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Technical and Field Services

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GTC’s technical service team offers

• Plant inspection to ensure compliance with GTC’s design requirements

• On-site advisory services during the pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up,

and initial operating phases of plant operation

• Guidance to enable safe achievement of full-scale production in a timely manner

• Process specific training for your operating and engineering staff

• Develop plant specific operating procedures

• Assistance in conducting performance guarantee test runs

• On-going support in maintaining optimum process performance

• Troubleshooting of issues faced in operating plants

• Study Projects based on Specific requests

Placed around the world to offer services

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Technical & Field Services

Plant inspection - P&ID check• Line size and materials

• Drains and vents

• Relief valve settings

• Lines and equipment supports

• Equipment accessibility

• Expansion provisions

• Utility lines

• Tie-ins with other units/storage

• General safety requirements

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Plant inspection – Equipment Inspection• Trays: number, type, spacing, levelness, liquid seal, weir height, valve number and

operation, metallurgy, weep holes, supports

• Reactor and Critical equipment Internals

• Distributors: location, alignment, size and number of openings

• Nozzles

• Thermowells: location and length

• Vortex breakers

• Level instruments

• Inspection plates in place

• Plugs and blind flanges on extra openings

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Pre-commissioning activities (Optional)

• Strength & Leak Testing

• Line Flushing

• Cleaning & Servicing Of Utility Systems

• Instruments Calibration & Service

• Air Cooled Heat Exchangers

• Tubular Exchangers

• Air Freeing and Nitrogen leak test

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On-site advisory services are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for

• Pre-commissioning & Catalyst loading/Solvent handling

• Unit dry-out, Catalyst dry-out / Sulfiding

• Startup

• Troubleshooting

GTC strives for easy to work collaborative partnership in our

relationships with clients. Our dedicated teams go beyond expectations

to meet specific needs and deliver technical support

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Training

Training is key to successfully adopting and implementing new

technology.

GTC’s training courses are designed to enable our licensees to

commission and operate their plants safely and efficiently.

Our classroom training courses provide in-depth coverage of the

following topics:

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Training

• Process fundamentals & basics of technology

• Pre-commissioning & Catalyst loading/Solvent handling guidelines

• Startup and shutdown procedures

• Normal Operation

• Emergency shutdown procedures

• Troubleshooting guidelines

• Process safety

• Additional training needs are discussed with our licensees on a case-

by-case basis and enhanced support is provided by GTC as required.

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We use Dynamic simulation to check Plant and control system stability

and flexibility

Right from Design Phase, Preparation of Operating Procedures as

well as troubleshooting of operating plants

Specially in case of our Divided wall column applications additional to

traditional methods.

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Conducting Performance guarantee test run

• Performance test Protocol

• Methodology and procedure is discussed with licensee

• Changes are made to accommodate Feed, Field and Lab issues

before signing of Protocol

• Plant operation is optimized for performance parameters

• Plant data and Lab data are recorded from start to end time of PGTR

as agreed in Protocol

• Final reports are prepared and discussed

• Signing of Certificate

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Following is list of projects where Training / Commissioning / Startup / PGTR

were carried out by our team in last couple of years

• NHT and ISOMERIZATION, BPCL Mumbai

GT-BTX® Aromatic Extraction

• RIL, Jamnagar

• LOTTE, Malaysia

• S-Oil, Korea

• GT-BTX PluS® S-Oil, Korea

• Petronas, Malaysia

• SADARA, KSA

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Specific study requests by clients e.g. Plant Optimization, Capacity

maximization without modifications, Troubleshooting, Debottlenecking,

Revamp advice….

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• GS-Caltex PX Crystallization Recovery Unit based on GTC technology (Cryst-PX), Troubleshooting, Optimization and Capacity maximization

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Troubleshooting

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Date Design Non Aromatics, wt% Actual Non Aromatics, wt%

4th October31.7

32.93

1st Nov 37.54

4th Nov 34.77

0.0700

0.0900

0.1100

0.1300

0.1500

0.1700

0.1900

0.2100

11/1/2017 0:00 11/1/2017 7:12 11/1/2017 14:24 11/1/2017 21:36 11/2/2017 4:48

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Pressure Profile in ED Column on 1st Novemeber October 2017

TOP Pressure Top Pckd Bed

Middle Bed Pached Bottom

Bottom Pressure

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29.0

29.5

30.0

30.5

31.0

31.5

32.0

32.5

33.0

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Feed

, Wt%

Time

NA Aromatics, Wt% in Feed on 4th October 2017, Online and Lab Data

NA Online

NA Lab

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HAZOP

GTC also participates in HAZOP studies in conjunction with our

proprietary technologies. HAZOP evaluations can be carried out at

a client site, contractor site or in GTC’s offices. Technical

recommendations are based on our most recent units in operation

while also incorporating the most up-to-date improvements in safe

operation of plants.

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