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KROPEX | SEP 2019 Energising BPCL Kochi Refinery Page - 16 Page - 06 Page - 10 Page - 09 Page - 05 Page - 14 Page - 22 Page - 21 Page - 31 Page - 04 Page - 08 Page - 13 Page - 07 Page - 12 Page - 19 Page - 27 Page - 18 Page - 24 10 Highlights 20 People BPCL Kochi Refinery inducts Aerial Hydraulic 21 Vigilance Awareness 2019 Platform for firefighting and rescue at high elevations 22 Youngminds Process Emission Model, an industry first from Kochi Refinery CR School Foundation Day Rotary CSR Excellence Award for C R School celebrates Independence Day BPCL Kochi Refinery 24 ʽþxnùÒ Celebrating the 2 millionth PETCOKE from ¤ÉÒ{ÉÒºÉÒB±É Eäò+É®ú ¨Éå +xÉÖ®úIÉhÉ Kochi Refinery ʴɦÉÉMÉ Eäò EòɪÉÇEò±ÉÉ{É 16 Guest Column 26 aebmfw A leader is a dealer in Hope! 04 KROPEX A½bdnbm¯ D½ 18 Safety Frist Safety Must Celebrating opportunities of ^Ìv tNmbvkv Kochi Refinery sets new Safety record excellence at Kochi Refinery 30 Navrangi Navratri 2019 19 HSE First KROPEX Champions receive their 31 Independence Day 2019 award from Mr. R. Ramachandran, Intelligence Bureau inspects security systems Director (Refineries), BPCL at Kochi Refinery Editor Jayesh Shah / ED (HR) ORIAL Associate Editor Kavitha Mathew/ HR EDIT Editorial Board George Thomas/ HR Vineeth M. Varghese/ HR Vinod T. Mathew/ HR Girija V. R./ HR Ganesan S./ ESE Chandrasekharan M./ Retd Sasidharan R./ Retd Celebrating operational excellence Resource Group Ankur K. Mishra/ Advisory Service usinesses, in current scenario, are under increasing pressure Anurag Sarma/ IREP to improve operational performance and stay ahead of Bijoy K. I./ Maint B Biju T. N./ Projects rising operational challenges, customer demands and global Gopalakrishnan C. V./ HSE competition. Creating more effective processes, products, Joseph Simon V. M./ Maint and ideas, is the essence of every innovation. For a business, Krishnan T. B./ Maint Latha Kamath / HR (Hindi) it could mean implementing new ideas, improving services Manojkumar T. S./ Finance or creating dynamic products. Innovation acts as a catalyst Mohan Chandran K. C./ IS that can make the business grow. Such innovations are critical Muralikrishnadas V. G./ E&C Padmanabhan K./ Projects not only for the development of business but also for the Parameswer S./ HR effectiveness of employees. By encouraging employees to be Rajan C. K./ OM&S creative, what we are also achieving is creation of a powerful Ranjini Varma / CRS Shaji P. Stephen/ IREP in-house think-tank that can help the company achieve its Balan P / P&U goals. Subramanian K. P./ P&U Suresh Babu/ OM&S The world over, motivating original concepts and the innovator’s Thulasidas N./ P&CS Varun M./ QC proactive, confident attitude to take risks and get things done Vino Varghese/ Manufacturing is seen as the healthy culture for a healthy organisation. It Edited & published by also enables employees to contribute to the overall direction Executive Director (HR) of the organization. This is increasingly important for newer Editorial correspondences generations entering the workplace. KROPEX – KR Operational [email protected] Excellence is one such step towards recognizing employees to encourage innovation. Design & Printed at St. Francis Press, We have crossed a significant milestone in Safety when we St. Benedict’s Road, Kochi Email: [email protected] clocked 61 million accident free man-hours. We also bagged top-honours for our proactive contributions to society though Produced by Public Relations our CSR initiatives. With all these and the cherished moments BPCL Kochi Refinery of the first KROPEX Awards, we hope this issue excites you to Mailing address greater moments of excellence. Post Bag No. 2 Ambalamugal 682 302 Warm regards Ernakulam District Editor Kerala, India. Tel: 0484 2722061 Fax: 0484 2720856 The views expressed in JwalaDhwani are not necessarily those of the manage- ment. Member Association of Business Communicators of India. JwalaDhwani estd. in 1966 as CRL Newsletter. For private circulation only. SEP 2019 All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form only with the Vol. LIV/09 written permission of the Editor. eJwalaDhwani available in ejournals at www.bharatpetroleum.in KROPEX celebrating opportunities of excellence at Kochi Refinery First KROPEX Champions receive their award from Mr. R. Ramachandran, Director (Refineries), BPCL INNOVATION : Chemical Grade Propylene (CGP) Production Team : Prasanth T, Ananthakrishnan A, Dileepkumar V N, Rameshbinu N N and www.bharatpetroleum.in @KochiR /BPCLKochiSauravRefinery Garg ofBPCL MFG KR Online- Refinery-II Keynote address by Introductory address by Mr. R. Ramachandran, Director (Refineries) Mr. Jayesh Shah, ED (HR), Kochi Refinery hemical Grade Propylene (CGP) Production, “Venerating