What is Nitro Technology?

Nitro Technology focuses on catalyst gauzes and customised getter systems. A range of services is available, including technical consulting, plant cleaning, refining, and metal management, besides designing and manufacturing custom-made catalyst and customised getter systems.

What are the nitro technology products and innovations?

Flat knitting technology

For helping users transition from woven to flat knitting technology, nitro technology invests in flat knitting technology, with several specific advantages. Nitro technology products enable basic catalysed ammonia oxidation process customisation by allowing varied knitting designs and patterns to satisfy the customers' needs.

The new technology integrates weft knit materials with the traditional qualities of warp knit, woven, and braided fabrics in both two and three dimensions,

Catalyst systems

The flat knitting technique allows knitters to create patterns in two and three dimensions. The knitted structure is crucial because each catalyst gauze layer gets subjected to varying operating conditions inside the catalytic converter. The ammonia level in the process gas reduces as it passes through the catalyst gauze pack while the reaction temperature rises.

Besides, other variables like operating pressure, ammonia ratio, feed gas temperature, gauze or process temperature, and catalyst loading vary significantly between operations.

Corrugated getter system

An essential aspect of the getter system's application and efficiency gets attributed to the close-woven structure. It becomes increasingly obstructed through the alloying of platinum and rhodium and the re-crystallisation with palladium, especially with higher primary burn-off losses, primarily associated with high-pressure plants.

In high-pressure plants, flat getter systems experience a significant pressure decrease. The corrugated getter gauzes are recommended for such working conditions and significantly reduces pressure drop due to the getter system's unique corrugated construction. It also provides greater surface area for effective and optimum precious metal collection.

What are the services offered?

Plant advice

By examining the environmental state of each customer's process, the nitro technology manufacturers products evaluate the performance of the catalyst and the process yield. This covers the quality of air and ammonia filtration, as well as oscillations in process control. The start-up technique impacts creating an active and selective catalyst surface and the overall campaign's process yield.

Impurities cause platinum and rhodium to segregate, causing the catalyst to age quickly and precious metal losses to rise. High yields are avoided by a control system that governs an ammonia ratio that does not ideally match the mixed gas temperature.

Cleaning of plant

A non-destructive cleaning system uses water-air based, chemical, or mechanical processes while preserving the equipment's residual life to recover maximum precious metals. Customers profit from non-destructive cleaning in two ways:

• Heat exchangers are more efficient.
• Maximise the worth of precious metals that were recovered.

Most businesses collaborate with their clients. They use nitro chemical products offering personalised and optimal cleaning solutions employing plant-specific equipment. It is mechanical/chemical-free based cleaning, after carefully researching the plant design and operating conditions. It is worth noting that they use environmentally friendly cleaning methods that has minimal impact on the environment.

Sarvesh Velankar is an Asst. Marketing Officer in one of the best Precious Metal Manufacture company which offers precious metal refiners India.