LSB Industries, a manufacturing and engineering company, has completed the proposed development project of increasing the production levels of anhydrous ammonia at the chemical plant that is situated in Pryor of Oklahoma.
The company commenced this project on January 3, 2012 and completed it on February 3, 2012 during the non-production time of this plant. Anhydrous ammonia is generated together with urea at the Pryor facility from natural gas, in order to produce urea ammonia nitrate. This is the primary feedstock.
The acceptable level of ammonia production at this facility is 700 TPD. During 2011, the ammonia plant was not able to maintain the production level over 500 TPD, because of the limitations in production due to the less flow of process gas in the heat exchangers and also further mechanical constraints. The main goal of this improvement project was to identify solutions to those restrictions. The company’s management has confirmed that that main goal was achieved. During the development project, the loss of production will be above the offset during the rest of 2012.
Pryor utilized the downtime for correcting other identified mechanical problems that may reduce the downtime later.
The main business works of LSB include the production and sale of residential and commercial climate control products like modular geothermal chillers, water sources and geothermal heat pumps, huge custom air handlers, hydronic fan coils and the production and sale of chemicals for the industrial, agricultural and mining sectors.
Source: http://www.lsb-okc.com/