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Pool Reactor plant in Pakistan with Stamicarbon's technology
Pakistan's Multan-based Fatima Fertilizer Company Ltd is to build a 1500 tons per day urea plant in Sadiqabad in central Pakistan.
The urea plant will be Pakistan's first plant incorporating Stamicarbon's Urea 2000plusTM technology, featuring a Pool Reactor. The first type of this plant was commissioned in 1998 in the Netherlands. Since then, Pool Reactor plants, as well as large Pool Condenser plants, have proven to provide the best that urea technology can offer in terms of low investment, low operational cost and high reliability of operation. The plant also features the use of Safurex® stainless steel for the entire synthesis section. This material is highly resistant against corrosion, even in complete absence of oxygen, which is a common need with conventionally used steel materials. Superior strength characteristics of Safurex® also allow for lower-weight equipment.
The plant will be built by Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group company Kawasaki Plant Systems Ltd and Sojitz Corporation. Kawasaki Plant Systems will deliver the equipment and engineering of the urea plant with Stamicarbon design.
The urea plant is expected to start production in 2009. Its establishment fits well in the Pakistani government's program to increase the domestic fertilizer production capacity to meet the demands by agriculture, which is the country's major domestic industry.
Stamicarbon's urea synthesis technology has been licensed for design and construction of most of contracted / built urea grass root projects in the past years, e.g.
| CNOOC |
China |
2700 tons per day |
| PIDMCO (NPC) |
Iran |
3250 tons per day |
| QAFCO |
Qatar |
3200 tons per day |
| Turkmenistan Fertilizer & Chemicals |
Turkmenistan |
1050 tons per day |
| KPIC |
Iran |
2000 tons per day |
| SAFCO IV |
Saudi Arabia |
3250 tons per day |
| EFC II |
Egypt |
1925 tons per day |
| AlexFert |
Egypt |
1925 tons per day |
| PIDMCO II (NPC) |
Iran |
3250 tons per day |
| Helwan |
Egypt |
1925 tons per day |
| Mopco |
Egypt |
1925 tons per day |
| Fatima Fertilizer Company |
Pakistan |
1500 tons per day |
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