Optimize slop-wax bed height in the vacuum unit
The vacuum distillation (VD) unit in the petroleum refinery separates the heavier fraction of crude oil from the atmospheric distillation unit (ADU) into light vacuum gasoil (LVGO) and heavy VGO (HVGO..
Reliance Technology Group, Reliance Industries Ltd.:
Yadav, M.
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Patil, R. - Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, India
Rahul Patil is the Lead Research Scientist in the R&D division of Reliance Industries Ltd. He has more than 16 yr of experience in the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. His professional interests include the debottlenecking and optimization of petroleum refinery and petrochemical units, the application of computational fluid dynamics and process modeling tools, and the modeling and simulation of these units. Patil earned a Bch degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India; and an MTech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Das, A. K. - Reliance Industries Ltd., Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
Asit K. Das is the Head of Refinery R&D and Process Development of Reliance Industries Ltd. in Jamnagar, India. He has more than 33 yr of research experience in refining and petrochemical segments. He has developed and commercialized many processes and has more than 80 patents, 70 publications and five book chapters to his credit. He has guided several PhD and MTech theses and board members in advisory council for several academic institutions. He is also the current President of the Engineering Science section to organize the Indian Science Congress 2020.
Yadav, M. - Reliance Technology Group, Reliance Industries Ltd., Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
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