MRPL commissions a petrochemical fluidized catalytic cracking Unit

Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), yesterday achieved the feed-cut in to Petrochemical Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (PFCCU), one of the major secondary process units in its Phase III.

MRPL’s PFCCU, with design capacity of 2.2 MMTPA, is the second such unit in the country and it can produce about 20% of its product as polymer grade propylene apart from almost 25% of product as LPG. The PFCCU will enable MRPL to triple the LPG production from this 15MMTPA grassroot refinery.

The technology of the process is licensed from Technip Stone & Webster International Inc. and the Project was executed by Engineers India Ltd.

Says Shri Vijay Joshi, Director Refinery, MRPL “Currently the unit is under stabilization. The products- LPG, Naphtha, Light Cycle Oil have been routed to respective destinations.”

With the commissioning of PFCCU, MRPL has achieved a major milestone.

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