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Kumar, P.

Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum, Bangalore, India

Pramod Kumar is a Deputy General Manager in the Corporate R&D Center of Hindustan Petroleum in Bengaluru, India. He has more than 18 yr of experience in process design, research, engineering and technical services in the areas of FCC, visbreaking and delayed coking. He is responsible for commercialization of FCC feed nozzles and catalytic visbreaking processes. Mr. Kumar holds an MTech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. He also holds more than 10 patents in the area of FCC process and catalyst.

Visbreaking technology: Is it obsolete, or is there potential for upgrade?

Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum: Kumar, P.
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Rao, P. V. C.  |  Choudary, N. V.  |  Sriganesh, G.  |  Singh, P.  |  Kumar, K. M.

Visbreaking technology is a well-known, simple thermal cracking process for residual oils.

Improve FCC margins by processing more vacuum residue in feed

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Shidhaye, H.  |  S. Kukade  |  Rao, P. V. C.  |  Choudary, N. V.
Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum: Kumar, P.

With the greater processing of heavy crude oils in refineries, the importance of fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) has increased.

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