PLM : Providing Exclusive Platform for Industrial Growth
Like in many other industries, Product Lifecycle Management Or PLM can multi-task in today's Chemical Industry in terms of manage, monitor and execute products in a more controlled manner with an objective to better overall quality of the product. Interestingly, it can offer aid to global recession pinch by drawing the cost of production. Vivek Marwaha, Director Marketing Siemens PLM Software shares his views with CEW...
Instrumentation Manufacturers Look Forward to New Technologies in the Market
"Many Indians companies still have a requirement to invest in routine measurement techniques as opposed to more newer and exotic technologies"...
Accelerating from Day One
Refineries and petrochemicals plants are facing many challenges in these very uncertain times. While many companies are reducing or deferring capital expenditures, all companies are trying to ensure that available capital is spent effectively, that operational readiness is achieved as quickly as possible, and that full production is sustained. This article is focused on key technologies that can accelerate the design, start up and sustained safe operation of process units to improve operational readiness from day one...
Engineering Models in Operations Advantages and Objectives
Engineering models can play a significant role to improve plant operations, energy use and safety. Software modularization, user interface innovation and computing power have opened up the ways for models in operations...
Third Generation SIS Approaches for Optimizing Safety Integrity and Operational Availability
By any name traditional TMR safety systems tend to be expensive to purchase implement and maintain. Traditional SIS's also add an additional degree of complexity which many of today's downsized process plants cannot afford to handle. Third generation fault tolerant SIS's deliver unmatched safety integrity and operational availability with reduced lifecycle costs that today's process manufacturers demand...
Pneumatic Advantage in Water Treatment
Pneumatics presents a valuable and extremely reliable alternative to electrical automation systems, especially when it comes to meeting the requirements of water and wastewater treatment. Many system planners favour pneumatic drives for opening and closing gate for process valves because of their durability, long service life and safety under overload conditions...
Asset Monitoring for a Low Voltage Integrated Motor Control System
Keeping the health of plant equipment in check is fast becoming the key to avoid surprises during plant operations and thus the secret to a company's success. Substantial cost savings and productivity gains can be made by adopting condition-based, predictive and proactive approach. Successful implementation of ABB's MNS iS system with asset monitoring technology helped improve its maintenance practices and achieve cost savings...
Trends in the Lifecycle Management of Automation Assets
Asset lifecycle management is a critical concept in present scenario. It is a discipline that influences the capacity of an existing automation investment while simplifying the integration of new technology. It has become a new pathway to the industry to have better productivity in smaller investment...
Mixing Technology for High Performance Polymer Compounds
Knowledge towards replacing conventional plastics with biodegradable plastics is getting impetus. The key to produce good quality bio-plastics involves integration of technology within the process to ensure total homogeneity of compounding resin for desired results...
New Intrinsic Safety Solution on the Way to Standardization
Dynamic Arc Recognition and Termination (DART) is the new buzzword for the process industry. This is a new technology developed by Pepperl+Fuchs that has met widespread recognition within the process control scene. Experts consider DART to be one of the most important innovations to pave the way for completely new intrinsic safety applications...
Seamless Solution for Process and Hybrid Applications
Chemical Industry is very raw material centric industry. The final product is a composition of various raw materials. For any manufacturer the challenge is to have the right product at the right time with minimal wastage of raw material and energy consumption. In any chemical process, you would have batch production comprising of mixture of two or more raw materials. The emphasis is on how quickly the production units are able to switch between products with minimum wastage of raw materials during production switch...
Schneider Partners with Wipro in Industrial Automation.
Schneider Electric, global specialist in energy management and IT major Wipro Ltd has recently joined hands in the field of Industrial Automation. Though business models for both the organizations are different, but the core strengths compliment each other. "Basic strength of Schneider Electric is in developing innovative solutions along with deployment and partnering with Wipro would help Schneider to consult, conceptualize, design and deploy the innovative solutions to provide value addition to customers," informs Pradeep Karnik, Director Industrial Automation, Schneider Electric (India) Pvt. Ltd...
'Energy Management has Always Made Business Sense'
More and more chemical industries are going in for energy audits as the industry is getting aware of the fact that they any reduction in energy bill directly benefits the bottom line. Energy management has always made business sense. Dr. Naushad Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall shares his views in an exclusive interview with CEW...
Scope of Private Participation has Become Inevitable
Convey your remark on alterations to facilitate significantly desired impetus to the intensification of the industry Budget 2009. The increase in expenditure by 36 percent will create avenues for higher demand, which in turn will create demand for investment. Emphasis on Infrastructure development and the target of raising the infrastructure spending to 9 percent of GDP by 2014 is a step in the right direction. To ensure smoother execution, the Finance Minister announced that IIFCL would refinance 60 percent of commercial bank loans for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in critical sectors over the next 15 to 18 months...
Revolutionary Pump Technology
Prior to fitting Retroflo's new pump control system, Northumbrian Water's Skinningrove Sewage Pumping Station was not economical or very efficient, despite relatively new pumps and VSDs. Frequent pump blockages meant numerous reactive maintenance call-outs to unblock the pumps. Retroflo's new approach has virtually eliminated blockages at the station and vastly reduced operational expenditure (OPEX)....
Avoid Premature Failure Of Pumps and Equipments in Corrosive Environments.
Based on the practical experience, development of new design systems using new materials of construction is of great importance for corrosive and erosive chemical plants. A proactive approach can lead to avoid premature failure of equipments, pumps and piping systems and production loss. This further improves the environment and profitability of industries. The paper highlights new ideas that have been incorporated at design or erection stage of the chemical and process industries that have prevented premature failure of equipments, pumps and piping systems....
Demanding Applications Made Easier
Conventional valves are perfectly fine for use in applications with clean media. But when it comes to demanding tasks with media containing solid particles, the special pinch valve is often the best solution....
Fluoropolymer-Lined Piping & Components: Critical Success Factors in Chemical handling
Fluoropolymer-lined systems have proved to be economical and useful alternatives to metallic alloy piping in many applications such as corrosive solvents in Chloroalkali plants, Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals and paper & Pulp. This paper deals with information on the successful long termn use of lined piping for corrosion mitigation, product purity and non-stick applications...
High-performance Alternative to Traditional Coatings
In aerospace and power generation, aggressive targets have been set for reduced co2 and nitrogen oxide emissions from gas turbines. This poses huge challenges for improved engine sealing efficiencies through the correct use of materials technology for abradable-blade sealing systems...
Ecological Plasticizer for Outstanding Performance in NBR
Phthalates have been identified as one of the Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) that may have serious effects on the environment. Inclusion of substances in this list may result in legal obligations for raw material suppliers. Substitution of phthalate-based plasticizers with environment friendly products is of great interest to the manufacturers...
Trends and Challenges in Indian Specialty Chemicals
India is one of the world's most significant promising markets, where the magnitude of sustainability is treasured along with an immense empathy towards worldwide wellness inclination. Creating produce to meet these necessities devoid of conciliation on presentation gets complicated skill into the meadow of specialty chemicals...
Dow Corning Ventures into Indian Market
Silicones are incredible materials with an inimitable prospective to advance the humanity. They are transforming our present along with prospect. Record affirms that a silicone rubber boot made the initial trace on the moon...
Singapore : Leading Global Energy & Chemical Hub
These are challenging times in the global economic environment, and the Singapore economy has not been spared. Nonetheless, the current turmoil has only served to reinforce our conviction that a diversified economy, anchored on the twin engines of manufacturing and services, remains critical to provide the foundation to power our economy to sustainable growth...
