OREANDA-NEWS. New facilities for the production of granulated sulphur have been brought into production at the Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery. With a total production capacity of 2.5 tonnes per hour, the implementation of new technologies allows the Moscow Refinery to abandon the production of block sulphur and transfer to the production of commercial sulphur in granules.

The production process at the granulated sulphur facility is almost entirely automated. Each granule has a diameter of up to five millimetres. The finished product is packed in airtight bags (so-called “big bags”). A new production management system, encompassing production, warehousing and despatch, has resulted in considerable environmental benefits, lower product losses, and a higher quality of the final product delivered to customers.

The thoroughgoing reconstruction and refurbishment of the sulphur production facility is among several priority ecological projects at the Moscow Refinery, with plans for a new granulated sulphur facility developed as part of the second phase of the full reconstruction and modernisation of the plant. The implementation of all reconstruction works undertaken during this phase have reduced emissions 70-fold. The Moscow Refinery had previously completed reconstruction of the refinery's sulphur recovery unit, BPS-2, in 2013, following which the volume of refined hydrogen sulphide produced at the plant increased by 19 percent.