The Industry and Innovation Cell of Mechanical Engineering organized one day Industrial visit for Second year students to “ Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited “on 18/11/2019. Total of 35 students along with three staff took part in the visit.
The main objective of this visit is to
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited ( MRPL ), is an oil refinery at Mangalore and is a subsidiary of ONGC , set up in 1988. The refinery is located at Katipalla , north from center of Mangalore city. The refinery was established after displacing five villages of Bala, Kalavar, Kuthetoor, Katipalla , and Adyapadi .
The refinery has a versatile design with high flexibility to process crudes of various API gravity and with high degree of automation. MRPL has a design capacity to process 15 million metric tonnes per annum and is the only refinery in India to have two hydrocrackers producing premium diesel (high cetane ).It also has a Polypropylene unit with a capacity of 4,40,000 MT/annum. It is also the only refinery in India to have two CCRs producing unleaded petrol of high octane . Currently, the refinery is processing about 14.65 million tons of crude per year and had a tuover of US$9 billion during last year.
Mr Satish, Chief Manager of Materials welcomed the students. During the visit he showed various sections of the plant. He briefed about the history, operations occurring at various sections, reactors, crude oil storage, products that are produced in MRPL and showed us how control of the entire plant is done.
This visit enhanced students’ knowledge on
● Idea of the working environment of the refinery plant.
● Knowledge gained on Byproducts of crude oil.
Mr Chiranth, Mr Santhosh H and Mr Akshay N H, Faculty of Department of Mechanical Engineering coordinated the visit.
