hundred years back and has the highest compliance levels. If you ask me, why do we need to have water filters at home?

Should it not be the responsibility of the authorities to ensure continuous water supplies with the highest quality for its people?

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CEW Interview five years. This needs to change! Private players can of course play a major role in this segment in terms of investments but it will happen only if there are assured returns on investments in the business.

Though regulations are in place, proper incentive schemes promising reasonable return on investments would certainly attract private players for investments.

Huge subsidies affect the top and bottom lines of companies and no one is ready to invest. For instance, the government offers subsidised water and in many cities the cost of treatment is more than cost at which water is sold to the customer, which makes the project unviable. This is one of the reasons why despite the availability of expertise, private players are not inclined towards investing.

The water challenge can be met only through the concerted efforts of government agencies and private players. The best possible approach would be through the PPP mode but the implementation is crucial. There is immense scope as the investment required in water and wastewater treatment is close to USD 100 billion and the PPP model can actually go a long way in addressing the issue.

Unfortunately, one does not get to hear stories of success of PPP model in India. What would be the critical success factors for implementation of this model?

Worldwide if you see, there are many success stories where the PPP model and privatisation have been made to work in the best interest of the stakeholders and society. France, as I said, privatised the sector a hundred years back to overcome the challenge and has one of the best water infrastructures.

The key for the success of the PPP model is that the ultimate cost must be borne by the end user. Unless the Government is ready to increase the tariff and until the private sector gets good ROI, the PPP model will not work. Another important 100 • September 2015

factor to make it more successful would be involving the community/stakeholders directly in the project by making them a part of the SPV to maintain transparency in the whole process so they are a part of entire decision making process.

This is actually the practice followed everywhere outside India and has worked well for the success of the PPP model in France, which completely privatised the water sector. Thailand is another example where Mitsui is running the drinking water project; in Manila such water projects are also running successfully as people are ready to pay. In fact, we are pursuing one project in Manila, where despite it being a small country people are paying for the water.

The investment required in water and wastewater treatment is close to USD 100 billion; it cannot happen overnight and has to happen progressively. No one company can do it and it has to be a concerted effort based on a master plan as implementation is a major challenge.

What are your thoughts on future Market dynamics of water sector?

Growth opportunities are tremendous.

The industry has been growing at almost 10-12 per cent. In fact, the bottled water industry is growing at almost 25 per cent. Consumer industry is growing at 20-25 per cent. There is a huge gap between the demand and supply and the gap keeps widening. Our population is growing, rapid industrialisation has created compelling demand for water, and so has the demand for agricultural needs which is currently at around 70-75 per cent.

Demand for everything is increasing.

Water, which is the key raw material for almost everything shows an increase in demand. You need water for process, drinking, human consumption, agriculture.

But the issue is depleting fresh water resources.

The entry barrier to water management is very low. Since this is technology based,

one does not need huge investments unlike major manufacturing industries that are highly capital intensive. So, many small players come into existence, offer cheaper equipment, which may or may not perform to optimum level and then finally within 5-6 years those players are out of the market. This is the process that has been going on for a long time.

The two basic things that need to be taken care of are conservation of fresh water resources and optimising the use of fresh water through maximum recycling of water; and the second is to make efforts to increase the percolation of water into aquifers through watershed development.

Water recycle and desalination will be the key growth drivers in the next 10 years because of water scarcity. This is where the industry is going to grow.

Please share the future plans and roadmap for the growth of Ion Exchange.

In terms of Ion Exchange, besides being part of India’s growth story, we are increasing our focus on the international market. We intend to strengthen our base in all those countries where we have set ourselves up over the last 20 years. We intend to leverage this and increase revenues from exports which are currently at 25 per cent and take this to 50 per cent over the next 5 years.

We are continuously on a look-out for technology either through association with global companies or by developing our own processes. We are looking at technologies which will use less energy and chemicals and are more environmentally friendly. Technology might treat waste water – but if more sludge is created – then one form of waste does get reduced but another form of waste is generated. The goal though is to look for sustainable technologies which require lesser energy and a smaller water footprint.

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