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April 2013 Issue
INTERVIEW
"Innovation Wave Will Drive the Growth in Future"
The specialty chemicals industry, which is not so dependent on oil & gas for feedstock,
can be a major driver for the growth of Indian chemical industry. In an exclusive
interaction with Chemical Engineering World, Nadir Godrej, Managing Director,
Godrej Industries Ltd, talks about the dire need to address the issues ailing the Indian
chemical industry; the competition that USA is going to pose in the next few years to the
global chemical industry with the availability of cheap gas in that country and more...
- Nadir Godrej, Managing Director, Godrej Industries
FEATURES
Knowing When Enough is Enough
When high-strength expansion
joints are needed, designers
are increasingly turning to
high-performance plastics such as
polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). If
reliable prediction of their service
lives and fatigue limits are to be
made, validated test methods are
required. The article illustrates test
methods for precise determination of
the service life of pipe components.
- Franz Hingott
Transporting the Chemicals - 'Responsibly'
Transporting hazardous chemicals
is a risky affair and one need to be
very careful during the process.
This article illustrates the nine
hazard classes and highlights the
need to follow these guidelines
while transporting hazardous
chemicals. Safe Transportation is
one of the key areas promoted by
global chemical industry under the
Responsible Care Initiative.
- Vikram Mansukhani
Carbon Capture and Utilisation
In the wake of increasing global
warming, the need for clean power
is of utmost importance. Aker
Solutions has developed and tested
technologies for carbon capture and
is being used at the world’s largest
test plant for carbon capture at
Mongstad, Norway. It is an important
step towards a commercial viable
solution for carbon capture from
fossil fuel power plants and other
industrial emitters.
- Pradnya P Gune
Microbial Polysaccharide: Greet Technology Prospects for India
Green technology is quickly gaining favour in many industries across the globe. In
this article, Dr Shankar M Singh, (PhD), General Manager, Biotech Center, Kumar
Organic Products Ltd, discusses how some of the products can be produced using
green technology.
- Shankar M Singh
Measure to Prevent Sugar Dust Explosion
This paper analyses hazard of sugar
dust explosion, probable causes
of explosion and consequences.
The experimental values of various
explosion parameters- minimum
explosible concentration, minimum
ignition temperature, minimum
ignition energy, maximum explosion
pressure, explosibility index, and
limiting oxygen concentration -
required to design explosion safety
measures for sugar refineries are
presented for sugar dust from
CSIR-CBRI work.
- Manju Mittal
Evaluating India’s Energy Fueling Options
In this article, Prabhakar Bhandarkar, Director – Business Development, Simon
India Ltd, evaluates the energy option for the country and discuss the everincreasing
requirement for the energy. He further highlights the significance of energy
management and emphasise on the need to reuse and recycle the waste to ensure
sustainable development.
- P Bhandarkar
Demand and Supply of Fertiliser in India
India has emerged as one of the
largest consumers of fertilisers along
with China and the United States of
America. The fertiliser sector in
India holds a major share among
the energy intensive industries of
the country. However, there are
issues which need to be addressed.
This article highlights the need to
review the present and future of
fertiliser industry with emphasis on
its sustainable development.
- P Agrawal
Enhance Alarm Management
A properly design alarm management
system will minimise production
losses, safety incidents and
environmental excursions. To do
this effectively, the alarms need
to be designed for the process
and managed for continuous
improvement. It is important to
evaluate the alarms based on process
upsets and verify the functionality
of the alarms as they relate to the
operation. It is the operator's job
to react to the alarm but the alarms
need to be monitored and managed.
- Kevin Brown
MARKET INSIGHTS
Freudenberg Strengthens Research & Development Activities in India
EagleBurgmann underlines IndiaÊs importance in developing
new technologies and solutions for the industrial sealing
market by adding a new R&D centre to its Pune-based
production plant, constructed in 2009.
Finolex Starts Commercial Production at Masar, Plans 4th Plant
Finolex Industries, the leading PVC pipe manufacturer in the
country, had kicked off the commercial production at its new
plant at Masar in Gujarat, which was set up with an investment
of about 
100 crore. Prakash Chhabria, Executive Chairman,
Finolex Industries Limited, revealed that the strategic location
of the new plant would allow the company to cater to agriculture
and real estate market not only in Gujarat but also Northern part
of the country.
Optimising CO2 Capture, Dehydration and Compression Facilities
The removal of CO2 by liquid absorbents is widely implemented
in the field of gas processing, chemical production, and coal
gasification. Many power plants are looking at post-combustion
CO2 recovery to meet environmental regulations and to produce CO2
for enhanced oil recovery applications.
