Exhibitor Profiles

Aecometric Corporation

For almost 50 years Aecometric has been a trusted name in providing industrial combustion equipment. The Aecometric High Intensity Burner technology stands alone in performance, quality and reliability. The Aecometric burner design lends itself perfectly to the combustion needs of the Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid industry by providing maximum contaminant destruction, exceptional reliability and a high level of operational flexibility.

BASF Corporation

Since 1913 BASF runs the lowest SO2-emission sulfuric acid production plants worldwide.

We design our catalysts for maximum outcomes. That starts with the unrivaled SO2-emission performance they can deliver because of their large surface area. To our customers, that means effortless regulatory compliance, no additional emission reduction costs, higher conversion, and bigger profits. These results last. Because of their exceptional physical stability, our catalysts offer a longer lifetime, deliver energy savings, and minimize downtime risks.

At BASF, all of that comes with total service dedication, reliable customer support backed by the inventor of the sulfuric acid catalysts, and decades of experience.

Blasch Precision Ceramics

Blasch’s unique and innovative ceramic systems provide significant process improvement benefits, both for SRU’s and Sulfuric Acid plants. Blasch VectorWallTM for the reaction furnace and incinerator provide higher reliability, more efficient incorporation and processing of multiple streams, the ability to create multiple zones in the same furnace, faster installation, capacity increases, energy savings, and lower emissions. Blasch ProLokTM ferrule design require no castable refractory and offer far superior tubesheet and boiler tube protection, preventing costly shutdowns.

CECO Environmental

CECO Industrial Solutions provide reliable and efficient technology solutions and services to meet and exceed your sulphuric acid applications and fertilizer manufacturing challenges. We help you to optimize your total cost of ownership through our vast range of technologies for air pollution control and product recovery solutions.

Our in-house technologies range from:

• Candle Filters Mist Eliminators
• Mesh Pad Mist Eliminators
• Wet and Dry Scrubbers
• Particulate Scrubbers
• High Efficiency Cyclone
• Bag House Dust Collectors

CG Thermal, LLC

CG Thermal has the process experience and proprietary equipment ideally suited to meet the demands of the harshest and most corrosive sulphur and sulphuric acid operations. Areas of expertise include double effect evaporation systems, dilution systems, recovery systems, sour gas cooling, VOC steam strippers, tail gas burner systems and high temperature gas-to-gas catalyst recuperators. Their high temperature AirBTU gas-to-gas recuperator has proprietary design features resulting in extended service life of 2 to 3 times compared with existing installed units.

Chemetics Inc.

Chemetics’ standard of excellence in the Sulphuric Acid Industry has been established on a world-wide basis for over 50 years. From its headquarters in Vancouver BC, and its fabrication facility in Pickering ON (both located in Canada), Chemetics® services clients in the non-ferrous metallurgical, fertilizer and chemical industries around the globe. Chemetics’ continued success depends on its focus on understanding client requirements and responding with solutions which meet their needs. Chemetics’ capabilities range from the performance of plant inspections, engineering services, fabrication and supply of proprietary equipment through to executing revamps of existing Sulphuric Acid Plants and undertaking turnkey projects for new plants. Chemetics is part of Worley and is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional and construction services for the Energy, Chemicals and Resources sector.

DuPont-MECS®

The MECS® world-leading sulphuric acid technology is offered to the global marketplace by DuPont Clean Technologies. Serving the phosphate fertilizer, oil and gas, chemical and non-ferrous metals industries, the MECS® sulphuric acid technology encompasses engineering design, services and high-performance products. MECS® technologies feature breakthrough solutions, many of which have revolutionized performance, quality and cost-effectiveness, such as MECS® heat recovery systems (HRS™), MECS® SolvR® and MECS® MAX3™. Integrated into the MECS® sulphuric acid technology are proven and reliable specialty products specifically designed for this demanding operating environment, including acid catalysts, Brink® mist eliminators, DynaWave® scrubbers, ZeCor® corrosion resistant alloy products, and acid coolers.

Fluor

Fluor Corporation is one of the worlds leading engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, and project management companies. Our unique experience and knowledge in the design of sulphur recovery plants, tail gas treating units, and proprietary process technologies, provides a wide range of proven and innovative solutions for our clients. With over a century of experience in handling complex projects in challenging locations, Fluor’s dependability, expertise, and safety record distinguishes us as a respected leader in sulphur recovery.

