Madan Kumar Kumaravelan
Chief Manager - R&D
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
K Madan Kumar has done Masters in Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 2008. He joined HPCL in 2008. He has 3 years of refinery experience followed by 14+ years of R&D experience. He is leading a team of Process Design & Scale-Up group at HP Green R&D Centre, Bengaluru. India. He has vast experience in research areas pertaining to Fluidized catalytic cracking, Thermal cracking of Vacuum Residue, Absorption & Adsorption, Process intensified Rotating Packed bed, Used Cooking Oil pretreatment, CBG production from Biomass etc.
Participates in
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME | Energy Technologies
GHG Emissions (Scope 1&2) Abatement (CO2, Methane) - Detection; CO2 Capture; CCUS; DAC; Carbon Products
Forum 20 | Digital Poster Plaza 4
28
April
12:30
14:30
UTC+3
Since emergence of the need for carbon capture, solvent based CO2 absorption processes encompassing conventional trayed columns have been dominating. However, these CO2 absorption columns have major limitations of tall size (20 to 30 meters) and huge weight. Main reason for such huge height is due to poor gas-liquid mass transfer efficiency which is governed by gravity.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), India has developed a novel HiGAS technology for overcoming these limitations. With this breakthrough technology, height of absorption columns can be reduced significantly by 10 times. HiGAS technology uses a Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) made of high surface area packing elements and induces centrifugal forces that are over 100 times of gravity. This reduces the Height Equivalent to Theoretical Plates (HETP) by 50-100 times, resulting in multitude level intensification of mass transfer efficiency and small unit size. First-of-its-kind commercial HP-HiGAS unit has been successfully implemented in HPCL Refinery, India for refinery fuel gas sweetening. This 2.5 meters HIGAS unit designed for removal of acid gas from 4 wt% to 100 ppm has replaced the existing 23 meters absorption column having 28 trays thus resulting in a significant size reduction of 10 times.
HPCL is now setting-up a commercial scale carbon capture unit for producing blue hydrogen based on HP-HiGAS technology. This unit with 24 KTPA CO2 capture capacity is being set-up at the Hydrogen Generation Unit (HGU) in HPCL refinery at an investment of 2 million USD.
HP-HiGAS technology, backed by its significant benefits of low size / foot print, low capital cost and improved safety, is the next generation revolution in carbon capture technologies as it perfectly suits all the CO2 capture requirements. Tapping the huge potential of HiGAS technology worldwide for carbon capture, would create a dramatic impact across the globe.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), India has developed a novel HiGAS technology for overcoming these limitations. With this breakthrough technology, height of absorption columns can be reduced significantly by 10 times. HiGAS technology uses a Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) made of high surface area packing elements and induces centrifugal forces that are over 100 times of gravity. This reduces the Height Equivalent to Theoretical Plates (HETP) by 50-100 times, resulting in multitude level intensification of mass transfer efficiency and small unit size. First-of-its-kind commercial HP-HiGAS unit has been successfully implemented in HPCL Refinery, India for refinery fuel gas sweetening. This 2.5 meters HIGAS unit designed for removal of acid gas from 4 wt% to 100 ppm has replaced the existing 23 meters absorption column having 28 trays thus resulting in a significant size reduction of 10 times.
HPCL is now setting-up a commercial scale carbon capture unit for producing blue hydrogen based on HP-HiGAS technology. This unit with 24 KTPA CO2 capture capacity is being set-up at the Hydrogen Generation Unit (HGU) in HPCL refinery at an investment of 2 million USD.
HP-HiGAS technology, backed by its significant benefits of low size / foot print, low capital cost and improved safety, is the next generation revolution in carbon capture technologies as it perfectly suits all the CO2 capture requirements. Tapping the huge potential of HiGAS technology worldwide for carbon capture, would create a dramatic impact across the globe.
