The DHU will have a nameplate capacity of 1.9 million tpy, while the HGU revamp will generate an additional 22,000 tpy of hydrogen, according to documents from India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (EFCC).
Following its completion and startup in fourth-quarter 2019, HMEL’s BS 6 fuels project will equip the Guru Gobind Singh refinery to meet the government of India’s nationwide compliance deadline for 100% production of BS 6-quality fuels (maximum sulfur content, 10 ppmw) of Apr. 1, 2020 (OGJ, May 1, 2017, p. 64; OGJ Online, Apr. 4, 2017).
Topsoe did not disclose a value of the 36-month contract.
Refinery expansion, upgrades
The 11 billion-rupee upgrading project to meet BS 6-quality fuel specifications at HMEL’s Guru Gobind Singh refinery comes alongside and as part of the public-private partnership’s broader plans to expand the manufacturing site’s crude processing capacity to 11.25 million tpy from its current 9 million-tpy capacity, HMEL and EIL said in filings to EFCC.
Approved for environmental clearance by EFCC in June 2015, the capacity expansion, now under way, includes a combination of new units as well as debottlenecking work at existing units to improve throughput rates, HMEL said.
Neither HMEL nor EIL officially have confirmed a firm timeline or total estimated cost of the overall capacity expansion project.
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