Haldor Topsoe A/S

Haldor Topsoe is a global leader in supply of catalysts, technology, and services to the chemical and refining industries. Topsoe aims to be the global leader within carbon emission reduction technologies by 2024.
Our high activity catalysts provide high conversion, high energy efficiency, low-pressure drop, production stability, as well as an exceptionally long life in any sulfuric acid plant. They ensure that our customers achieve higher production rates, improved heat recovery, fast start-up, optimal energy efficiency and the lowest possible SO2 emissions. Our Wet gas Sulfuric Acid (WSA) technology converts sulfurous gases to commercial-grade sulfuric acid without drying the gas, with a high energy efficiency and very low emissions. Learn more at topsoe.com

Howden

Howden specializes in the design, application and manufacture of customized turbo blowers and compressors for both sulphur production and recovery applications. As a global supplier, we draw on our extensive experience from our trusted product brands as well as working closely with customers to offer a unique range of mutually compatible compressors and drivers.

IPCO

IPCO is a world-leading supplier of sulphur processing including the Rotoform® technology for low-to-medium capacity granulation operations and fully automated sulphur drum granulators for high capacity sulphur granulations.

Since 1951, IPCO has developed customised solutions in sulphur solidification and handling plants. The company has supplied more than 700 sulphur forming units around the world and has offices in over 130 countries for efficient customer support.

The company’s expertise extends to the design, supply and commissioning of complete end-to-end systems covering everything from receipt of molten sulphur to storage and loading of solid material.

J. Rettenmaier & Söhne

JRS is world’s leading producer of precoat filter aids that do replace minerals such as Diatomite and Perlite in filtration of molten sulphur. FILTRACEL filter aids offer the following benefits: Significantly lower process costs, longer filter cycles, reduced filter aid consumption, less waste and less sulphur loss, longer lifetime of filter elements, no catalyst poisoning.

Kanzler Verfahrenstechnik GmbH

KVT is an engineering company with worldwide operations in development, design and implementation of innovative process plant. KVT´s core technologies: Catalytic and/or thermal wet process to produce sulfuric acid from off gases containing sulphur compounds, Waste gas cleaning; Industrial wastewater and sludge treatment; Chemicals production plants based on Glycerine, Catalysts.

Kimre

Kimre™ high-performance, interlaced mesh structure has provided revolutionary air pollution control and fluid separation products since 1973. Kimre™ technology is proven to economically meet the toughest applications at any gas flow rate, for horizontal or vertical flow. Proven applications in phosphate fertilizer plants include:
• PHOSPHORIC ACID PRODUCTION
• AMMONIUM PHOSPHATE AND NPK PRODUCTION
• ANIMAL FEED INGREDIENTS PRODUCTION
• SUPER PHOSPHATE PRODUCTION
• SULPHURIC ACID PRODUCTION
• ROCK PRODUCTION
Kimre™ Technology includes:
• B-GON® Mist/Fume Eliminators
• KIMRE™ CANDLE Fiber-Bed Coalescing Filters
• KON-TANE® Scrubber Tower Packing
• SXF™ Semi-Cross-Flow Contactors
• AEROSEP® Multi-Stage Aerosol Separation
• KIMRE™ Technology; Scrubber/Mass Transfer Equipment
• DRIFTOR® Drift Eliminators
• LIQUI-NOMIX® Liquid/Liquid Separation

Metso Outotec

Metso Outotec is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing, metals refining and recycling industries globally. By improving our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increasing their productivity, and reducing environmental risks with our product and process expertise, we are the partner for positive change.

With over 650 sulfuric acid plant installations worldwide, Metso Outotec is the leader in sulfuric acid plant design and delivery. For maximum sulfur-conversion efficiency, we offer a total concept for the sulfuric acid plant, incorporating waste-water treatment, dust, slag, heavy metals and scrubbing acid equipment.

The Outotec Edmeston Product Center specializes in the design and supply of strong acid equipment, mainly manufactured from the proprietary alloy Edmeston SX®. Edmeston SX® stainless steel was introduced to the market in 1984 and is characterized by an excellent corrosion resistance over a wide concentration range of sulfuric acid at high temperatures.

Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Metso Outotec employs over 15,000 people in more than 50 countries and its illustrative combined sales for 2019 were about EUR 4.2 billion. The company is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. mogroup.com, twitter.com/metsooutotec

NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd

NORAM designs and supplies equipment and technologies for the process and resource industries. For sulfuric acid clients, NORAM offers improved equipment including sulfur furnaces, stainless steel converters, radial and split flow gas exchangers, ducting and expansion joints, acid towers (traditional brick-lined and NORAM SX® alloy as well as HPTM packing), and other NORAM SX® components including, acid valves, acid distributors (trough and SmartTM), piping and acid coolers. NORAM also offers debottlenecking and emission reduction studies. NORAM is a specialist at refurbishing existing acid plants with enhanced equipment to make them run better.