Roto Maintains Steady Business in Domestic Markets Inspite of Global Meltdown
Pumps are amid the most extensively manufactured substances in the world furthermore their numerous designs authorize their employment in a multiple of submission. They are used in everything beginning with washing machines, refrigerators, cars and trucks to construction location, wastewater treatment amenities and food dispensation plants. Pumps make achievable various daily responsibilities that we frequently take for granted. Undeniably devoid of pumps our planet probably would be greatly dissimilar place than we are familiar with it today...
Flowserve Growth Initiatives in India Expands Coimbatore Plant
Flowserve is a renowned world leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals automation, along with services toward the varied industries for instance power, oil, gas, chemical, as well as additional industries. They have surplus 15, 000 workforce in over 55 countries and merge the comprehensive accomplishment in the midst of a confined presence. It had been looking to enlarge its operations. Beginning from the initial existence of reactor development, Flowserve has remained at the vanguard of viable nuclear power provided that the highest quality pumps, valves, seals and industry proficiency. At the moment, through 439 reactors online universally along with an added 34 in development, Flowserve goods and solutions are rigid at work helping guarantee harmless, economical and environmentally answerable energy fabrication all the way through the world...
Continue to Innovate through Economic Downturns
"What we're dealing with today, and what we call the new reality has hugely changed many of our marketplaces. And what is clear is that the world that will exist, going forward, will be very different than the world that we were very used to and comfortable with before this occurred. "Balvinder Singh Kalsi , President, E I DuPont India Pvt Ltd in an Exclusive Interview. Excerpts:...
China Strives to Bolster the Specialty Chemicals Market
In late 2008, the Chinese Government embarked on Four-trillion Yuan (USD 586 billion) Stimulus Plans to finance programs in ten major measures over the next two years, of which USD 219.6 billion was allocated for infrastructure and urban power grid and USD 146.4 billion for disaster rebuilding. Both these categories require a huge input of specialty chemicals. In addition to some new regulations on the industry, the package is forecast to have a huge impact on the Chinese specialty chemicals market...
Recent Developments in Membrane Technology
Membranes have been widely used for various applications such as drinking, wastewater treatment, process and ultrapure water. The articles focuses on some of the critical considerations and highlights two state-of-the-art technologies viz. Electrodeionization (EDI) and Liquid Degasification using Membrane contractors having hollow fibre membranes...
Process Intensification Using State-of-the-Art in Separation Technology
With the recent acquisition of the separations technology business of KnitMesh and the existing alliance with Shell Global Solutions, Sulzer Chemtech has expanded its technology within the gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separation business continuously...
Green Liquor Dregs Solution to Achieve New Environmental Standards
Energy efficient pressure filter solution supplied by Larox Corporation to Stora Enso's Fluting Mill Power Plant in Heinola, Finland enabled the power plant meet with stringent waste handling requirements in optimized manner resulting in substantial cost reductions...
Synthesis of APIs/HAPIs Under Sterile Conditions and/or with High Containment Requirement
Manufacturing sterile APIs and/or drugs according to cGMP and FDA guidelines for the export to US and European market is always a challenge. Interface is a critical step during the synthesis of APIs / HAPIs during which the total batch time can be drastically reduced or increased and the product quality strongly influenced...
Gas Chromatography: Important for the Analytical Chemist
Chromatography is the conventional separation technique followed in chemical analysis. This single step process separates mixture into individual components and provides quantitative estimate for each of the constituents...
Invest and Set Foundation to Come Ahead in Rebound
The CMF Practice of Frost & Sullivan, the global growth partnership company, in its efforts to address issues and advice companies on the effects of downturn faced by the Chemicals & Material market, organized an Executive MindXchange titled "The Rising Tide, An Exclusive Strategic Management & Partnership Summit" on 3rd-4th August, which gave a special insight into strategic management in the Chemicals & Materials sector. Chemical Engineering World was a media partner for the event...
'2009 : Deciding Year for Direction of India's Growth Story'
" We are passing through uncertain times as most of the developed world is in recession. However with a capable leadership committed to strive to mitigate challenges ahead, 2009 has the potential to go down in the history of India as the year that marked beginning of many more new initiatives," says K Venkataramanan, Member of Board & President (Operations) Larsen & Toubro Limited in an Exclusive Interview Excerpts...
EPC : A Better Approach
Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts have gained momentum for project execution during the past decade across various industries in India. Oil & Gas, Power, Chemicals & Petrochemicals and Infrastructure sectors opt for EPC LSTK contracts for most of their projects. As the EPC contractor becomes a single point of responsibility, this offers better-cost realization and also promises the project delivery within the scheduled time frame. Moreover from the project owner�s perspective, turnkey contracting is a better proposition as the responsibility and majority of risks involved with the project lie on the contractor. The concept of EPC has become popular in India during the past decade and many projects have been implemented on the turnkey basis...
Cutting Edge Water Technology EPC Solutions
Established in 1981, Aquatech is a global leader in water purification technology for industrial and infrastructure markets with a focus on desalination, water reuse, and zero liquid discharge...
Decentralised Generation: Effective Solution to Energy Demand
Captive Power Plants are the recent trend that the industry is switching over to meet with the growing power demand. Tapping excess power from captive generators can help tide over the huge demand supply gap in short term...
Challenges in Award and Execution of EPCI Projects in India
In other areas of the world, there are countries equally as dependent on imported fuel stock as India. Oil and gas companies are working hard to develop their award process to set the conditions for greater home production levels. It is high time that Indian companies works to address the process too...
Innovations in Stainless
Duplex grades of steel are preferred by the industry over austenitic grades for various industrial applications. Industry is switching over to Duplex Steel for its high resistivity to different forms of corrosion, high strength and low nickel content that make it a feasible option to be used as the material of construction over a wide range in the process industry...
Gas Hazards in the Petrochemical Industry
Although flammable and toxic gas hazards are generally well understood by operators, technicians and safety personnel working within the petrochemical industry, continuous training and refreshment of knowledge is essential to avoid potential incidents linked to complacency or misguided actions...
MOC for Corrosive Acid Plants.
Every year industry incurs huge losses due to corrosion. Acids though highly corrosive in nature, are an important part of manufacturing process in the Fertilizer Industry. Selection of right Material of Construction (MOC) is an important criteria to ensure longer plant life...
Rising Tide: A Conference by Frost & Sulliva
Textile Chemical Industry Poised for Growth in Asian Region
Huntsman's recent acquisition of manufacturing facility for the production of intermediates and specialty products for textiles is an important step in the growth strategy. Paul Hulme, President, Textile Effects Division, Huntsman and Rohit Aggrawal, Global Vice President, Apparel and Home Textiles in conversation with Mousumi Ghosal...
Chemical Industry to Benefit from Investment Linked Tax Incentives
"Water Management is the Need of the Hour"
While water still is an available resource, time may soon arrive when quality water may raise concern for both urban and industrial needs. Rajesh Sharma, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Ion Exchange (India) Ltd, suggests a few measurements to manage and utilize water properly in order to retain its quality existence for generations to come...
Recession Rests on HDO's Growth Path
With the order book already grown close to ten folds from 2005 to 2008, HDO is one of the fastest growing companies and loaded with new projects in the kitty...
Unleashing Opportunities through Development of Urban Infrastructure
High degree of urbanization has exposed the challenges of government agencies in handling Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Increase in generation of electronic, bio and industrial hazardous waste have further compounded the problem. The concern to manage the waste has increased in accordance with rapid industrial growth of our country...
'Do the Right Thing when No One is Watching'
Aquatech has bagged the contract to provide water solutions for one of the the first Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP) in India. We caught up with Devesh Sharma, Managing Director and Sachin Kukde, Vice President, Aquatech Systems (Asia) Pvt Ltd, at their global engineering center in Pune to converse on the measures taken up for implementing the project...
Reuse & Recycle of Treated Industrial Effluent Using Chlorine Dioxide
Water management is one of the key areas that the industries work on not only to reduce the water footprint, but reuse and recycle of water in the industries substantially adds to the profit margins. Chlorine dioxide because of its excellent oxidation properties disinfects water for reuse in various applications...
