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CASALE helps advance India’s industrial transformation

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World Fertilizer,

CASALE has become part of a pioneering coal-to-ammonia-nitrates project in Odisha, India: the country's first coal gasification-based nitrates complex, developed on an L-EPC basis for Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Limited (BCGCL) together with Larsen & Toubro.

Strongly supported by the Government of India, this strategic initiative reflects a long-term vision to strengthen national energy security, enhance industrial resilience, and maximise the value of domestic coal resources.

Leveraging decades of experience and more than 80 ammonia synthesis loop references worldwide up to 3100 tpd, CASALE will contribute its ammonia technology expertise and proprietary equipment for critical sections of the 920 tpd ammonia synthesis loop.

At the heart of the complex, the ammonia N-LOOP will provide the essential building block for downstream nitric acid and ammonium nitrate (AN) production, enabling efficient and reliable operation across the entire fertilizer value chain.

Beyond its technical scope, the project represents an important milestone is India's efforts to develop new coal gasification-based industrial value chains and strengthen long-term self-reliance in strategic chemical production.

Following the foundation stone laying ceremony in mid-June, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, CASALE's technologies will enable a fully integrated coal-to-ammonium nitrate value chain, from ammonia production through weak nitric acid (WNA), ammonium nitrate, and HDAN.

Leveraging more than 120 nitric acid and ammonium nitrate plant references worldwide, CASALE will provide its proprietary DualPURE and NitroCULTIVA technologies for a 1650 tpd WNA plant, a 2000 tpd AN plant, and a 400 tpd HDAN prilling unit, setting a new benchmark for nitrate production capacity in India and supporting the supply of strategic products for the country's mining sector.

Once completed, it will represent the largest ammonium nitrate complex in the country and is expected to meet nearly 35% of India's projected ammonium nitrate demand by 2030.

Read the article online at: https://www.worldfertilizer.com/environment/24062026/casale-helps-advance-indias-industrial-transformation/

 
 

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