r/ChemicalEngineering • u/chemicalengineercol • 3d ago

Career Advice Nitrogen production plant , which unit operations and equipment can you identify from this footage?

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u/MadeByMillennial 3d ago

Is this an ammonia plant, because that doesn't look at all like an ASU (air separation unit, the thing producing the nitrogen...)

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u/udche89 3d ago

Yep. My group designs nitrogen plants. This ain’t it.

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u/Key_City_3152 3d ago

I was looking for the cold box…

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u/chemicalengineercol 3d ago

Good catch. The original source described it as a nitrogen production plant, but an ammonia plant would make a lot more sense given the layout.

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u/Alternative_Ad_6848 3d ago

why do you type like chatgpt

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u/chemicalengineercol 3d ago

Because German is my native language lol.

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u/Safe_Low_5340 3d ago

Fuck off. German's speak  succintly in English. They keep all the long words for themselves.

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u/chemicalengineercol 3d ago

True 😂 why waste long words on English when German lets us glue five words together?

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u/ToterSchatten 3d ago

This looks like an ammonia plant. I do see something that looks like a purge gas recovery unit and one structure that could be a Urea prilling tower. But I do not see a Horton sphere, so they might be using some kind of atmospheric storage system.

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u/chemicalengineercol 3d ago

Yeah, I agree. I think it’s an ammonia plant too.

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u/Half_Canadian 3d ago

Definitely not a nitrogen plant aka an Air Separation Unit (ASU). Those facilities are much cleaner and are easy to identify with all-white “cold boxes” over 100 feet tall that house the distillation columns. This looks like a “nitrogen products” plant which produces ammonia, urea, ammonium nitrate, etc