"Indian Industry is Currently in the Midst of a Major Restructuring and Consolidation Phase"
"Innovation is the Most Essential Factor towards the Success of Chemical Industry"
"It is a Struggle to Survive in a Market where the Sole Factor is Price"
"Manufacturing Sector must have Strong Support Functions"
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are not just about tax breaks and allocation. It is also about common facilities that include utilities that otherwise get duplicated and trading of byproducts within the industrial estate. Pothen Paul, Executive Chairman, Aker Solutions, emphasizes on these support functions for the manufacturing sector to survive the competitions well as to attracting foreign investments, over an exclusive chat with Mittravinda Ranjan. Excerpts...
From Batch to Continuous Processing
An improved versatile annular centrifugal contactor design is now commercially employed in numerous liquid-liquid extraction applications. The paper discusses selection of proper size and operating parameters in addition with convenient methods of using this technology to convert from batch to continuous processing...
Importance of Humidity Control
While moisture is undoubtedly a significant menace in every industry, it assumes threatening proportions in the Chemical Industry. In many cases, even the presence of minuscule amount of moisture during production, storing and packaging of most of the chemicals can result in an Explosive Mixture...
Effective Control of Waste Boiler Steam Drum
Very often, young engineers get confused while designing boiler steam drum level control system that are different than conventional level controls in a drum. The paper discusses the basic concept, correct approach and complexities involved to design an ideal level control system...
Anchored Enzymes for Sustainable Processes
Results of several experiments have significantly indicated the significance of using anchored enzymes in chemical process industries. An analysis of the bio-gas from cow-dung slurry and that from using the anchored enzyme showed that while the bio-gas from the raw cow-dung slurry had the usual 60: 40 ratio of methane to carbon dioxide, the use of anchored enzyme yielded the biogas with composition of 75: 25
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Better Use of Information Means Better Productivity
In the current turbulent economic climate, companies are concentrating on reducing their costs while increasing profitability. Their efforts also involve focusing on optimizing their processes. Many firms are only approving new investments in the Process Optimization area after thoroughly scrutinizing the proposed expenditure and verifying for rapid Return on Investments (ROI). However, new investments may not even be necessary in some cases as the so-called �hidden knowledge� in many companies still harbours immense potential for improvement...
Ionomers: The Self-healing Polymers
Ionomers are a class of polymers that have up to 20mol% of ionic species incorporated into the structure of organic polymer. These ionic species create interactions that are not possible in non-ionic polymers. These have profound effect on mechanical and physical properties of the polymer. Bonded to the backbone, these polymers show self-healing property when incurred to damage...
Third Generation Peeler Machines
Fine Chemicals and particularly the Pharmaceutical Industries always required the machine that would allow separation of processing area from the rest of machine. These requirements encouraged the development of Peeler Centrifuges because of their configuration and mechanical arrangement...
Process Engineering of Bio-diesel Plant
Process know-how for production of bio diesels were studied lab scale and on waste vegetable oil. The process know-how was later developed onto the pilot plant scale and finally scaled up for commercial production of 6 lakhs bulk liters of bio diesel of ASTM D 6751 02 standard. Process parameters like mole ratio, catalyst concentration, mixing of reactants kinetics, mass transfer were optimized...
PU Market on an Upswing
"Polyurethane Markets to reach 1000KTPA by 2018-19," predicts K Ramamurthy, Secretary General, Indian Polyurethane Association...
"Future of chemical industry will definitely depend on technology"
A majority of companies in India invest lesser than 1% of sales in research work. This figure needs to be increased says Dr. I. Dayasagar Executive Director (Engg.) & Member of the Board, Uhde India...
Chemical Manufacturing Industry in India
The paper discusses technological initiatives of chemical manufacturing industry adopted post independence drawing new scopes for improvement for it to achieve global standards...
Better Understanding of Reactor Performance through Better Temperature Profiling
Radial Temperature Profiling helps reactor operation in order to warrant its performance. A paper explains its efficiency...
Optimizing Energy Losses in Chemical Industry
Energy Management leads to profitability by augmenting the productivity. Here's how...
Maintaining a Plate Heat Exchanger
The paper approaches the importance of maintenance to overcome the challenges during the operations of Plate Heat Exchangers...
Crystal Processor - Improved Design & Performance of Sterile Agitated Nutche Filter
Crystal Processor can prove itself to be an improved design of sterile agitated nutsche filters to start immediate production killing all constraints on the way...
Catalytic Cracking of Oils and Waste Plastics to Produce Fuels
The paper explains an innovative method of producing biodiesel that defies methanol and producing glycerin as a by-product...
Rupture Discs for the Modern Engineer
Rupture discs favors all safety standards regulated for the process plants through withstanding various pressure conditions...
New Ways to Cut Batch Times and save Energy
The paper suggests how energy can be saved in the production of most cosmetic products that are otherwise manufactured by applying hot processes...
A Curtain Raiser on ACHEMA 2009
Frankfurt gears up to host ACHEMA 2009, the World Meet of the Process Industry. Though a measurable impact of economic recession has been observed on the Process Industry, still ACHEMA-2009 will see participation of 4000 exhibitors from all continents, 180000 visitors from 100 different countries and 30000 executives from the top management levels in Frankfurt am Main from 11th to 15th May 2009...
China in the times of meltdown...
China has exhibited phenomenal growth during the last decade that has been driven by the demand of Chinese manufactured goods. Many of the global players have shifted their manufacturing facilities to China during the past decade. As a producer and consumer of chemicals and petrochemicals; China has secured its position as the 3rd largest global producer of chemicals and petrochemicals. Huge amount of investments have been made in chemicals, petrochemicals and polymer segments and China has projected a GDP growth of 8 percent for the current fiscal...
Calibration Management Software
The high performance calibration and maintenance software Compucal complies with the regulatory norms as per GAMP Guide and meets with the need to control manage and document the aspects of calibration and maintenance of field devices of every equipment...
Simulating the Process Industry
Chemical industries constantly strive to strike a balance between the present needs and needs for the future. This justifies the requirement of the industry to develop energy efficient and inherently safer processes. Industry has been using IT applications since decades, but during the current times these applications have gained more importance to gain insight on optimizing resources for enhanced efficiencies...
Managing the Downturn
Revival of economy is the key issue to be dealt by the industries and economies. Several initiatives have been taken by the central governments, banks to accelerate to slowdown the impact of ongoing recession. Recently convened conference by CII had some of the prominent faces from the industry and economists discussing the same. A special report...
RIL-RPL Merger
RPL was formed to distance RIL from the risks associated with the capital-intensive project in its execution phase. The strategic move of merger of RPL with the parent company will position RIL as India's largest company in terms of revenue and earnings...
INTERVIEW
Anant Sardeshmukh is currently the Additional Director General at MCCIA, Pune. Equipped with MBA in finance and an experience of 25 years into corporate finance, he leads to all administrative and other business works of the company. His assistance has given the company all procedures to have a global exposure. In an interview with CEW he has given his bright ideas to make Pune the rising business local in the world...
Overview - The Indian Chemical Industry
The Indian chemical industry has always been playing a significant role in the economic development of the country. Including the petrochemical sector, the Indian chemical industry contributes a total annual production of approximately USD35 billion equivalent to about 3 percent of India's GDP. The Indian chemical industry is 12th largest in the world in terms of value and the 3rd largest in Asia. Chemical industry has also a weightage of about 14 percent in the index of industrial production and contributes as much as 14 percent of the total exports of India ...
