Phosphate Fertiliser Industry:

Second to China in population and around 70% of its population earn their livelihood from agriculture, India stands as the third largest producer and user of fertilizer after China and USA. But in respect of production of its huge tonnage of phosphate fertilizer, India has very limited or negligible deposit of Rock Phosphate, the basic raw material needed for any phosphate fertilizer production. Most of the phosphate fertilizer manufacturing units in India depend totally on the vast import of this raw material, which values (including freights, etc) more than 85% of cost of production of phosphoric acid (an intermediate for production of any phosphate fertilizer, except single superphosphate).

For economy, all the bulk phosphate fertilizer manufacturers in India switch over from one rock phosphate to other, while most of them do not have any pilot plant to standardise the operating parameters for processing a new origin rock. Sometimes the plant or the technology itself has its limitation for using new rock phosphates.

With very limited scope in the margin of profit, phosphate fertilizer manufacturers focus mostly on improvement of its technical yield and utilisation of its capacity by more than 200%, that also with the cheapest available raw material.

ARMACO, with its vast field of experience and plant design skill in Phosphoric acid, Phosphate fertilizer e.g.; NPK fertilizer, triple superphosphate, single superphosphate and dicalcium phosphate, equips itself better for debottlenecking of chemical plants. It provides a process and engineering solution more appropriate to this field. Our experienced engineers have to sense, analyse and justify a future field problem at its design stage, so that the chemical plants people may not have to face its severity, when the plant will be in regular operation. Thus from the grass root level of preparing techno feasibility report, we provide right support in detail engineering, debottlenecking, retrofitting, expansion, commission, effluent treatment, water management and technical yield improvement.

With its aggressive scaling and corrosive properties, one can hardly sustain operation of a Phosphate plant under standard or stable condition for a longer time and thus makes the plant frequently suffer from good manufacturing practices. The situation mostly magnifies as raw material for production of Phosphoric Acid and Phosphates varies widely in origin or reactivity, composition and properties. One needs to forecast an operating practice based on his field of experience and thus plant design should incorporate a robust flexibility in operating practices and a larger margin in operating windows. This will basically support a more stable and sustained operation, especially in manufacture of Phosphoric Acid.

To support this network, it is most vital to develop its shop floor chemical plants experts, who need to take a right operating decision in right time. Starting from providing process & technical solutions, we are there to provide Human Development Service, especially for the shop floor people, the front runners. Having a robust support of technology & machinery, only a good shop floor man with his right & on time decision and better operating practices can manage a cutting-edge margin in productivity. This leaves a plant engineer and manager to worth his own time and manage his task better.

In phosphate Fertilizer engineering consultant , ARMACO has the experience in making Techno feasibility, Costing, Detail engineering, Commissioning, Retrofitting and Debottlenecking of the following Unit Operations and Processes in New and Existing Plants  :-