【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】1914–2018: Ningxia Petrochemical’s domestic-made facilities capable of producing 450,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 800,000 tons of urea per year

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Safety first. Prevention first: Let’s give praise and support to the achievements made in China’s chemical technology and equipment industry. **********************【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】A continuously updated summary post is available; feel free to join the discussions at https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html (Source: Haichuan Chemical Forum Website) ***************** On April 26, 2018, China National Petroleum Corporation’s self-developed and self-built largest fertilizer production project – the Ningxia Petrochemical plant, with an annual production capacity of 450,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 800,000 tons of urea – began operations successfully. The development of a complete set of industrial technologies for large-scale nitrogen fertilizers in our country has been successfully translated into industrial application. 　　China’s large-scale nitrogen fertilizer production technology has long relied on imports from abroad. In 2009, CNPC launched a major scientific and technological project to develop domestic large-scale fertilizer production facilities using the 45/80 process. Huanqiu Engineering Company and Ningxia Petrochemical took on the responsibility of overcoming key technical challenges; they developed the ammonia synthesis process package and the urea production process package, and were also successful in researching, developing, and manufacturing the necessary domestic equipment. As one of the enterprises responsible for the industrial-scale production of this project, Ningxia Petrochemical entered into a partnership with Huanqiu Engineering Company through the factory-based EPC turnkey contract model. Construction began on June 28, 2012, and the unit underwent individual machine testing in April 2017. 　　Once the large-scale fertilizer production facility in Ningxia Petrochemical, capable of producing 450,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 800,000 tons of urea per year, goes into operation, the synthetic ammonia plant will have a daily production capacity of 1,500 tons, while the urea plant will have a daily production capacity of 2,640 tons. This makes it the largest fertilizer production facility of its kind in China, and its overall energy consumption will be at least 10 units lower than that of the older facilities.