Saves Millions of USD

• Industry: Petroleum Refining / Heavy Engineering
• Challenge: Refinery built for API 37 light crude, but forced to process API 41 heavier crude → premature flashing, pressure spikes, tower bottleneck, 25% production cut, safety risks.
• Solution (ITC Senior Team): Crude composition analysis, root cause identification, designed & installed a Preflash Tower before main distillation column to separate light fractions early.
• Results:
  • ✅ Preflash Tower produces additional Naptha as saleable product
  • ✅ Tower pressure returned to normal
  • ✅ Bottleneck eliminated
  • ✅ Throughput restored to 100% design capacity (+5% better fractionation)
  • ✅ $8–10 million USD saved annually
  • ✅ Safety risk eliminated
  • ✅ Payback < 6 months