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Specialty Agro Intermediates Plant - Jhaghadia, Gujarat, India

Sector of activityChemical

ClientUnited Phosphorus Limited (UPL), Jhaghadia, Gujarat, India

Year of Completion2015-16

CAPEXUSD 15 Million

Project Mandate

To provide extended basic, detail and procurement engineering for the plant for manufacturing agrochemical intermediates.

Project Description

The project involved the basic, detail and procurement engineering for the conversion of batch plant into continuous operating as a grass root facility. Apart from capacity expansion, the new continuous plant will also serve the purpose of consistent product purity, reduced production losses, compact plant size, smooth & safe operation.

Services Provided

  • Basic, Detail and Procurement Engineering

Number of Equipment

There were about 140 number of equipments.

The project features

  • Grass-root plant set-up
  • The battery limits consists of reactions stages consisting of nitration and hydrogenation, in addition to crystallization, evaporation and drying.
  • Process equipment consist of distillation columns, reactors, agitators, decanters, vessels, tanks, agitated thin film evaporator, pumps, and blower

Professional personnel assigned to project

Number of persons (Peak Load)45

Duration (months)7