IOCL Haldia Refinery completes BS-VI Project of Wet Sulfuric Acid Unit

NEW DELHI- The BS-VI project at IOCL Haldia Refinery achieved final milestone with the successful mechanical completion of Wet Sulfuric Acid Unit.

The main objective of the Sulfuric Acid Plant is to recover minimum 99.9% Sulfur from H2S rich gases from ARU and SWS units. This unit is designed to produce 98.5% sulfuric acid from SWS and ARU units mainly from NH3 rich sour gases and acid gases respectively.
 
To meet this requirement a capacity of 325 TPD Sulfuric Acid Unit has been envisaged at IOCL Haldia Refinery Hardeep Singh Puri.

Haldia Refinery is one of the two refineries of IndianOil Group Companies producing Lube Oil Base Stocks (LOBS) situated 136 km downstream of Kolkata in the district of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, near the confluence of river Hooghly and Haldi.