Petroleum refining areas

Metallurgical & Mining operations

Chemical Processing

Wet battery manufacturing & rebuilding operations

Anhydrous Ammonia is a strong base and is added to acidic solutions as vapor or liquid.

Ammonia adds no additional salts to a solution, eliminating solid precipitates and sludge that must be handled as bulk wastes and can become very costly.  

Ammonia can be used in various other processes in the plant.

Ammonia provides fast neutralization.

Fast neutralization allows more accurate control and less waste.

Minimum equipment requirement.

Minimum handling and labor requirement.

Minimum maintenance due to reduced corrosion to valves, piping and controls.

Minimum space requirement for total system.

A manual system with a portable pH meter can be installed if neutralization is done on a batch basis.

More complex automated systems can be designed and built to meet the requirements of the situation.

Systems can be designed and installed utilizing cylinder manifolds or bulk ammonia systems.

Liquid ammonia is used for acid neutralization systems that require large quantities of ammonia over a short period of time.

Vapor is limited due to the rate of liquid ammonia vaporization.  However, the installation of a vaporizer can aid in maintaining the vapor withdrawal rate.

Ammonia is used to increase pH in Pharmaceutical, Ore Flotation & Food Industries.

Ammonia is a very cost effective and an operationally efficient chemical.

The rapid and complete reaction of ammonia with water makes accurate feed control possible resulting in minimal waste.

Ammonia's flexibility to be added as a vapor or liquid is a great advantage for plants that wash several different seams of coal where each has a different effect on pH control.

ASME Coded Storage Tank - for ammonia storage.

Steel Pipe Lines - to prevent corrosion in the lines.  Ammonia is incompatible and corrosive with many other metals.

Needle Valve - for feed control.

Check Valve - to prevent water from coming back in the line and contaminating the storage system.

Vaporizer - is needed in winter weather when the surrounding air is cold causing pressure to drop in the tank, decreasing the vapor withdrawal rate.  The vaporizer will heat the liquid ammonia changing it to vapor, maintaining the vapor feed rate.

Proportioning Valve and Proportioning pH Controller - allows control of feed rate when gradual changes occur in water flow rate.

pH Probe - a built-in safeguard that shuts down the system preventing excessive amounts of ammonia discharging into the receiving stream if pH reaches the high set point.

Potable water treatment

Disinfection of new or repaired mains, tanks, reservoirs and wells.

Chlorine is added to water containing natural or added ammonia.  The ammonia reacts with the HOCl to form various chloramines that retain the oxidizing power of the chlorine.

It is used in the water disinfection process to destroy harmful and "nuisance" organisms, including disease producing, pathogenic organisms.  

The combination of chlorine and ammonia produce a more stable disinfecting residual than chlorine alone.