Kukade, S.
Somanath Kukade is a Senior Manager at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center in Bengaluru, India. His areas of management include catalyst evaluation, process development, technical services for FCC units and scale-up of catalysts and additives. He has 15 yr of research experience. Mr. Kukade holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Surathkal and an MTech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur. He also holds 10 patents in the area of FCC process and catalysts/additives.
Maximize FCC product yields with a specialty catalyst formulation
Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is one of the most important conversion processes used in petroleum refineries and has been in use for more than 75 yr.
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Project:
Long Son Petrochemicals Complex
Location:
Long Son, Vietnam
Operator:
Siam Cement Group
Cost:
$5.4 B
Capacity:
1.65 MMtpy
Completion date:
2023
Status:
Under Construction