NIIK team attended a worldwide famous Technical Conference and Exhibition Nitrogen & Syngas 2018 that took place in Gothenburg, Sweden
From February 27th to March 1st NIIK’s representatives took part in a highly reputed technical conference and exhibition in the field of nitrogen fertilizers and syngas production “Nitrogen & Syngas 2018” hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden. This year the following members joined NIIK’s team: Chairman of the Board Igor Esin, General Director Oleg Kostin, Head of Moscow office Sergei Suvorkin, Deputy Director for Science Nikolai Lobanov, Deputy Technical Director for Design Engineering Olga Uriavina, Head of Process Department Rinat Anderzhanov, Senior Specialist for Nitric Acid technologies Natalia Temnaia, Head of International Business Development Department Natalia Kargaeva, Head of International Project Coordination Department Olesia Sineva and Manager for International Business Development Department Dmitry Obedin.
A total number of the Nitrogen & Syngas conference attendees exceeded 700 people from about 200 countries.
The most part of presentations and papers within the congress sessions was about ammonia and methanol process technologies. As for NIIK’s specialists, they took the greatest interest in the papers regarding innovative energy-efficient urea plants and small-scale urea units. It was also an interesting topic about the experience of some Indian companies in the area of revamps of LP condensation units. A special attention was attracted to the presentations by Thyssenkrupp and Haldor Topsoe regarding state-of-the-art single line ammonia plants with capacity more than 4500 MTPD.
In accordance with the conference program Rinat Anderzhanov presented his paper «A new urea solution and UAN plant based on the existing standby facilities». The attendees highly appreciated the fact that all proposed technical solutions have already been tested and implemented in several operational plants in Russia. There were questions from technical specialists about the applicability of the technology described for all types of production units and what can be the client interaction procedure. All the queries raised were answered in details in the conference hall and later at the NIIK’s exhibition booth.
NIIK’s engineers took part also in the technical seminar UreaKnowHow dedicated to the safety improvements and technical hazards in urea plants. There were discussed different reasons and cases of emergency events and how to avoid them in the best way.
It is well recognized that the Nitrogen & Syngas conference was always considered as one of the key places to arrange the talks and discuss possible ways of cooperation with Russian and foreign partners. This time NIIK’s management and specialists held more than 40 negotiations with leading international technology licensors and urea, ammonium, ammonium nitrate and nitric acid producers. Within a few days of the conference the NIIK’s team succeeded to discuss the major issues of existing projects and map out the plans for further mutual work with different companies from all over the world.
The attendance of NIIK’s exhibition booth by the Nitrogen & Syngas visitors remain a very important factor. Many nitrogen fertilizers and equipment producers from Europe, Asia and Middle East countries got interested in our solutions in the field of modernization of process technologies, corrosion inspections and high quality repairs of HP equipment.
In conclusion we would like to underscore that NIIK having become a worldwide identifiable brand in the nitrogen industry attracts rightly and successfully attention of the Russian and international companies ready to build strong relationships based on fruitful and long-term cooperation in the nearest future.