Changing Face of EPC
EPC contractors have evolved from the monotony of their roles and new trends are observed across the globe over the past decade. Clients play a more active role in the project execution, Focus on client-customer relationship, cross-border projects, alliances, new methodologies are now the trends followed by EPC sector. But there are challenges that industry yet needs to overcome and also make the best out of the opportunities available during this unprecedented downturn in the global economy ...
Conversation...
Suresh Prabhu, Member of Parliament and former Union Minister for Power, Government of India graced Watertech 2009, International Conference on Water during the 24th Chemtech and Pharma World Expo as Honourable Guest and delivered a characteristically vibrant keynote address on Water issues concerning India in particular and the world at large ...
CHEMTECH 2009 Draws up Industry Blueprint
CHEMTECH World Expo - An international event that the Indian Chemical Industry associates and identifies with, recently held 24th edition of the series in Mumbai from 12th to 16th February 2009 in Mumbai. Indian chemical industry also felt the tremors of the unpredictable economic crisis that gripped the world economies. This was the time when Jasubhai Shah, Founder and Chairman Chemtech Foundation decided upon the theme for the worldexpo as "Business challenges of turbulent times and ways of addressing them." ...
DECHEMA & CHEMTECH - 40 Years and Still Going Strong
Frankfurt has the history and tradition of almost 700 years of hosting trade shows and now gears up to host Achema 2009, the biggest show for the chemical process industry since 1920. Dr. Thomas Schuering, Head of Congresses, Dechema e.V was the honourable guest during the 24th Chemtech World Expo, during the inaugural function, the five day show that concluded in Mumbai on16th February 2009. Excerpts from his conversation ...
CHEMTECH Felicitates Industry Big wigs
Evening of 14th Feb 2009, Lalit, The Ballroom at Intercontinental Grand played host to stalwarts from the chemical industry who had gathered to witness CHEMTECH - CEW Awards Ceremony , the most coveted awards in the Indian Chemical Industry. Guests of Honour for the evening were Padma Vibhushan Dr. Ashok Ganguly, Suresh Prabhu, Member of Parliament and former Union Minister for Power and K.G.Ramanathan, Advisor, Reliance Industries. Evening commenced with a warm welcome address by Jasubhai Shah, Founder and Chairman Chemtech Foundation then followed by the felicitations ...
From the Grounds This is what some of our exhibitors said ...
Condition Monitoring Of Plants
An introduction to predictive maintenance concept of Condition Monitoring for industrial rotating machines. This makes it easier to understand how important the need for Condition Monitoring is, and describes the fundamentals upon which the Condition Monitoring systems are designed and built ...
Emission Free Valves Mitigating Emissions in Process Plant
Mitigating the impact on the environment by preventing any kind of leakage of chemicals or emission of toxic gases in the environment is the need of the hour and responsibility of the chemical process industry. Bellow seal valves are widely recommended and used in plant design by process engineers ...
Outlook for Indian Oil & Gas Sector
Indian economy has shown exemplary growth during the past decade and there has been a considerable increase in the demand of oil and gas. Primarily, 45 percent of India's energy requirements are met by oil and gas. Current demand of crude oil in India hovers around 146 MMT, while the domestic production is around 34 MMT. Consumption of Natural gas has increased substantially during the past decade ...
On the Horizon - Biofuels
Industrialization of India has drastically increased the demand of energy for the country. So far India has been supplementing the current fuel deficit with the imports. To take control of situation India commenced its bio-fuel journey in 2003.Ethanol has been very dominant as a bio-fuel in the Indian bio fuel sector, however biodiesel may soon be commercialized , once the pilot project is completed
Benchmarking the chemical Industry
The collaboration between the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) continues to flourish. The annual events of both the institutions promote the professional interests of the members and their related industries, which have been seen as the perfect opportunity to share and experience one another's cultures ...
Process Intensification
Fischer-Tropsch: Microchannel Reactors Lead to Mega Biofuel Benefits
Scaled down reaction hardware can breath new life into an old process and offer an economical way forward for producing second generation biofuels from agricultural waste argue Derek Atkinson and Jeff McDaniel ...
Hilton: Channelising the growth potential
Hilton Metal Forgings Limited (HMFL) holds a strong position globally as a whole-host producer of stainless steel forgings for various segments of the Chemical Process Industry like Oil and Gas, Refineries, Petrochemicals, Ship-building, Marine, Paper and Pulp etc. Yuvraj Malhotra, Chairman cum Managing Director, HMFL, has spearheaded the company's growth right from its inception. He shares his vision and opinion on the current economic recession and expansion of domestic operations of HMFL in a special conversation with Chemical Engineering World ...
Altering Ways Energy Conservation with Mist type Water Jet Vacuum Condenser
Mass transfer operations for various processes in the chemical industry require perfect vacuum with a gaseous pressure of absolute zero, which is a hypothetical situation. Steam ejectors or vacuum pumps are used to handle both condensable and non-condensable gases as per the vacuum required. This requires large quantities of steam and high power consumptions. Mist Type Water Jet Vacuum Condensers perform multiple functions of condensation of vapours and production of vacuum in the same unit by water pressure, thus conserving huge amount of power ...
Thermal Treatment
Heat Treatments for Process Equipments
Equipments used by the Process Industry are subjected to a range of temperature while in operation. The process equipments must be given heat treatments at various stages to perform continually as per the process requirement as well as retain the mechanical properties ...
Quality Check
Measuring Process Density and Concentration
Fischer-Tropsch: Microchannel Reactors Lead to Mega Biofuel Benefits
Almost all modern industrial activities need to meet high requirements regarding quality control, environmental protection and cost optimization. This applies especially to branches of the industry dealing with expensive liquids like chemical and petrochemical production units, sugar plants, fruit juice production facilities or electronic chips production facilities. Bopp & Reuther Messtechnik has always been concerned to provide the customers with rugged instrumentation or measuring systems to efficiently handle such issues ...
Safety Indications How do you Measure your Process Safety Performance?
Organizations usually rely on the lagging indicators or the failure data to monitor the process safety where improvements can be determined only after something has gone wrong. A proactive approach towards identifying the indicators can enable the organizations to assess the actual process safety performance and control the risk effectively ...
Automating Entrance
Indian market for the Entrance Automation products is growing at a fast pace because of enhanced productivity and security offered ...
Sustaining the Turbulence
B.M.Bansal, Director Planning and Business Development, IOCL has over three decades of experience in the Petrochemical Sector with a blend of working in the field of Process, Operations, Planning and Business Development He has been an integral part of globalising the activities of IOC. Currently he is also Chairman of Green Gas venture with GAIL.He shares his thoughts on impact of fluctuation in crude prices and advocates steps required by the Indian Petrochemical Industry for sustaining the turbulence during the global economic meltdown in an exclusive interview with Mittravinda Ranjan for the readers of Chemical Engineering World ...
Optimizing spent catalyst Losses
Inefficient stripping of spent catalyst in FCC units allows thermal degradation of the hydrocarbons thus adding to increased dry gas and delta coke formation, loss of product, increased catalyst deactivation and feed rate limitations. Refiners are considering the advances in design to enhance the FCC unit performance ...
Driving the Process Industry
Nord Drivesystems is one of the market leaders in the LT range of Drivesystems and rank among the top four brands for the gear drives. Nord covers the entire spectrum of Mechanotronics with more than 40 million options. Nord has recently commissioned the manufacturing facility in Pune to meet the demand of Drivesystems which is growing at the rate of around 20 percent. Sunil Mehta, CEO , Nord India speaks exclusively to CEW about the current trends , growth and services offered by Nord Drivesystems for the Process Industry ...
Key for Global Competence
Alfa Laval is a leading provider of specialized products and engineering solutions to optimise the process performances. Nish Patel, Managing Director Alfa Laval (India) has strong technical background, in-depth knowledge and sensing abilities of the market trends. A people's person and a strong believer in the fact that an organization is what its people make of it, shares his views on growth of the process industry during the current slowdown ...
