OFFER

FOR

SODIUM SULPHATE PLANT 10,000MT/Y

By

CHEMICAL PROCESS

For

Ethiopia

Ma Sa PLC

BY

Asia Chemical Engineering CO., LTD

Hangzhou China

Sep 30th, 2020

Dear Sirs,

We are very pleased in submitting this quotation for a Sodium Sulphate plant which can
produce industrial grade sodium sulphate 10,000tons/year, industrial grade Hydrochloric
Acid 31% 16,000tons/year.

1. Scope of Delivery
Process equipment, electric equipment, control and instrumentation, and engineering
& know-how.
For detail please refer to Appendix A

2. Capacity
The said plant based on working 24 hours per day, 330working days per year, the
working time calculated as 8000hours per year.

3. Delivery Time
150 (ONE HUNDRED FIFTY) days since reception of down-payment.

4. Price
The total Contract value is FOB China in USD1,299,800.00
(Please see Appendix A)

5. Validity of the Offer

The offer is valid 3 months since the date to be offered.

We are fully open to discuss all matters if required. If there is any problem please do not
hesitate to tell us.

Truly Yours,
Xiang hongyue
General Manager
Asia Chemical Engineering CO., LTD
E-mail: anne@yatai.cn
Included are:

Appendix A PRICE BREAKDOWN OF THE DELIVERY

Appendix B TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Appendix C DOCUMENTS DELIVERED BY THE SELLER

Appendix D 10,000TON/YEAR SODIUM SULPHATE PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT LIST

 APPENDIX A Price Break-Down of the Delivery

FOB Price in
S. No. Item Remarks
USD
1 Raw Material Supply Equipment 87,800

2 Reaction Furnace 408,000

3 Product Processing Units 91,000

4 Hydrochloric Acid Absorption

400,000
Units

5 Exhaust Flue Gas Utilization

50,000
Units

6 Recycle Water Units 35,000

7 Electrics, Instruments 40,000

8 PLC Control System 40,000

Pipelines, pipe fittings,

9 Installation Materials 108,000 valves, cables, cable tray
within battery limit

10 Engineering Design 40,000 Within Battery Limit

Total FOB China 1,299,800

 APPENDIX B TECHINICAL DESCRIPTION

I: Product application field

(1) The Sodium sulphate can be widely used in the synthesis detergent, glass, fiber,
paper , textile etc industries.

(2) The by-product Hydrochloric acid can be used in many chemicals production and
many fields raw materials, such as PAC (Poly Aluminium Chloride), White Carbon
black, calcium chloride, foodstuff, Rare metal Hydrometallurgy etc fields.

(3)This processing plant besides to produce sodium sulphate, it also can be used to
produce Potassium Sulphate, which is a kind of Potassium fertilizer.

II. Raw materials Technical specifications and consumption:

NO. Name specifications QTY(tons/ton )

① NaCl≥99%,
1 ②H2O≤0.5%, 0.84~0.85
Salt
③ Grain size: 35-150Tyler Mesh 70%( 0.42~
0.105 mm )
①H2SO4:≥98.5%,
2 Sulfuric ②Free water ≤1.5% 0.85~0.87
acid
③Density at 20℃: 1.82kg/L
①Na2CO3≥99%.
3 Sodium ②chloride (calculate as NaCl) ≤0.70%, 0.020
carbonate ③sulphate salt (calculated as SO4²ˉ) ≤0.03%
④Grain size: 40～50Mesh.

III. Finished product

3.1 Sodium Sulphate

index name Excellent A grade Qualified

Na2SO4 % ≥ 99.0 96.0 95.0

Ca2+, Mg2+ % ≤ 0.10 0.15~0.3 0.4
Chlorine (Cl）% ≤ 0.5 0.7 1.0
Water insoluble matter % ≤ 0.05 0.10 1.0
Free acid% (as per H2SO4) ≤ 3.5 4.0 5.0~7.0
 3.2 Hydrochloric Acid (quality accord with Standard GB320-2006, Qualified Grade.)

index name Specification

Total acid （HC1）% ≥31.0

Iron（Fe）% ≤ 0.01

Sulphate（calculated as SO42-）% ≤ 0.1

Arsenic % ≤ 0.0001
Ignition residue % ≤ 0.15
Remark:
In Sodium sulfate producing process by Mannheim method, the produced Hydrochloric
acid, there is some mix acid, its yield accounts for 5-10% of HCl total amount.

