Flare Gas Recovery and Utilization of Recovered Flare Gas

Written by Prakash Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:30

Name of Project Flare Gas Recovery and Utilization of Recovered Flare Gas for thermal requirements in IOCL, Guwahati Refinery” at Guwahati, Assam by M/s Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

Location of the Project (Village / District / State) Guwahati, Assam.

Brief Description of the Project The project activity aims at recovery of low pressure off gas generated from the various process units of the refinery, which is presently flared, and utilization of the recovered gas as one of the fuel sources in furnaces/boilers of the refinery. The project activity essentially leads to a reduction in fuel oil consumption, thereby contributing to reduction of equivalent amount of CO2 emissions.

Estimate of GHG abatement in tCO2 eq. 15008

Host Country Approval Status Approved

Project Owner / Proponent M/s Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Guwahati Refinery, Guwahati-781020 Assam/South Asia Contact Person: Mr. A C Mishra, DGM

Baseline Methodology Title: Recovery and Utilization of waste gases for heating. Reference: At present no small-scale approved methodology is available in Appendix B of’ Simplified Modalities and Procedures for Small-Scale CDM project activities which can be applied for the project activity’. Hence a new baseline and monitoring methodology and category for the project activity has been proposed.

Project Start date 1/12/2006.

Project completion date 1/4/2008.

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