Dupont Awards E&C Contract For New Sulfuric Acid Regeneration Plant

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Plans by E I Du Pont de Nemours and Company (NYSE: DD) (DuPont) (Wilmington, Delaware) to construct a new sulfuric acid regeneration plant in Delaware City, Delaware are continuing to move forward since originally reported by Industrialinfo.com in June, 2002. The new plant, which will be built on Motiva Enterprises' refinery site in Delaware City, will recycle sulfuric acid provided by the refinery and once regenerated, the sulfuric acid will be sent back to the refinery to be utilized in the production of high-octane gasoline.

A fatal tank (415,300 gallon) explosion, which occurred July 17, 2001, put Motiva's acid plant out of operation and the new DuPont plant will replace it. This new plant will be able to meet the refinery's needs while only releasing half the air pollution of the original plant. Dupont will own this new plant, which will include three new 400,000 gallon storage tanks.

Enviro-Chem Systems, Incorporated (Saint Louis, Missouri) a Monsanto Company (Saint Louis, Missouri) has been awarded the contract to design, engineer, and construct the new sulfuric acid regeneration plant and construction is expected to start construction in the fourth quarter of 2003 and be operational in 2004.

Enviro-Chem specializes in providing solutions for sulfuric acid production as well as minimizing and controlling industrial air pollution. Over 70 years has been dedicated to designing, engineering and constructing industrial projects striving for environmental safety and product quality.