New terminal for treatment and storage of sulphuric acid in Burgas port

Burgas. Construction work lasted less than one year. The copper production plant of Aurubis Bulgaria produced in 2017 375,200 tonnes anode copper, 228,500 t. cathode copper and 1,358,500 t. sulphuric acid. The terminal, with five 10,000-tonne tanks, covers 27,000 m2 and is expected to handle over one million tonnes of cargo per year. It will increase the traffic via the port by 100 ships per year. In 2015, both companies built a storage facility for copper row material at the port. Bulgarian Bright Engineering Ltd designed the project which includes: tanks for sulphuric acid; railway unloading of sulphuric acid; pump station; piping; control room and workshop; system for automated control and visualisation; and roads. Hamburg-based Aurubis AG is is the largest copper producer in Europe and the largest copper recycler worldwide. Source: Economic Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2018.