IV. By-products
4.1 Flue gas (from the burner chamber of the reactor)
table4-3

Quantity abt. 1500 Nm 3/h in 1 furnace

Temperature abt. 660℃ behind the burner chamber

abt. 350℃ after fresh air supply

4.2 Waste air (from HCl-absorption)

table4-4

Quantity abt. 750 Nm3/h in 1 plant

Temperature abt. 30 - 40℃

HCl-content max. 50 pm
V. Utilities
5.1 Natural gas

There is no exact specification in the inquiry documents.

5.2 Cooling water

The specification is assumed by us as follows:

Table5-1

Temperature inlet 30℃

Temperature outlet 35℃

Consumption(cooling tower circulation rate) 80 m3/h

5.3 Electric energy

Motors 3 phases, 50 Hz, 4 wires 380 V +/- 5 %
Lighting 1 phase, 50 Hz, 3 wires 220 V
Instrumentation 1 phase, 50 Hz, 220 V Motor output installed: 270KW
Power supply: The factory should be installed with power transformer,
the load according 300KW, For the production continuously running, the
factory should prepare a 200KW Diesel oil power generator in case of
public power off.

5.4 Process water

The specification is assumed by us as follows:
Table5-2

PARAMETER SPECIFICATION

PH 6-7

Ca++ hardness 0,8 mg/l

Mg++ hardness 0,5 mg/l

Sodium 0,03 mg/l

Chloride 0,1 mg/l

Sulphate, 0,1 mg/l

Total dissolved solids 6,2 mg/l

 Remark:

The impurities contained in the process water will also be found in the HCl-acid.
If this shall be avoided the process water specification should not be higher
than this. Otherwise the water has to be treated before (e.g. in a reverse
osmosis plant).

VI. Process Technical Proposal

A. Process Flow

(1)Production theory

4 ≥98%）
NaCl（≥97%）and H2SO（ to be continuously discharged into Mannheim furnace
in proportion, then reaction to generate sodium sulphate. The main reaction as follows:
2NaCl+H2SO4 Na2SO4+2HCl↑ - Q
In fact, the reaction taken place in 2 steps:
NaCl+ H2SO4 NaHSO4+HCl↑ + Q（1）
NaHSO4+NaCl Na2SO4+2HCl↑ - Q（2）
第一步反应是放热反应，可在较低温度下进行，首先生成 NaHSO4，第二步反应是强吸
热反应，只有在 500--600℃反应才能进行得较完全，反应所需要的热量是由煤气发生炉产生
的混合煤气在炉内燃烧室燃烧提供的，燃烧室温度维持在 1200℃左右。

The first step is exothermic reaction, it can reaction in low temperature, firstly to generate
NaHSO4, the second step is intensively endothermic reaction, the reaction only at the
temperature of 500--600℃can be proceed completely. The energy for reaction is from
the mixed coal gas burning in burning chamber of the furnace, the coal gas is generate
from the coal gas generator. The temperature of burning chamber should be maintained
around 1200℃.

【工艺流程】
氯化钠和浓硫酸从曼海炉顶中央料道连续加至炉内封闭的反应室，在高温下用耙子搅拌
进行反应，反应物被耙子推着从反应室中心向周边移动，反应生成的硫酸钠不断从反应室侧

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面两个出口排出炉外，高温硫酸钠经冷却后，通过皮带运输机至筛分、破碎，在输送过程中，
加入纯碱用于中和硫酸钠中的游离酸，筛下的成品送入成品料仓包装出售。从反应室排出的
400℃氯化氢气体经石墨冷却器冷却除尘，使反应气温度降至 50℃；进入二级填料塔净化除
去反应气中 SO42-，同时从二级填料塔可得到 HCl 含量为 36—37%的含 SO42-的盐酸，部分
送至石墨冷却器，部分销售；从二级填料塔出来的反应气，进入一级降膜吸收塔，用来自四
级填料吸收塔的低浓度盐酸吸收可得 HCl 含量为 31%的工业盐酸；一级降膜吸收塔出来的气
体经四级填料吸收塔处理后达标排放。

