Sarishabari (Jamalpur) Correspondent :
Jamuna Fertilizer Company Ltd (JFCL) at Tarakandi in Jamalpur’s Sarishabari Upazila, which was supposed to resume urea production on Tuesday after halting of production for maintenance work on November 11, facing uncertainty for the production as start-up hitter of the factory’s ammonia plant got damaged after it caught a fire on early Tuesday.
The ammonia plant went inoperative due to the incident for which the factory cannot start its urea production until the damaged hitter gets repaired. A pipe of the start-up hitter first developed a leak and started coming out hydrogen gas through the leak and instantly the hitter caught a devastating fire at around 5.40 am. After a frantic effort, fire fighters of JFCL brought the fire under control at around 6.30 am, said Mahbuba Sultana, managing director of JFCL.
A six-member committee headed by Sheikh Abdullah, chief of maintenance department at JFCL was formed to investigate the reason behind the incident and assess the estimate of the damage and the committee was asked to submits its report within seven working days, said Mahbuba. In a query, the manging director told this correspondent that they could be able to know how many days the hitter would take for its operation again after the probe report is submitted, she said.
Out of 3.20 lakh tonnes of production target in the current fiscal year, JFCL was able to produce 74,212 tonnes of urea till November 10, the managing director said, adding that the factory will not be able to reach its production target by the rest months of the fiscal year.
Jamuna Fertilizer Company Ltd (JFCL) at Tarakandi in Jamalpur’s Sarishabari Upazila, which was supposed to resume urea production on Tuesday after halting of production for maintenance work on November 11, facing uncertainty for the production as start-up hitter of the factory’s ammonia plant got damaged after it caught a fire on early Tuesday.
The ammonia plant went inoperative due to the incident for which the factory cannot start its urea production until the damaged hitter gets repaired. A pipe of the start-up hitter first developed a leak and started coming out hydrogen gas through the leak and instantly the hitter caught a devastating fire at around 5.40 am. After a frantic effort, fire fighters of JFCL brought the fire under control at around 6.30 am, said Mahbuba Sultana, managing director of JFCL.
A six-member committee headed by Sheikh Abdullah, chief of maintenance department at JFCL was formed to investigate the reason behind the incident and assess the estimate of the damage and the committee was asked to submits its report within seven working days, said Mahbuba. In a query, the manging director told this correspondent that they could be able to know how many days the hitter would take for its operation again after the probe report is submitted, she said.
Out of 3.20 lakh tonnes of production target in the current fiscal year, JFCL was able to produce 74,212 tonnes of urea till November 10, the managing director said, adding that the factory will not be able to reach its production target by the rest months of the fiscal year.
