НИОХИМ - научно-исследовательский и проектный институт основной химии

Our projects

On the basis of NIOCHIM research developments and projects:
- chemical complexes have been built
- new manufacturing facilities have been established
- soda ash plants have been enlarged and updated.

Chemical complexes

Crimean Soda Plant Company (Ukraine, 1975);
Caustic Soda Plant (Ethiopia, 1994);
Barium salts facility at Sterlitamak Soda Company (Russia, 1980-1988);
Manufacturing facilities for soda ash, potash, potassium sulfate based on nepheline processing in Achinsk (Russia, 1970).

Manufacturing units:

calcium (1978) and ammonium (1974) chlorides at Lisichansk Soda Company and Slavyansk Soda Plant Company, Ukraine;
BC-120 precipitated silica at Sterlitamak Soda Plant (1991) and Tula Mining Chemical Plant (1968), Russia;
fire extinguishing powders(1971, 1988), chemically precipitated chalk (1986), calcium hydroxide and highly dispersed calcium oxide (1968) at Slavyansk Soda Plant Company, Ukraine;
bischofite, epsomite and sodium sulfate at Karabogazsulfat (Turkmenistan, 1986)
technical sodium hydrosulfide at Permneftegaspererabotka (Russia, 2005).

Such soda ash plants have been enlarged and updated as:

Berezniki Soda Company (1986, 1991) and Sterlitamak Soda Company, Russia (1983, 2006, 2007)
Crimean Soda Plant Company, Ukraine (1981, 1989)
Lisichansk Soda Company, Ukraine (1983, 1988)
Slavyansk Soda Plant Company, Ukraine.

Specialists of NIOCHIM participated in engineering, start-up and commissioning of Soda Plant in Devnya (Bulgaria, 1975); they also took part in personnel training and commissioning of Soda Plant in San Antonio Oeste, Argentina, 2004-2005..

Russia

Sterlitamak Soda Company, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Reconstruction of brine purification facilities for soda manufacture (1996, 2006-2007)
Reconstruction of dense soda ash facility (2004)
Detailed engineering of a filtration station for slurry distillation (2007)
Reconstruction of #2 soda line. Filtration section (2007)
Manufacturing facility of liquid and granular calcium chloride (2004-2005)
Process of conditioning, transportation and application of waste distiller lye from soda ash plant for oil field flooding (1975)
Process of granular dense soda ash manufacture for electron-tube glass (1982)
Process of granular barium carbonate manufacture (1983)
Process of granular soda ash manufacture with control of magnetic inclusion content (1985)
Process of silica paste drying in an atomizer drier (1985)
Process of lithium carbonate manufacture for electron-tube glass (1981)
Manufacture of barium carbonate for radioelectronic ceramics (RC) (1988)
Manufacturing process of silica fillers for plant protection chemicals (1987)
Distillation heater with large perforation cross-flow plates (1983)
Distillation gas cooler with densely packed tubes (1983)
Update of carbonation columns for soda ash manufacture (1989)
Column gas washer I with large perforation cross-flow plates (1990)
Increased capacity carbonation columns for purified sodium bicarbonate manufacture (1980)
Rotary dispersant mixer for manufacture of synthetic detergents (1990)
Continuous automatic control device for ammonia content in distiller lye (1990)
Multi-purpose indicator of lime kiln charging level (1989)

Berezniki Soda Company, Berezniki, Perm Territory, Russia

Raw brine with reduced sulfate content (1972)
Limestone quarry at Chanva (1975)
Process of technical barium nitrate manufacture (1982)
Air filter washer with large perforation counter-flow flat plates (1984)

Kuchuksulfat Plant, Stepnoe Ozero. Altay Territory, Russia

Sodium sulfate manufacture (1990)
Expansion of sodium sulfate manufacture with changed raw material supply source (1991)
Reconstruction of sodium sulfate manufacture (1991)
Complex production of dead-burned magnesia and Extra grade table salt (1988)
Evaluation and approval of plant raw material reserves at State Committee of Minerals Reserves of the former USSR (1991)
Feasibility study of standards for evaluation of reserves of Kuchuk mineral salt field (1990)
Prognosis of hydrological and hydrochemical conditions of Lake Kuchuk (1989)

Permneftegaspererabotka, Perm, Perm Territory, Russia

Production of sodium hydrosulfide (2005)

L. Ya. Karpov Mendeleevsk Chemical Plant, Mendeleevsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Process of barium sulfate manufacture for baryta-coated paper (1982)

Tula Mining Chemical Plant, Leninsk, Tula Region, Russia

Reconstruction of precipitated silica facilities (1985)

Achinsk Alumina Combined Works, Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia

Processing of carbonate solutions with high potassium sulfate content (1994)

Pikalevo Alumina Plant, Pikalevo, Leningrad region, Russia

Manufacturing process of granular calcined potassium carbonate (1986)
Manufacturing process of grade A soda ash within the frames of comprehensive processing of Kola Peninsula nepheline concentrate (1994)
Manufacturing process of potassium carbonate with reduced chloride and sulfate content for electron-tube glass (1995)

Ukraine

Slavyansk Soda Plant Company, Slavyansk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine

Manufacturing process of high-quality calcium hydroxide (1968)
Manufacturing process of fire extinguishing powder (1971)
Large-scale manufacturing process of calcium chloride and reagent grade ammonium chloride (1978)
Manufacturing process of phosphate-inhibited calcium chloride (1980)
Manufacturing process of carbonate fillers (1983)
Manufacturing process of highly dispersed chemically precipitated chalk (1986)
Manufacturing process of fire extinguishing mixture to fight forest fire (1988)

Lisichansk Soda Company, Lisichansk, Lugansk region, Ukraine

Manufacturing process of industrial ammonium chloride by evaporation (1978)
Distillation gas condenser with densely packed pipes (1981)
Industrial detergents on the basis of soda ash and water glass (1991)

Konstantinovka Chemical Plant, Konstantinovka, Donetsk Region, Ukraine

Carbothermal manufacturing process of strontium carbonate (1975)

Crimean Soda Plant Company, Krasnoperekopsk, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Manufacture of crude brine from Lake Sivash bittern (1975)
Two-stage brine preparation process (1981)
Manufacturing process of soda ash for optical glass (1987)
Manufacture of granular soda for electron-tube glass (1989)
Instant boiling plant for heat recovery from distiller lye of soda plant (1986)
Column gas washer I with large perforation cross-flow plates (1990)
Improved distillation process to prevent crusting of equipment (2005)
Advanced distillation column (2005, 2007)
Control system of dense soda ash plant (2004)
Mathematic model of Sivash bittern field (1990)

Chimprom, Vinnitsa, Ukraine

Manufacturing process of BC-50 precipitated silica (1988)

Kazakhstan

Ekibatuz Soda Plant (engineering) (1993)

Kostanay Minerals, Zhitigary, Kostanay region, Kazakhstan

Acoustic indicator of loose material level (1983)

Uzbekistan

Kungrad Soda Plant (engineering), Republic of Karakalpakistan (1993)

Tajikistan

Isfara Chemical Plant, Isfara, Sughd Province

Manufacturing process of granular strontium carbonate for electronic industry (1982)

Turkmenistan

Karabogazsulfat, Bekdash, former Krasovodsk Region

Manufacture of industrial magnesium chloride (bishofite) (1986)
Manufacture of industrial magnesium sulfate (epsomite) for synthetic detergents (1986)
Manufacture of industrial sodium sulfate (1986)
Manufacture of high purity epsomite (1987)