SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of current situation without jeopardizing the ability of
the future generations to meet their needs. For a chemical process to be described as sustainable,
it must be socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. These three aspects have
become known as the three pillars of sustainability. The products of HPPO process can make a
positive contribution to all the three pillars. The company strives to be competitive and sustainable
as much as possible, while at the same time, minimizing any adverse impact on the people,
environment and economy.

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

The company will provide more job opportunities for the local people in Jamnagar. Proper training
and education will be provided to the employees on how to use the equipment safely. Lastly, all
the chemicals involves in the HPPO process are safe to handle. First aid kits will be readily made
available and in case of health concerns of the employees, healthcare service and medical
treatment will be provided. Also, the company will promote a safe working environment, ensuring
the good health, safety and well-being of the employees.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

The HPPO process is considered to be environmentally friendly as water and propylene glycol are
the only by-products produced and both are less harmful to the environment. In terms of energy
demand, the process requires low energy consumption as it consumes a total of 6.5 MW energy.
There is no emission of carbon dioxide gases and hence, no global warming. The company will
also employ the waste management plan which includes, proper waste disposal, minimizing the
waste generation and recycling the waste materials to maintain health environment. Environmental
protection regulation will also be implemented such as no smoking, no littering/dumping of
chemical waste to prevent any damage to environment.

ECONOMICAL SUSTAINABILITY

The HPPO process is economically viable as it requires low capital investment. Also, there is a
demand for PO due to growing demand for it’s end-products and the PO market will grow at faster
rate in India. The company will also obtain the economic benefit of the high percentage yield of
PO, around 96% yield resulting in low feedstock consumption. Lastly, some profits will be
consistently generated by the company from selling their products over the years of operation. The
profitability of a project can be analyzed by 4 criteria: NPV, PBT, ROI and IRR.

SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT
In order to assess the sustainability of a process, we have three indicators. The red one is social
indicators, green is environment and yellow is economic. In total, we have 9 key indicators. The
performance in these indicators was assessed with normalized scores from 0 to 1; 1 means
favourable impact on the people, environment and economy. 0 is the opposite and 0.5 means
moderate impact. In overall, we have 5 benefits driving sustainability and 3 challenges to
sustainability. One the benefits is the high percentage yield of PO, around 96%, which results in
low feedstock consumption and increasing the demand for PO. The percentage yield indicators is
values 1.0 which indicates that the process has positive impact on the economy. Lastly, we have 3
challenges to sustainability, one of them is the high pressure process conditions. Usually we give
1.0 score for the process, if the process operates at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
Thus, ensuring the safety of employees and equipment and social sustainability as a result. In our
case, we run at low temperature (55 °C) and high pressure (20 Bar). Good temperature and bad
pressure conditions so we give 0.5 score.