Jacobs Engineering Group has secured an order from Vale Canada. According to the contract, Jacobs will design and provide a new sulfuric acid plant for Vale’s Sudbury smelter located in Canada.
The estimated value for this acid plant contract is $55 million. This contract includes the contact section design of the entire sulfuric acid plant and the supply of certain materials and all equipment. The Chemetics equipment from Jacob along with radial flow gas-gas exchangers, stainless steel converter, SARAMET piping and distributors, and acid coolers are featured in this acid plant. It is expected that the major part of the proprietary equipment may be fabricated at Jacobs' plant in Ontario.
The clean atmospheric emissions reduction (AER) project of Vale includes this new sulfuric acid plant. The overall AER project is specifically designed to avoid emission of sulfur dioxide at the Sudbury location, by over 70% from the present level of emission. Vale believes that the clean AER project is the most important environmental investment in the Sudbury basin.
Andy Kremer, VP of Jacobs Group commented that the company is delighted about the selection of its technology by Vale for this significant project and is expecting to continue its partnership with Vale.
This acid plant is Jacobs’ second main project at the site. The company received a contract for renovating the previous acid plant during 2002 and has several equipment orders, as the original acid plant was constructed in the 90s.