(2)Production process
Sodium chloride (NaCl) and concentrated sulphuric acid (H2SO4) continuous feeding
into the closed reaction chamber from Mannheim furnace top center material channel, to
reaction in high temperature with rake continuously agitating, the feeding material moved
from the chamber center to surrounding by the rake agitating. The product sodium
sulphate continuous discharge from the chamber side two outlet, the high temperature
sodium sulphate to be cooled and then transfer by the belt conveyor for sieving and
crushing. During belt conveying, adding sodium carbonate to neutralize the free acid in the
sodium sulphate, the sieved finished product transfer to the product silo for packing. The
400℃HCL gas from the reaction chamber firstly go through graphite cooler to cooling and
de-dusting, to make the gas decline to 50℃; then flow into the 2nd grade filled tower to
purify and detach SO42- in the gas, meanwhile 36~37% hydrochloric acid contains SO4 2-
can get from the 2nd filled tower, partly to be sent to graphite cooler, and partly for sale. The
gas from 2nd filled tower, flow into the 1st falling film absorption tower, to use the low
concentration Hydrochloric acid from the 4th filled tower to absorb and get the 31%
industrial Hydrochloric acid; the gas from the 1st falling film absorption tower absorbed by
the 4th filled tower and then up to standard for vent.

工艺冷却用水用于冷却高温硫酸钠和高温反应气以及移走吸收过程中产生的热量，这些
用于冷却形成的高温水，送往冷却塔冷却后，再返回到各个冷却工序，整个过程水闭路循环。
Process cooling water to be used for cooling high temperature sodium sulfate,gas
from the furnace and the heat generated during the absorption process. The cooling water
then return back to the cooling water tower and re-cooled for recycling cooling use.

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 工艺吸收用水从尾气吸收塔顶进入，逆流吸附尾气中的氯化氢，形成低浓度盐酸，再进
入各个降膜吸收塔，循环进行吸收过程，至形成 HCl 含量为 31%的工业盐酸，送往盐酸储罐。
Process absorption water come in from absorption tower top, counter-flow absorb
hydrogen chloride in the tail gas, to form low concentration hydrochloric acid, then flow into
each falling film absorption tower, re-cycling for absorption work, to form HCL content to be
31% industrial hydrochloric acid, then pumped into hydrochloric acid storage tank.

反应所需的热源来自于煤气发生炉产生的混合煤气，混合煤气在炉内燃烧室充分燃烧
后，形成的高温气体环绕封闭的反应室流动，间接供给反应所需的热量，气体抽出炉外后，
经热交换回收余热，尾气经烟囱排入空中。

The reaction heat resource is mix gas from the coal gas generator, the mix gas burned
completely in the furnace burning chamber, to form the high temperature air and flow
around the closed reaction chamber, indirectly supply caloric for the reaction, the air
suctioned from furnace,Recycle the residue caloric by the heat exchange, the exhaust air
vent to air via funnel.

The energy for reaction is from the coal gas burning in the chamber, the coal gas to be
generate by coal gas furnace, the high temperature gas to be flow in the ring tunnel of the
closed chamber, for indirect supply the heat for reaction., then the air withdrawal out of the
furnace, and by heat exchanger to recycle heat, the tail gas vent by chimney.

B. Process Diagram

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C. Processing Units:

Sodium Sulphate production unit mainly to be made up of raw material supply equipment,
Mannheim furnace, fuel supply equipment, Sodium Sulphate discharge, conveying,
Hydrochloric Acid absorption, cooling water recirculation equipment, environment protection
absorption, electric and instrument equipment etc.

