Houston-KBR reports that it has been awarded a contract by Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. (MFCL), a Matix Group Company owned by the Kanoria family of India, to provide licensing and engineering services for its grassroots 2,200 mt/d ammonia plant located in West Bengal, India. MFCL is setting up the largest ammonia/urea (1.3 million mt/y) manufacturing facility in the country, along with Captive Power Plant, utilities, infrastructure, and railway siding in the complex. KBR will license its Purifier(TM) Ammonia technology for the Matix plant, which will be based on coal bed methane. The use of coal bed methane as feedstock in the ammonia synthesis process is a relatively new application that provides an alternative to the use of natural gas in areas where coal is abundant.
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