The High Stakes of Ammonia Production
As global food demands rise, ammonia production plants face increasing pressure to meet higher targets, often with aging equipment. Maintaining process availability, maximizing efficiency, and ensuring optimal energy consumption are more challenging than ever.
Financial Impact: A single day of lost production can cost an ammonia facility $500,000.
Key Challenges in Ammonia Plants
Several critical processes are prone to disturbances, risking production efficiency:
Natural gas flow to the primary reformer
Air flow to the secondary reformer
Syngas pressure at the suction of the syngas compressor
Suction pressure of the ammonia refrigeration compressor for efficient liquefaction
CCC's Precise Solutions
CCC control systems deliver precise, stable control by:
Enhancing rotating speed regulation and throttling control
Reducing or eliminating recycling
Implementing effective limiting control of critical unit parameters
These improvements minimize process disturbances, prevent shutdowns, and enable more efficient control, ultimately increasing production.
Specialized Solutions for Blue and Green Ammonia:
CCC's technology is vital for both blue and green ammonia production, particularly in controlling CO2 compressors for carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Blue Ammonia: Utilizes natural gas and generates significant CO2 emissions. CCC's advanced compressor control systems optimize CO2 capture and compression, minimizing emissions and meeting environmental regulations.
Green Ammonia: Relies on renewable energy and has lower emissions. CCC's systems enhance CO2 compression and storage efficiency, facilitating utilization or permanent sequestration.
By ensuring the seamless and efficient operation of CO2 compressors, CCC supports the transition to sustainable and eco-friendly industrial processes.
Proven Results
With CCC's advanced solutions, our customers achieve:
Safer operation closer to process limits
Reduced risk of trips and increased process throughput
Up to a 2% increase in production
Enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in CO2 capture and storage for both blue and green ammonia production
Invest in CCC's advanced turbomachinery control solutions to maximize efficiency, minimize losses, and support sustainable ammonia production.
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Over the past 40 years, CCC has been at the forefront of technical and service innovations to improve efficiency and reliability of process operations. Today, thousands of customers across the globe trust CCC's turbomachinery control solutions to drive their critical process.
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With over 150 ammonia plant installation around the globe and over 50 years of experience developing control solutions, CCC has a proven track record of helping our customers achieve greater process availability, increased production, and guaranteed energy savings.
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