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HIGHLIGHTS JUNE/JULY2018 - ISSUE 3

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SPOTLIGHT ON:Piping materials in piping design 6Advance slurry valves promote efficiency and productivity 8Effective SIS solutions 10Superior valves at inferior cost 18

Technical Insights:Selecting high-temperature sealing and polymer solutions for the oil & gas industry 17The DIB-2 cryogenic trunnion mounted valve 20Understanding and preventing causes of down time 22

News throughout the Region:2, 7, 9, 11, 12, 16, 19, 21, 23, 24

J.D. Jones: a world class solu-tion provider for fluid sealing productsStarting out as a small trading

house in 1923 dealing in packings

and minerals imported from the

UK, J.D. Jones is today very much

on its way to becoming a globally

reputed manufacturer and supplier

of fluid sealing products. Located

in, and near to, the city of Kolkata

in India, its success and growth

can be attributed to its product

diversity, its entrepreneurial spirit,

and the vast knowledge and

experience that it has gained from

its domestic and global business

partners. This knowledge has then

been rechanneled back into new

products and services. Valve World

India Journal spoke to Company

Director, Mr. Ashish Bajoria, about

the company’s success, its role as a

solution provider for customers, and

its vision for the future.

NEWSNuclear will account for 6% of India’s energy mix by 2030“The nuclear energy mix in India is about 3% at the moment”, says NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat. “By 2010 the mix will be 6%.” How does he see this being achieved? Read more on page 2.

India to open up natural gas sectorIndia wants to split its biggest gas marketing and trading firm, state-run GAIL (India) Ltd. into two separate companies by the end of March 2019. In a bid to open up its gas sector to industrial end-users and attract billions of dollars in invest-ments, GAIL will be split into a gas marketing company and a company operating pipelines. Read more on page 2.

Iran to build new refinery for Sri LankaIran has agreed to build a new oil refinery for Sri Lanka in ad-dition to upgrading its aging 50,000 barrels a day state-owned refinery, Cabinet Spokesman, Rajitha Senaratne recently stated. This refinery accounts for roughly 30% of Sri Lanka’s fuel re-quirements. Read more on page 7.

Tata Power Delhi distribution appoints new CEOSanjay Banga has been appointed as the new CEO and will take over from Praveer Sinha who has been elevated to the position of CEO and MD of Tata Power. Read more on page 12.

Qatar Petroleum on build huge petrochemical complexA group of leading companies with experience in the petrochemical industry has been invited to submit proposals for partnering Qatar Petroleum in the development and operation of a world scale com-plex to be built at Ras Laffan Industrial City. Read more on page 21.

Kutch Chemicals to set up caustic soda plant in GujaratThe company is about to set up a caustic soda plant in the Kachchh district of Gujarat. With a capacity of 12.6 lakh tpa. The project will entail investments of Rs 1,000 crore on a site spread over 74 acres of land. Read more on page 11.

Russia planning to expand its presence in India

IOC to invest on infra projects in AP & Telangana

Gazprom and oil major Rosneft are looking to expand their pres-ence in India as the two countries – Russia and India – step up their efforts to strengthen their liaison on energy cooperation.Strengthening their bilateral ties through the energy sector figured prominently in talks held between the Indian Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin recently at an infor-mal summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. “There are serious plans for further cooperation between our oil corporations on a number of fronts,” said Russian Foreign

Minister Sergey Lavrov. “Rosneft has gained a stronghold on the Indian market and Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of the gas giant, has interesting plans that it would like to accomplish in India.”The two countries are also aggres-sively pursuing plans to build nu-clear power projects in other coun-tries. “The fact that oil exports from Russia to India went up by tenfold in 2017 was something that Russia certainly made a special note of,” said the Russian diplomat.The energy cooperation was a ‘Work in Progress’ and New Delhi was looking to broaden the basis

for India’s oil imports. Strategic tie-ups between Russia and India would therefore boost the effort.Both two leaders were, as such, looking forward to the

first consignment of LNG that would arrive in India in June 2018 as part of an agreement between Gazprom and GAIL.

IOC Executive Director Rahul Bhardwaj told the Valve World India journal: “In Andhra Pradesh, we have plans to invest Rs. 827 crore, and in Telangana, we have plans to invest Rs. 560 crore in the next two-to-three years. The total investment will be Rs 1,387 crore.”“We propose to invest Rs. 500 crore in setting up of a state-of-the-art oil terminal in Nalgonda for which 67.33 acres of land has already been acquired and we are in the process of acquir-ing 10 more acres,” he said, adding “a Rs. 60

crore investment will be made for the enhance-ment of the LPG capacity at the Cherlapalli and Thimmapur bottling plants. For the Greenfield projects in Andhra Pradesh, 60 acres of land has been acquired for the construction of a new terminal near Visakhapatnam and a pro-jected estimation of Rs. 320 crore.”He further stated that for the construction of a new oil terminal in Guntakal, around 83 acres of land had been acquired and this project had already started at a cost of

Rs. 350 crore. Apart from these projects, an augmentation project in connection with the Vijayawada oil terminal and a revamp of the Vizag oil terminal were already being taken up under brownfield projects. Furthermore, land acquisition for the Paradip-Hyderabad Pipeline Project, with a capacity of 4.55 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa), was already ongoing and that progress was on target to commission the Paradip–Vizag–Vijayawada–Suryapet–Hyderabad pipeline for 2020.

