MUMBAI, India, April 18 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311069263 A) filed by Engineers India Limited, New Delhi, on Oct. 13, 2023, for 'solar energy based process and apparatus for crude processing with reduced fuel consumption.'

Inventor(s) include Vartika Shukla; Ravi Kant Gupta; Sreevidya Ragini Vijayan; and Alka Sharma.

The application for the patent was published on April 18, under issue no. 16/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (S) that includes a solar heater (40), a first heat exchanger (50), a first power unit (60), and a second power unit (70). The first heat exchanger (50) may be fluidly coupled to the heater (40) and a fluid channel (C)...