Microsizing with Fluid Energy
Fluids at high temperature are passed through specially designed nozzles where fluid potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy that is utilized in milling for microsizing the solid particles for chemical processes ...
Creating the Perfect Blend
Chemical Process Industries are opting for Static Mixers for desired mixing quality, low pressure drop, higher efficiencies for homogeneous mixing and blending of two or more fluids. The static mixers have no moving parts and they are virtually maintenance-free, cost-effective and can be designed as per the application in the process ...
Phosgene - The Friendly Molecule
Phosgene derivatives find wide application in the chemical processes especially in the area of fine chemicals Phosgene synthesis requires safe handling as well the careful choice of the route of synthesis because of highly toxic and hazardous nature of the reagent ...
Sen-(sor)-ing Process Sensitivities
Sensor technology is widely applied in the process industry for precision in detecting the process conditions but cost is still a major factor , which plays a major role in deciding upon implementation. Based on talk with Sunil Hasabnis MD, Baumer India (Pvt.) Ltd. ...
Facing the Environmental Challenge Upfront
Inorganic Zinc Silicate wet curing coatings offer excellent galvanic corrosion resistance to steelworks in harsh corrosive environments with single coat. The zinc metal provides corrosion resistance and porosity of coating provides voids that contribute towards protecting steel ...
Handling the Lightmares
Oil and gas industry taps into automation for the safety of the workers, mitigating the impact on environment and increasing operational flexibility ...
The Indian Chemical Industry Marching towards technology-driven growth
The robust Indian chemical industry offers significant economic, strategic, and quality of life benefits to the nation. Millions of Indian jobs depend upon the chemical industry. The energy-intensive chemical industry has been making major strides in improving energy efficiency and protecting the environment. Investing significant amount annually in R&D could enable the chemical industry create new processes that enhance productivity while improving safety and benefiting the environment ...
"We expect our market share will improve and multiply with India's growth"
Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd, a publicly-owned company, manufactures and markets organic acids, anhydrides and derivatives for a variety of global industries including plastics, resins, paints and coatings, agro chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals, textiles, personal care, paper, etc. The company's first plant to manufacture Phthalic Anhydride was set up in 1973 at Ranipet 100 km from Chennai. Later it expanded into the manufacture of Maleic Anhydride, Fumaric Acid and Malic Acid and various organic acids and derivatives. In 1994 TCL set up TCL Industries (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd, a joint venture project in Malaysia to produce Maleic Anhydride ...
"The potential of emerging economy markets will continue to fuel demand for soda ash"
Tata Chemicals Ltd, one of India's largest producers of inorganic chemicals, has over the past two years, transformed itself from being India's largest domestic Soda Ash player to becoming the second largest Soda Ash Company in the world, with a diverse portfolio of value creating assets and brands ...
"Streamlining the registration process will boost the growth of Indian pesticides industry"
Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of India (PMFAI) is a national association comprising 200 members across the country committed to manufacture better, safer & eco-friendly agrochemicals and helping India to become self-sufficient in food grains through safe and judicious use of agrochemicals. The members of PMFAI include multinationals, large-medium and small scale basic manufacturers & manufacturers of intermediates required for pesticides ...
"Our plan is to carve a niche for ourselves in this crowded coatings market"
The Jotun Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of paints, coatings and powder coatings. The company develops, produces and markets cost-effective paint and coating products, and provides customer service and technical support to residential, marine and industrial markets worldwide. Jotun India Pvt Ltd set a shop in India in 2005, with an aim of providing a single source solution for all paints and coatings. Jotun India Pvt Ltd and Jotun Powder Coatings (India) Pvt Ltd are the 100% subsidiaries of Jotun Group in India with corporate office in Mumbai ...
The Indian Specialty Chemical Industry: Newer substances demands, new challenges
The specialty chemical industry in India must move to product design mode instead of using a formulation approach alone. It is imperative to include environment and human health in the design of new products today ...
Residual Pesticides & VOCs; Hazards in water usage, Monitoring of TOC to control THM
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed in drinking-water primarily as a result of chlorination of organic matter present in raw water supplies. Total Orgnic Carbon Analyser is an additional method, which compliments the results obtained by other methods ...
Herbicide R&D: Challenges and opportunities
Herbicides will be the chief option of weed management, though discovery and introduction of new molecules will be limited. Weed management under new dispensation of HRCs, zero tillage etc would be challenging Concerted efforts are needed in providing the technical know-how required by extension workers, farmers and dealers ...
MNCs global agrochem procurement strategies - Indian opportunities
Many existing contract manufacturers in Europe have become cost ineffective and candidates for acquisition needing proactive steps to be taken to secure supplies. With China losing its sheen, MNCs urgently need an alternate source of supplies and hence big chance for India ...
"Conducive policies are essential for fertiliser industry growth"
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd (GNFC) is a joint sector enterprise promoted by the Government of Gujarat and the Gujarat State Fertilizer Company Ltd (GSFC). Located at Bharuch, GNFC started its manufacturing and marketing operations by setting up in 1982, one of the world's largest single-stream ammonia-urea fertilizer complexes. Over the next few years, GNFC successfully commissioned different projects - in fields as diverse as chemicals, fertilizers and electronics ...
Integrated waste disposal systems
The present focus of Organics is based on time converging, producing energy from waste and this combine renewable energy and earning carbon credit. These allow cleaning up the environment and make the world a better place for the present and future generation ...
"Proper implementation of recycle schemes enable saving of natural resources for human consumption"
- Rajesh Sharma, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, Ion Exchange (I) LtdEnvironment Management: Enforced or ReinforcedCommon understanding about waste management is the disposal of hazardous waste in environmentally acceptable manner. A good waste management calls upon integrating all process activities of an organization and adopting resource conservation, wherever possible ...
- Alok Agrwal"Our strength lies in technology for offering total water management solutions"
- Ashit Doshi, Managing Director, Doshion Veolia Water SolutionsReasons for delays in CDM
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a platform that helps the developed countries to achieve their ultimate target of emission reductions as per the Kyoto Protocol. On other hand, it also helps the developing countries in their quest for sustainable development. But this goal/target can be achieved only if the actual emissions resulting from the projects are realized without undue time delays ...
"India's CDM potential represents a significant component of the global CDM market"
- Pamposh Bhat, Director, Climate Change, GTZ India"Shimadzu is constantly striving to meet customer's delivery requirements"
- K S Chari, General Manager, Shimadzu Analytical India Pvt LtdAdvancement of sustainable development
In pursuit of its mission, the Institute conducts commissioned and in-house basic and applied research and development on issues related to environmental monitoring, environmental biotechnology; toxic waste management; environmental systems design, modeling and optimization; environmental impact and risk assessment; and environmental policy analysis ...
"A separate SPV could play a catalytic role in developing, co-ordinating and implementing CEI projects"
- Ms Valsa R Nair Singh, Secretary, Environment Division, Govt of MaharashtraFlue Gas Conditioning System: A proven method for reducing fly ash emissions
Though Ammonia Conditioning has been used for stand-alone applications, it is also used in conjunction with SO3 for improved collection efficiency by ash increase in the precipitator?s space charges and a better agglomeration of the particles in the gas stream ...
"We serve the cause of environment protection through technology and efficient management of resources"
- B K Soni, Chairman, Eco Recycling Ltd (Ecoreco)Air Regenerating Composition: Development of an indigenous technology
As the air regenerating composition was neither available indigenously nor its import was open for bulk quantity, it was, therefore, felt necessary to establish the technology for production of such chemical composition. The manufacturing technology is complex and involves hazardous operations. The process for manufacturing of ARC was developed and a pilot plant was installed successfully at HEMRL, after putting untiring efforts of more than a decade ...
