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1992 \u2013 2004<\/div>
Bright beginnings<\/div><\/div>
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Dr. K. Sainath (PhD in Gas-Solid separation from IIT-Delhi) founded CLAIR CONSULTANTS PVT. LTD. with a vision to improve quality of pollution control equipment in order to render the process industries (particularly cement & steel) comply with new PM emission norms. Being a technocrat himself, he was involved in environmental audits, renovation of APC equipment and process enhancement of cement plants in India, Sudan, Ethiopia and other North African countries.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2005<\/div>
Venturing into Turnkey Projects<\/div><\/div>
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CLAIR ENGINEERS PVT. LTD. was established with a break-through Order that included design, manufacturing & supply of core cement production and pollution control equipment (on Turnkey basis) for the refurbishment of an old defunct cement plant to make it fully functional.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2007<\/div>
Marching forward<\/div><\/div>
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In 2007, we received a major order for air pollution equipment for a 4,000 TPD plant including Raw Mill \/ Kiln Bag House, Cooler ESP & auxiliary bag filters for a cement plant in South India. After successful execution of this order, many process pollution control equipment orders followed from same and other clients.<\/p>

Besides greenfield jobs, we also took up retrofit assignments to convert ESP to Bag Filter at 3 cement plants \u2013 retrofit assignments were large, more complex than greenfield, and more importantly highly time-bound i.e. execution within the given shut-down period. This fine-tuned our project planning & commissioning capabilities, along with our technical experiences.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2008<\/div>
Sweet success<\/div><\/div>
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This year we successfully installed the first Bag Filter for Spent Wash Incineration application for a distillery boiler in sugar industry. The Flue Gas coming from this process is very complex in nature (due to its low bulk density, high acid content, moisture content & chlorides). Today, we are one of the only companies in India with this niche expertise and have largest market share in spent wash process bag filter application.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2009<\/div>
ID Fans Technology milestone<\/div><\/div>
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In 2009, we had a technology tie-up with Argus Fans, Canada, for design and manufacture of process & auxiliary ID fans of capacity ranging from 5000 m3<\/sup>\/hour to 1.5 million m3<\/sup>\/hour. Many large ID fans were exported to countries like Thailand, Kenya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Nepal etc. \u2013 as of today we have 680+ ID fan references with this technology.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2011<\/div>
Inaugurating our Manufacturing Facility<\/div><\/div>
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We built a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, the largest pollution control equipment workshop in India with a built-in R&D unit. The facility is spread over 25,500 m2<\/sup>and has ample space of 6 more acres for future expansion.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2012<\/div>
Stepping up to handle gaseous pollutants<\/div><\/div>
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From handling particulate matter, we stepped up to handle complex gaseous pollutants such as SOx, NOx, VOCs, heavy metals, deoxins & furans, acid Gases etc. We signed up for complete flue gas treatment & particulate pollution control for a W2E plant at Ghazipur, the first of its kind in India, using European technology & emission norms. This plant was commissioned in 2013 and has been in operation since then. The capacity of this plant is 500 Tons\/Day (1 incinerator of 500 Tons\/day consumption of RDF). On another FGD assignment, we provided a complete FGD system for a client in the petcoke industry.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2012<\/div>
Embracing New Technologies<\/div><\/div>
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We executed complete system order for flash dryer application, for drying of GGBS slag, fly ash, coffee spent etc. for clients such as ACC (Lafarge-Holcim India), Toshali Cements etc. with capacities ranging from 10 TPH to 50 TPH of raw material.<\/p>

We also advanced into design, manufacture & supply of hybrid filters to achieve stringent emissions, simultaneously preserving a substantial portion of existing ESP structure for a power plant boiler. The hybrid filter is operating successfully since commissioning.<\/p>

One more noteworthy technology advancement during this period was our installation of electrostatic tar precipitator for the graphite industry.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2014<\/div>
Innovating for the Future<\/div><\/div>
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There was drastic increase in capacities of cement & steel plants, which necessitated pollution control systems to handle significantly large flue-gas volumes. With an intent to cater to such industry needs of tackling large gas volumes, we collaborated with an Italian techno-scientist to launch our product, the optiwave pulse-jet bag filter, that can efficiently handle high gas volumes (above 1 million m3<\/sup>\/hour) with bag-lengths of more than 8 meters and up to 12 meters. This was achieved after due R&D at our manufacturing facility \u2013 today we are pioneers of long-bag technology that is useful for steel, cement, power, ferro-alloys and several other industries.<\/p>

In 2014 we had our first Long-bag installations with 10 meter bag-length for Kiln Bag House & Cement Mill Bag House, which are running successfully till-date. The industry has embraced the long-bag technology since then, acknowledging its vital role in efficient bag cleaning (thus better bag life), reduced compressed air consumption, lower DP and many other advantages.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2016<\/div>
Steel deals<\/div><\/div>
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With an eye for technical detail enabling successful troubleshooting at a steel plant in Orissa, we successfully executed many steel process orders for pollution control equipment, along with structural engineering & design. Today we work with some of the major steel brands in India.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2019<\/div>
Largest order<\/div><\/div>
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We signed our largest order (by value) for design, engineering, supply and erection of pollution control equipment along with ID fans for a steel company (on EPC basis) for their Raw Material Handling System (RMHS) unit.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2021<\/div>
Our projects during COVID<\/div><\/div>
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During peak COVID-19, one of the projects that stands out is where we had supplied & commissioned a Raw Mill Kiln Bag House with ID fan for a cement plant in Telangana, India. This project warranted erection along with Civil Works in monsoon season in 6 days of shut-down (Hook-up system). The unique challenge was accepted and delivered by us in record 7 months from concept to commissioning and our client has high appreciation for this trend-setting project.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>

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2022<\/div>
Largest Bag Filter by volume<\/div><\/div>
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We received the order for design, manufacture and supply of bag filter, ID Fans & ducting for stock house de-dusting application (in a Steel Plant). This is the largest bag filter by volume (2.05 Million m3<\/sup>\/h) that we designed till date.<\/p><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div><\/div>\r\n

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