R. Gorle

Ramanayya Gorle is a Senior Manager at Engineers India Ltd. and has more than 15 yrs of experience in process design, development and commissioning for the oil and gas and refining sectors. His expertise spans mass transfer equipment, column hydraulics, desalters, heat exchangers, fired heaters and heater treaters, with a strong focus on energy efficiency and process intensification. Gorle has led several high-impact innovations, including patented CDU-VDU configurations achieving a nearly 50% reduction in VDU steam consumption, a novel single-column sour water stripper (SWS) with ~30% lower energy use and complete hydrogen sulfide (H₂S)-ammonia (NH3) separation, advanced AC-DC crude desalting technology, syngas scrubbing systems and 2G bioethanol distillation processes. He is credited with more than 15 patent applications. Gorle has contributed extensively to digital twin development, real-time optimization and deployment of EIL’s proprietary technologies such as indDiesel®, indDSK® and indJet®, improving refinery operability and sustainability. His project experience includes refinery process optimization, CDU reflux drum innovation, desalter revamps for BPCL, IOCL, BORL and CPCL, and heater treater design for ONGC. As a certified energy manager and auditor, he holds a B.Tech degree in chemical engineering from Andhra University and is proficient in PRO-II, ASPEN, FRI and HTRI. The author can be reached at g.ramanayya@eil.co.in.