VII. Consumption and product cost

1tons finished sodium sulphate raw material and energy consumption cost analysis: (follow
price is according to China, investor should calculate and based on Local price)
Unit Unit price Unit cost
NO. Item Unit
consume (RMB) （RMB/T）
1 NaCl(≥99%) T 0.84~0.85 260 221
2 Sulfuric acid (≥98.5%) T 0.85~0.87 450 391.5
3 Na2CO3 T 0.02 1200 24
4 Packing bag PCS 40 1.5 60
5-1 Oil T 0.07 3500 245
5-2 Natural gas m3 70 2 140
5-3 Mineral coal T 0.20 500 100
5-4 Heavy oil KG 70-75
6 Electricity KWH 65 0.5 32.5
7 Water T 5 2.0 10
Total up (oil) Cost 984
Total up (Natural gas ) 879
Total up (coal) 839

Product Name Out put Market Price Amount

(RMB/Ton) (RMB/Ton)
1 Sodium Sulphate 1ton 650 650
2 Hydrochloric acid (31%) 1.50tons 200 300
Grade A
2 Hydrochloric acid 0.15tons 100 15
(31%) Grade B contain

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 H2SO4
Total up 965

VIII. Battery Limits

NaCl-supply: salt inlet opening of the bucket elevator

H2SO4-supply: from H2SO4 unload pump
Natural gas supply: from burners
Neutralization Agents: silos are provided by us. The transportation of the chemicals into
the silos are not included in our delivery scope
Cooling water Supply: from the cooling water tower, no include the circulating water pool.
Process water Supply: from intake of the towers
Waste air from HCl-Absorption: out of the stack
Waste gas from the reactor: out of the stack.
Product Na2SO4: to the auto-packager
Product HCl: to the HCl-acid pumps.
Electrical equipment: from MCC-supply

IX. Factory
The plant to be mainly made up of Sodium Sulphate production workshop, storage
warehouse, HCl gas absorption system, Hydrochloric acid storage tanks, sulfuric acid
storage tank, re-circulating water pump room, re-circulating water pool, acid pump room
etc.
Considering office building, logistic Roads and green land, Whole factory Floor area
need 3000~5000m2.
Sodium Sulphate workshop to be concrete with steel frame structure, according
process, the workshop totally to be 4 floors, size to be LXWxH=30mX19mx12m
(Partially to be 16m) workshop.

9.1 Area of the main building

Please see follows table:

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 NAME FLOOR HEIGHT（m） AREA（m2）
produce building 4 15 817
Storage building 1 8 2268

9.2 Personnel required for the plant

We suggest the number of operation personnel for operating the plants as follows:
PERSONNEL NUMBER SHIFT
Works manager 2
Shift leader 3 1×3
Operators for the reactor 3 1×3
Operators for the HCl-absorption 3 1×3
Operators for the feeding 9 3×3
Operators for the packaging 12 4×3
Lab-assistants 1
Lab-helper 3 1×3
Fitters 3 1×3
Electrician 2

Total 41
Personnel required for the packing depends on the method and frequency of the
packing and has to be fixed together with the customer (in most plants, the
packing is provided in 1 shift).

X．Fabrication and installation period

From the order come into effect till the project accepted by the buyer, totally need 18months,
each phase time list as follows:
Engineer design ：1.5Months；
Machinery fabrication and raw material procurement：4Months；
Delivery：2Months；

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factory side installation：4Months；
system commissioning：1.5Months；
training staffs and examination：1Months
civil construction works： 6Months.

APPENDIX C DOCUMENTS TO BE SUPPLIED BY THE SELLER

C.1 Engineering
The seller will provide basic design and detailed design within Battery Limits.
Engineering documents will be in English, using metric system and in accordance with
the standards/codes listed in international standard.
The seller will supply two copies of the following documents:

C.1.1 Basic Design

 Process description
 Design basis
- Plant capacity
- Products specification
- Raw material specification
- Effluents
- Battery limits condition
 Utility data
- Utility consumptions
- Battery limits condition
 Equipment and machinery
- Equipment list
- Machinery specifications
 Drawings
- P&I Diagram
- Preliminary overall plant layout
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 - Preliminary factory plot plan
C.1.2 Detail Design
 Process P&I flow chart
 Plan layout
 Vertical plane layout
 Civil work information drawing
 Process pipeline piping drawing
 Installation drawing
 Equipment list
 Electricity list
 Cables，bridge trend drawing
 Instrument list
 Process pipeline material list
 Operation manual

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 Appendix D 10,000Ton/year Sodium Sulphate (Or Potassium Sulphate)

PRODUCTION LINE EQUIPMENT LIST

Remark
NO. POST NO. ITEM UNIT QTY.

