Salt Processes PDF
Salt Processes PDF
Salt Processes PDF
GEA Messo PT
History
The activity in salt of GEA MESSO PT is anchored in the big
number of references and power of expertise of its prede-
cessors Standard-Messo Duisburg with solar salt based salt
factories and ESCHER WYSS with their famous rock salt
refineries.
GEA MESSO PT salt plants can be found around the world in nearly every area suited for solar pond activities. Countries with
GEA Messo PT references are:
Economical
Salt is required by the human body with 5 to 7,6 g daily.
The actual consumption for human food is about 15 million
tons per year. Salt for food is the most ‘taken for granted’
commodity. It is available from many sources in many
qualities as table, cooking and industrial salt for food
production.
Salt, however, is one of the most essential basic materials of
modern industries, too. More than 90% of the 200 million
tons of NaCl consumed per year all over the world are for
industrial use. The industry predominantly converts the
salt into chlorine, caustic and soda ash for, amongst others,
petroleum refining, petro chemistry, organic synthesis and
glass production. Salt production on a large scale is an
economical necessity. Higher standard of living entails the
demand for improving salt qualities, too. More ecological
responsibility compels to avoid purge streams from chemical
processes and thus to higher purities of the crude material
“salt”. To meet today’s requirements, continuous and largely
automatically working, energy-optimized plants designed to
the above effects are needed.
GEA Messo PT plants meet all requirements regarding salt
quality combined with maximum economy. They are the
product of careful planning and extensive experience in the
field of modern technique in crystallization. The utilization
of natural salt resources depends upon the geological
characteristics, the requirements of the end users and
economical aspects. These considerations are decisive in the
selection of the most suitable technology to satisfy the quality
requirements for vacuum salt.
Multiple-effect evaporation crystallization
Table salt of best quality (vacuum salt, free-flowing), industrial salt of highest purity to reduce purge streams from chemical
processes. Our thermal plants are designed in such a way that specific demands on the product are met: moist or dry, fine-
grained or coarse-grained, cubical or spherical or dendritic, white, free-flowing with additives (e.g. magnesium carbonate, potas-
sium iodide), ready-packed in bags, bottles, sacks, etc…. Depending on crude material and plant design, purities over 99.9% of
NaCl are achieved.
Mechanical compression
Whether a multistage evaporation plant or a thermo-compression system is employed is essentially to be decided from eco-
nomical angles. If electric power is available from the grid system of the plant, or the same is attainable at a low price from the
electric supply line, the plant can be run very economically with a mechanical vapor re-compressor (MVR). By using electric
energy the vapors from the evaporator are compressed to a higher pressure, thus entailing rising temperature and are reused as
heating medium for the heat exchanger. Heating steam is not required in case to operate the plant.
Thermo compression
The thermocompression plant with a steam ejector instead of a mechanical thermo compressor involves less capital expenses
but higher energy costs.
Salt wash
Salt processed, washed and conditioned in the mechanical refining plant meets all demands on table salt or salt for animal use.
It is also applied in the fish industry and in the chemical industry.
The produced wash salt can be moist or dry, coarse-grained or fine-grained and provided with additives it may be packed into
bags, bottles or sacks. Depending on the composition of the crude salt, purities up to 99,5% can be achieved in the mechanical
refining plant. By-products, too, contained in the discharge solution from the refining plant can, in many cases, be recovered
economically.
Contact us at:
www.gea-messo-pt.com
Process Engineering
GEA Messo PT
Germany: The Netherlands:
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 134 De Beverspijken 7b
47229 Duisburg 5221 EE ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Tel. + 49 2065-903 0, Fax + 49 2065-903 199 Tel. + 31 73 6390 390, Fax + 31 73 6312 349
info.geamesso.de @ geagroup.com sales.niropt.nl @ geagroup.com