| | Keeping an eye on the future needs, EIL initiated its Research & Development activities in 1970. Its R&D Centre is located at Gurgaon on the outskirts of Delhi. The R&D Centre is manned by about 80 trained engineers and necessary support staff.
EIL has been working closely with operating companies in setting up pilot plants for collection of design data, and with National Laboratories and premier technical institutions and has developed technologies in the fields of petroleum refining, petrochemicals, non-ferrous metallurgy and hydraulic transportation of solids. EIL's R&D has made significant contribution towards process design of a number of units such as aromatics extraction, visbreaker, acrylates, transportation through slurry pipelines, propane deasphalting plants, etc. EIL is currently carrying out research programmes in:
Computer software is also being developed for data reconciliation, batch scheduling, etc. and for rigorous simulation of specific refinery processes.
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