Commercial Customers
These customers are grouped into majorly 3 segments - Commercial, Non commercial and YHS. Commercial customers comprises of Hotels, restaurants, dairies, bakeries, educational institute etc. Customer like temples, NGOs are covered under non commercial category. GGCL has 2 years back launched an specific application for yarn heating, customers using gas for this specific purpose are grouped as YHS. Majority of the operational processes are common to domestic category.
Industrial customers
These customers are large volume customers spread across various segments of business like textile, pharmaceuticals, glass, chemical, ceramic, dyes and intermediates, agrochemicals, pulp & paper. They constituent the major portion of the total gas sales. There are approx 1000 small to large industrial customers across Surat and Bharuch district.
Gas is used by these set of customers for applications like
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Heating - Boiler, Thermic fluid heater, Furnace
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Cooling - Absorption chiller
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Power - Gas engine, Gas turbine
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Process - Direct firing of Stenters (Textiles), Dryers, Furnace, Ovens, Feedstock for Fertilizer plants...