18 · Why CCDC
CCDC — Commercial, Chemical And Development Company — is a Chennai process engineering company with 45 years of experience. It designs and builds industrial VOC recovery systems based on Genosorb® absorption for plants across India.
Indian engineering
Every system is designed, engineered, and fabricated in India, backed by 45 years of process engineering experience.
Skid-mounted systems
Plants are shipped fully skid-mounted and erected outdoors — no covered shed required, minimising civil construction cost.
Automated operation
Fully instrumented for automatic operation, minimising manual intervention and providing continuous monitoring.
Pilot demonstrations
A trailer-mounted mobile pilot plant, designed by CCDC and operated with Clariant, has run numerous on-site demonstrations including mixtures of up to six solvents.
Commercial scale-up
Technology proven at pilot scale has been scaled up as much as 500× into full commercial plants across a wide range of industries.
Custom engineering
Solvent selection, temperature, pressure, and heat integration are engineered around each specific stream — not sold as an off-the-shelf fit.
Shenoy Nagar, Chennai – 600030, India
+91 98401 42990
voc@ccdcindia.com
Technology partnership
Developed in-house with technical input from Clariant A.G., Germany. Pilot plant designed by CCDC and constructed and operated by Clariant.
Led by Dr D M Mohunta
CCDC is headed by Dr D M Mohunta, a chemical engineer with about five decades of experience. His work on mass transfer in packed-column operations and chemical process engineering — the core of absorber and stripper design — has been widely cited, and he has authored monographs on phosphorus-based fire retardants, engineering plastics, phosgene chemistry and safety, and supercritical CO₂ extraction. He also wrote CCDC’s 2004 study “VOC recovery from gaseous streams”, whose Indian cost comparisons appear on this site.
More from CCDC
CCDC’s main website, ccdcindia.com, covers its wider chemical and process engineering consultancy. The same Genosorb® absorption technology is also used to produce compressed biogas from raw biogas. Answers to common questions are in the VOC recovery FAQ.