P & P Industries AG

#1 in Spent Acid Regeneration SAR - Sulphur Oxidation Process SOP

Wet Sulfuric Acid WSA Process Revolutionised

We are a globally active green technology player specialised in waste gas treatment and emission control. Our core competence is to plan and build waste gas treatment plants as a turnkey supplier or engineering partner to achieve your goals.

We apply our revolutionised Wet gas Sulfuric Acid (WSA) Process in our Spent Acid Regeneration SAR Plants, where we are worldwide #1 and in our Sulphur Oxidation Process SOP Plants.

Our customers can produce highly concentrated industrial grade sulphuric acid of 98 % or higher and clean air at the same time with a record sulphur conversion rate of > 99.999%.

SAR plants focus on the treatment of already spent sulphuric acid (H2SO4), e.g. in alkylation plants of petroleum refineries. SOP plants are for cleaning of waste gas from sulphur-containing components (SO2, H2S, CS2 ...).

An excerpt of other technologies and proprietory equipment we can provide:

• Sulfuric acid concentration units

• Thermal oxidiser plants

• Catalytic oxidation plants

• DeNOx plants

• Scrubber

• WESP - wet electrostatic precipitators

• Hot gas filtration

• Acid-resistant heat exchangers and condenser

• PFA lining services

Piller Blowers & Compressors GmbH

Piller Blowers & Compressors supplies customized blowers and compressors for the process industry. Its customers include numerous industries such as the petrochemical, chemical industries or wastewater treatment. PILLER offers a full service from development to project planning, design and manufacturing. Comprehensive services, including commissioning, training, inspection, repair and system optimization.

SBS Steel Belt Systems S.r.l.

SBS Steel Belt Systems manufactures, installs and commissions continuous machinery and plants equipped with stainless steel belts for chemical, petrochemical, fertilizer, sulphur, food, rubber and powder coating industries.
The most advanced techniques in the industrial fields have led SBS to work for the best European, American and Asian companies, as well as for the most important engineering groups. SBS is able to offer complete packages, starting from the design, through the construction, the installation, the commissioning up to the after sales service of their machinery. The company is part of the international group BERNDORF BAND GmbH / Austria, provider of the stainless steel belts.

SensoTech

SensoTech manufactures analyzers for concentration measurement of sulfuric acid and oleum in various applications. The LiquiSonic® sensor technology is based on sonic velocity measurement providing an accuracy of up to 0.03 wt%. SensoTech offers both inline sensors measuring the sulfuric acid strength directly in pipes or vessels, and laboratory systems. The analyzers are robust, maintenance-free and made in Germany. The LiquiSonic® controller displays the concentration values and transfers the real-time information online to process control systems.

SULPHURNET

Sulphurnet provides process engineering and filtration solutions for the sulphur and sulphuric acid industry. Experts in designing sulphur melting plants up to 2250MTON/day, Sulphurnet now offers a Modularised Sulphur Melting and Filtration “Plug and Play” Solution with a capacity from 5 to 300 Mton/day of liquid Sulphur.

Sulzer

At Sulzer, we have more than 180 years of experience in developing pumping, mixing and agitation solutions for industrial processes that involve corrosive or erosive media. We add value to the customers’ processes through best-in-class products and services. We also offer the best process understanding for demanding applications as well as a complete portfolio for all sulphur and sulphuric acid applications.

Our complete range of tailor-made rotodynamic and liquid ring vacuum pumps, agitators, mixers and oil-free compressors is designed in close co-operation with our customers. Our offering fulfills the specifications for the petrochemicals, chemicals, fertilizers, metals and mining industries. Advanced design and materials, a wide range of shaft seals and sealing systems, and the overall operating efficiency ensure a reliable process and a maintenance-free operation. Moreover, we have deep knowledge in wastewater treatment and can offer the best and most energy-efficient equipment and solutions for all industrial water treatment processes. With our new Sulzer Sense wireless condition monitoring solution, you can take care of your equipment in an easy, safe and smart way.

Weir Minerals

The Weir Minerals range of Lewis® pumps and valves are made with Lewmet® alloys to provide superior erosion resistance and corrosion protection. Lewmet® nickel-chrome alloy is engineered to withstand long-term exposure in the harsh operating environment of contact process sulphuric acid plants. We provide innovative solutions to sulphur and sulphuric acid customers around the world. Our new Lewis® VL axial pump, Lewis® horizontal pump, and Lewis® vertical high pressure molten salt pump combine efficient engineering, unmatched pump performance with the outstanding wear life of our famous Lewmet® nickel-chrome alloy.

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