Case Study
L&T Chiyoda Limited, India
Key Facts L&T Chiyoda Succeeds Using CAESAR II® for
Company: L&T Chiyoda Limited Engineering Analysis
Website: www.lntchiyoda.com EPC performs complex stress analysis for paraxylene and benzene
facility in Mangalore
Industry: Petrochemical
Country: India L&T Chiyoda Limited (LTC) is an engineering and consulting firm formed by Larsen
& Toubro Limited, India’s premier technology, engineering, manufacturing and
Products Used: construction company, and Chiyoda Corporation, Japan, a world-renowned
engineering company serving the hydrocarbon and related fields. LTC serves
• CAESAR II®
national and international clients involved in petroleum refining, petrochemicals,
chemicals, fertilizers and oil & gas.
Key Benefits:
• Met stringent requirements Identifying Goals
• Prevented wasted time and ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL) assigned Larsen & Toubro
project delays the engineering, construction and procurement for its Aromatics Complex in
• Reduced time for analysis and Karnataka, India, with LTC providing the engineering analysis and Universal Oil
modeling Products (UOP) serving as the process licensor. The facility would produce 905,200
tons per annum (TPA) of paraxylene and 273,200 TPA of benzene and was to be
completed in 33 months.
The project required static, wind and seismic analyses of piping systems plus
two-phase and flange leakage analyses. Pipe diameters ranged from 2 to 64 inches
operating at a temperature of up to 578ºC and 78 kg/cm2 pressure.
Stringent routing requirements of the licensor dictated inter-equipment distances,
which meant LTC had to analyze and qualify piping systems without changing any
pipe routing. This included routing for:
• Absorbent chambers (8 m X 17.2 m)
• Chamber circulation pumps (16-inch inlet – 24-inch outlet nozzle)
• Co-planar manifold indexer
Overcoming Challenges “CAESAR II’s user-friendly graphic interface, simple
modeling techniques, and excellent simulation capabilities
To best meet client specifications, LTC chose to use helped us confidently develop our project deliverables in a
CAESAR II® for all static, wind and dynamic analyses. The very tight schedule with minimum efforts. We were able to
EPC used CAESAR II to model the static equipment and meet client requirements while saving time and reducing
pipe trunnion and spring supports considering the realistic costs, completing the work on schedule,” Devani added.
thermal displacement at equipment nozzles and the effect
of pipe supports on stress analysis.
Award-Winning Project
“CAESAR II simulated the different operating condition in LTC received the CAESAR II Drivers of Success Runner-Up
the same file,” said Manoj Devani, pipe stress engineer Award for its use of the software. The annual Drivers of
at LTC. Success competition recognizes innovative applications
of Hexagon products, impressive project results and
The project called for eight thermos-syphon vertical significant benefits from collaboration among disciplines
reboilers supported by column/tower. The CAESAR II and the integration of the products.
analysis indicated that the reboilers’ massive weight would
require an increase in the column’s shell thickness. So,
for maximum design efficiencies, it was decided that the
reboilers would be supported on an independent structure.
“With CAESAR II, we were able to perform a realistic stress
analysis as a single system under different operating
conditions,” Devani said.
Without CAESAR II, LTC would have spent much more time
and expense on the project and might have not been able
to meet the tight schedule. The software’s analysis tools
and calculation modules eliminated errors that may have
otherwise occurred. This gave LTC much more confidence
in the accuracy of the design and the deliverables it
provided the client.
Realizing Results
All stress reports were submitted to the client at their
complete satisfaction level within the committed project
timeframe. This further developed a satisfied client base,
which ultimately leveraged growth for the company.
LTC also used CAESAR II’s modal analysis to ensure lines
qualified, and all in the first submission. The various other
analysis modules saved LTC more time and helped further
reduce project costs.
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