Welcome to 17th CHT Activity Committee

Meeting on

Distillation
At BPCL Kochi Refinery
October, 21-22 2010
Centre for High Technology, MoP&NG
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Overview of CHT
Activities

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 Services Rendered by CHT
• Assistance to MoP&NG
• Performance evaluation of sites & suggesting
improvement programmes
• Quarterly Performance Review of refineries
• Augmenting ENCON efforts of refineries
• Dissemination of information & experience and
developing centralized pool of data
• Executing RPI Programmes
• Channalizing indigenous R & D efforts
• TSA with competent global agencies
• Coordinating Hydrogen Corpus Fund Activities
• Collaborating with USTDA
• Quality Give Away in PLT of products
• Member of MoP&NG Committees 3
 Assistance to MOP&NG /Oil Industry

 Coordinates the activities of Govt. of India’s

Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) which
recommends R & D Projects for Oil & Gas Sector
 Participation in various expert committees
 Replying to Parliamentary questions and other
queries
 Project evaluation & appraisal including evaluation
of applications for essentiality certificates

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Performance Review of Refineries for QPR at
MoP&NG

CHT collects, reconcile, analyze and compiles

consolidated Quarterly Performance Review
Reports for refineries w.r.t. following
parameters:
1. Crude throughput
2. Capacity utilisation
3. Distillate yield & Product pattern
4. Sp. Energy Consumption, Fuel & HC Loss
Performance
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 Dissemination of information & experience

 Activity Committees

 Hydrocarbon Technology Magazine

 CHT Bulletin

 Technology scan booklet

 Refinery Technology Meets

 Seminars / Workshops in relevant topics 6

 Activity Committees
1. Distillation
2. Fluid Catalytic Cracking
3. Hydro-processing
4. Lubes & Waxes
5. Catalytic Reforming
6. Delayed Coking & Vis-Breaking
7. Refinery Fuel & Loss minimization and Energy
Optimization
8. Environment Management
9. Pipelines
10. Power Generation, Boiler Operation & Electrical
Distribution, Maintenance
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 CHT efforts in Energy Optimization
CHT has consistently been taking measures to achieve
refinery standards par international excellence in the field
of Energy Optimization thru following regular activities:

 Energy Benchmarking & Targeting Exercises

 In-depth Energy Efficiency Improvement Studies at sp. sites
 Joint Energy Audits at all sites
 AC on “Fuel & HC Loss minimization & Energy Optimization”
 Annual energy performance analysis & presenting awards
(Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Awards) .
 Conducting Steam leak / Furnace efficiency & insulation surveys
in refineries during Oil Conservation Fortnight every year (OGCF
Awards)
 Seminars /workshops in the area of energy
 Sponsoring ENCON based R & D projects
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Specific Energy Consumption
Trend
Average Industry Specific Energy & Loss
Consumption(Mbtu/Bbl)

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82
81
80
76
75 74

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70 69 68.6

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60
03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10

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 Industry Average Fuel & Loss
8.4
8.26 8.25
8.2

8 7.95

7.8
7.64 7.63
7.6
7.46
7.4

7.2

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04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10
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 Industry Average HC Loss(%)
0.48
0.47

0.46

0.44

0.42 0.42 0.42

0.42 0.41
0.41
0.4

0.38

0.36
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04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10
 CHT - R & D efforts
Considering the importance of indigenous technologies in
the Oil & Gas industry, CHT is consistently supporting R
& D activities through following activities:

 Coordinating SAC Meets for approval of R&D Projects

 Sponsoring & of approved Projects

 Review/Monitoring their timely & successful completion

 Assisting in commercialization of technologies / processes

 Filing of Patents for technologies developed

 Channalizing Activities of indigenous R&D Centres

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 Just over/Ongoing R&D projects

1. Developing oxidative process for diesel

desulfurization
2. Development of Synthetic Aviation Lubricants from
Renewable feed stocks
2. Add-on facilities for development of Trickle Bed
Reactor Technology; Part-I: Large Scale
hydrodynamic studies for distributor and re-
distributor/ quench system
3. Development of Solid Acid Catalyst for Alkylation of
Iso-butane with Alkenes to form Alkylates as Gasoline
Blend

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Just over/Ongoing R&D projects

6. Synthesis of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and to

study their applications for extraction of Sulfur,
Nitrogen & Aromatic compounds from Petroleum
Feedstock
7. Developing a Mathematical Model and simulation
package for gasification of a mixture of Indian coal
and Petroleum coke.
8. Coal to Liquid (CTL) Fuels Technology Development
by EIL-R&D and BPCL-R&D