SEALING

June/July 2018 17Valve World Indiavalve-world-india.com

Selecting high-temperature sealing and polymer solutions for oil & gas

and aerospace applicationsThis article looks at how Saint-Gobain Seals continues to devlop its products

to take into account increasingly extreme requirements in high temperatures,

pressures, and corrosion in the oil & gas and aerospace industries.

Jeevan Warker, Saint-Gobain Seals, Bangalore, India

In today’s high-pace manufacturing world, the limits of current technology are being strained due to the need to meet extreme requirements in high temperatures, high pressures and corrosion. This is especially true in volume manufacturing industries such as oil & gas and aerospace when it comes to selecting sealing and polymer material solutions.

What is being done to meet these challenging sealing requirements?In the case of sealing manufacturer Saint Gobain Seals, we have developed optimized designs through rigorous pre-validation process, qualifying solutions up to 25% H

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concentration and up to 200°C according to NORSOK M710 rev2 specifications for oil & gas applications. Oil extraction depths are grow-ing not only in subsea but also in onshore

Why has there been a change in the sealing material landscape? Several decades ago, aluminum was the mate-rial of choice everywhere in aircraft – from the fuselage to engine components. Today, lighter-weight materials are needed to reduce emis-sions and fuel consumption, which then have a direct impact on the temperature inside the jet engine. These changes have also affected the sealing material landscape. Current engines may easily need 122°C (50°C) more compared to twenty years ago. Sealing manu-factures must work very closely with engine manufacturers and their engineers to help them solve these new challenges. It was this thinking that led Saint-Gobain Seals to collabo-rate with their partners to develop Fluoroloy® A90 polymer material that withstands static hot air sealing in temperature up to 350°C (662°F) while retaining its mechanical proper-

ties with the same or less leakage, surface indentation, and material degradation.In addition, we work to develop new materials but also to see how these developments can improve our most successful sealing solutions for even more extreme environments such as space. Our OmniSeal® RACO® spring-energized seals have been used for the past sixty years and have been part of the start-up of NASA’s space program due not only to handling high temperature but very low, cryogenic tempera-ture. Most of the fluids used in space launch vehicles as propellants are stored at cryogenic temperature such as liquid oxygen (–196°C/– 320°F) or liquid hydrogen –254°C(–425°F). Due to the design of the spring that compensates for the physical shrinkage of the fluoropolymer-based jacket, the seal provides exceptional seal-ing capability at low and cryogenic temperature while maintaining sealing functionality at the high temperature (392°F/ 200°C). For further information see www.seals.saint-gobain.com

Aerospace manufacturers continually

focus on weight reduction in order

to optimize fuel consumption as well

as reduce carbon emissions.“”drilling. In the particular cases of valves and

downhole drilling tools, the sealing require-ments for valves up to 10” have increased to 200°C (392°F) and 20,000 psi from previous norm of 150°C (302°F) and 10,000 psi. Vali-dation has also become even more severe with test pressure defined as 1.5 times pro-ject pressure and therefore up to 30,000 psi (i.e., hydrostatic shell test as per API 6A for onshore and API 17D for subsea ).Because the business is active in multiple mar-kets where similar extreme requirements are present, we have used our shared knowledge and expertise to focus on the most common challenge of high temperatures. Aerospace applications are nowadays the most challeng-ing. For the aerospace industry, high-tempera-ture resistance in a jet engine is regarded as a critical requirement in order to achieve better fuel efficiency and lower weight. Why is there so much focus on the engine? Because the engine houses the most individual parts, it is the most complex element of an aircraft and the challenge then becomes finding materials that will meet this temperature need.

Looking closer at the jet engine and the temperature need The engine temperature and high-temperature sealing material need increase with each suc-cessive section of the engine. At the front is the air intake fan, which runs at about

Capability according to SAE AS5780) jet engine oils, and suffer thermal ageing. Addi-tionally, they are affected by oil coking (car-bonization of the oil at high temperature) as well as swelling or softening of the material that can occur at high temperature due to penetration of the oil or fluid, eventually causing leakage.Metal seals do tolerate very high tempera-tures but require more bolts and nuts for proper installation. This makes them more difficult to use, ending up with them being more expensive and adding weight to the system. Aerospace manufacturers continually focus on weight reduction in order to opti-mize fuel consumption as well as reduce car-bon emissions. This principle applies to other systems in the jet engine such as electric harnesses where engineered materials like Meldin® 7001 polyimides contribute to sav-ings due to thinner walls and lighter weight.Another sealing solution would be spring-energized seals as they do have the tem-perature capabilities to handle applications in engine sections within the 200–350°C (392–662°F) range, including the compressor and turbine sections. This range is higher compared to most sealing products in the market. Saint-Gobain Seals’ OmniSeal® poly-mer seals are reliable technology that is tested, validated, and evolve in line with the markets and the specific equipment where it is installed.

room temperature or up to approximately 50°C (122°F). After the fan is the compressor, which grows increasingly hotter as the air is compressed and moves closer to the combus-tion chamber, an area where the temperature is very high –going up and beyond 1000°C (1832°F). The turbine is next, and then the exhaust system where the temperature slowly goes down to 400°C (752°F) and lower at the gases’ emission.

Finding the right sealing materials to handle high temperatures? Elastomer and metal seals are sealing mate-rial options for engine design. However, these materials do pose challenges. Elas-tomers are mostly limited to 325°C (617°F), have chemical compatibility constraints with HTS (High Thermal Stability according to MIL-PRF-23699F) and HPC (High-Performance