"Global trends are finding its way to the Indian wastewater industry"
- Kamal Tiwari, Aventura ComponentsPower generation to reduce CO2 content in atmosphere
Around the globe, about two-third of power requirement is met by the thermal power stations, increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases, which have already reached an alarming level. To curb this, a revolutionary ?power generation which reduces CO2 content of atmosphere? is presented ...
Designing of fluid motion and control systems
Choosing the right combination of pumps, valves and seals is a crucial step in the design of fluid motion and control systems for industries like pharmaceutical and biotech industries, which demand the highest levels of purity ...
Filter media: Recent advances and improvements
It is said that at the heart of any filter is the filter medium. It determines whether a filter process will perform adequately to give the desired separation efficiency. One of the key roles of a filter medium is to create a clear separation of particulate from a fluid or gas with the minimum consumption of energy. Technical textile filter fabrics remain one of the most popular groups of filter media and are an essential part of countless industrial processes, contributing to product purity, savings in energy/production costs and a cleaner environment. In the past few years the development of new and improved technology, combined with new measuring techniques, have resulted in new filter media constructions ...
“Our skill in application engineering and technology makes us a complete solid/liquid separation solutions provider”
- Kishor Makvana Managing Director, Rotofilt EngineersMagnetic Cleaning of Ceramic FeedstockRecent advances in magnetic separation technology have resulted in a variety of separators specifically developed for the treatment of fine, high-purity materials. The ongoing development of rare earth permanent magnets and the sophistication of electromagnetic circuit design are responsible for the evolution of magnetic separators ...
- Daniel A. Norrgran, ERIEZ“We are a complete provider of process equipment and solutions”
- Tarak Patel, Executive Director, GMM Pfaudler Ltd"We offer an unrivalled range of high quality filter equipment"
- Nirag Shah, Head, SAARC Countries, Eaton FiltrationKhosla Profil launches a slew of modern filtration fabrics in India
- Balakrishnan NairWAM plans expansion to meet increasing demand in domestic market
- Balakrishnan NairAutomatic continuous self-cleaning filter
Are you tired of sand filter? The solution lays in the state-of-the-art truly Automatic Continuous Self-Cleaning Filter from Filternox ...
Continuous fractional crystallization: A versatile separation technique
This equipment is ideal for upgrading a variety of feed stocks, which exhibit eutectic or solid solution characteristics where a high purity end product is required without disadvantages of heating or vacuum associated with distillation. Ultra-high purities and yields can be achieved. Industrial systems like benzene-heptane, dimethyl pentanes-hexanes, chlorotoluenes, xylenes, chlorobenzenes etc can be separated ...
Valve technology: Design and operational basics
Universal fluid solenoid valves are designed for liquids, gases and vapours, which may be neutral, aggressive, cold, hot etc are used to shut off, distribute or combine flows. This concluding part delves on angle seat valve with piston actuation, seat valve with diaphragm actuator, diaphragm valve with actuator and indirectly actuated piston valve with forced lifting ...
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- Lovina KinnyExpansion joints: Applications and installations
Universal expansion joints can cattle the piping problem by adjusting the overall length of the expansion joints. Since deflections are usually the result of piping thermal expansion, and universal expansion joints are usually long, the units are designed so that the thermal expansion of the entire unit’s length is accepted as compression by the two bellows elements ...
Understanding CPVC: Benefits and opportunities for chemical processing applications
Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride (CPVC), a high-performance thermoplastic, is one material that can often offer a better solution than metal. It has repeatedly proven its value in a variety of industrial applications where both high temperature and corrosion resistance are critical. As a result, it is particularly well suited for use with a wide array of acids, bases and salts ...
"Quality, safety and timely delivery make us the preferred service provider"
- Vincent Quek, Managing Director, Mun Siong Engineering Pte LtdKeyser to display new technologies at ProcessCEM Asia 2008
- Lovina Kinny
A holistic approach to safety automation
ISafety automation systems now can be completely integrated with the standard plant automation system – yielding a single platform to perform defined safety functions, meet safety standards, and efficiently operate the plant. In this scenario, both facets of the automation system are designed to accommodate all machine lifecycle tasks, including design, start-up, operation and maintenance ...
"Our Indian company will soon be the major source for our global market"
- Sajiv Nath, Managing Director, Endress + Hauser India Pvt LtdExcellence in process analyticsThe chemical and petrochemical industries are increasingly implementing water recycling concepts due to growing economic pressure, regulatory developments and supportive funding at governmental level ...
- Shantanu Choudhari, Senior Engineer,Marketing, Forbes Marshall"ILMS ensures reliable and stable energy supply for energy-intensive industries"
- Vimal Kapur, Managing Director, Honeywell Automation India LtdIndustrial Ethernet and its benefits
Industrial Ethernet technology lets manufacturers standardize and consolidate their different manufacturing network architectures using products offered by a variety of equipment vendors ...
Compucal- A must-have calibration management software
The high performance calibration and maintenance software of E+H meets the regulatory requirements with respect to the GAMP Guide and satisfies the need to control, manage and document the aspects of calibration and maintenance of field devices of every equipment ...
Trusted Wireless Technology: Ensuring interference immunity with wide range use
Using the FHSS process, Trusted Wireless technology permits the reliable wireless transmission of signals over middle to long distances. The system is robust and offers high immunity against interference by exploiting the qualities of the public domain wireless communication available in the 2.4 GHz band range. It allows implementing industry-fit wireless connections simple, reliable, and cost effective ...
Basics of valve technology
The activating element in an universal fluid solenoid valve is a solenoid which with the help of the fluid pressure – raises the sealing element or forces it back onto the valve seat. The pressure-tight construction, without dynamic sealing elements or vents to the atmosphere prevents emissions ...
Key end user industries: Experiences & expectations
There exists a wide chasm between the requirements of the end user industries and the offerings from the chemical industry. The needs of these industries over the years have changed significantly. The widening gap needs to be narrowed down for the benefit of overall growth of the economy. At a panel discussion on `Expectations of key end user industries’ organized by Frost & Sullivan, some of the major user industries including pharmaceutical, textiles, agrochemical, deliberated on the clear and present crises faced by them and the possible solutions to them. Lovina Kinny does a reality check ...
Applying vacuum in process industries
The main task of the vacuum pump is to pump the leakage air, evacuate the inert gases, loaded with some vapours and control the base pressure. The condenser pumps the main part of the vapour. Therefore, the actual amount of condensable pumped by the vacuum pump strongly varies with the operating conditions. Also adjustment between condenser and pump influence the vapour concentration in the pump. The deviations in real operation often result in a much higher vapour concentration than expected in the selection. That is an essential difference between vacuum pumps in chemical process and the usage in other applications, because the selection of the pumps is dominated by the pumping of vapours’ and vapour mixtures ...
Expanding the global model
Although issues relating to overcapacity, reduced demand, and rising feedstock prices have negatively affected capital spending by clients in this industry group, EPC companies have responded by focusing its services to help clients reduce production costs and increase plant efficiencies. In addition, through its alliance-related projects, they have assisted clients in increasing plant reliability and safety by consolidating and managing multi-site programs ...
"Aker Solutions will reflect our heritage of innovation and breakthrough solutions"
- Pothen Paul, Country Manager, Aker Solutions"Our customer-oriented solutions make us the leader in process specific mixing"
- Michael Rosellen, Werner Himmelsbach and Wolfgang Keller, Ekato GroupOvercoming obstacles and adapting business models in post-REACH era
The REACh Regulation gives greater responsibility to industry to manage the risks from chemicals and to provide safety information on the substances. In the post REACh era, Indian manufacturers and importers will be required to gather information on the properties of their chemical substances, which will allow their safe handling, and to register the information in a central database run by the European Chemicals Agency ...