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Projects under Hydrogen Corpus Fund (HCF)
HCF initiated for promotion of Hydrogen as clean
fuel - to assist in developing specific projects
CHT made Nodal Agency for taking up Hydrogen
related activities within Oil & Gas Sector

Two hydrogen projects are under completion

 Hydrogen Dispensing station at Dwaraka , Delhi

 Demonstration on use of Hydrogen CNG blends in
Automotive vehicles

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 Overview of recent &
planned CHT Activities

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 Integrated Refinery Business Improvement
Programme (IRBIP) Phase - I thru Shell GSI

• A program executed to bridge gap identified in the

performance of PSU refineries vis-s-vis global
refineries
• Successfully executed at BPCL Kochi & IOCL
Mathura
• CPCL Manali & HPCL Visakh will be completed by
March 2011
• Cumulative Net benefit of 37.64 M US$ realized

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Collaboration with US Trade & Development
Agency (USTDA)
USTDA is a US Govt agency which grant funding to promote
US business as well as economic development of host
countries.
Three projects were executed under USTDA grant
1. Bottom up upgradation project by HPCL
2. Asset Integrity Management project by HPCL
3. Asset Integrity Management by BPCL

New project proposals under USTDA are put up for approval

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Quality Giveaway in Pipeline transportation

• CHT organised workshop on “Pipeline Operations and

Quality Management”
• 4 Working Groups constituted by MoP&NG to reduce
Quality Giveaway in pipeline transfers. Based on the
recommendations, a Road Map was drawn by CHT
• Six Task Force were constituted by MoP&NG for time
bound implementation of Road Map
• CHT is coordinating with Task Forces to complete
pending actions w.r.t. implementation of
recommendations

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 Other activities include
 Prepared detailed compendium on indigenously developed
technologies
 Action initiated w.r.t. commercialization of these technologies,
development of engg. Support reqd. and mktg. & acceptability
by industry
 OGCF survey in the area of Furnace/Boiler efficiency &
insulation effectiveness conducted at refineries
 15th RTM successfully conducted at Chennai
 Assessed & compiled refineries NG requirements for supply
from KG basin
 Compiled industry comments on draft national summary report
2010 (by MoEF) on AQM, Emission Inventory & Source
Apportionment study of Indian cities
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 Plan ahead

1) Refinery Technology Meet

2) EEIS at NRL
3) TSA with competent global agency
4) Joint Energy Audit of refineries with teams from sites
5) Refinery Performance Improvement Programme at 3
refineries
6) Publication of Refinery Best Practices Compendium thru
adoption of Refineries by CHT officers

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 Organisation of 16th Refinery Technology
Meet
• RTM is organized regularly to showcase the
developments and advancements related to Oil &
Gas Sector industries

• Forum for intimate interaction for dissemination of

knowledge and experience

• Due to advancement of Petrotech-2011 to October /

November 2010 from January 2011, 16th RTM is
deferred to February 2011

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 EEIS AT NRL & JEA at sites

• CHT along with EIL submitted Technical and

Commercial proposal to carry out Energy Efficiency
Improvement Study at NRL

• Formal acceptance of offer conveyed by NRL.

Expecting award of work shortly

• CHT propose to renew Energy Performance Audit of

Refineries thru Joint Audit Teams constituted with
industry experts
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 Performance benchmarking of PSU
refineries
• Planning Commission has repeatedly insisted on
Benchmarking of Indian Refineries
• CHT had carried out Performance Benchmarking of PSU
refineries thru Shell GSI for 2003-04 & 2004-05
• CHT proposes to undertake benchmarking of all PSU
refineries on centralised basis for the year 2010
• M/s Solomon Associates is one such known capable agency
to have covered 85% refineries in the world.
• CHT to for global tendering for this exercise

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 Refinery Performance Improvement Program
(RPIP) under Phase II

• BPCL M, HPCL M & MRPL confirmed participation

in the program.
• Invitation to Bid was issued to 3 shortlisted
parties
• 2 parties i.e., M/s Shell GSI & KBC submitted the
bid
• CHT evaluated the bids along with refineries. M/s
Shell GSI is L1.

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 Publication of Refinery Best Practices
Compendium
• Each CHT officer adopted refineries for better monitoring
& support

• The objective is to collect and collate information / data

for reference, benchmarking & improvements

• A compendium has been planned to be published

comprising of best refinery practices of each refinery

• Report to be submitted to MoP&NG before end of this year

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