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November 2011 Issue
INTERVIEW
No Surprises at the End of Process
Essar Energy has undertaken the second phase of expansion of Vadinar refinery to increase its current capacity to 400,000 bpd. Jasbir Singh, Vice President, Essar Projects India Ltd (EPIL) explains, "Scalability and expandability are the two most desired thought processes, while designing a system." He discusses the overall expectations from a users's perspective from automation service providers and delves into details about integrating the overall operation of the refinery from centralised location...
- Jasbir Singh, Vice President, Essar Projects India Ltd.
FEATURES
Plant-Wide Optimisation: An imperative
Forward-thinking manufacturers can maximise asset utilisation, productivity, and uptime - as well as integrate these with other aspects of the enterprise - through plant-wide optimisation. A unified platform for communication and for multiple control disciplines is must to help manufacturers realise the benefits of plant-wide optimisation...
- Naveen Kumar Vashist
Addressing Production Challenges with digital Architecture
In the competitive world, the chemical plant managers have to continuously address the challenge of keeping high throughput. Despite automating the production facilities, many plant operators continue to face the problem of reduced throughput. Authors discuss the pain points and describe how digital architecture enables them to address the day-to-day operational issues...
- Sunil Khanna and Dr. A S Prasad
Intelligent Electronics for Critical Process Applications
Past few years has seen immense improvement in reliability of electronic components in adverse
conditions and high ambient temperatures. Use of these advanced electronics bring significant
reduction in Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) thus reducing the
downtime. This article draws a comparison between the conventional and intelligent MCCs from the
users perspective...
- Hemal Desai
instrumentation at its Best
If instruments are the life of a company,
then calibration maintains and improves life
standards with enhanced precision, quality
and output of the company. This ar ticle
highlights the necessity and importance
of calibration of instruments along with
the factors and machiner y involved
in calibration...
- K Venkata Subramanian
Using thermal design Expertise
In a perfect world, product design from initial concept to production release is a straight line with no
wasted engineering capacity, purchasing time or redesigns required by design changes. In the real
world, the path to product release is much more circuitous, and almost serpentine at times...
- Brian P Ream
Smart Energy for the Smarter World
"Go Green" is the latest message echoing all
over the world, including India, for protecting our
ecosystem. The author gives an overview of smart
grid technologies as one of the key approaches to
sustainable measures...
- Surjit Lahiri
SOUTH SPECIAL
Overview of Chemical industry developments in South
Chemical industry across India has been
on an ever-growing expansion phase.
Different states of the country bringing
in their own diversities have significantly
contributed to the growth and development
of chemical industry in India. Chemical
Engineering World zooms its focus on
the southern part of India and presents an
overview on the upside and downside of
chemical industry in Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka...
- Savita V Jayaram and Shilpa Vijayaraghavan
Balaji Amines on an Expansion Spree
The 
385-crore company has rolled out aggressive growth strategy to enhance production capacity
and turn itself into 900 crore supplier of chemicals for pharma manufacturers. The group has
earmarked 90 crores to achieve targeted growth and increase the global footprint...
Upbeat and Aggressive About Sustainable and Operational Excellence
Living up to its name, GE Intelligent Platforms has continuously
strived for the past two decades to help customers solve their
design challenges in automation and embedded computing and
to increase their market presence. Arvind Kakru, Business
Leader of GE Intelligent Platforms, India, talks about trends
in automation and focus on sustainable process and packaging
solutions along with robust plans for gaining strong foothold
in India...
MARKET INSIGHTS
Sustainability Takes the Centre Stage
Sustainability to build
safe future took centre
stage during a recently
organised conference by TUV
SUD in Mumbai. Headquartered
in Munich Germany, TUV SUD,
a future oriented company has
incorporated reliability, safety,
quality, cost effectiveness and
environmental protection...
Giving Impetus to the MSME Sector
The Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII) in
collaboration with Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSME), Government of India had
organised India Global Summit on
the 19th and 20th October 2011 at
the The Lalit Hotel, New Delhi...
Nalco Foresees Strong Profitable Growth
Nalco, a sustainability
service company providing
essential expertise for
water, energy and air, is pleased
and all smiles with its track of
developments in the fiscal year
2010-2011...
