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Nayara Energy starts up polypropylene plant at Vadinar

refi nery site

W.R. Grace & Co., the world’s We aim to produce the best quality non- “We are pleased to support Nayara
leading independent supplier of poly- phthalate based homopolymer, random Energy’s growth using our licensing
propylene (PP) process technology and copolymer, and impact copolymer technology coupled with our catalysts
polyolefi n catalyst technology, has an- polypropylene resin for domestic and and process control software. This
nounced that Nayara Energy Ltd. has international markets,” said Mr. Sergey combination will help optimize their
successfully started-up its new 450-ktpa Denisov, Chief Development Offi cer, reactor performance and enable the
PP plant in Vadinar, Gujarat. Nayara Energy. Vadinar refi nery to serve the growing
demand for polypropylene in the region,”
The plant uses Grace’s non-phthalate “The petrochemical industry is said Mr. Thomas Deman, President,
Consista catalysts with the Unipol PP growing aggressively in India and today Specialty Catalysts, Supply Chain and
process technology, and will produce there is increasing demand for innova- Procurement, Grace.
the entire range of PP grades suitable tive products for wide ranging applica-
for resins in pharmaceutical, health and tions. Leveraging strong partnerships to With more than 34-mtpa of global
hygiene industry applications. Nayara is create best-in-class offerings, Nayara licensed production capacity and more
also utilizing Grace’s Unipol Unippac Energy aims to set new quality bench- than 5-mtpa in India, Grace is a leading
process control software to operate the marks for our clients. With this lat- global licensor of PP process technology.
plant with optimal performance. est foray Nayara Energy aims to cap- The high-performance PP resins produced
ture around 8% market share and be a using the Unipol PP process technology
“We are glad to partner with Grace strong partner to India’s energy secu- are ubiquitous and can be found in many
for our fi rst PP unit which is a big mile- rity needs,” said Mr. Alessandro des applications, such as automotive parts,
stone in the company’s growth journey. Dorides, CEO, Nayara Energy. packaging, and consumer goods.

EIL to commercialise HPCL’s hydrogen pressure

swing adsorption technology

Engineers India Ltd. (EIL) and
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
(HPCL) have signed a Memorandum of
Agreement (MoA) for the commercia-
lisation of HPCL’s hydrogen Pressure
Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology
with EIL as a technology & engineer-
ing partner.

The MoA was signed by Dr.
R.N.Maiti, CGM & HOD (R&D), EIL
and Mr. V.K. Maheshwari, ED (R&D),
HPCL, according to a social media post
by EIL.

PSA is extensively used for the cation of Hydrogen Generation Unit wherein EIL will carry out scale-up,
purifi cation of hydrogen from a mixture (HGU)-PSA, Continuous Catalytic design/preparation of basic engi-
of gases. The PSA technology deve- reforming (CCR)-PSA, Refi nery Off- neering & design package and supply
loped by HPCL includes the appli- Gas (ROG)-PSA/Fuel Gas (FG)-PSA, of the hydrogen PSA package.

148 Chemical Weekly November 12, 2024

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