Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals (CFCL), Gadepan, India, has successfully commissioned a new plant using KBR’s PurifierTM ammonia technology, which is now the world’s most energy efficient plant per tonne of ammonia produced.
CFCL has two existing ammonia plants with a capacity of 1,710 metric ton per day that were revamped by KBR in 2009 to increase production and lower energy consumption.
CFCL constructed and commissioned its third ammonia plant with a production capacity of 2,200 metric tone per day, which has achieved energy consumption even lower than the guaranteed value of 6.417 Giga cal per ton during its test run period, making it the world’s most efficient ammonia plant.
The new ammonia plant uses KBR’s Purifier technology, gas turbine driven process air compressor, use of gas turbine exhaust gases in primary reformer as combustion air and aMDEA based CO2 removal process.
“This is another proud milestone for KBR’s ammonia technology,” said Doug Kelly, KBR President, Technology Solutions. “We are committed to offering our partners energy-efficient and flexible solutions while always striving to improve upon industry benchmarks with many of them previously set by ourselves.”