Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) a Schedule A ONGC Subsidiary company, yesterday achieved the feed-cut in to Petrochemical Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (PFCCU), one of the major secondary process units in its Phase III .

MRPL’s PFCCU, with design capacity of 2.2 MMTPA, is the second such unit in the country and it can produce about 20% of its product as polymer grade propylene apart from almost 25% of product as LPG. The PFCCU will enable MRPL to triple the LPG production from this 15MMTPA grassroot refinery.

The technology of the process is licensed from Technip Stone & Webster International Inc. and the Project was executed by Engineers India Ltd.

Says Shri Vijay Joshi, Director Refinery, MRPL “Currently the unit is under stabilization. The products- LPG, Naphtha, Light Cycle Oil have been routed to respective destinations.”

With the commissioning of PFCCU, MRPL has achieved a major milestone.

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In April 2014, MRPL had commissioned the 3.00 MMTPA Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) , another major secondary processing facility of the Phase-III that converts the Short residue(bottoms) which is a low value product into high value products viz Gasoil, Naphtha , LPG.

The Crude Unit, Diesel Hydrotreater and Hydrogen units of MRPL’s Phase III Expansion and Upgradation Project with an outlay of ` Rs12,160 Cr were already under operation for the past 1 1/2 to 2 years. In August 2013 SPM was made operational and the first VLCC carrier was received on 18th March 2014.

With Phase III becoming fully operational, MRPL’s top line and bottom line of the company is expected to improve significantly.