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Reliance Industries

Growth is Life

November 2019

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RCAT-HTL: Reliance Catalytic Hydrothermal Liquefaction

A sustainable route to valorise wastes into drop-in green fuels

3© Reliance Industries Ltd., 2019

Dr. Ram Narayan ChandrashekarDr. Balakrishnan Madhesan

Shri. Ramesh BhujadeRIL R&D

fuels

� Overview of Reliance R&D

� RCAT-HTL: A sustainable route towards drop-in green crude

� RCAT-HTL: The technology development journey

Contents


� RCAT-HTL and other waste-treatment/waste-to-energy platforms

� RCAT-HTL Commercialization plan

� Patents and publications

India’s Most Profitable Company Today

Energy Value Chain Consumer-centric Businesses

Refining and Marketing

� Largest, most complex single site refinery with 1.24 mb/d capacity

Reliance Retail

� India’s largest retailer by revenue ($18.9 bn)

� 10,415 stores with 22 MM sq.ft. space

• Most profitable company for the year 2018-19. Recorded a net income of US$ 5.7 billion

• Revenue of US$ 90.1 billion, PBDIT of US$ 13.4 billion. Market cap of ~$ 125 billion

A market leader across energy and materials value chain (E&P, R&M, Petchem) and in consumer businesses (Digital Services and Retail)

Introduction & Financials

�Consistently outperforming regional margins� ~58% volumes placed in international markets

�Ranked Top 10 globally in key products� 2nd largest producer of polyester fibre/yarn

globally�FY19 Production: 37.7 MMT

�Significant expertise in deep-water operations�Substantial exposure in US Shale�R-Cluster first gas expected in 2H FY2021

Petrochemicals

Exploration and Production

�Presence across 6,600+ cities

�One of the world’s fastest store expansion – added ~10 stores a day in last 2 years

�All IP-data network with latest 4G LTE technology

� India’s largest wireless data subscriber base : 306.7 Mn with net adds of 120 Mn in FY19

� ~10.9 GB per user per month

�Carrying 71% of the total industry’s 4G data traffic (CY18)

Reliance Jio

5US$1 = INR 69.155© Reliance Industries Ltd., 2019

Forty Years of Phenomenal Growth

• Jamnagar refinery &

petrochemical complex – 2

• KG-D6 production

• Polyester expansion

commissioned (PFY, PET,

PTA and PX)

• Elastomers (PBR,SBR)

commissioned

1977-87

• Cracker and Polymers

@ Hazira

• Fiber Intermediates @

Hazira

• Upstream – PMT

• GDR Issue

• 50/100 Years Yankee

Bond

• IPO

• Polyester @

Patalganga

• Jamnagar Integrated

refinery and

petrochemical complex

• KG-D6 discovery

• IPCL acquisition

• Foray into organized retail

• Recron Malaysia

• Fortune Global 500

1987-97 1997-2007 2007-12 2012-19

• KG-D6 production

• US Shale gas JVs

• Partnership with BP

• BWA spectrum

• Launched biggest ever

hydrocarbon capex

program

• Innovative financing –

perpetual bond,

EXIM facilities

commissioned

• Ethane project, ROGC

commissioned

• Acquired spectrum in

800/1800 MHz band

• JIO crosses 300 mn

subscriber milestone

• CBM production

• Gasification under

stabilization


Reliance and R&D at a Glance

• Reliance, a Fortune Global 500 company. Integrated business approach.Reliance’s portfolio ranges from hydrocarbons to consumer businesses.

• Reliance R&D: 120 patents granted/164 patents filed (2018-19), 24 state-of-the-art labs. 900+ scientists and engineers

• R&D in refining, petrochemicals, catalysts, alternate energy, novel materials, bio-fuels, synthetic biology, nanotechnology

• Breakthrough R&D using Algae platform technology – Sustainable source of biofuels, bio chemicals and nutritional products.


bio-chemicals and nutritional products.

