Operating a urea plant comes with an immense responsibility to protect your people, your assets, and the environment. The smallest leak in the high-pressure synthesis section can lead to the release of toxic ammonia, and the slightest wear and tear on equipment can cause irreparable technical, health and environmental risks.

In such a high-stakes environment, safety is not just a matter of compliance; it is the foundation of a sustainable and profitable operation.

 

What We Offer

Stamicarbon understands these challenges deeply. That is why we created ADVANCE HSE™, a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to provide a holistic approach to managing and improving the Health, Safety, and Environmental conditions of your plant.

 

Health

•  Advance Coat™

A urea coating for prills, or pastilles, enhances the shelf life and prevents caking, maintains product strength and protects urea from moisture. Our harmless coating can be an excellent replacement for formaldehyde, and during handling, hardly any dust is produced.

 

Safety

•  Lifetime Assessment (LTA) for high-pressure piping

Since regular inspections on high-pressure piping are often neglected, a Lifetime Assessment (LTA) by means of risk-based Inspection (RBI) is essential to help avoid catastrophic failures. All the components will be ranked in terms of criticality from both the process and the atmospheric point of view, using our in-depth knowledge of corrosion and process knowledge in urea plants.

 

•  Urea design safety training

This training helps people to understand our approach to process safety and to broaden the understanding of the typical design solutions to safeguard the most relevant risk scenarios in urea plants.

Herewith, we improve your hazard recognition skills and capability of identifying and controlling potential hazards.

 

•  Process safety plant review

The process safety plant review will facilitate a technical field review to be considered as a spot-check, comparing the plant design against internationally recognized engineering practices to obtain a safe operation. Using a project-specific checklist and field verifications, including interviews with key contractor and client personnel, we evaluate the presence and adequacy of mandatory safety provisions.

 

•  Radar Level Measurement (RMD)

This is a proven and improved substitute for the commonly used radioactive level measurement. The Radar Level Measurement (RMD) has many advantages compared to radioactive level measurements:

-    Accurate measurement (+/- 10mm)

-    Made of E-type material

-    Absolutely safe in use/handling (no radioactive sources)

-    Replacement of the existing radioactive device by radar is possible

 

•  Leak detection monitoring system 

To ensure safe operation of lined HP equipment in a urea plant, a reliable leak detection monitor system providing a short response time between the start of a leak and its detection is of the utmost importance. It can be used for both new and existing HP equipment. The benefits are:

- Potential leaks are continuously monitored, and leaks activate an alarm in the control room.

- The location of the leak can be identified easily.

- It accurately detects and measures in the ppm range.

 

•  E-type Material

E-type Material, formerly known as Safurex®, developed by Stamicarbon in a partnership, is a super duplex stainless steel that has superior corrosion resistance properties.

This material has expanded into a family of long-lasting solutions, not only in materials, but also in products and services, which have optimized urea production and safety because no active corrosion takes place.

 

•  Ammonia storage tank inspections

We are one of the few companies that can assist you with ammonia storage tank inspection within a reasonable shutdown time.

As an ammonia tank inspection is only required once every 15-20 years, special preparation and expertise are required to provide you with valuable advice based on the results of the inspection report.

We offer the following benefits:

- Total inspection, including de-commissioning and commissioning

- Short shutdown time because there is no need for scaffolding 

 

•  Safety Services

HAZOP support (management of change and/or projects), HSE management system assessment (OSHA/PSM) and major incident investigation. In addition to the presented safety services, we have a long experience in the following:

- HAZOP support (management of change and/or projects)

- HSE management system assessment (OSHA/PSM)

- Major incident investigation

 

 

Environment

•  Plant performance assessment

A Plant Performance Assessment evaluates your plant's safe operating limits and identifies opportunities to enhance safety, improve energy efficiency, and boost production capacity.

 

•  Thermal treatment technology 

Our thermal treatment technology is designed to incinerate the ammonia-enriched off-gasses from the atmospheric absorber (to ~ 1 ppm), urea storage tank and ammonia water tank, while using the hydrogen-rich off-gasses of the low-pressure absorber as fuel for the incinerator. 

Using this design, you can benefit from:

- Guaranteed lowest NH3 and NOx emissions

- Independent of melt technology

- Low consumption of gas and

 

Customized Safety Solutions

Your plant’s safety is a continuous journey, not a final destination. Whether you are addressing a specific high-pressure equipment concern, aiming to improve your team's hazard recognition skills, or developing a long-term environmental strategy, our experts are ready to assist.

Reach out to us to build a customized HSE roadmap that aligns with your operational goals.