Indian refiners could use petcoke to produce urea, methanol and ammonia rather than selling it outright: Dastur Energy CEO
Dastur Energy CEO Atanu Mukherjee suggests that Indian refiners should convert petroleum coke into high-value chemicals like methanol and ammonia via gasification. This approach aims to reduce pollution compared to burning petcoke as fuel.
Why it matters
Adopting gasification technology could help India's energy sector improve sustainability and create new revenue streams from industrial waste products.
India’s petroleum sector could increasingly look at utilising petroleum coke (petcoke) to produce more downstream products as ammonia, urea, methanol and dimethyl ether (DME), among others, instead of selling it off directly, Atanu Mukherjee, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of energy engineering and advisory company Dastur Energy told The Hindu.
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