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Article: Uhde to reduce Abu Qir pollution levels.(Abu Qir Fertilizers and Chemical Industries)(Brief article)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- March 10, 2006
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Germany's Uhde has been awarded the contract to design and build a tail gas treatment unit for the local Abu Qir Fertilisers & Chemicals Industries Company. The project aims to reduce pollution levels at Abu Qir's world-scale nitric acid plant near Alexandria.
Under the seven-month contract, Uhde will carry out the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) of the new plant, which will use its proprietary EnviNOx process. The technology has been designed to convert pollutants nitrous oxide ([N.sup.2]0) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) into natural substances nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour.
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