WAM plans expansion to meet increasing demand in domestic market
- Balakrishnan NairPerformance chemicals: A plethora of global opportunities
The Indian performance chemical industry is estimated at Rs 290.7 billion. The market is currently growing at a rate of 12.9% per annum due to steep rise in domestic demand. The Indian performance chemicals market constitutes only 1.76% of the global performance chemicals market. The tremendous growth of the domestic market makes the country promising to the leading global participants ...
What ails the Indian chemical industry?
Notwithstanding all the advantages inherent to the Indian performance chemical industry as specified in the earlier article, the situation continues to be grim. This report analyzes the challenges faced by Indian industry taking into account domestic and international developments as well as factors, which have shaped the industry over the past few years. This report brings into focus several hardships faced by the industry and to facilitate better understanding of the industry's functioning ...
Choosing the right vacuum pump
There is no single type of pump that will provide all the attributes necessary to meet any and all process requirements. Thus the ideal approach would be a careful analysis of your process and its pumping needs before you select the right pump ...
CDM: Road for realizing CER potential
Mumbai: India is a global leader in terms of registered Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects with a total of 346 Indian projects as on June16 2008. It has consolidated its position in terms of host country approved CDM projects. To date, around 946 projects have got Designated National Authorities (DNA) approval and the estimated carbon emission reductions (CERs) volume will reach 492 million till 2010 if they are successfully registered by CDM-EB. CERs have already been issued for 225 projects, of which 42.91 million CERs are issued to Indian projects as on June 2008 ...
Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzer for fuel hydrogen production
The next several years will see a massive emergence of hydrogen fuel cells as an alterative energy option in both transportation and domestic use. The hydrogen economy has enormous societal and technical appeal as a potential solution to the fundamental energy concerns of abundant supply and minimal environmental impact. It is observed that the current density is higher at higher temperatures and reaches a maximum of 0.72 A/cm2 at a cell voltage of 2.17 volt ...
The Indian Pump Industry: Against all odds
Traditionally, the Indian pump manufacturers have been concentrating mainly on agricultural and domestic pumps. However, more recently, areas such as industrial application, natural gas, sugar mills and refineries that are major consumers of pumps are now coming up as potential markets. The Indian industry should now focus on innovation. It is time the Indian industry adopt new techniques in the production process ...
"Focusing on global markets will pay rich dividents"
What makes the Hydra-Ceell pump versatile? If you are an engineer working in the process industries... if today you have to choose a pump for a new system, or replace a pump in existing plant... How will you choose? Two suggestions. Keep an open mind. Think about versatility ...
- Wanner International Ltd"Our products meet all stringent cGMP/FDA requirements"
- Matteo Forlenza, ItalvacuumPumps for smooth handling of slurries without getting choked
Process pumps in more than 52 models in KPD and 40 models in KPD-QF series are available and it covers a discharge range from 2.0-750 m3/hr and head up to 180 mtrs today. These vast numbers of models are designed into primarily six driving units to facilitate users to have maximum interchangeability, minimum inventory, ease of maintenance and high service reliability ...
King-size for acid pumping
Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen/Germany tries out 600 m3/h (2650 USgpm) fluoroplastic lined magnetic drive pump. A mixture of acetic acid, formic acid and acetaldehyde, operating temperature 80oC (175oF) - the environment in which the pumps used at the German Wacker Chemie in Burghausen, Production Unit 'Acetyls', do their work is everything but simple. With the PFA/PTFE-lined magnetic drive pump MNK 200-150-315 (8-6-12) the operator is now entering a new performance dimension - and is expecting no less than cost savings of up to 70% ...
Safety relief valves: Making the right choice
Choosing a wrong safety device can be hazardous to life and property. Today, safety devices have become indispensable to protect people, processes and property in any pressurized system. So how can the engineers ensure that they make the right choice? This article delves on situations when overpressure may occur, the wide range of devices available, how such devices operate and the many codes, standards and approval authorities to note ...
"Fluoropolymers are becoming the engineer's first choice in fighting corrosion"
- Bharat Pandit, DuPont India Pvt LtdCPVC for chemical processes
As every application has its own material parameters and conditions under which certain materials perform better than others, it is common practice for most industrial manufacturers to utilise different pipe materials in different parts of the plant for different applications. It is likely however, that CPVC be used in some parts of nearly every chemical plant. Proven fifty-year track record of CPVC pipes demonstrate longer service life, lower maintenance costs and reduced down-time ...
Integrating sustainability into business planning and processes helps us meet our customers exact needs
- Jeremy Burks, Global Executive Director of the Paper and Process Industry group, Dow Corning
The Indian logistics industry Gaining momentum
India's logistics industry is enjoying a period of spectacular growth helped by economic development and the increased acceptance of out-sourcing by Indian manufacturers and retailers. However, there are a number of challenges on the horizon ranging from deep-rooted structural problems to the unpalatable prospect of economic hardships. The development of India's national economy will gradually set loose immense demand for modern logistics services. ...
Design & installation issues of tap to transmitter systems
This article reviews system integrity (leakage), specific instrument considerations, connecting the tap to the transmitter, selecting and installing a transmitter and additional issues important to the design and installation of tap-to-transmitter systems. ...
Design of virtual instrumentation for efflux time (viscosity) measurementIn the present work, a virtual instrumentation for viscosity measurement with a clock of 2 MHz is developed in the laboratory using PCL 812 data acquisition card along with IBM compatible PC operated under windows98. ...
- S Rajagopalan, S J Sharma and V M Ghodki"We want to make Pune city the most preferred investment destination for global business"
- Anant Sardeshmukh, Additional Director General,Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Agriculture (MCCAI), PuneMembrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment: A review
This paper describes the treatment of wastewater with membrane technology in view of its reuse for applications, which do not require potable water quality. ...
Developing a rate-equation for production of L-lysine by immobilized cells of Corynebacterium species
In this experimental study, an attempt is made to investigate the effect of various important parameters on the production of L-lysine by immobilized cells in a stirred tank reactor. In this work the effect of glucose, ammonium sulphate concentration and biotin on L-lysine production were studied. In this work the authors have observed that the optimum values of glucose, ammonium sulphate and biotin for L-lysine production were 90 g/L, 10 g/L and 200 µg/L respectively by immobilized cells.
Bulkflow heat exchanger provides consistent cooling
This article describes a solution mining facility that installed a Bulkflow heat exchanger a little over a year ago to produce table salt. Besides salt, the Bulkflow heat exchanger has been successfully applied to chemicals, fertilisers, polymers, detergents, catalysts, minerals, oilseeds, grains, food products, sugar and biosolids. ...
Generating high-pressure steam in boiler from biomass
LANXESS India Private Limited has embarked on a unique green initiative to shift to eco-friendly fuel to generate high-pressure steam by using briquettes produced from renewable energy source - biomass. ...
Effect of a rod promoter on velocity in a square gas-solid fluidized bedGas-solid fluidized bed is characterized by the formation of bubbles, channels and slugs. The expansion beyond the point of incipient fluidization is primarily due to the gas bubbles. Experiments were carried out extensively to study the effectiveness of rod promoter in reducing bed fluctuation in gas-solid fluidized bed. The correlations for the bed fluctuation ratio and the bed expansion ratio were developed for the un-promoted rod promoted squared bed. The calculated values of bed expansion ratio and the bed fluctuation ratio by the developed correlations agree fairly well their respective experimental values. The effect of a rod promoter on minimum fluidization velocity in a square gas-solid fluidized bed has been studied. ....
