Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) expects to commission its 15-million-tonne Paradip refinery project in the second half of 2013.
Meanwhile, the company has installed the world’s largest coke drum on November 15 at the Paradip refinery site. The drum weighs 630 million tonne (mn t) and is 45.52 metre in height and 10.67 meter diameter.
Larsen & Toubro is said to have manufactured the coke drum and was loaded on SPMT (Self Propelled Modular Transporter) and transported by JM Baxi from the lay down area to the site.
Once commissioned, the Paradip refinery will take IndianOil’s refining capacity to over 80 million tonne annually. The coking unit will produce raw petroleum coke, which is termed as ‘bottom of the barrel’ product of any refinery. This is a solid product. There are two distinctive grades of this product — calcination or green raw petroleum coke and fuel grade or petcoke.
Calcination grade is used for producing anodes for the aluminium industry and fuel grade petcoke is used primarily by cement plants.
IndianOil produces calcination grade raw petroleum coke at its Barauni, BRPL, Digboi and Guwahati refineries. Fuel grade petcoke is produced at Panipat refinery.
The Rs 30,000-crore project is one of the largest projects undertaken in India in terms of investment as well as scale of construction.
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