Godrej’s world tallest CCR Reactor through lens

Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. shipped one of the world’s tallest Continuous Catalytic Regeneration (CCR) Reactor from Mumbai Port to Dangote Oil Refinery in Nigeria. With its height measuring a gigantic 95 metres, the CCR Reactor is 22 metres taller than the Qutub Minar and weighs approximately 703 tonnes, nine times heavier than a space shuttle.  CCR is the key process in oil refinery converting low value naptha to high value products such as petrochemicals and gasoline through various reactions such as dehydrogenation, aromatisation, isomerisation, dealkylation, dehydrocyclization.