New Sulfuric Acid Plant in Chile Receives Environmental Permits

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources Latin America (Cordoba, Argentina)--Empresa Nacional de Acido S.A. (ENA) (Santiago, Chile) recently received environmental permits that will allow the construction of a new sulfuric acid plant. The facility, which will use Haldor Topsoe technology, will be built in Laguna, in the Tarapaca state, and will have a production capacity of 250,000 metric tons per year of sulfuric acid with a concentration level of 98.5%.

The plant also will have its own cogeneration power unit, which will consist of a steam turbine generator set able to produce 10 megawatts (MW) using process steam from the chemical plant, and a heat recovery steam generator that will utilize the waste heat coming from the plant. There will be a 9,600-cubic-meter storage tank park that will allow distribution of the acid by land.

On June 4, 2012, ENA got the approval of the environmental impact assessment issued by the National Environment Ministry, which authorizes the construction of the $30 million project. The plant will produce the sulfuric acid necessary to supply for the mining operations in the northern area of the country, in the Tarapaca and Arica Regions. ENA expects to select the company that will perform the engineering, procurement and construction for the project during the third quarter of 2012. After 15 months of construction, the new Iquique Laguna plant is expected to be operational by mid-2014.

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