Amutha, R.
R. Amutha is working as Assistant Manager in the Process Engineering department at CPCL’s Manali Refinery. She has more than 6 yr of experience in lube production facilities, including solvent extraction, solvent dewaxing and solvent deoiling units. She has handled several operational and energy improvement activities in the lube complex at CPCL.
Modified revamp process to reduce energy use in an SDA unit
Process Optimization
/ Project Management
/ Refining
/ Economics
/ Engineering & Design
/ Environment
/ Equipment
/ Furnaces
/ Heat Transfer
/ Loss Prevention
/ Natural Gas
Solvent deasphalting (SDA) is emerging as a low-cost, bottom-of-the-barrel upgrading process to recover valuable oil from short residue. This oil can either be further processed to make lube-oil-based stocks or cracked in secondary processing units.
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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