The fertilizer plants generally use highly upgraded technologies.  They operate at very high temperature and pressure which requires lot of focus on the material of construction.  The fertilizer technology involves complex reactions and high degree of energy usage.  Many types of steels are used in the fertilizer industry.

The fertilizer plant reactions for manufacture of Urea, Di-Ammonium Phosphate,  Sulphuric acid, etc. pass through many intermediate stages where the production mass is very corrosive in nature.

The inputs for making fertilizer viz.  Hydrogen, Sulphuric Acid, Phosphoric Acid, Carbon Dioxide etc., are also highly corrosive in nature.  The overall operation of manufacturing fertilizer not only involves handling of corrosive materials but during the operation of the fertilizer manufacturing, lot of fugitive emissions due to the usage of these chemicals can cause high degree of corrosion.  Generally   if fertilizer plants are situated near coastal areas, the weather in the area also can add to the problems of corrosion externally.

In a nutshell, the fertilizer technology involves corrosive reactions, high temperature, high pressures and release of many products which have corrosive properties.  The manufacturing involves many types of corrosions ranging from electrochemical to general corrosion.

The challenge for fertilizer industry is to understand the corrosion aspects of fertilizer manufacturing and also to find out the suitable prevention methods for various situations.

Throw light on corrosion aspects of fertilizer plants and suggest methods to prevent this problem for both internal (due to reactions) & external (due to atmospheric conditions) factors.

The event contains two rounds

Round 1: Online

• Submit an abstract of not more than 500 words, briefly describing your solution.
• Last day for submission of abstracts 20th October 2011.
• Send the abstract to chemicalevents@engineer.org.in

Round 2: On-Campus

• Shortlisted teams will be required to present a power point presentation in front of the judges, followed by a questionnaire session.
• Economic consideration regarding the given problem must be mentioned

• A team can have a maximum of 3 members.
• All members of the team are to be enrolled as students in an educational institute.
• No person can be part of more than one team.
• The event will be judged by experts from MCF along with professors from NITK. The decision of judges is final and binding.

• 1^st prize: Rs. 10,000
• 2nd prize: Rs. 6,000
• A number of consolation prizes will be given out based on performance.
• Certificates of merit will be given to all winning teams

Yashasvi Laxminarayan - (+91) 9535618426

Mail your queries to chemicalevents@engineer.org.in