📋 SUMMARY

Our FIRST live stream session! 🎉 Join hosts Uwe Braun and Nicolas Kokel, together with industry veteran Mr. Sanjay Gupta (former CEO of the Dangote Refinery & Petrochemicals Project), for a deep dive into the DREAM Refinery Project — a virtual world-scale integrated refining & petrochemical complex concept for India 🇮🇳, modeled live on the ppPLUS platform. From crude diet optimization and delayed coker vs. slurry hydrocracker debates to ethylene plant sizing, aromatics integration, and K-COT technology — this session explores what it takes to convert 42–45% of crude throughput into chemicals, plus a live demonstration of the ppPLUS mass balancing and block flow diagram tools. ⚗️📊

✨ HIGHLIGHTS

• The ppPLUS Platform: An integrated data system connecting companies, assets, products, value chains, and 400+ technologies — from the boardroom down to a single fractionator. 💻
• Live Platform Demo: Watch a refinery site built from scratch — assets, imports, production & consumption streams, mass balance, and the interactive block flow diagram tool. 🧩
• India’s Shifting Landscape: Why diesel & LPG demand is moderating, why Petro FCC won over hydrocrackers, and why petrochemical self-sufficiency is the next frontier. 📈
• The DREAM Configuration: A cracker from day one, naphtha & kerosene to olefins, a delayed coker + slurry hydrocracker combination, and limited aromatics (~1.5 MT PX). 🏭
• Coker vs. Slurry Hydrocracker: The bottoms-of-the-barrel debate — hydrogen constraints, petcoke disposal challenges, and why a two-chamber coker makes sense. ⚖️
• Capacity Matters: Why India’s “build small and debottleneck” tradition costs twice the money — and why 15⁺ MT is needed to support a world-scale 1.8–2.0 MT ethylene plant. 📏
• K-COT & C₄ Valorization: How KBR’s technology could turn unhydrotreated C₄s and LPG into propylene, ethylene and aromatics with phenomenal returns. 💡
• Flexibility is King: Mild hydrocracking in the diesel hydrotreater, scenario planning, and designing for an uncertain future. 🔄

⏱️ CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Going Live — Technical Setup & Audience Welcome
• 06:43 Introduction to the ppPLUS Platform
• 18:34 Joining ppPLUS & the DREAM Project Data Structure
• 28:01 Translating the Configuration into the Platform
• 42:58 Q&A — Modeling Approach & PFD Verification
• 46:05 Live Demonstration — Building a Site from Scratch
• 52:52 The Communicator & Scenario Planning
• 59:05 Sanjay Gupta — The DREAM Project Concept & Indian Context
• 1:11:04 Configuration Logic — Olefins, Aromatics, Bottoms & Capacity
• 1:40:55 Q&A — Cracks, Crude & Configuration Choices
• 1:54:46 Q&A — Platform Questions
• 1:58:08 Q&A — Utilities, Petcoke & Feedstocks
• 2:16:48 Closing Remarks

🔍 RESOURCES

🛢️ Refining Module
🏢 DREAM Entity
🏗️ DREAM Refinery Project Site
🏭 Encyclopedia of Technologies
📩 Suggest a guest or topic: media@portfolio-pplus.com

🎙️ Molecules to Market is a program by Portfolio Planning PLUS (ppPLUS), bringing together technology, economics, and real facility-level data to give industry professionals a grounded, technical view of the global energy and petrochemical landscape — beyond the headlines.

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