Thanks to the timeless production plant, the company has become one of Europe’s top ammonia producers in terms of energy efficiency and emissions.
The new ammonia production plant meets the most stringent requirements of European legislation, increasing reliability and safety in the operation and handling of the ammonia produced, while improving the environmental impact by reducing emissions and wastewater production.
Facts
- Ammonia Plant 4 stands on an area of 385 x 110 metres.
- The plant’s technology consists of more than 496 individual devices, 10 reactors, 167 electrical appliances and
- 3605 measuring instruments, of which 2089 are monitored or controlled by a control system.
- The facilities are connected by pipelines that form 2242 branches.
- From January 2016 to January 2018, 2.79 million hours were worked on site, of which 2.6 million hours were in blue-collar occupations.
- An extensive training programme for future operators lasted a total of 16 months. More than 100 people were trained in total.
- The transport of the largest apparatus from the port of Bratislava to the company premises took three days. One of the largest cranes in Europe with a capacity of 1200 t was used during its assembly.
- A production capacity of 1600 t per day.
- The energy intensity of ammonia produced is below 29 GJ/t.
- Lower wastewater production.
- CO2 emissions below 1619 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of ammonia.
Duslo will continue to develop in the coming years, and the chemical plant is already preparing major investment projects, such as a new universal granulation line or an ammonia refrigeration warehouse.
The modern chemical plant includes state-of-the-art laboratories with highly qualified personnel. They operate in a continuous shift system at Duslo and perform 600,000 analyses per year not only for internal use, but also for external entities in the agricultural, construction, distilling and water sectors.