1 RAW MATERIAL SUPPLY EQUIPMENTS

1.1 L40101 NaCl-bucket elevator set 1

1.2 L40102 NaCl-scraper conveyor set 1
1.3 L40103 NaCl-screw feeder set 1
1.4 V40101 SA discharge tank set 1
1.5 V40102 SA storage tank 200m3 set 2 By buyer
1.6 V40103 SA elevated tank set 1
1.7 V40104 NaCl-bin set 1
1.8 P40101A SA dosing pump set 1
1.9 P40102 SA discharge pump set 1
1.10 W40101 NaCl-measuring scale set 1

2 REACTION FURNACE
Mannheim furnace（Include the following
F40101 set 1
parts）
2.1 Furnace support set 1
2.2 Furnace holder set 1
2.3 Furnace body set 1
2.4 Matel accessories set 1
2.5 Spindle assembly set 1
2.6 Agitator assmbly set 1
2.7 Feed tube set 1
2.8 Burner set 2
2.9 Gear set 1
2.10 Motor set 1
2.11 Other building materials set 1

3 PRODUCT PROCESSING UNITS

3.1 E40102 SODIUM SULPHATE cooling drum (left) set 1
3.2 E40103 SODIUM SULPHATE cooling drum (right) set 1
3.3 L40104A Sealing device(left) set 1
3.4 L40104B Sealing device(right) set 1
3.5 L40105 SODIUM SULPHATE scraper conveyor set 1
3.6 L40106 Lime feeder set 1

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3.7 L40107A/B SODIUM SULPHATE bucket elevator set 1
3.8 L40108 Vibration sieve set 1
3.9 L40109 Mill set 1
3.10 L40110 Short scraper conveyor set 1
3.11 V40105 SODIUM SULPHATE bin set 1
3.12 S40102 Pulse bag filter set 1
3.13 C40103 Filter fan set 1
3.14 W40102 Semi automatic packing scale set 1

4 HCl-GAS ABSORBING UNITS

4.1 E40104 No.1 graphite cooler set 1
4.2 E40105 No.2 graphite cooler set 1
4.3 E40106 No.1 falling-film absorber set 1
4.4 E40107 No.2 falling-film absorber set 1
4.5 E40108 No.3 falling-film absorber set 1
4.6 E40109 No.4 falling-film absorber set 1
4.7 T40101 Washing tower set 1
4.8 T40102 Cleaning tower set 1
4.9 T40103A/B Off-gas recovery tower set 2
4.10 T40104A/B Off-gas purifying tower set 2
4.11 T40105 Green tower set 1
4.12 V40106 No.1 Circulation tank set 1
4.13 V40107 No.2 Circulation tank set 1
4.14 V40108 No.3 Circulation tank set 1
4.15 V40109 No.4 Circulation tank set 1
4.16 V40110 Mixed acid transfer tank set 1
4.17 V40111A/B HCl acid transfer tank set 1
4.18 V40112 HCl acid storage tank 200m3 set 4 By buyer
4.19 P40103A+B No.1 circulation pump set 2
4.20 P40104 No.2 circulation pump set 1
4.21 P40105 No.3 circulation pump set 1
4.22 P40106 No.4 circulation pump set 1
4.23 P40107 No.5 circulation pump set 1
4.24 P40108 No.6 circulation pump set 1
4.25 P40109 No.7 circulation pump set 1
4.26 P40110 No.8 circulation pump set 1
4.27 P40111 No.9 circulation pump set 1
4.28 P40112 Green circulation pump set 1
4.29 P40113 Mixed acid pump set 1

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4.30 P40114A HCl acid pump set 1
4.31 P40115A HCl acid loading pump set 1
4.32 C40104 HCl gas fan set 1
4.33 C40105 Green fan set 1

5 EXHAUST FLUE GAS UTILIZATION UNITS

5.1 E40101 Heat exchanger set 1
5.2 C40101 Flue gas fan set 1
5.3 C40102 Air inlet fan set 1
5.4 S40101 Stack set 1

6 RECYCLE WATER UNITS

6.1 T40106 Cooling tower set 1
1
6.2 V40114 Water distributor set
6.3 V40115 Backwater tank set 1
6.4 P40116A Cool water circulation pump set 2

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