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Godrej Process Equipment delivers worldÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s tallest CCR Reactor

Godrej Process Equipment delivers worldÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s tallest CCR Reactor

Industry News
Feb 01,19

Godrej Process Equipment has successfully shipped one of the worldÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s tallest Continuous Catalytic Regeneration (CCR) Reactor to Dangote Oil Refinery in Nigeria.

Godrej Process Equipment delivers worldÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s tallest CCR Reactor

Godrej Process Equipment has successfully shipped one of the world’s tallest Continuous Catalytic Regeneration (CCR) Reactor to Dangote Oil Refinery in Nigeria. Its height measures 95 m and weighs approximately 703 metric tonne. With the completion of this order, Godrej has further strengthened its position as a technology and innovation driven company.

Speaking about the achievement, Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman and Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce stated, “We have always been in the forefront of adopting technology to offer the best-in-class solutions to our customers. The manufacturing of this complex reactor, the tallest in the world, and the shipping of it in a single piece is a matter of immense pride for us. It is a testimony to our company’s vast technological expertise and also showcases Indian engineering capabilities.”

CCR is the key process in oil refinery converting low value naptha to high valuable products like petrochemicals and gasoline through various reactions such as dehydrogenation, aromatisation, isomerisation, dealkylation and dehydrocyclisation. The CCR Reactor is a tall column like equipment with continuous moving catalyst. Very stringent tolerances are required to be maintained for installation of reactor internals. The equipment being in hydrogen service, calls for a very critical metallurgy viz., chromium molybdenum steel, which leads to a very complex fabrication requirement.

Allen Antao, Executive Vice President and Business Head, Godrej Process Equipment remarked, "Godrej Process Equipment is a leading global fabricator of high-end critical static equipment for the process industry. The CCR Reactor built for Dangote’s Refinery in Nigeria is the latest in the long list of capability challenging equipment built by Godrej.”