Vale Canada Ltd. granted a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for its Sudbury, Ontario smelter. The USD55 million contract includes designing the plant contact section and supplying all equipment and some materials. The plant will include Jacobs’ Chemetics® equipment such as stainless steel converter with internal exchanger, acid coolers, radial flow gas-gas exchangers and SARAMET® distributors and piping, the majority of which is expected to be fabricated at Jacobs’ Pickering, Ontario facility.
The new plant is part of Vale’s Clean Atmospheric Emissions Reduction (AER) Project that is designed to cut sulfur dioxide emissions at the site by over 70% from its current levels, what Vale considers to be the most significant environmental investment in the Sudbury Basin.
This new contract is Jacobs’ second major project at the site, having been awarded a contract to modernize the existing acid plant in 2002 and it has had numerous oders for proprietary equipment since the original plant was built in the 1990s.