L&T Heavy Engineering (HE) achieved another significant milestone by completing the fabrication of two H-Oil Reactors and an HP Amine Absorber for the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) refinery expansion at Panipat in Haryana.

 

Ms Sukla Mistry (Director – Refinery, IOCL), along with senior delegates from the Engineers India Ltd, flagged off this equipment from L&T’s A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex at Hazira on 17 February.

 

Present at the event were Mr Anil V Parab (Whole-time Director & Sr EVP – Heavy Engineering and L&T Valves), Mr Ajay Jain (EVP – L&T Energy Hydrocarbon) and Mr Falgun Chokshi (EVP – Heavy Engineering, L&T).

 

The H-Oil proprietary technology of a residue hydrocracking unit is licensed by the Axens Group. This is the first time that this technology is being used by IOCL. It meets the challenge of converting heavy feedstock residues into essentially distillate products, ranging from vacuum gasoil to naphtha.

 

Each H-Oil reactor is fabricated from Cr-Mo-V(Chromium-Molybdenum-Vanadium), a low- ferritic alloy that is ideal of high temperatures. Each weighs 1016 MT. In all, L&T has so far supplied 37 critical equipment for the refinery expansion project.

 

This is yet another example of L&T Heavy Engineering’s delivery capability of critical equipment with high quality standards.