excellence is the need of the Can opportunity of excellence promising a profit hour. This scheme of awards is relevant for of approximately Rs. 8.0 Crores per month for Kochi us in today’s context as a company and Refinery wins the first KROPEX Champions Award. in the context of competition intensifying across the world,” expressed Director The opportunity of excellence was identified, researched and implemented by the team from (Refineries), Mr. Ramachandran in his Manufacturing (Refinery-II) led by Mr. Prasanth T special address at the KROPEX awards. Mr. along with M/s. Anantha Krishnan A, Dileepkumar VN, Vijayagopal N, Director (Finance) along Rameshbinu NN and Saurav Garg, under the able with Mr. Prasad K Panicker, Executive supervision of Mr. Prince George, Senior Manager Director (Kochi Refinery) I/c, Mr. Jayesh (Mfg). The team received the coveted Champion's Shah, Executive Director (HR) and Mr. P trophy from Mr. R Ramachandran, Director (Refineries) Murali Madhavan, Executive Director at an exclusive ceremony in Kochi Refinery on (Refinery Operations) also felicitated the 05 September 2019. winners at the awards ceremony. INNOVATION: Conversion of Buy Sell Arrangement with BOO Operator to Job Work Arrangement Talentia – Where everyone is a star - A unique platform for promoting talent to TEAM: Cinesh Joseph / Finance, Mahesh CD energise employees / Tech (Process Engg), Amala P Kuriachan, Praveen N, and Sreekumar RS of Finance Team: Kavitha Mathew/Public Relations, Aswathy Karthikeyan / HRD INNOVATION: Preventing the leakage of top un-heading device saving cycle time and reducing steam loss. TEAM: Aadhil Ahamed A /Mfg – Ref - II & Gijo George/ Project PETCHEM INNOVATION: NHT sweet naphtha routing INNOVATION: SRU -3 TGTU quench water pH to MS blend to reduce MS sulphur and maintenance using SWSU -II ammonia rich maintain RVP gas replacing caustic soda (NaOH) based Winner: Himanshu Kumar Gupta/ solution Mfg - Refinery I Winner: Rajendra Prasad K G/ Mfg - Refinery I INNOVATION: Plant Dash Board 360 TEAM: Srinivas K / Mfg Refinery-I, Sajeesh VS/ Mfg Refinery –I, Aishwariy Baheti /IS and Vidhya KV / IS INNOVATION: Maximising PRE power output INNOVATION: Rearranging boiler water TEAM: Ananthakrishnan A, Prasanth T, sampling Dileepkumar V N, Ramesh Binu N N and TEAM: Gokuldas V K, Gopan Thampi D S, Nitish Kumar of Mfg. Ref-II Abhilash S, Binumon B and Parthasarathi C M of www.bharatpetroleum.in @KochiR /BPCLKochiPowerRefinery & Utilities BPCL KR Online Mr.Prasad K. Panicker, ED (Kochi Refinery), felicitating the winners INNOVATION: Innovative sliding support for piping to resolve the high vibration issue of IDP105B pump. TEAM: Sajeev K Joseph/ Maint, Giridharan S/ Maint, Antony M A/ Maint, Monish B S/ Maint and Theo Rajan / E&C INNOVATION: Turbine Compressor Control (ITCC) INNOVATION: Disruptive Thinking-A new operating system for MAB&WGCs in FCCU technology for the fire siren system TEAM: Ramesh Kumar, Praveen Kumar, TEAM: Mohanlal A/ E&AS, Jils Francis/P&U, Vishnu P Sreekumar, Murugan N and Gopakumar K/P&U, Jomet K Joy/ P&U and Jayakumar V A of Maintenance Bijesh M D/ Maint. INNOVATION: Single core cable armour health INNOVATION: Rotating tool for high speed checking with low current injection rotoformer Winner : Binu P V/ Projects - Electrical & Instrumentation Winner :Sundaravadivel T V/ Maintenance INNOVATION: 33 kV CEMP II GIS COBT islanding for INNOVATION: Modification in Oxygen Analyser preventing unnecessary grid loss TEAM: Srikanth Manivel/ Proj (E & I), TEAM: Viswanathan K, Shinod Kumar K B, Mukilan K/ Projects – Petchem, Saju K S/ Projects Anand Krishnan R, Paulson P J and - Electrical & Instrmn, Subodh Gond / Projects – Jomet K Joy of P&U- Utilities Petchem and Prabhul P / Projects – Petchem Mr. Jayesh Shah, ED (HR), felicitating the winners INNOVATION: Novel method of production of food grade hexane from Par-Isomer Unit De- Isohexaniser side stream using existing facilities TEAM: Syed Imran Ahmed R, Chozhan G, Naveen V Nair, Rajan V R , and Koteswara Rao G of Tech Process Engineering INNOVATION: SRU-3 TGTU reactor bed heating INNOVATION: Restructuring of using Nitrogen in circulation Laboratory functions to global practices TEAM: Mahesh C D/ Tech-Process Engg, M Venkata TEAM: Pradeep Kumar T, Adalazhagan K Sudhakar/ Tech-Process Engg, Sreedharan T/ and Madhusudanan Nair K of QC Mfg - Refinery I and Balagopal P/ Maintenance INNOVATION: ACT Air Blower Capacity INNOVATION: Fast revival of broken- down Utilisation Study instruments in CQC Laboratory. TEAM: Kochubaby Manjooran S, Manesh D, Anoop C TEAM: Adalazhagan K/QC, Madhusudanan Nair K/ Viswam and Jimmon M J of HSE – Environment QC, Sajeev D/QC, Ratheesh P T/QC and Jayakumar I (Maint) INNOVATION: Resolution of FCCU torricone INNOVATION: Tracking of contractor's brought in