A Report onINDIAN FARMERS

FERTILISER CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED

By-AJEET KUMAR14EC04

INTRODUCTIONIndian Farmers Fertilizer Co-Operative Limited (IFFCO) was established on 3rd November 1967.IFFCO is the world's largest fertilizer cooperative federation based in India which is registered as a Multistate Cooperative Society.IFFCO has been ranked 37 in top companies in India in 2011 by Fortune India 500 list.

Its headquarter is situated at New Delhi.Mr. Balvinder Singh Nakai is the Chairman of IFFCO. Dr. Udai Shanker Awasthi is the Chief Executive Officer of IFFCO .

UNITS OF IFFCOKalol UnitKandla UnitPhulpur UnitAonla UnitParadeep Unit

KALOL UNITThis plant is located in Gandhinagar , Gujrat.It is commissioned in 1975.It is an Ammonia- Urea Complex.

This plant is located in Kuchchh , Gujrat.It is commissioned in 1975.It is an NPK/DAP plant.

KANDLA UNIT

PHULPUR UNIT This plant is

located at Allahabad, Uttar

Pradesh. It is

commissioned in 1981.

It is an Ammonia- Urea Complex.

PARADEEP UNITThis plant is located at Jagatsinghpur, Orissa.It is commissioned in 2005.It is an DAP/NPK Plant.

Products of iffcoIFFCO is a leading player in India's fertiliser industry and it is producing various fertilisers:UreaNPKDAPNPBio-fertilisersWater Soluable fertilisers

UREAIFFCO's Urea is a source of 46% of nutrient nitrogen for crops.It is the most important nitrogenous fertiliser in the country.It is also used as a cattle feed supplement to replace a part of protein requirements.It has numerous industrial uses notably for production of plastics.

NPIt is known as Ammonium Phosphate Sulphate

Water Soluble Fertiliser Urea Phosphate NPK Sulphate of potash Urea Phosphate with SOP

IFFCO AONLA UNIT

It is located at Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.This plant is constructed into two sub-units ; The Aonla-1 plant started its commercial

urea production on 16th July 1988. Aonla-2 started commercial production on

25th December 1996.

IFFCO Aonla operates two Ammonia plants, each with a production capacity of 1740 MTPD.

It operates four Urea plants, each with a production capacity of 1515 MTPD.

The major input for production is Natural Gas i.e. 3.3 Million Cubic Meter/day.

PLANTS OF IFFCO AONLA

Ammonia Plant, Urea Plant, Steam Generator & Power Generator

Plant, Other offsite facalities.

AMMONIA PLANT

KELLOGG'S STEAM

REFORMING

PROCESS

VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS USED IN AMMONIA PLANT

In layman’s language temperature is defined as “the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or an environment measured on a definite scale.

Glass Thermometer Thermocouples Thermister Resistance Temperature Detector(RTD) Pyrometers Infrared

TEMPERATURE MEASURING

INSTRUMENTS

GLASS THERMOMETER Glass thermometers cover a wide temperature range from -37 °C (-34.6 ºF) to 356 °C (672.8 ºF).

WORKING It consists of a bulb containing mercury

attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Temperature increases cause the mercury to

expand, so the temperature can be determined by measuring the volume of the mercury.

BIMETALLIC THERMOMETER

It is a temperature sensor that can control the temperature.The principle behind this thermometer relies on the fact that different metals expand at different rates as they warm up.

WORKING In this diagram , as the temperature rises the blue

metal expands faster than the green metal. This causes the strip to bend upward, making contact so that current can flow.

By adjusting the size of the gap between the strip and the contact , you control the temperature.

THERMOCOUPLE Thermocouples are a widely used type of

temperature sensor for measurement and control, and can also convert a temperature gradient into electricity.

Thermocouples are self powered and require no external form of excitation.

The phenomena behind this is known as “Thermoelectric effect or Seebeck effect.”

In 1821, the German–Estonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered that when any conductor is subjected to a thermal gradient, it will generate a voltage. This is now known as the thermoelectric effect or Seebeck effect.

Resistance thermometer A Resistance Thermometer or Resistance

Temperature Detector is a device which used to determine the temperature by measuring the resistance of pure electrical wire.

If we want to measure temperature with high accuracy, RTD is the only one solution in industries.

The RTD element is made from a pure material, typically platinum, nickel or copper.

Platinum is the most commonly used metal for RTD elements.

They are often called Platinum Resistance Thermometers (PRTs).

WORKING RTDs work on a basic correlation between

metal’s resistance and temperature. As the temperature of a metal increases, the metal's resistance to the flow of electricity increases.

The significant characteristic of metals used as resistive elements is the linear approximation of the resistance versus temperature relationship between 0 and 100 °C. This temperature coefficient of resistance is called alpha, α.

CONCLUSION Doing training from IFFCO was a

good experience for me which enhanced my knowledge. Here, I got the opportunity to know about some Electronic Instruments.