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Acid Plant Database November 14, 2021
| Owner | General Fertilizer Company (GFC) |
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| Location |
Homs Syria |
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| Background | Subsidiary of General Establishment of Chemical Industries (GECI) | |
| Website | ||
| Plant | Plant No. 1 | Plant No. 2 |
| Coordinates* | 34º 39' 10" N, 36º 37' 20" E | 34º 39' 10" N, 36º 37' 17" E |
| Type of Plant | Sulphur Burning | Sulphur Burning |
| Gas Source | Elemental Sulphur | Elemental Sulphur |
| Plant Capacity | 850 MTPD | 850 MTPD |
| SA/DA | - | - |
| Status | Operating | Operating |
| Year Built | - | - |
| Technology | - | - |
| Contractor | - | - |
| Remarks | - | - |
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| General | GFC, a Syrian Government-owned Company, has 2 Sulphuric Acid plants, each rated at 850 tpd. The plants were not able to reach the rated capacity. When the work was awarded to DMCC (JV’s fore runner) against a global tender, the plants were operating at around 50% capacity. DMCC engineered the revamp on turnkey basis. The Heat Exchangers, Economisers and Superheaters were replaced with better designs. 3 Towers, Sulphur Furnace, APT and Converter were modified and complete brick lining was redone. All equipment, including main Air Blower (turbine driven), Acid Pumps, etc. were overhauled. Instrumentation was completely replaced. Major plant piping was resized and replaced. | |
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| News |
January 31, 2019 - When the economic sector has become
characterized by political and military features in the world of the Syrian
conflict, Syrian agriculture has entered into a whirlwind that has made it
the most affected part in that conflict. This is in addition to the
suspension of the activities of the General Fertilizers Company in Homs and
then its discontinuous operation resumption, in a way that has made the
farmers lose their balance, and look for alternatives of a company that has
been servicing the agricultural sector throughout Syria and that has become
today under unhidden Russian hands.
The General Fertilizers Company in Homs has gradually resumed its operations
since mid-2017 by launching its three plants (Ammonia Urea Plant, Ammonium
Nitrate Fertilizer Plant, and Phosphate Fertilizer Plant) after suspending
its activity for more than two years. General Fertilizers is the largest
chemical industrial complex in Syria and it secures the agricultural
sector’s needs of all types of fertilizers.
The General
Fertilizers Company produces various types of fertilizers for agricultural
production in Syria, most notably the fertilizers of Urea, Ammonium Nitrate
and Phosphate. The company then delivers the produced fertilizers to the
Agricultural Cooperative Bank, which in turn sells them to farmers at a
subsidized price, in accordance with the available plan in each season.
However, with
the suspension of the General Fertilizers Company’s activities in 2015 due
to the lack of production requirements, including gas, phosphate,
electricity and spare parts, the local agricultural market lost several
types of fertilizers, mainly the Urea. This has negatively affected the
quantities and quality of production, and prompted the farmers to resort to
the black market.
Among many
other Russian investments in Syria, we find OAO Stroytransgaz, which owns
shares in GFC. The Russian company has signed a renewable contract with the
government of the Syrian regime in November 2018, to exploit the Syrian
Fertilizer Company and its three plants for 40 renewable years.
Under the
contract, OAO Stroytransgaz will re-maintain the three plants, and will
commit to boost its productivity, until reaching the plants’ design capacity
within two years. Thus, the Syrian Fertilizers Company’s share of profits
will be 35 percent compared to 65 percent for the Russian side, according to
the terms of the contract published by governmental newspaper, Tishreen.
The Director
General of the General Establishment for Chemical Industries, Usama Abu
Fakhr, told Tishreen newspaper
that the aim of the Russian investment in the company is to reach the design
capacity, which is estimated at 1,600 tons of fertilizers per day. The
Russian company is then entitled to export fertilizers abroad.
The General Fertilizers Company (GFC), which is the largest chemical
industrial complex that believes in the need of the agricultural sector in
Syria, has three factories for the production of agricultural fertilizers:
Ammonia Urea Plant, Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Plant and Phosphate
Fertilizer Plant, which were affected during the war years in Syria.
The Phosphate
Fertilizer Plant was officially activated on January 3, after completion of
maintenance work of production lines.
The plant resumed work on December 19, and started production on the
30th of the same month, to monitor the production situation, which reached
400 tons per day of Phosphate Fertilizer necessary for agriculture in Syria,
according to the Provincial Council of Homs.
The Phosphate Fertilizer Plant comprises three sections: Sulphuric
acid, Phosphoric acid and fertilizer production. These sections were
reactivated after the General Fertilizers Company received quantities of raw
phosphates from the Sharqiyah Phosphate mines in Palmyra countryside.
December 1,
2017 - Industry Minister Ahmad al-Hamo affirmed during a tour of
the plant that resuming production in the plant came after securing the raw
materials needed for it, hailing the efforts of all employees of the company
and their insistence to stay in their company to provide the needs of the
farmers.He pointed out to the importance of producing this type of
fertilizer during this period of the year, which coincides with the start of
the agricultural season as all kinds of crops need this type of fertilizer,
stressing that the second line of the plant will take off during the next
month.The superphosphate fertilizer plant produces 20 tons of fertilizer per
hour and the load will be gradually increased to reach 25 tons. |
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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
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