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Vol. 5, Issue 1, January 2015
This Month
DWC Projects
New DWC Article
Beijing Bride
New Assignments
New Employees
Happy Birthdays
January 2015
DWC Process Making Inroads GTC started offering its dividing wall column (DWC) process
commercially in 2012 and the effort and time are showing
many positive results. The company has reached agreements
for six projects in the past year to provide advanced
distillation systems for a variety of applications, including
mixed xylene recovery, LPG recovery, food grade hexane and
reformate splitter. Manish Bhargava, Licensing Manager –
Houston, spearheads the DWC team which involves
colleagues from Licensing, Technical Services, Engineering
and PET.
“We are pleased that our clients are seeing the opportunity
to save energy and equipment expenditures through our
product line of advanced distillation systems,” said Manish.
Current projects
1) Tonen Chemical (Japan) - GT-DWC℠ Mixed Xylene Recovery
2) Alon USA Energy (USA) - GT-LPG MAX LPG Recovery
3) PTTGC (Thailand) - GT-ATCS℠ Benzene/Toluene Column
4) BPCL (India) - GT-TDWC℠ Food Grade Hexane
5) Shenchi (China) - GT-DWC℠ Reformate Splitter
6) Reliance( India) - GT-DWC℠ Reformate Splitter
The most recent win from Reliance Industries is a significant breakthrough for GTC in that:
It is the first DWC application within Reliance Industries, which has numerous opportunities for
similar projects in the future.
GTC prevailed in the face of a tough negotiation, and more commercially-experienced competitors.
Other notable milestones include:
Fastest DWC project ever executed in the world, with the BEP start date to column tray installation
taking three months (December 2014 to March 2015).
Degree of complexity of the revamp, entailing the dividing wall column with two diameters, an
eccentric wall, trays and packing, sidedraw and bottoms reboiler.
Degree of difficulty for the PET group, with very tight deadlines of just eight weeks for tray
fabrication with 15 days available for tray and wall installation.
January 2015
DWC Article in Hydrocarbon Processing
A new article by GTC authors appeared in the January
2015 issue of Hydrocarbon Processing. “Maximize LPG
Recovery from Fuel Gas using a Dividing Wall Column”,
written by Manish Bhargava, Cole Nelson, Joe Gentry
and former GTC associate Vamshi Siddamshetti,
examines the benefits of GT-LPG MAX. If you would like
a reproduction of the article, contact Chuck Fink at
January 2015
Wedding Bells in Beijing
Mandy Ma, Process Engineer – GTC Beijing, married
Zhifa Kou in November. Congratulations from all of
your colleagues!
January 2015
New Assignments
P. V. Kuppuswamy President
US Operations
Sam Kumar Vice President
Commercial Operations
Zhepeng Liu President
GTC Beijing
Rhynda Yi Process Engineer/
Sales Team Gen. Mgr. Seoul
Wendy Wang Supervisor
Petrochemical Group Beijing
Xueling Feng Supervisor
Refining Group Beijing
Amit Kanda Process Manager
Houston
Saurav De Sr. Process Engineer
Houston
Jie Hu IT Manager
Houston
January 2015
Welcome to GTC
In-Seo Park HW Press Operator
Gwang-Hak Lee Valve Operator
Sung-Eun Lee HR Staff
Cunyu Zhao Process Engineer
Jong-Chan Baek Process Engineer
Jun-Young Lee Process Engineer
Binjun Niu Sales Manager
Hye-Jung Lim Shipping Coordinator
Rachit Yadav Process Engineer
Beijing
Seoul
Houston
Non-san
January 2015
2/1 Alexandru Ionescu Bucharest
2/3 Ivan Evstafev Brno
2/4 Gilberto Banda Euless
2/5 Guojing Liang Beijing
2/8 Ilya Aranovich Houston
2/9 Amanda Wise Houston
2/10 Andrei Cimpeanu Houston
2/11 Sung-Rak Choi Non-san
2/13 Wang Hai Beijing
Han Ki Hong (Harry) Singapore
2/14 Hye-Su Ahn Non-san
2/15 Alan Anderson Euless
2/18 Sherry Wang Houston
2/19 Ana-Maria Neidoni Bucharest
Han Pangestu Houston
2/20 Hana Halasova Brno
2/27 Praveen Choudhary Delhi
