Daelim Industrial said on Sept. 21 that it has successfully installed a carbon dioxide removal facility at the site of an ammonia production plant under construction in Saudi Arabia. The site is located in the Ras Al-Khair area, 80 kilometers north of eastern Saudi Jubail.
Saudi Arabia's state-run mineral company Ma'aden placed an order. Total project cost is about 1.1 trillion won ($0.9 billion). Daelim Industrial is carrying out the project with the EPC Lump sum Turnkey method, which is responsible for design, equipment purchase and construction.
Construction began in November 2018 and currently has a 61% process rate. It is scheduled to be completed in the second half of next year.
Carbon dioxide removal facilities play a key role in ammonia production plants. Carbon dioxide generated in the process of decomposing natural gas, a raw material, interferes with ammonia synthesis, so that it must be removed.
The facility installed at the Daelim site took one year and two months to manufacture. With two large tank-type structures, it is made of stainless steel which is resistant to steel and corrosion.
It is about 50 meters high and weighs 490 tons and 584 tons, respectively. It was manufactured domestically and shipped to Saudi Arabia. Daelim successfully completed the installation in about 11 hours by mobilizing a 1,250-ton crane.
Once completed, the plant can produce 3,300 tons of ammonia per day. Ammonia is also widely used in the manufacture of synthetic fertilizers, coolant and medicines, and in the treatment of the surface of metals, and has become a high value-added petrochemical product.
Daelim Industrial successfully completed the construction of the Saudi Ma'aden ammonia production plant in the same process as this project in 2016. Based on this, Daelim successfully won this project in recognition of quality and technology competitiveness from the client.
