Europe’s largest urea plant has started production: In Sluiskil in the Netherlands have the Dortmund plant manufacturers of ThyssenKrupp for the Norwegian company Yara, a plant for production of 3,500 tonnes per day urea solution delivered and put into operation. The plant has now been passed to the customer. The construction took three years. Yara has invested 400 million euros for this.
The special feature of the system is that part of the production is not a fertilizer, but as an aqueous urea solution for cleaning exhaust gases of diesel use is found. To be known as AdBlue ® technology reduces NOx emissions. The urea solution is offered for example at service stations and marketed under the name Yara’s Air1 ®. Trucks to reach the latest design standards so that the limits of € 5 and € standard sixth in a few years Ammonia and carbon dioxide as raw materials are used which are available at the site in Sluiskil. With the urea plant are now obsolete and transport of ammonia accumulating CO2 is processed in an environmentally conscious.
The technology was licensed by the Dutch company Stamicarbon, ThyssenKrupp Uhde, the design, supply all the equipment and the construction and installation of the equipment acquired for a fixed price turnkey basis.