Acid Plant Database

Acid Plant Database September 13, 2010

Owner	Coromandel Fertilisers Limited (CFL)
Location	Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India
Background	Part of the Murugappa Group
Website	www.cflindia.com
Plant	SAP-I	SAP-II
Coordinates*	17° 41' 57" N, 83° 13' 54.5" E	-
Type of Plant	Sulphur Burning	-
Gas Source	-	-
Plant Capacity	300 MTPD	-
SA/DA	DA	-
Emissions	SO₂: 1 kg/MT	SO₂: 0.65 kg/MT
Status	-	-
Year Built	1975	-
Technology	MECS Enterprises Private Limited (MEPL)	-
Contractor	MECS Enterprises Private Limited (MEPL)	-
Remarks	-	-
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General	Coromandel Fertilisers Limited (CFL) incorporated in 1964, now belonging to the Rs 9582 crores (USD $ 2.4 Billion) Murugappa Group, is a leading company in India manufacturing a wide range of fertilisers and pesticides (technical and formulations). CFL markets around 2.5 million tonnes of phosphatic fertilisers making it a leader in its addressible markets and the second largest phosphatic fertiliser player in India. The Company also markets phosphogypsum and sulphur pastilles. Coromandel Fertilisers Ltd has multi-locational production facilities and markets its products all over India and exports pesticides to various countries across the globe. It is managed by competent and committed professionals using advanced management practices. The Company is known for fostering a climate of high performance and continuous improvement. MEPL commissioned this turnkey sulfuric acid project in a record time of just 11 ½ months, which was almost 2 months before than the committed completion of 14 months. Another unique feature of this plant is the lowest stack emissions of 0.65 Kgs of SO2 per MT of acid (equivalent to 120 ppm) in India. This 300 MTPD sulfuric acid project is based on MEPL’s in-house technology using sulfur burning process. MEPL has used MECS’s proprietary MONPLEX^® plate type exchanger as well as Anodically Protected acid coolers.
References	Seetaram, N. and Srinivasan, M.S., “Productivity Improvements in Murugappa Group’s Phosphatic Fertilisers Unit at Visakhapatnam and Ennore”, IFA Technical Conference, Chennai, India, September 24-27, 2002.
News	September 13, 2010 - Coromandel International has announced that the company has entered into a licence agreement with Shell Research for Shell Thiogro technology to manufacture sulphur enhanced fertilisers (SEF). Coromandel would initially employ the Shell Thiogro technology to manufacture SEF at its plant at Visakhapatnam and may extend it to Kakinada unit later. Shell Research is an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc, London and the Shell Thiogro technology is developed by Shell Sulphur Solutions, a global business unit of the Royal Dutch Shell group of Companies.

MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum STPA - Short Ton per Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption

* Coordinates can be used to locate plant on Google Earth


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