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Volume 48 No. 2 April - June 2018 About the Cover Art and mathematics. One is the realm of aesthetics and freedom of expression, while the other embodies precision. Firdosh, a 12 year old student from Akanksha Foundation, who along with her classmates wanted to bring together these two concepts on a canvas, by understanding ratio and proportion through the works of an artist Chuck Close. “This lotus was a surprise because we all did one little piece of it,” says Firdosh. Comment For every complex problem, there is an BACK COVER answer that is clear, simple and wrong Technology Day Celebrations – H. L. Mencken Editor Swastika Mukherjee Correspondents : Assistant Editor Heena Nanda Heating Manasi Purandare IR Chitra Kartik Sheetal Bachkaniwala Cooling S. Chandak Administration Akansha Choudhary K.S. Vaidyanathan Cooling Aditi Vakil BTG Editorial Consultant Mukesh Ghodke Services Connie Fernandes Finance A.M. Roshan Noorjahan Khan B&H Saheblal Shaikh Corporate Safety Bhushan Chitaley Power Kirti Pitale Mumbai Design Hardik U. Patel Enviro Reshma Mehrotra Delhi Shashi Karmarkar Abinash Patro WWS Swati Aditya Kolkatta Production & Circulation Veena Coutinho Chemical Satyamanikkam M.B. Chennai Chitra Kartik Suresh Nikam TECC Janki Thaker Savli Printed at Kavita Naidu HR Sujata Deshpande Thermax Foundation Vyoma Graphics, Pune Copyright © Thermax Limited 2018 Fireside is the quarterly house magazine of Thermax Limited, Pune. For private circulation only. Company related news/features may be reproduced only with the permission of the Editor. Address : Thermax Limited,Thermax House, 14 Mumbai Pune Road, Wakdewadi, Pune 411 003, India. Tel : (020) 25542263 Fax : (020) 25541226 Fireside is also hosted on the website : www.thermaxglobal.com Email : [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Contents Commissions second integrated energy plant for Greenply • Installs effluent recycling plant for WHAT’S NEW? Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. • Global 2 footprint in the 86th country with commissioning in Argentina • Rs. 279 crore order for a cogeneration plant Meher Pudumjee writes about the company’s performance in the previous fiscal, the 10th EXPRESSIONS technology day celebration and her farewell 6 message to Anu and Dr. Mashelkar As Anu Aga and Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar retire from Thermax Board this August, they UP CLOSE share their personal and professional journey, 8 association with Thermax and their message to the employees in a conversation with Swastika Mukherjee B&H supplied the highest capacity boilers to Korach, Thailand • CFBC boilers recognised at ROUND UP an international seminar • Trikona Trail Walk • 13 Learning Fest • Environment Day celebrations • In Touch series in southern region • Thermax Lab receives NABL accreditation • Commissions multi-energy driven chillers at Yemen ICCI 2018, Istanbul • Rice & Pulses Tech Expo, 18 EXHIBITIONS Assam • Boilex Asia, Bangkok Pramod gains post graduate diploma • Siddhesh completes online courses from LIMELIGHT NPTEL • Krishna, a certified PMP professional 19 • Bakhtawar Battiwalla elected Hon.Treasurer of IASAP An interesting read by Snigdha Poonam on how dearth of jobs in the country is leading the SIGNPOSTS youth to opt for a lucrative career in call centres, 20 despite knowing that they are partaking in a scam Roshan speaks about handing over the mantle of 26 VOICES corporate communication Entries for comic fiction award fail to amuse judges • A case of having the cake and 28 SLICE-OF-LIFE eating it too 1 What’s New? Nearly 50% of the plant’s fuel requirements are met by utilising process wastes. Energy plant offering multiple heating media commissioned; efficiency of 94% Thermax commissions second integrated energy plant for Greenply hermax successfully For the manufacturing process, the This is a repeat order from commissioned a 97 MW plant provides multiple heat streams Greenply. In 2009, Thermax had energy plant for Greenply in the form of steam, thermal oil commissioned a 49 MW energy TIndustries Ltd. at Shrikalahasti, and hot gas, achieving a thermal plant at its Rudrapur unit in Andhra Pradesh. efficiency of 94% from the process. Uttarakhand. For both projects, Nearly 50% of the plant’s fuel Dieffenbacher GmbH, the German The plant will help Greenply requirements are met by utilising OEM, is the technology supplier. manufacture MDF boards, which is process wastes such as board made by breaking down wood into trims, screen rejects and sander fibres which are again combined dust. with adhesives and the end product is formed into panels by applying heat and pressure. 