Sunday, 1 September 2019

Challenges in Pet-coke Storage


Petcoke is a bye product / undesirable product of oil refining cracking process. Petcoke is often used because of its high-calorific value as well as lower handling cost per unit of Heat Content.

In comparison to coal, petcoke is categorized as a material with low volatile,  lower ash content, high fixed carbon content and high sulphur content. It is also used as a complementary fuel in cement industries.





Challenges in Petcoke Storage:-  

·    During Petcoke storage, temperature of the exhaust gas increases if petcoke is introduced with raw material resulting into increased gas volume and increased specific heat consumption. In that situation, the benefits should be worked out considering reduction in Kiln production and increased fuel consumption.

·     Petcoke has some toxic contents like vanadium, nickel etc, which go along with dust. Hence, plants which dispose the return dust have to ensure that the concentration of these compounds do not exceed the limits defined by the environmental laws.

·  Due to the establishment of large outdoor petcoke storage, many concerns about possible public health consequences by petcoke emission have been raised. Moreover during its bulk storage, many problems like spontaneous combustion, fugitive emission etc can occur at any stage of transportation, storage and handling.

These are some major challenges which are faced during the storage of petcoke. Petcoke storage sheds are the ultimate solution of these problems. These sheds are designed in such a way that these problems of spontaneous combustion, fugitive emission can be controlled without any loss to the stockpiles quality.

About Hindustan Alcox Limited

Over past three decades, Hindustan Alcox limited the well versed and proficient organization emerged as India’s apex coal storage shed manufacturer holds a tremendous experience in producing petcoke storage shed. Depending on different factors like geology, demographics climate etc they provide the best petcoke storage shed. 


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