L&T flags off heavy reactors for HPCL

Larsen & Toubro Heavy Engineering on Thursday flagged off two LC-Max Reactors, pitched to be global’s heaviest, forward of time table within the presence of MK Surana, Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Petroleum Company Ltd (HPCL).

The reactors, weighing 2,313 Metric Heaps (MT) each and every, will allow India’s first Residue Upgradation Facility (RUF) via Hindustan Petroleum Company’s Visakh Refinery to transform the heaviest oils to high quality BS-VI diesel, in addition to building up feedstock and reinforce product flexibility, in step with a press free up from L&T.

The reactors will sail in “unmarried piece” at once to Visakhapatnam from Larsen & Toubro’s coastal production facility at Hazira in Gujarat, it mentioned.

Talking at the instance, Surana mentioned, “L&T has been our precious spouse in our adventure to modernise and improve our refineries. We thank the L&T crew for the early supply of those reactors.”

SN Subrahmanyan, CEO & MD, Larsen & Toubro, mentioned, “Our heavy engineering stores are the one ones within the nation to have constantly dispatched the biggest, heaviest, longest and most complicated procedure plant apparatus to the worldwide purchasers forward of time table. This monitor file stays unbroken within the exceptional pandemic scenario or differently.”