Jul 02: HMEL, a JV between HPCL and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, is planning to invest Rs. 2160 crore in its Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bathinda, Punjab.
8The existing facility is designed to process 9 MMTPA blended crude which is mainly sourced from the Middle East and is received at the Mundra port in Gujarat and transported through a pipeline.
8As part of De-bottlenecking project, the company is planning to enhance crude processing capacity from 9 MMTPA to 11.25 MMTPA.
8The expansion will include installation of Bitumen Blowing Unit (BBU) of  capacity 0.52MMTPA
8Along with this, the augmentation of necessary utilities such as cooling towers, boilers and DM plant will also take place
8Any shortfall in power requirement will be met through the grid. Two new CFBC boiler (each of 300 TPH) capacities shall be installed.
8Power requirement of 12 MW for CFBC boilers shall be catered to from the PSEB grid.
8An additional identical cell and pump in the FCC-PC cooling water system will be installed.
8A crude storage tank of 60000 m3 will be required along with other storages for operational flexibility.
8Lastly, augmentation of the Sulphur Recovery Unit will also be undertaken
8The proposed expansion activities will take place within the existing refinery area and no additional land will be acquired.
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HPCL-MIttal Energy Limited I: Rs 2160 crore expansion on anvil

HMEL, a JV between HPCL and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, is planning to invest Rs. 2160 crore in its Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bathinda, Punjab.
8The existing facility is designed to process 9 MMTPA blended crude which is mainly sourced from the Middle East and is received at the Mundra port in Gujarat and transported through a pipeline.
8As part of De-bottlenecking project, the company is planning to enhance crude processing capacity from 9 MMTPA to 11.25 MMTPA.
8The expansion will include installation of Bitumen Blowing Unit (BBU) of  capacity 0.52MMTPA
8Along with this, the augmentation of necessary utilities such as cooling towers, boilers and DM plant will also take place
8Anyshortfall in power requirement will be met through the grid. Two new CFBC boiler (each of 300 TPH) capacities shall be installed.
8Power requirement of 12 MW for CFBC boilers shall be catered to from the PSEB grid.
8An additional identical cell and pump in the FCC-PC cooling water system will be installed.
8A crude storage tank of 60000 m3 will be required along with other storages for operational flexibility.
8Lastly, augmentation of the Sulphur Recovery Unit will also be undertaken
8The proposed expansion activities will take place within the existing refinery area and no additional land will be acquired.
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HPCL-MIttal Energy Limited II: New Sulphur Recovery Unit of 300 TPD capacity

The proposed sulfur recovery unit is similar to that of the existing two trains. The third train is designed to process 12077 Nm3/hr of gas with 319 T/day of H2S.
8Designed elemental sulfur production capacity of the third train will be 300 T/day.
8Total sulfur recovery from the 11.25 MMTPA crude process refinery will be 681 T/day* (225000 T/year).
8The recovered sulfur will be stored in the existing storage facilities for further sale to various end users.
8A new Sulphur Palletizer unit will be installed near the SRU to convert liquid sulphur intosulphur pallets for dispatch.
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HPCL-MIttal Energy Limited III: New Bitumen Blowing Unit of 0.53 MMTPA capacity

HMEL also seeks to improve its profitability by producing Bitumen through a new bitumen blowing unit.
8It has been proposed to install a dedicated incinerator for the Bitumen Blowing Unit to control the Volatile Organic Carbon emissions from the blowing operations.
8The feedstock for BBU is  the Vacuum Residue from the CDU/VDU, along with flux components like VGO to achieve the targeted product quality.
8The BBU will consist of a Biturox reactor, air blowers, and incinerator with stack.
8Bitumen Blowing involves the oxidation of flux by bubbling air through liquid flux at 260�C for 1 to 10 hours.
8The bitumen reaction is calorific, so in order to prevent an explosion, resulting from the temperature increasing suddenly, the temperature will be controlled by water injection, or by a burner extinguisher as well as through "air amount reducing".
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HPCL-MIttal Energy Limited IV: Fugitive Emission Management Plan

The website carries here the fugitive emission management plan, involving leak detection and repair at the Bathinda refinery.
It contains the following:
--Introduction
--Necessity of Hydrocarbon leak Detection
--Scope of work
--Details on Leak Detection and Repair Program( LDAR)
--Source Inventory
--Instruments
--Calibration and Technical Description for 2020ComboPRO
--Methodology used
--Fugitive Emission Survey
--Component wise VOC Emission Survey
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