Reliance Industries Limited
Jamnagar, Gujarat
The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries Limited in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July, 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world.
Every oil refinery has furnaces. During the campaign life of the furnace, there are occasions when the furnace is shutdown for short periods to perform various maintenance activities. At Jamanagar Refinery, when the maintenance activity for the furnace was scheduled, there were 2 challenges:
When the furnace was shutdown, its temperature was 1200°C. Initially, steaming was done to bringing down the temperature from 1200°C to 150°C. TDS job was to bring down the temperature of furnace from 150°C to ambient temperature in fastest possible way.
TDS Airgineers installed Desiccant type Dehumidifier along with Condensing unit, Blower & Exhausted Blower. TDS provided DMS 3000 (02 Nos.), TDS 6.5 (06 Nos.), TDS B-5 (04 Nos.), TDS B-10 (02 Nos.). It delivered a flow of cool and dry air (12000 cfm) inside the furnace from the inspection door. The conditioned air created a positive pressure inside the furnace and removed the contaminated air, bringing fresh, dry and cool air in the furnace. Simultaneously, Blowers were exhausting the hot, humid and harmful air from the furnace. With this effort, the temperature of the furnace was brought down to ambient level at a faster rate, in comparison to natural cooling. Within 24 hours we achieved the desired ambient temperature which enabled the workers to start the maintenance jobs swiftly in a healthy environment.
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Mr. Deepak Pahwa is the Chairman, Pahwa Group and Director of Technical Drying Services Asia. Pvt. Ltd. The group has 1500+ employees in 6 continents & 11 manufacturing plants.
In 1979, he set up the first company in the group, Arctic India Sales, introducing dehumidification in India. Subsequently, he set-up Technical Drying Services Asia, Desiccant Rotors International, Delair India and Technical Drying services.
An alumnus of IT-BHU, Mr. Pahwa has been honored with several awards, including the “Leadership Award 2013” by IACC for his dynamic leadership. He was also awarded a “National Award 2011 in Research & Development” in (Medium Enterprise) by MSME, the “IT-BHU Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award 2009-10”, and also the “Entrepreneur Of The Year Award” in 1987 in the SME entrepreneur category, to name just a few.
Mr. Pahwa is a Fellow, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air conditioning Engineers) and serves on several technical committees of ASHRAE. A life member of ASHRAE as well as ISHRAE, he has been recognized and honored by various industry associations for his contribution in enhancing India’s role in providing the best in the next class technologies from India to the world. He has also introduced many new technologies in field of dehumidification, IAQ and many others in India since 1979. He has played an active role in connecting the European Air-conditioning federation, REHVA, to the Indian industry.
Currently, he is the Chairman, Committee on Innovation, PHD Chamber and also serves on the Chamber’s Managing Committee. He has also served as the National President, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce. He has also served as the Convener, FICCI MSME Committee.
He is an advocate of collaborative work for advancing knowledge and works with the specialists, in the field of Adsorption and airgineering technologies, in the academia as well as the industry experts, not only from India but all over the world including Japan, Singapore, Korea, Turkey, Europe and USA.
With almost 50 years of experience in engineering & marketing of HVAC&R, Airgineering & Environmental Control Technologies, his success mantra is “Innovation is Life”. He believes that with the right amount of inspiration, encouragement and knowledge, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary work.
He has institutionalized innovation within the organization so that every employee learns to be an innovator and rewarded for their contribution
For the Society at large, Mr. Pahwa, taking inspiration from his grandfather, Padma Shri, Rai Bahadur Dr. Mathra Das Pahwa, a renowned Eye surgeon and a dedicated philanthropist, Mr. Pahwa has mandated through the group’s CSR initiatives work on providing education, skill development health & hygiene and opportunities in sports for enriching the lives of the underprivileged and differently abled. Another focus area is working towards environmental sustainability, both through the technologies being introduced as well the contributions and support provided to environmentalists.