Chemingineering – Decarbonising Chemical Industry
– K Sahasranaman, Independent Consultant
All heavy CO2 emitters need to decarbonise and the heavy emitting processes are the most difficult to decarbonise. Taking the example of ethylene – responsible for the highest emission in the chemical industry – our columnist examines various strategies to decarbonise ethylene production.
Interview – Facing the challenges from covid and running a company
– Companies faced challenging situations during covid. Here, Dr Sangeeta Srivastava, Executive Director of Godavari Biorefineries speaks to Chemical Industry Digest on how her company faced this challenge, the steps they took and the procedures they put in place.
Thriving post-Covid: A Manager’s guide to building workforce resilient to pandemics and other crises
– Anu John, Researcher at Cangelo, UK-based EdTech.
The sudden onslaught of covid caught the world off guard. Business and industry were badly affected. It took a heavy toll on people, on their minds. Mental health of the workforce became a crucial issue to address as an emergency. This article by a psychologist crisply outlines the steps that are needed to be taken by HR managers to tackle the mental health challenges faced, so that morale & productivity are not hit.
Decarbonize the Indian Chemicals Sector – Transit from fossil fuels to renewables and green hydrogen
– Dr Ashish Lele, Director, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory; Dr Anjan Ray, Director, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum
It has to start with greening fossil fuels rather than doing away with it in one go, in the short term. Greener coal technologies should be explored while at the same time planning to transit to renewables. Other low hanging fruits like achieving higher energy efficiency
in manufacturing operations will also help reduce emissions. And ofcourse, green hydrogen is emerging as a potential option. But it is still work in progress.
Refining Industry – a Perspective for the Future
– Antony Francis, VP, Reliance Industries – Gasification Technology-Centre of Excellence
Petroleum refining industry faces several challenges: from the necessity to be greener as
well as the impending emergence of electric transportation cutting off a huge need of transportation fuels from refining. The author addresses all these issues including how incorporation of new generation technologies like digitalization, blockchain etc and transiting to renewables can help refineries meet the challenges.
Choosing what Colour Hydrogen to Use – An analysis to demystify the fuel of the future
– Pranay Veer Singh, Debopam Chaudhuri, Fluor Daniel India Pvt Ltd
Undoubtedly, hydrogen is going to be the fuel of the future, provided its made from renewable sources – in which case it’s termed green hydrogen. Since hydrogen is made
through many conventional routes and some of these routes can employ carbon capture, the hydrogen obtained in different ways are given color coding: green, grey, blue, white, yellow etc. Learn what these mean and which hydrogen emerges as a workable greener
alternative.
Decarbonizing of the Primary Chemicals Sector – Stakeholder actionables for 2020-30
– Narasimhan Santhanam, Co-founder & Director of Clixoo
Though decarbonising is going to be challenging and would entail additional investments,
there is no escape from doing it as globally, countries have all agreed on a time schedule for net-zero. There are many avenues for decarbonising – some in the short term and some on long term horizons – and if done smartly can result in opportunities and benefits too.
Steel Industry: the Decarbonization Imperative
– Dr MP Sukumaran Nair, FIE, Director, Centre for Green Technology & Management
As every other industry, steel making too, need to be decarbonized as it has a high incidence of green house gases emissions. And the use of steel is fundamental to the economic growth of any country. Obviously, the process of steel making has to change – process wise, as well as in the use of green fuels like green hydrogen. This article studies the conventional processes of manufacture and the new greener ones coming up.
Industrial Cybersecurity Today
– Sid Snitkin, VP, Cybersecurity Services, ARC Advisory Group
The flipside of widespread digitalisation, interconnected devices and plantwide internet-led connections, cloud storage etc are the threats from hackers, competitors, countries wanting to steal or damage strategic assets and even from terrorists. Cybersecurity is therefore crucial today and this article charts the IT/ OT cybersecurity convergence required to face security challenges.
Manage Facilities More Efficiently Through the Industrial Internet of Things
– Anagha Dalal, Mandar Rangnekar, Oil, Gas & Chemicals division, Burns & McDonnell India
Industrial Internet of Things is transforming the operations of companies in unprecedented
ways. Devices, gadgets and machines are becoming smarter and smarter. They are also getting connected within the plant and the plants are getting connected across various geographies. This bestows tremendous benefits as the article conveys.
India’s Emergence in Specialty Chemicals in a Post-pandemic World
– Ajay Joshi, Sr Consultant, Frost & Sullivan.
The covid pandemic seriously disturbed global supply chains and led the world to rethinking
on China as a monopoly supplier. This can afford opportunities to India to improve its growth of the specialty chemicals industry, as India has proven advantages of higher knowledge base, R&D and process chemistry skills. Provided of course, we leverage these advantages and tap the emerging opportunities.
