Section: Features

We report on selected keynote and commercial presentations from CRU’s 2026 Phosphates+Potash Expoconference.

ControlRooms.ai introduces the application of an AI Troubleshooting Agent: a system that analyses real-time plant data to detect anomalies and support proactive troubleshooting between operations, engineering, and reliability teams.

Multiphase multiphysics simulation-based analysis of an industrial-scale Claus catalytic reactor predicts improved performance resulting from the inclusion of inlet flow deflection plates.

With the delivery of ten sulphuric acid pumps and a mobile tank drainage pump for a large zinc smelter in Central Asia, Rheinhütte Pumpen highlights its expertise in handling highly concentrated sulphuric acid – from alloy development and engineering to comprehensive testing on one of the most advanced pump test stands in the world.

Thiozen Inc. has piloted a patented thermochemical process that removes hydrogen sulphide from sour gas while converting it into hydrogen.

Liquid sulphur is a critical industrial feedstock, but its safe transfer is technically demanding. Dickow Pumpen maintains that reliable handling depends on a whole-system approach – integrating heating, piping, sealing, and operating procedures.

Rising hydrogen sulphide levels from souring reservoirs and high-sulphur crude oils are turning sulphur recovery units into major throughput bottlenecks in both gas plants and refineries. Bryan Research & Engineering presents oxygen enrichment as a practical debottlenecking strategy, with water electrolysis – especially alkaline water electrolysis and, to a lesser extent, solid oxide electrolysis – offering promising oxygen supply options.

CRU and UniverSUL Consulting are expanding the reach of the Middle East Sulphur Conference (MEScon) with the launch of MEScon Connect: Central Asia 2026, taking place from 9–11 June, at the InterContinental Almaty hotel, Kazakhstan.

Topsoe explains how to avoid challenges and choose the optimal solutions for e-methanol plants based on CO2 feedstocks, electrolytic hydrogen and renewable power.

Stephen B Harrison of sbh4 consulting outlines the options for decarbonising diammonium phosphate (DAP).