• RCAT- HTL, spin-off technology from algal research. A novel process that provides sustainable solution for Waste valorization. Recognized with Golden Peacock Awardand Global Clean Energy Award in 2018

Reliance R&D has end-to-end presence in value chain from feed stocks to valuable products

Panoramic view of refinery One of the R&D Labs2.5 acre Algae Pond RCAT-HTL Pilot Plant

Algae cultivation Harvesting Biomass Conversion Algal Bio-crude

Algae to Oil – Integrated facility


Objective: Grow algae and produce oil at large enough scale to enable testing of novel technologies and develop environmentally sustainable and cost effective option to fossil fuel

RCAT-HTL

What a Waste! - Global Problem

� In 2016, world generated 2 billion tons of MSW, including 242 million tons of plastic waste (source: World Bank Report 2018).

� Existing waste disposal processes – Landfilling, Incineration, biomethanation - have limitations. Wet waste and mixed waste worsen the situation.

� In developing countries, wet waste is rapidly increasing. Waste has inbuilt Energy, Water and Nutrients. All are lost, when waste is not treated well. Global cost due to food waste alone is $ 2.6 trillion (source FAO 2014)


Global cost due to food waste alone is $ 2.6 trillion (source FAO 2014)

� RCAT-HTL is feed flexible. Overcomes limitations of existing technologies and recovers energy, nutrients and water.

RCAT-HTL provides a sustainable Solution to growing waste problem (3.7 bn tons by 2050)

Ref:World Bank, “What a Waste 2.0 : A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050. Urban Development” ,2018, Lisa Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Frank Van Woerden.

ASPECTCOST (US

DOLLARS)

Economic 1 trillion

Environmental 700 billion

Social 900 billion

Total 2.6 trillion

GLOBAL COSTS OF FOOD WASTE (FAO 2014)

Buried Carbon

Non-renewable

Carbon

Millions of years

Natural process of oil formation takes millions of years

Refinery

RCAT-HTL produces renewabledrop-in crude in just few minutes Upto 85% CO2

emissions saving

Fossil fuel

Green house gas

RCAT-HTL :A Novel Green TechnologyPlatform Technology for Biomass/Waste to Renewable Fuel and Bio-products


RCAT-HTL is a sustainable technology addressing Climate-Energy-Water nexus

Renewable Transportation

Fuel

Algae

Food Waste

MSW

AgroResidue

Industrial Sludge

Carbon recycled

Renewable

Drop-inGreen Crude

Recovered water

Biochar

Sustainable farming

Ecofriendly Cosmetics

<60 mins @ High Temperature and Pressure

emissions saving

RCAT-HTL Development at Reliance

2L

Reaction pathways

Knowledge Development Technology Development Business Development

TRL 1 TRL 2 TRL 3 TRL 4 TRL 5 TRL 6 TRL 7 TRL 8 TRL 9

Cont. Operation

Bench Scale

Kinetics & Molecular Model to predict yield

RCAT-HTL

Integrated Pilot Plantin Industrial Set-up

Y

200Y

Semi-commercial plant for waste

Pilot unitNAABB

RIL-Genifuel-PNNL

6500X


Technology proven at large Pilot scale. Next step : Commercialization by scaling from Y to 200Y and achieve profitability at scale

4ml

300 ml

2L

1 6 14 33 34Cumulative Patents

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

First expt. at RIL

1X

75X

500X

RIL’s Proprietary catalyst

RIL’s Upgradation catalyst

pathways

2018

Pilot (Y) � Semi-commercial (200 Y)

Technology ReviewValidation

RCAT-HTL Development Process Design& Scale-up

RCAT-HTL: Catalyst Development at RIL

20122012 20132013 20142014 20152015

Bio oil yieldBio oil yield

Bio oil yieldBio oil yield

RCAT- HTL, spin-off technology from algal research. It provides sustainable solution for wet waste valorization. Over 125+ Homo- & Heterogeneous catalysts evaluated