2 The effluent recycle plant recovers 91% of water Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis plant at Kota, Rajasthan hambal Fertilisers and of ammonia per day (MTPD) and Chemicals Limited (CFCL), 4,000 MTPD of urea. The system Managing one of the largest private consists of a pretreatment and Csector fertiliser producers in India, demineralisation plant, condensate partnered with Thermax for ‘Total polishing unit and an effluent recycle effluents Water Management System’ at plant. Kota, Rajasthan. The effluent recycle plant, based on for a In the recent past, the fertiliser ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis sector has seen tremendous growth, (RO) membrane system, recovers mainly due to the Government 91% of water. The RO system treats fertiliser impetus on making India self- hardness and silica content in the sufficient. With growth, the industry water resulting in high-quality water major also faces the challenge of tackling having Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) effluent treatment and optimising the less than 400 ppm. On the other use of water, getting scarce by the hand, an advanced membrane- day. based UF system is used for the removal of all types of fine colloidal CFCL’s water management initiative impurities along with organics. was part of its expansion project for manufacturing 2,000 metric tonnes 3 Natural gas-cum-tail gas (CO) fired combustor installed; expanding global footprint - first project in Argentina Thermax footprint in Latin America hermax has now expanded local vendor), to produce 45 TPH With emission norms becoming its global presence to of saturated steam at 22 barg stringent, tail gas combustion units Argentina, by recently pressure. are becoming increasingly popular Tcommissioning a tail gas combustor and customers are looking for for Cabot S.A.I.C (a subsidiary of Thermax bagged the order due sustainable solutions – reducing Cabot Corporation). to its technical expertise and pollution at their facilities while experience in designing and generating steam/power in the The installation comprises a fabricating the complete system of bargain. Thermax has so far, natural gas-cum-tail gas (CO) fired tail gas combustion (combustor + supplied more than 20 such units combustor, generating 38 MW waste heat boiler). Cabot had prior to diverse industries. of hot flue gases by incinerating experience of working with Thermax carbon black tail gas. These flue at one of its subsidiaries, Pt. Cabot gases are cooled in a waste heat in Indonesia in 2006. recovery boiler (supplied by a Thermax offers green kitchen solutions with brand ‘Oorja’ Offering commercial kitchens hrough its subsidiary, First Thermax acquired 76% stake in a combination of stove and pellet fuel Energy Private Limited FEPL, an entity instituted in 2009. (FEPL), Thermax now offers free operations and reducing carbon Tcommercial kitchens a combination Oorja provides a clean energy emissions. of uniquely designed micro alternative to LPG (a fossil fuel) – a gasification stove and biomass- steam solution that uses pellet fired FEPL is present across India with based pellet fuel. boilers and vessels. pellet manufacturing locations Oorja also supports process in three places and distributors In 2017, Thermax had completed supplying pellets across 25 plus the acquisition of First Energy, an industries by supplying boilers, biomass fuel, heaters and other locations. It also has a service alternate energy solutions company network at these locations. known for its popular brand ‘Oorja’. equipment, helping them in hassle 4 Thermax Thermax supplies CCCT footprint to Tata Steel in Latin he Process Cooling Implementation of division of Thermax CCCT will eliminate the America bagged a major order by requirement of various Tsupplying three Closed Circuit other pumps and cooling Cooling Towers (CCCT) to Tata towers, and lower the power Steel’s Kalinganagar plant in consumption considerably, Odisha. The towers installed while maintaining the water for the ladle furnace and steel intake. The customer conducted a melting shops will help Tata steel feasibility study based on the achieve 10% of power saving. Thermax’s scope of technical analysis provided by work includes designing, Thermax, for the soft water Closed circuit cooling towers manufacturing, supplying and circuits in steel melting shop offer unmatched flexibility, supervising the plant and and found it to be more energy provide evaporative cooling and equipment for CCCT, for the ladle efficient than the conventional optimised solutions for various furnace and steel melting shop system in terms of its operating process requirements and (SMS). cost. climatic conditions, utilising multi- flow configuration. s a part of the customer’s Commenting on the win, Unny Thermax wins drive to reduce energy says, “The need for reliability of consumption as well power supply coupled with energy- Rs. 279 crore Aas dependence on grid power,