Fertilizer plant stops leaking money

摘要

The Fertarex® ion exchange system using Lanxess premium resins recovers valuable nitrogen-based products from wastewater produced by a fertilizer production plant in Turkey. A fully automated, US$8-million Fertarex® ion exchange system installed in the Gemlik Giibre Sanayi fertilizer plant, near Bursa, Turkey, treats 40 cubic meters (m3) per hour of process condensate from ammonium nitrate production. Developed by the Swiss company Arionex Wasseraufbereitung, the advanced system saves US$2.7 million to $3.2 million per year by recovering more than 6,247 tons/year of calcium-ammonium-nitrate and approximately 300,960 m~3 per year of demineralized water from waste-water.