Prayon Group’s (Engis, Belgium; www.prayon.com) Prayon Technologies division, which specializes in the licensing of phosphoric acid processes, will provide a license and technical guidance for two new phosphoric acid plants to be built in Egypt, as part of the NCIC Ain Sokhna Fertilizer Complex on the Gulf of Suez. This will be the largest fertilizer complex in Egypt.
For Prayon Technologies, the scope of work comprises the provision of technical know-how, process engineering, support for detailed engineering, operator training, and support for commissioning, startup and performance tests. Studies are already under way and the plants should be completed by 2018.Each plant will have a capacity of 600 metric tons per day of P2O5 (phosphoric acid). Prayon Technologies will join forces on this project with its longstanding engineering partner Desmet Ballestra, based in Milan, Italy.Not only will Prayon provide process know-how, but its Profile division will also deliver the equipment critical to this project, including tilting pan filters, reaction agitators, scrubbers and separators.