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Vol. 5, Issue 7, July 2015

This Month

DWC Start-up in India

Goodbye Mr. Kuppuswamy

July 4th Lunch in Houston

Bird’s Eye View

Summer Internship

New Employees

Happy Birthdays

July 2015

Dividing Wall Column Start-up in India

A notable event for GTC occurred recently as the first application of GTC’s GT-DWC (Dividing

Wall Column) in India was started up for Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) at their plant in

Jamnagar.

Previously, an existing column at the plant was a typical side-cut column producing three

products. However, side-cut product specifications were not adequate for a planned new PX4

feed. Reliance was planning to revamp its operations by adding a second column and thereby

converting to a two column system.

GTC proposed to revamp the existing column to GT-DWC which would improve the side-cut

specifications required for the PX feed, as well as drastically reducing the capital expenditures

and energy consumption. The table below illustrates the DWC advantages.

Parameter Units Naphtha Splitter before Revamp

Naphtha Splitter after Revamp with GT-DWC

Side Draw Flow Rate TPH 180.4 140.0

D86 (IBP/FBP) Deg C 106 to 191 110.5 to 175.0

The fast track project was awarded to GTC in November 2014. Tray manufacturing started in

January 2015 and the new DWC was activated in March.

Provision for external

splitting for future use

Risers for vapor flow

Liquid split metering box

(Maintains fixed liquid ratio on

either side of wall)

Top View of Dividing Wall Internal Liquid Split Distributer

July 2015

Goodbye Mr. Kuppuswamy

In Recognition of

Your Service

P. V. Kuppuswamy

GTC Technology

GTC Houston gathered on Friday, July 24th, to give P. V. Kuppuswamy, GTC

President-US Operations, a farewell send-off on the occasion of his retirement.

Pinti Wang, GTC Chairman & CEO, congratulated Mr. Kuppuswamy and shared

some great memories of their long standing friendship. Mrs. Kuppuswamy and

their two granddaughters also joined the celebration. Mr. Kuppuswamy was

presented a beautiful art statue in recognition of his services to GTC Technology.

We all wish him the very best on his new adventures.

July 2015

July 4th Lunch at GTC Houston

GTC’s Houston office

celebrated Independence

Day with its annual lunch,

expertly planned and

executed by Sandra Franklin,

Mandy Gunter, Louiza Rezzik

and Amanda Wise.

July 2015

Bird’s Eye View Maria Stovall, AutoCad Drafter – GTC Houston, recently saw things in a different perspective as

she went skydiving for the first time. Maria made a tandem jump with her instructor from

12,000 feet. She said, “I wasn’t scared, but I did have a high level of adrenaline.”

Summer Seasoning

Shogo Iwasaki began his summer internship with GTC’s Licensing Department with very specific goals, especially the opportunity to apply his classroom studies to actual projects. Charlie Chou, Licensing Manager-Asia, served as Shogo’s mentor.

Shogo was given several research projects that were completed successfully, and he presented his work to the team prior to accepting his “Certificate of Achievement” from Joe Gentry, Director-Global Licensing.

Shogo will return to the Colorado School of Mines this fall as a freshman majoring in Chemical Engineering. We wish him many successes in his bright future.

L-R: Meijuan Zeng, Ilya Aranovich, Shogo, Manish Bhargava,

Roomi Kalita, Joe Gentry, Kay Stevens and Sandra Franklin.

July 2015

Welcome to GTC

Daniel McCumber Business Development

Manager GTC VORRO

Jin-Woong Kim Shearing Machine

Operator Non-san

Jong-Sook Park Press Operator

Non-san

Do-Woong Kim Welding Operator

Non-san

Jin-Soo Kim Sales Director

Process Eng. & Sales Seoul

July 2015

Happy August Birthdays! 8/1 Rachel Bartlett Houston

S. P. Kandhari Gurgaon

8/2 Hye-Jung Lim Seoul

8/7 Lucy Gu Beijing

8/8 Jong-Se Kim Seoul

Eva Lenfeldova Brno

8/10 Bryant Slimp Houston

8/11 Roomi Kalita Houston

Jong-Kye Ko Non-san

Agnes Lee Beijing

Zhe Liu Beijing

Neil Wang Houston

8/13 Dae-Kyun Bae Non-san

Jong-Soo Kim Non-san

8/15 Jun-Young Lee Seoul

Xuecheng Kan Beijing

Zhiqiang Yang Beijing

8/18 Eric Zhang Beijing

8/21 Sounho Lee Euless

Shawn Lin Houston

8/23 Robert Arsenault Euless

In-Mo Ku Non-san

8/26 Modesto Bonilla Euless

8/27 Libor Hojsik Brno