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Food Grade Hexane

This document describes a food/polymer grade hexane (FGH/PGH) technology jointly licensed by IndianOil and Engineers India Limited. The technology uses a catalytic hydrogenation process to produce hexane with benzene content less than 500 ppm for FGH and 100 ppm for PGH. It involves fractionating a narrow boiling cut of hexane and sending it to a fixed bed reactor where hydrogenation reactions reduce benzene, olefins, and aromatics over a catalyst. Two commercial units of 28,000 TPA and 20,000 TPA capacity have been successfully operating in India since 2001 and 2012 respectively to produce FGH and PGH hexane.

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Food Grade Hexane

This document describes a food/polymer grade hexane (FGH/PGH) technology jointly licensed by IndianOil and Engineers India Limited. The technology uses a catalytic hydrogenation process to produce hexane with benzene content less than 500 ppm for FGH and 100 ppm for PGH. It involves fractionating a narrow boiling cut of hexane and sending it to a fixed bed reactor where hydrogenation reactions reduce benzene, olefins, and aromatics over a catalyst. Two commercial units of 28,000 TPA and 20,000 TPA capacity have been successfully operating in India since 2001 and 2012 respectively to produce FGH and PGH hexane.

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FOOD/ POLYMER GRADE HEXANE (FGH/PGH) TECHNOLOGY

Introduction

Advantages

Food Grade Hexane (FGH) specifications are


becoming stringent especially w.r.t. benzene
content and the conventional clay treatment
process has been replaced by hydrogenation
process. The technology is jointly licensed by
IndianOil and Engineers India Limited (EIL).

Simple process configuration.

Proprietary reactor internals.

Backed by design
experience of EIL.

Pilot plant data bank & evaluation facilities.

Feed/product/catalyst
facilities.

Commissioning and operating experience of


hydroprocessing units.

Excellent
technical
troubleshooting expertise.

Process Description

Narrow boiling cut (63-70C) is prepared


from fractionator and sent to a fixed bed
hydro-processing reactor where it is mixed
with hydrogen over a catalyst bed at
temperature of 90-160C and pressure of 1525 kg/cm2.
The
main
chemical
reactions
are
desulphurization, aromatic and olefin
saturation. These reactions are carried out on
mono-functional catalyst.
Reactor effluent is separated into gas and
liquid in a separator and product liquid is
sent to the product tank.

Salient Features

Catalytic process for hydrogenation of


benzene to cyclohexane and olefins to
respective alkanes.

FGH having benzene content of <500 ppm


and PGH of <100 ppm benzene are produced
from feed benzene of 23 wt%.

The typical feed to the FGH unit is heart cut


hexane stream having boiling range 63-70C.
However, the process offers flexibility of
producing FGH/ PGH from either straight
run or side stream of Naphtha Hydrotreater
unit.

and

engineering

characterization

support

and

Commercialization

A 28000 TPA unit is running successfully at


IndianOil's Gujarat Refinery since its
commissioning in 2001 for production of
hexane meeting FGH/PGH specifications
(benzene < 100 ppm).

Another unit of 20000 TPA capacity is


running successfully at HMEL's Bhatinda
Refinery since its commissioning in 2012 for
production of hexane meeting FGH/PGH
specifications.

FGH Unit at IndianOils Gujarat Refinery

The information in this document is proprietary and should not be copied or used without prior permission.
IOC assumes no legal responsibility or recommend to practice the technology without license.

Contact details

Engineers India Ltd.


1, Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi, 110066
Tel:
E-mail:
Website: www.engineersindia.com

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd


Research & Development Centre, Sector-13
Faridabad-121007, Haryana, India
Tel: +91-129-2294376
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.iocl.com

The information in this document is proprietary and should not be copied or used without prior permission.
IOC assumes no legal responsibility or recommend to practice the technology without license.

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