India's Challenge – Oil refineries and petrochemical processing plants are working to meet India's growing demand for petroleum products and chemicals. As India's economy continues to surge forward, demand is expected to increase for the products they make.

In the hydrocarbon-processing sector, India has more than 25 refineries with total throughput exceeding 230 MMTPA. It is home to the world's largest refinery in terms of quantity of crude processed. Some of that demand will be met by building more refineries, while expanding capacity at existing facilities will make up the rest. Total refining capacity is expected to grow 20% in the next three years alone.

Solutions by GE – Oil refineries and petrochemical plants have unique needs. GE creates customized treatment programs that improve efficiency in every step of the production process while also assuring high-quality finished products.

India's refineries incur 80 percent of their operating costs from purchasing crude oil. They can significantly lower that expense by processing discounted, lower-quality opportunity crudes. GE's proprietary chemical products are formulated to let private and public refiners process once unusable opportunity crudes.

In today's environment of lower quality crude feedstock, GE helps customers meet their needs of maximum throughput, high value products, longer critical equipment life, reduced energy consumption and environmental compliance. Our products for Indian customers include demulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, antifoulants, and pH neutralizers.

It's just one example of where GE can help the hydrocarbon- and chemical-processing industries meet customer demand while boosting their bottom line at the same time.

India's Challenge – To meet growth anticipated in industrial, agricultural, domestic and other sectors, authorities are planning to expand total power generation by 7-10 percent over the next 4-5 years in India. The country will build power plants to keep up with increasing demand. At the same time, facilities face stringent water use, waste discharge, CO2 reduction, heavy metal removal and environmental regulations.

Expansion and a tightening regulatory environment are significant issues for India's power industry, which generates around 60 percent of the country's power from burning coal.

Solutions by GE – GE understands the challenges and opportunities facing the Indian power industry. As global strategic business partners, GE Water & Process Technologies is able to provide a complete set of integrated chemical and equipment solutions to help manage power and water needs. These synergies can help optimize the siting and construction of power plants, minimize overall capital costs, and generate greater efficiencies.

GE's product line for India's power industry includes revolutionary pre-treatment, cooling, turbine cleaning, fuel treatment and dust control programs.

India's Challenge – With some 284 billion tons of proven, indicated and inferred coal, India has one of the largest reserves in the world. India's expanding economy combined with a burgeoning middle class will demand more and more coal, especially since it fuels around 60 percent of the country's electricity generation. Demand for other mined minerals and metals is also expected to increase, putting ever greater strain on the industries responsible for getting ore out of the ground and turning it into useful commodities.

Solutions by GE – GE assists metals and mining industries by improving productivity, optimizing performance, driving down costs and helping them maintain regulatory compliance.

The company's membrane technologies and chemicals protect and improve the productivity of heat exchangers, cooling towers, boilers, scrubbers, tanks, mills, and vessels. GE also assists mining operations by providing wastewater treatment solutions through a combination of chemistry and engineered equipment.

For the metals industry, GE also provides solutions in ore and coal handling through the application of specialized industrial processing chemicals. GE also offers corrosion inhibitors, antifoulants, dust control, antioxidation, and coal flow products for the metals and mining industries.

India's Challenge – India is one of the largest food producers in the world. An increasing population, rising income, urbanization, and diet diversification all mean that demand for both fresh and processed food and beverages is on the verge of exploding.

The country's food and beverage industry uses an extraordinarily large amount of water as part of its manufacturing processes. Maintaining quality is a critical task at every stage of production. Processing operations also require special attention to control problems like scaling, corrosion, foaming, and bacterial growth.

Strict government rules, meanwhile, regulate water quality throughout food and beverage operations, and treatment products need to be approved for primary and secondary direct food contact applications. At the same time, companies must maintain compliance with increasingly stringent effluent discharge regulations.

Solutions by GE – GE understands that the food processing and beverage industry has a diverse range of water treatment needs, which require comprehensive programs to help ensure that expensive capital equipment runs without trouble and at peak efficiency. GE's best-in-class products also reduce operating costs through water and energy conservation, and help companies comply with federal, regional, and local government regulations.

GE offers a range of dewatering, clarification, and off-line cleaning products for the food and beverage industry to maximize procedures and operations. The products are also designed to control foaming, corrosion, and depositing, and to monitor products so that they meet regulatory guidelines.