Rain Commodities (RCOL), one of the leading producers of calcined petroleum coke and cement, has announced that Rain CII Carbon (India) (RCCIL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company has implemented ‘Oxygen Lancing’ at its Indian calcination plant.
The implementation of ‘Oxygen Lancing’ process would result in substantive fuel savings. The technology would replace the usage of low sulphur heavy stock oil (LSHS) with oxygen that is produced within the plant. This will result in a saving of about 9,000 MT of LSHS (fossil fuel) and thereby an annual saving of Rs 15 crore at current market prices of LSHS.
The revenues from waste heat recovery, along with the cost savings through Oxygen Lancing, would further strengthen the Group’s competitiveness, as a low cost producer in the calcined petroleum coke industry. The process has been designed also to improve the efficiency parameters of the calcining process.