2025 Spring/Summer Sulfuric Acid Today Issue

Indonesia enhances SO2 capture at Java-based gas field

In a major advancement in Indonesia’s energy sector, state-owned PT Pertamina EP Cepu (PEPC), a subsidiary of Pertamina Hulu Energi, has successfully integrated a sulfuric acid plant within its acid gas processing facility at the Jambaran-Tiung Biru (JTB) gas field in Java. The multi-component facility, completed amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, uses the latest technologies from Worley Chemetics and Shell to improve operational efficiency and environmental sustainability. The facility converts hydrogen sulfide extracted from raw natural gas into marketable sulfuric acid, aligning with PEPC’s goal of maximizing resource utilization while minimizing environmental impact.



Sulfuric Acid Today Spring Summer 2025 Issue

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Features & Guest Columns

  • Market Outlook: Regionality: present and future
  • Maximizing uptime in phosphoric acid processing: lessons from the field
  • Online asynchronous education for sulfuric acid plant operators
  • MECS® sulfuric acid catalyst: celebrating 100 years of innovation
  • The future of valves in the strong acid circuit
  • Sixty years of innovation & service
  • Gas cleaning using WESP technology—a key to producing pure sulfuric acid
  • Selecting the right alloy for sulfuric acid expansion joints
  • Reaction resistance in SO2 oxidation & implications for catalyst design and selection
  • Optimizing sulfur melting tanks: considerations for efficiency & reliability

Also included in this issue…

  • Jordan’s Prime Minister lays foundation stone for second phase of sulfuric, phosphoric acid plants
  • Ecovyst announces agreement to acquire sulfuric acid assets from Cornerstone Chemical Company
  • Australia’s CSBP to halt Kwinana superphosphate output
  • Life still left in Mount Isa copper smelter, Glencore confirms
  • Mosaic to sell Brazilian phosphate mine for $125M