INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

Submitted by
MAMTA
15001005020
B.Tech ( 4th yr)
Chemical Engineering
• Company profile
• Capacity of Panipat Refinery
• Block diagram of panipat refinery
• Refinery products
• Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation column II unit
• Flow sheet of AVU II
• Desription of AVU II
 Set up in 1998
Panipat
Refinery located
in Baholi village,
Panipat, One of South East Asia’s
Haryana largest integrated
petrochemical plants
 Present capacity : 15 MMTPA
 Designed for high sulphur crude
REFINERY PRODUCTS
 AVU of Panipat Refinery Expansion project is designed to process 6
MMTPA( Million Metric Tonne Per Annum )

 AVU unit is located in 24800 square metres.

 Desalted crude flows to atmospheric and vacuum distillation through

crude pre flashing section.

 Atmostpheric & Vaccum Distillation are the main primary separation

processes producing various straight run products. This unit is called
mother unit.
Feed: Crude oil

Sections in unit :
• Crude desalting section
• Preflash section
• Atmospheric distillation column
• Vacuum distillation column

Capacity : 6 MMTPA
FLOW SHEET
 Storage tanks:Crude is pumped from storage
tanks by centrifugal pumps

Preheat train 1:
 Crude is first preheated in the preheat train 1 in
which 4 shells are connected in parallel.
 In heat exchangers , we have
• On shell side – product like Diesel, Kero
• On tube side – crude
 Temprature : 30 – 35 degree celcius
Desalter:
Objective : For removal of salts and water
 2 stage desalter are used in AVU II
 1st and 2nd stage desalter vessels are connected in
series
 Fresh water is mixed with crude for dissolve the salts
 Salt rich water phase from desalter is sent to ETP
 Oil phase from desalter is sent to further processing
 Temprature : 123- 125 degree celcius
 Desalting water flow counter current to the crude flow as
there remains constant concentration gradient.
Preheat train 2:
 Crude fron 2nd stage desalter outlet at a temp.
Of 122.7 – 135.2 degree celcius is routed to
preheat train 2.
 Preheat train 2 has two parallel branches of
preheat exchangers.
 In one branch , crude is heated by kero CR
followed by LGO product .
 In other parallel train, crude preheating is done
by the product followed by LVGO product.
Preflash drum:
 It is a horizontal vessel which minimize level
fluctuations.
 The lighter components seperated from preflash drum
go to the reflux drum
 The heavier liquid seperated is pumped to crude
preheat train 2.
 Then crude from preflash drum is sent to preheat train
3.
Atmospheric Heater:
 Preheated crude is heated and partially
vaporised.
 Outlet temprature : 370 – 375 degree celcius
 It is 8 pass cabin type furnace.
 28 burners are present in CDU furnace.
 The air which is used in heater is firstly heated in
air preheater
Atmospheric column:
 It has 55 trays.
 6 trays are in the stripping section.
 Crude feed enter the atm. Column avove 6th tray.
 Valve trays are used.
Products of atmospheric column:
• Heavy Naptha
• Kerosene
• Light gas oil ( LGO )
• Heavy gas oil (HGO)

Vacuum heater:
 Hot RCO from atm. Column bottom is heated and
partially vaporized.
 The mixed vapour and liquid stream from the heater is
sent to the flash zone of vacuum column.
 Temprature : 375 degree celcius.
Vacuum column:
 RCO from vacuum
heater is fed to the
vacuum column at the
flash zone above 6th
tray.
 Pressure : 60 – 70
mmHga
 Temprature : 382 – 398
degree celcius
Products of vacuum column:
• Vacuum diesel
• Light vacuum gas oil ( LVGO)
• Heavy vacuum gas oil( HVGO)
• Vacuum residue