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December 2025
2 The greenfield vs brownfield conundrum: India’s refining capacity expansion strategy Manoj Sharma 5 India’s future in refining: growth, complexity, and resilience Leonard Chan Ketjen FCC 11 Valorisation of plastic pyrolysis oil via co-processing in FCC units Sanju Kumari, Hemant Mishra, Somanath Kukade, and Pramod Kumar Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited 17 Transforming C4 into high-octane gasoline Prosenjit Maji, Pushkar Varshney, Talari Raju, Satyen Kumar Das, R K Kaushik Singha, and Alok Sharma Research & Development Centre, Indian Oil Corporation Limited 23 Co-processing in refineries for fast, scalable SAF production Ignacio Costa and Raju Chopra Topsoe 27 An IIoT predictive maintenance framework for relief valves Sourav Mukherjee Engineers India Limited 33 Adopting a digital transformation framework Edward Ishiyama, Simon Pugh, and James Kennedy Heat Transfer Research, Inc. (HTRI) 38 Distillation column revamp using DWC technology Rajeev Ranjan and Minaz Makania KBR Anish Chakraborty and Naveen V Nair BPCL 42 Increasing the potential of pre-reforming Jumal Shah Johnson Matthey 49 Predicting and preventing absorber fouling Benjamin Spooner and Steven Ayres SGS Amine Experts 55 Smart revamp options for amine regenerators Ayan Dasgupta, Debopam Chaudhuri, and Vaneet Garg Fluor Corp. 60 Value maximisation with process digital twins and data analytics Jesse Mallhi, Paras N Shah, Sathiyanarayanan A, N C Chakrabarti, Narendar Mitta, and Vikas Deshmukh Reliance Industries Limited 65 Unlocking AI potential: role of a modern data ecosystem Scott Kahre dataPARC
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