Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) flagged off the first lot of Hydrazine Hydrate (80%) from their Dahej complex, Gujarat, last week completing another milestone. The technology for making Hydrogen Hydrate was initially developed by CSIR-IICT at laboratory and bench scale, in Hyderabad.
Subsequently, it was scaled up to pilot plant scale with GACL as industry partner. Hydrazine Hydrate, as an import substitute product with world-class quality will help in reducing the country’s dependency on imports, thereby saving valuable foreign exchange, said a press release on Wednesday.
GACL and CSIR-IICT have jointly received patents from India and the U.S. for the indigenous process to manufacture Hydrazine Hydrate (H6N2O). A ₹405 crore commercial plant of 10,000 TPA 80% Hydrazine Hydrate was designed by CSIR-IICT and was established by GACL at their Dahej complex.