20192019


NoNoCatalystCatalyst

11stst Gen Gen CatalystCatalyst

22ndnd Gen Gen CatalystCatalyst

33rdrd Gen Gen CatalystCatalyst

w/o Catalyst Heterogeneous

CatalystX Low yield

� Increase in oil yield

X Low cat. RecoveryX Complex Reactor design

Homogeneous

Catalyst

� Catalyst recovery � Higher stability

� Catalyst recyclability

Homogeneous

Catalyst

Current 4th Gen Catalyst increased bio-oil yield by 20-25%

44thth Gen Gen CatalystCatalyst

� Superior MOC compatibility

Homogeneous

Catalyst

Kinetic modelling to predict product profile

Biocrude yield vs Feed Composition

Composition of food waste and other waste is uncontrollable. Process needs to beflexible enough to suit varying composition. RCAT-HTL offers this advantage. Non-linear reaction kinetic model has been developed to predict biocrude compositionand yield based on feed composition

Algae/ waste composition

Biocrude yield vs HTL temperature


Non-linear kinetic model helps optimize the reactor design and process conditions

Waste

Competing technologies comparison


RCAT-HTL Scores higher among all Technologies

GHG Comparison with Other Promising Technologies

110.5

gCO2e/MJ+17%

94.3

gCO2e/MJ61.7

gCO2e/MJ

11.7

gCO2e/MJ

6.3


RCAT-HTL technology shows significant GHG emission saving compared to conventional petroleum fuels

gCO2e/MJ

9.7

gCO2e/MJ

RevenueSuccess as a business

Success as a new product

Product Launch

Technology Transfer

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Research Development

Commercialization2011

2019

Time

Investor Funding

RCAT-HTL Commercialization plan


Role of Reliance till date Role of Reliance in RCAT-HTL Commercialization

Plant Capacity

Lab Scale

Continuous Bench Scale

Largest of its kind Pilot plant

First Demo plant First Commercial plant nth Commercial plant

Design Concept - to - Commissioning End-to-End Technology support: Technology information package, Feasibility

study, Process Design Package, Start-up and Commissioning Support

FeedFeeds tested : Algae, Food waste, Industrial

sludge, Distillery effluentMSW, Bio-sludge, Agro-waste, Animal Manure, Lignin residues

Specialized Expertise

Kinetics & Molecular Modeling, Stochastic modeling and Techno-economic Analysis,

Life cycle analysis (LCA)

Support in efficient operation of plants by providing in-house expertise, Continuous R&D to spearhead technology advancement in future

RevenueTurn around

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loss

Source : Forbes

In a nutshell…

Converts up to 80% of

MSW components into

drop-in green crudex

35+ patents/applications

AI based Kinetic Models

No additional Capex

for refining, transport

and distribution

Upto 85% reduction in

GHG Emissions


Recognized by many global institutes/companies

TO

AI based Kinetic Models

Golden Peacock Award

Eco-Innovation 2018

Global Clean Energy Award

2018 Clean technology/Solution

End-to-End Solution

Emerges as winner in

Head-to-head assessment

with competing

technologies

GHG Emissions

compared to fossil fuels

25+ Publications and presentations (selected list)

1. Mathematical Approach to Compute the Molecular Composition of Bio Fuel Using Bulk Properties Available Via Analytical Techniques 27th

Patents and Publications

35+ Patent applications filed. 8 USA patents granted till date (selected list)

1. System and process for conversion of biomass to biofuel (U.S Patent US10329494B2)

2. A process for the production of bio-oil, (U.S patent US9909072B2)

3. Catalyst assisted hydrothermal conversion of biomass to crude bio oil, (U.S Patent US10253265B2)

4. Multi-metallic catalyst system and use of the same in preparing upgraded fuel from biomass, (U.S Patent US10144002B2)

5. A process for preparation of hydrocarbon fuel from waste rubber (U.S Patent US10391474B2)


1. Mathematical Approach to Compute the Molecular Composition of Bio-Fuel Using Bulk Properties Available Via Analytical Techniques. 27th

European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, Lisbon Portugal.

2. HTL for Valorising Wet Bio-Waste: Tunable kinetics enables optimum bio-product mixture, WasteEng 2018, Prague, Czech Republic, July

2-5, 2018

3. Life Cycle Assessment Study for Conversion of Wet Biomass to Biofuels using Catalytic HTL, Algae Biomass Summit USA Oct 14-17,

2018

4. Numerical Modeling Framework of Supercritical Salt Separator, Separation science and technology, Oct 2017

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