Ammonia · Urea · Hydrogen

Engineering depth for ammonia & urea plants

From feasibility studies to plant start-up, SVP Chemical Plant Services brings four decades of syngas process engineering to your project, and stays until the plant runs the way the study said it would.

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What we do

Services across the plant lifecycle

One senior team, engaged wherever your plant needs it: designing the flowsheet, defending your interests against licensors, starting the plant up, and keeping it safe and profitable for the decades after.

Process Design & Engineering

Feasibility studies, technology evaluation and process design for ammonia, urea and hydrogen plants, including green and low-carbon routes.

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Plant Performance & Revamps

Performance assessments, debottlenecking and capacity increase studies that find the tonnes and energy your plant is leaving on the table.

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Owner’s Engineer

Independent review of licensor and EPC packages, and project development managed from the owner’s side of the table.

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Commissioning & Start-up

Pre-commissioning, start-up planning, catalyst activation and test runs, planned and supported by people who have done it many times.

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Process Safety & Risk

PHA, HAZOP and LOPA studies, plant audits and risk assessments informed by two decades on the AIChE Ammonia Safety Committee.

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Training & Operations Support

Customised plant training and on-call troubleshooting that transfers forty years of operating judgment to your team.

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Energy transition

Green & low-carbon ammonia

Ammonia is becoming an energy carrier as well as a fertilizer feedstock, and the projects now on drawing boards look different: electrolysis-fed synthesis loops, CO₂ capture retrofits, plants designed to swing with renewable power.

Green ammonia concepts

Feasibility and process design for electrolysis-based ammonia projects, including the loop design and turndown questions that conventional experience alone does not answer.

Low-carbon revamps

Evaluating CO₂ capture, feedstock changes and efficiency projects that cut the carbon intensity of existing ammonia and urea plants.

Technology selection

Independent comparison of the growing field of green ammonia technology offerings, judged against forty years of what actually works in a synthesis loop.

Principal Consultant

Venkat Pattabathula

SVP Chemical Plant Services is led by Venkat Pattabathula, a chartered professional engineer with more than 40 years in the hydrogen, ammonia and urea industry. Before founding SVP, Venkat was the global ammonia technology manager for Incitec Pivot, supporting manufacturing plants across Australia and North America.

He has served on the AIChE Ammonia Safety Committee since 2005, has published more than 150 technical papers on ammonia and urea process safety, plant incidents and technology, and wrote the “Ammonia” chapter of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.

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Engineering depth for ammonia & urea plants

Services across the plant lifecycle

Process Design & Engineering

Plant Performance & Revamps

Owner’s Engineer

Commissioning & Start-up

Process Safety & Risk

Training & Operations Support

Green & low-carbon ammonia

Green ammonia concepts

Low-carbon revamps

Technology selection

Venkat Pattabathula

Companies we represent and work with

AmmoniaKnowHow

BD Energy Systems

Becht

Casale

Fitiri

HSI Group

Proplant Inc

T2M Global

UreaKnowHow

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