The cracking of naphtha in the naphtha cracker plant is done in short residence time (SRT) heaters by splitting it into fractions of pure olefinic molecules, aromatics, and polymerized heavies. The Naphtha Cracker plant is the mother plant of RIL-VMD, which produces ethylene and propylene as a product and the same is used as a raw material in downstream plants. RIL’s Vadodara Manufacturing Division (VMD) is the oldest complex (commissioned in 1973) in the Reliance family and the first fully integrated petrochemical complex in India. Steam cracking which produces high yields of alkenes (unsaturated and have a double bond)Ĭatalytic cracking in which a catalyst is employed and which produces high yields of branched and cyclic alkanes (saturated, with single bond) Cracking is a process in which large hydrocarbon molecules are broken down into smaller and more useful ones it is conducted at high temperatures by two processes: Globally, naphtha (a mixture of many different hydrocarbon compounds) is the predominant feedstock, including straight-run naphthas (SRN) from refinery crude units and naphtha derived from condensates during natural gas production. The company is ranked 215th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2016 and 8th among the Top 250 Global Energy Companies (Platts, 2016).
Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian conglomerate holding company, with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. Product and Service Lifecycle Management.