- Basanta K Sahu, Saroj K Padhi, R K Singh and G K RoyEnhanced power generation in microbial based biological fuel cell using methylene blue as an electronophore
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are special types of biofuel cells, producing electric power by employing microorganisms instead of isolated enzymes, to assist redox reactions. In this work, methylene blue (MB) was utilized as an electron mediator in microbial fuel cell (MFC) consuming glucose to study both its efficiency during electricity generation and its role in growth and metabolism of Klebsiella pneumoniae. In this study, the variation of open circuit potential (OCP), biomass growth curve, current density and power density with time was recorded. It is proved that the addition of mediator will enhance the power output and the role of electronophore (ie) methylene blue on the performance of MFCs in generating electric current was investigated. ...
Salt effect on the enthalpy of mixing of methanol + ethyl acetate at 303.15 K
The effect of the dissolved salts, namely NaCl, CaCl2, ZnCl2, CdCl2 and NH4Cl on the endothermic enthalpy of mixing of the binary system methanol + ethyl acetate has been investigated at 303.15 K in an isothermal batch calorimeter with vapour space. The salt NaCl and NH4Cl decrease the endothermic value. A shift in peak towards higher mole fraction of methanol is noticed on addition of 5% ZnCl2 and CdCl2. The experimental values of the enthalpy of mixing were fitted into a modified Redlich - Kister equation and deviations and parameters are reported. ...
Design & installation issues of tap to transmitter systems
This article reviews system integrity (leakage), specific instrument considerations, connecting the tap to the transmitter, selecting and installing a transmitter and additional issues important to the design and installation of tap-to-transmitter systems. ...
Design of virtual instrumentation for efflux time (viscosity) measurement
In the present work, a virtual instrumentation for viscosity measurement with a clock of 2 MHz is developed in the laboratory using PCL 812 data acquisition card along with IBM compatible PC operated under windows98. ...
"We want to make Pune city the most preferred investment destination for global business"
- Anant Sardeshmukh, Additional Director General,Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Agriculture (MCCAI), PuneMembrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment: A review
This paper describes the treatment of wastewater with membrane technology in view of its reuse for applications, which do not require potable water quality. ...
Developing a rate-equation for production of L-lysine by immobilized cells of Corynebacterium species
In this experimental study, an attempt is made to investigate the effect of various important parameters on the production of L-lysine by immobilized cells in a stirred tank reactor. In this work the effect of glucose, ammonium sulphate concentration and biotin on L-lysine production were studied. In this work the authors have observed that the optimum values of glucose, ammonium sulphate and biotin for L-lysine production were 90 g/L, 10 g/L and 200 µg/L respectively by immobilized cells.
Zero liquid effluent discharge system through thermal route
Separation of water can be done by Reverse Osmosis or thermal method. RO is cheaper in terms of operating cost but the life of system is low and replacement cost is high. More importantly RO cannot separate all recyclable water. Whereas, thermal methods involving an evaporator can recover almost all water. Though this method incurs high-energy costs, which however can be substantially reduced by a Multiple Effect Evaporator. ...
First ever floating barge mounted low temperature thermal desalination plant
Water seems to be an abundant natural resource on planet earth. However, only 0.3 per cent of the world’s total amount of water can be used as clean drinking water. Man requires huge amounts of drinking water everyday and extracts it form nature for innumerable purposes. As natural fresh water resources are limited, seawater plays an important part as a source for drinking water as well. In order to use this water it has to be desalinated. Seawater desalination is a real challenge. The base method for seawater desalination is distillation. Approximately 620 kWh of evaporation enthalpy is necessary to obtain 1 t of drinking water. ...
A novel technique for phenolic wastewater treatment
Fresh water crisis and its degradation due to contamination by industrial and municipal waste are highlighted. Phenol is one of the most common contaminant, the methods of treatment of phenolic wastewater is discussed and the emphasis is given on the aerobic biological treatment. Special attention has been paid to the biological treatment mentioning the drawbacks of the traditional methods. The relative advantages of various modern bioreactors working on immobilization technique have been projected. The uniqueness of the fluidized and semi-fluidized bed bioreactors in the treatment of wastewater has been emphasized.
Novel sorbitol resin based polymeric surfactant for liquid detergent
A novel polymeric surfactant based on linseed oil, sorbitol and rosin has been synthesized. Technically it is a rosinated short oil alkyd resin. In this piece of research work, the mole ratio of ingredients, catalyst and heating schedule has been standardized to get an alkyd resin with higher acid value (>50), desired hydrophilic-lipophilic ratio (HLB),viscosity and solubility characteristic. The spectroscopic studies indicate the presence of free acid, ester, ether and free hydroxyl groups in the polymer structure. This resin after neutralization with sodium hydroxide has been used as a replacement of sodium lauryl ether sulphate (SLES) in liquid detergents.
Process Safety management
The general practice among the Indian industries is to measure the safety performance through indicators such as frequency rate, severity rate, safe-T score etc. However, the companies are soon realizing that a clean record of no lost time injuries (LTIs) does not guarantee an environment devoid of any process hazards. Hence, there is a remarkable shift in the general outlook by industries from “personal safety” (LTI etc) to “process safety”
Water spray support for efficiency enhancement of air-cooled heat exchangers by mist creation
Globally, there is a growing need for both electric power and water. The acute scarcity of water may lead to conflict between water for power plant cooling requirements and water for other uses such as agricultural, residential, or environmental. Hence, there is a huge inclination towards use of Dry Cooling (air cooling) as an attractive alternative to the use of Wet Cooling - basically on the grounds of water conservation. It is well known that Dry Cooling on one hand will substantially reduce the need of water in process/power plants. On the other hand, it can cause reductions in plant efficiency and out-put during hottest periods of the year.
Zero drift cooling towers
Drift losses are a very important criteria to be considered during the selection of cooling system like spray pond and mist form. During heavy breeze and storms, both the basins will become empty in just two to four hours of time. However, a cooling tower with FRP-lined steel structure at the centre of the basin can withstand the wind velocity of the area and the basin (preferably RCC)...
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Installation and operation of a bulkflow sugar cooler at the sugar plant of brugelette in Belgium (EUR)
Bulkflow Technologies Inc is a world leader in the indirect heating and cooling of powder and bulk solids in many industries worldwide (chemicals, polymers, fertilisers, detergents, minerals, oilseeds, grains, food products, sugar and biosolids). In the last few years, Bulkflow has introduced this technology to the sugar industry with great success where it has been established as a proven and effective method for cooling sugar crystals before storage and packaging. The bulkflow system can be installed either as a primary cooler or a secondary cooler and is readily adaptable to plant retrofits.
Experimental methods for high pressure VLE masurement
Accurate measurement of high pressure vapour liquid equilibria is a most demanding task. The number and variety of approaches adopted atleast to the exacting nature of the task of finding the most reliable, accurate and cost effective approach. But there exists no firm opinion as to which type of equipment is superior. Each type has its own advantages and drawbacks. The purpose of this study is to summarize in some detail the equipments and procedures used to measure high pressure VLE. We discuss some of the dynamic and static methods developed for high pressure VLE measurement.
Divided wall distillation column
The separation of liquid mixture into various components is one of the major operation in the process industries and distillation the most widely used method of achieving this end is the key operation in any oil refinery. In processing the demand for purer product, coupled with the need for greater efficiency has promoted continued research into the technique of distillation. Divided wall distillation column offer improved thermodynamic efficiency at low cost, as they are compact. For a given amount of feed divided wall column require less reflux than conventional towers allowing for increase in capacity energy saving and less working cost.
Pick of the litter: A typical fluidization
Fluidized bed has vast applicability in the chemical process industries. Understanding and predicting the mechanisms governing the fluidized bed behaviour is of foremost importance not only for improvement of the operability of existing commercial system, but also for the development of new industrial processes. This article presents the review of manipulating the fluidization operation incorporating hydrodynamics besides the applications of fluidization using internals and advanced types of fluidization in brief...
