Our Managing Director, Mr. S M Mondkar, a First Class Chemical Engineering Graduate from I I T Bombay. He possesses Industrial Experience of about 45 years in the field of Evaporation & Drying. He has been instrumental for devising many a ‘firsts’ in Evaporation & Drying Industry. His innovations in Evaporation Plant in Textile Industry have outdone the efficiency norms recommended by Textile Research Institutes.

Elite Engineers were, in the year 1986-87, Winner of Transworld Tradefare Selection Award For the contribution in Energy saving implements in the Projects offered

Innovative Evaporation Plant and Effluent Heat Recovery System installed in Madura Coats Ltd., Ambas helped them to win
Gold Medal & Silver Medal in 1984 & 1985 respectively in the Coats Group International Contest for Revenue Generation projects. 

On the basis of sound theoretical approach, he has published many papers in Technical Journal.
He was again the Winner of Udyogshree Award for the year 2000 Received through Mr Patangrao Kadam, Minister of Industries, Maharashtra State For his contribution to Indian Industry as first generation enterpreneur.

Weak Caustic lye, around 5-6 Be ( 40 - 50 gpl ), is collected from the impregnation and washing chamber  into a storage tank. It is then taken to a filtration unit to filter the suspended solids, fluff etc The feed to CRP then passes through a series of preheaters which preheat the wash liquor with the help of flash vapors from the condensate flashes ensuring minimum steam loss in heating the Wash liquor to its boiling point. The liquor in the tubes comes in contact with the steam in the shell side of heater 1 and the liquor starts boiling. The vapor liquor mixture enters the flash vessel through a tangential entry and the vapors get separated and enter the shell of the 2nd stage. The boiling in the successive effect takes place due to lower pressure created with help of a water ring vacuum pump. Due to lower pressure the boiling point of the liquor is reduced and it starts boiling. The concentrated liquor enters the 2nd heater due to the pressure difference and comes in indirect contact with the generated vapors and the same procedure is repeated. The concentrated product is removed from the last stage by a product pump. This later is taken either to a storage tank or to a Concentrated Lye purification system .
Under caustic recovery system / caustic soda recovery plant vapors generated at the last stage need to be condensed. This is done by either HOT WATER or an ADIABATIC EVAPORATOR system. In case of a hot water system, water at room temperature is passed through tubes of an exchanger and it gets hot due to the vapors. This hot water is uncontaminated and hence can safely be used in the process or the boiler as per the requirement.
In some cases where the hot water generated cannot be effectively consumed the effluent is passed through the exchanger and sprayed in an Adiabatic Evaporator Here the waste heat is lost in form of vapors and hence effective steam consumption of steam is reduced. Also nuisance of excess hot water is eliminated.