AMMAN —
An “advanced” control room was inaugurated in Aqaba’s phosphoric acid plant
affiliated with the
Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), the Jordan News
Agency, Petra, reported.
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Petra said JPMC
chairman of the board of directors, Dr Mohammad Thneibat, launched the new
control room Friday in the company’s industrial complex in Aqaba.
The room’s
operating system was updated by integrating the latest technology to keep pace
with global developments in the field, JPMC said in a statement.
Touring the
newly-equipped room, Thneibat insisted on expediting next stages, which include
modernizing the monitoring and operation systems, maintaining full readiness
with the highest professional levels of worker protection equipment and taking
steps to enhance safety procedures in
accordance with the highest international standards.
Lauding the “high”
performance and professionalism of the JPMC industrial complex’s level of
“tangible” improvement in the work environment, Thneibat voiced the need to
build on achievements made by the company over the past few years.
He cited efforts to
improve and modernize the
Aqaba complex’s infrastructure and develop its
operational mechanisms, according to Petra.
JPMC renovated the
Aqaba complex’s phosphoric acid tanks in 2020, introduced technology aimed to
reduce its electric energy bill and slashed its heavy fuel consumption cost by
JD6 million by using natural gas at the beginning of 2021, the statement said.
Recently, the JPMC
signed a memorandum of understanding to recycle and manufacture Phosphogypsum
(PG) produced in the Aqaba industrial complex and convert it into chemical
products. PG is the calcium sulfate hydrate formed as a
by-product of the production of fertilizer from phosphate rock, according to
Wikipedia.
JPMC has also
signed an agreement to establish and operate a seawater desalination plant
using concentrated solar energy, to meet the Aqaba complex’s need of industrial
water estimated at 4 million cubic meters annually. The project is envisaged to
save the plant JD3 million in operational costs annually.
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