Category: Equipment

Apart from having a good plant design, good maintenance practices and good operational discipline are key to optimise the performance of an acid plant and to protect it from corrosion and achieve a long life. B. Mumba, T. Mwanza and P. Ng’ambi of Kansanshi Mining PLC explore the Kansanshi sulphuric acid plant operations and the key parameters monitored and practices adopted that have helped to extend the catalyst campaigns from two years to four years.

Preventing regenerator amine carryover to the sulphur recovery unit can have catastrophic consequences and must be avoided at all costs. B. Spooner and M. Sheilan of SGS Amine Experts detail how by correctly interpreting operating data, having proper instrumentation and good chemical analysis, amine carryover can be prevented.

Fertilizer International interviews Graeme Cousland, Managing Director, and Martyn Dean, Sales Director, Begg Cousland Envirotec Limited.

Rotary coolers remain a popular choice with fertilizer producers, explains Shane Le Capitaine of FEECO International, thanks to their ability to meet the industry’s rigorous demands.

Igor Makarenko of Solex Thermal Science reviews the main equipment options for fertilizer cooling and their relative merits.

Ian Hancock, Vice President Sales and Operations, Bradley Pulverizer Company, offers expert advice on how to reduce wear during phosphate size reduction.

MOPCO has selected thyssenkrupp Uhde to supply advanced technology for its Damietta ammonia-urea complex in Egypt.

Fertilizer International presents a global round-up of phosphate rock, phosphoric acid and finished phosphates projects.

Days 2 and 3 of the CRU’s 38th Nitrogen+Syngas 2025 Expoconference turned to the technical sessions, organised in three parallel streams covering: green ammonia technology, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate, plant operations and reliability, urea technology, digitalisation, carbon capture, emissions reduction and sustainable fertilizer production, and fertilizer finishing.

The 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction goals in the European Union are driving oil and gas producers to reduce CO2 emissions wherever possible. This extends to even the incinerator attached to a sulphur recovery unit (SRU). In this article Sulphur Experts review the role of the incinerator, how the three most common European TGUs each affect the demand on the incinerator itself, and the potential reduction in CO2 emissions for a generic facility of each type.