High uptime and maintainability secured by Full- fledged Automation Platform at Indian Refinery

HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) is a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, a Lakshmi N Mittal company that is based in Singapore. HMEL has built and currently operates the Guru Gobind Singh refinery, which is located near Bathinda in India’s Punjab region. This new refinery has a production capacity of 9 million tons per annum (the equivalent of 180,000 bpd) and complies with the Euro IV emission norms. This is a zero bottom plant, with a very high Nelson Complexity Index. The refinery facilities include a polypropylene unit (PPU) that utilizes the Novolen® gas-phase polypropylene (PP) process and is capable of producing 440,000 tons per year of homo-polymer PP.

HMEL produces an entire range of PP homo-polymers. The refinery’s state-of-the art delayed coker unit (DCU) produces a high sulfur petroleum coke (pet coke) derivative. The sulfur recovery unit produces very high quality sulfur in powder and lump form. The other notable deliverable is a high yield of environmentally friendly liquid petroleum gas (LPG) for household and commercial customers in the northern region of the country.

For the monitoring and control of the entire Guru Gobind Singh refinery, HMEL selected an integrated solution from Yokogawa consisting of the CENTUM VP state-of-the-art distributed control system, the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system, the Plant Resource Manager (PRM) asset management system, the Exasmoc, Exarqe, and fitOMS advanced process control (APC) packages, FOUNDATION™ fieldbus instruments, and an operator training simulator (OTS). Yokogawa India oversaw and implemented their engineering, installation, and commissioning, and the refinery has performed flawlessly since coming online in early 2012.

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