DHAKA, Mar 9 (NNN-BSS) – The carbon dioxide stripping tower, the first super-heavy equipment of Bangladesh’s Ghorashal-Polash Urea fertiliser project (GPUFP), the country’s largest and first ever, green fertiliser factory, was installed successfully yesterday.
Engineers and workers from China National Chemical Engineering & Construction Corporation Seven Ltd, successfully lifted and installed the tower, which is 68.5 metres high, and has a self-weight of 447.5 tonnes.
After “dress-up,” its lifting-weight reaches 602.7 tonnes, being the tallest and heaviest equipment of the fertiliser factory, located in Narsingdi district, some 51 km north-east of the national capital, Dhaka.
The Chinese company said, the smooth lifting of the tower has laid a solid foundation for the subsequent lifting of other super-heavy equipment.
With the main crane hooking slowly and the auxiliary crane working carefully, the carbon dioxide stripping tower was lifted once, winning appreciation from the company’s Japanese partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation.
Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, hundreds of engineers and skilled workers from the Chinese company, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, worked round the clock, while strictly following health and safety guidelines, in order to complete the mega project as scheduled.
Launched in Aug, 2020, the project is scheduled to be completed in 2023. Once completed, it will become the biggest fertiliser factory in Bangladesh, and the first ever green fertiliser factory in Bangladesh, with no pollutants emitted to the environment.
“All carbon dioxide will be captured. No carbon dioxide will go to the ambient, and other liquid effluent will not go to surface waters outside, before treatment. We may say it is the first green fertiliser (factory) in Bangladesh,” GPUFP project manager, Mohammad Rajiour Rahman Mollick earlier said.
With an estimated daily production capacity of 2,800 metric tonnes, officials said, the factory will help Bangladesh meet the growing demand for fertiliser in its efforts to ensure food security.
