🏭 The DREAM Project — Model Refinery in India with Guest Sanjay Gupta - Part 2

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📌 CHAPTERS

• 0:00 – Resuming After the Interruption: Naming & Locating the Project
• 2:14 – Why Move East: Strategy, Security & Exploration
• 4:33 – The Southeast Asia–Pacific Opportunity
• 6:03 – Choosing a Location: Tamil Nadu / Chennai — The "Dream Refinery"
• 7:33 – Offshore Infrastructure: SPMs & Jetties
• 9:12 – Recap of the MS Block & Naphtha Routing
• 10:33 – Hydrogen Sources: SMR vs. Green Hydrogen Configurations
• 14:33 – Coal & Petcoke Gasification: Chemicals, Not Hydrogen
• 16:49 – The CCR & Aromatics Orientation of the MS Block
• 17:42 – Secondary Processing: The Vacuum Column & RCO Split
• 21:27 – VGO Hydrotreating & High-Severity Petro FCC
• 26:01 – The Three Secondary Blocks & Ethylene Recovery from Off-Gases
• 28:12 – Cracked Naphtha, Prime G & Aromatics Extraction for Gasoline
• 31:28 – LCO Quality & the Diesel Hydrotreater (DHDT)
• 33:24 – Designing the Olefin Complex & the P/E Ratio
• 39:02 – The Cracker's C4 Mix: Superflex/KBR, Alkylation & Recycle
• 44:28 – Cracker Bottoms & Back-End Integration into Aromatics
• 47:36 – Identifying K-COT as a C4s Cracking Technology
• 50:10 – Tertiary Processing: Vacuum Residue & Coker Feedstocks
• 54:13 – The Bottoms Configuration: Coker & Slurry Hydrocracker Yields
• 58:20 – Coker Distillates, LPG & Off-Gas Ethane Recovery
• 1:00:30 – Sulphur as Sulphuric Acid
• 1:02:06 – Auxiliary Units: The Hydrogen Balance
• 1:03:52 – Steam & Power: The Case Against Fossil-Fuel Generation
• 1:08:23 – Grid, Renewables & the Economics of Power
• 1:11:32 – SMR Nuclear Power for Steam & Power
• 1:14:23 – Summing Up the Configuration & Downstream Units
• 1:17:07 – Rationalizing Diesel in the DHDT
• 1:18:38 – Downstream Product Chains: Phenol, Acrylates, Polymers
• 1:20:06 – Offsites & Utilities: Desalination, Air Separation & BOO Models
• 1:23:03 – Next Steps: The Sketch, Cost Estimation & Implementation Plan
• 1:25:40 – Scenarios, Collaboration & Proprietary Knowledge
• 1:30:06 – On Cost Estimation: The Indian Advantage
• 1:34:08 – Closing Remarks

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