Project Management Toolkit: Snamprogetti Urea Production Process

This project delves into the Snamprogetti process for urea production, a total recycle and stripping method utilizing ammonia as a self-stripping agent. The project, sponsored by Swansea University, aims to analyze the process flow, business benefits, and project scope. Key objectives include describing the process flow diagram, reducing reactor corrosion, and optimizing cost-effectiveness. The assignment includes a detailed benefits hierarchy, benefits specification table, and business case tool, highlighting potential benefits like increased process efficiency, reduced maintenance costs, and high-quality urea production. The project identifies key metrics for tracking benefits and assesses the project's success based on factors such as reduced production costs, increased reliability, and efficient plant setup.

Project Management toolkit – ‘Why?’ Checklist
The Snamprogetti process of production of urea is a process of total recycle and stripping
by making use of ammonia as a self-stripping agent. This procedure is mainly appointed as
it helps in production of excess ammonia that promotes stripping and avoids corrosion.
Project: Production of Urea (Snamprogetti
process)
Project manager: Please Insert
Date: 09/03/2020 Page: 1
Sponsorship
Who is the sponsor?
Swansea University
Has the sponsor developed an external communication plan?
An external communication plan is required to be developed for this project to effectively
communicate with the workers of the Urea production plant. The sponsor has prepared a
communication plan to ensure proper information flow among the team members and the external
stakeholders of the proposed project. Communication plan is an essential need of any project as it
ensure that all the key stakeholders are communication with the project progress and the project
needs.
Business Benefits
Has a business case been developed?
The proposed project is in its initial stage and therefore, only a draft business case has been
prepared. The detailed business case will be prepared once all the benefits are identified and agreed
by the stakeholders. The final business case will be developed soon.
Have all benefits been identified?
The key business benefits of using Snamprogetti process for production of Urea has been identified
so that it can be included in the final business case that is to be developed. The Snamprogetti
process ensure achievement of a high process efficiency and raw material consumption. This
process further helps in development of a high quality urea.
Who is the customer?
The customers are the farmers and the other manufacturing company who use urea as a raw
material in their products.
How will the benefits be tracked?
The benefits can be trailed by realizing by comparing the traditional process of Urea production
with that of the Snamprogetti process. In Snamprogetti process direct reaction between ammonia
(NH3) and carbon dioxide (CO2) ensure development of self-stripping ammonia. The benefits can
also be tracked by experiencing high reliability and less maintenance of urea production plant as
this process ensure less corrosion.
Business change
Will the project change the way people do business?
No, there will be no significant change in the process people do business. However, there will be a
significant change in the working process as the proposed method of Urea production ensure high
reliability and less maintenance.
Is the business ready for the project?
The Snamprogetti process of Urea production is a simple process. The only requirement of the
project is to install the setup required for Snamprogetti process after which the business can realize
the benefits offered by this Urea production project.
Scope definition
Has the scope been defined?
Yes, the project scope has been defined by researching the different process of Urea production and
by identifying the actual benefit that a business can gain by appointing Snamprogetti process for
Urea production.
Have the benefit enablers been defined?

The possible intensification in efficiency and need of low maintenance of the Snamprogetti process
plant have been well identified and well-defined.
Have all alternatives been investigated?
There are several other process of Urea production apart from Snamprogetti process such as Haber
process and others. The alternatives are identified and the proposed process aims in replacing the
traditional process of Urea production.
Have the project success criteria been defined and prioritised?
The success criteria of the project is well-defined for the project. The success criteria is prioritized
as the installation of the setup of Snamprogetti process will prove to be a cost effective alternative
for the traditional process. The cost effectiveness can be realized by the low maintenance cost of
the plants using Snamprogetti process.
Stage One decision
Should the project be progressed further?
The benefits of the proposed project as identified from the preliminary research indicate that the
project can offer several commercial benefits and hence the proposed project can be proceeded
further.

Benefit criteria
Benefit metrics
Business case
Project scope
Project objectives
The proposed project is undertaken as the
Snamprogetti process of Urea helps in
generation of excess ammonia increases
the process efficiency and decreases the
maintenance cost
The proposed project will provide commercial benefit by
reducing the production cost of Urea. The production cost
can be reduced through this process as the maintenance
cost of the plant will be reduced by employing this process.
The scope of the proposed project is to set up a Snamprogetti process plant that will be capable of
producing Urea at a low cost by reducing the production cost. The project will be able to reduce the
maintenance cost of all the equipment of Urea producing plant by reducing the corrosion of the
equipment.
The key objective of the project is to describe the process flow diagram associated with the Snamprogetti process of
Urea production. This is the first step towards setting up of a Snamprogetti process plant. The success of the project will
ensure that Urea is produced at a low cost and the need of maintaining the equipment associated with the process is
reduced as well.
The Snamprogetti process of Urea production offers several benefits. The manufacturing cost of Urea is significantly reduced by this
process since the process helps in increasing the efficiency of Urea production. The overall operating cost is quite low and the
maintenance cost is low as well. Hence this project is proposed.

Detailed Benefits hierarchy
Project: Production of Urea (Snamprogetti
process)
Date: 09.03.2020
Level in hierarchy Item in hierarchy Comment
1. Benefit
criteria
-Proliferation in efficiency by
promoting higher conversion in the
stripper.
-Decrease in the Maintenance cost
by reduction of Corrosion.
-Urea will be created with increasing
efficiency.
-This process is highly reliable since it
offers benefits such as safe operation, low
corrosion and high on stream factor.
2. Business
case
-The plant will require low
maintenance which indicate that
Urea will be produced at a low
cost.
-The corrosion of the reactor will
be reduced indicated the need for
low maintenance
- The proposed project is justified since it
will help in low cost Urea production.
- The proposed project has a positive ROI.
3. Project
scope
Promoting the use of
Snamprogetti process for Urea
production. Snamprogetti process
plant is needed to be set up for the
same
Snamprogetti process can be considered as
one of the most efficient process of Urea
production and therefore, setting up of
such plants can help in increasing the
business benefit.
- The plant set up will require the
following –
- Cooler,
- Heat Exchanger
- Compressor
- Pump
- Stripper
- Storage Tank
- Reactor
- Condensor
- Pressure Separator
- Vacuum Evaporator
- Prilling Tower
4. Project
objectives
-Reduction in the corrosion of the
reactor
- Using ammonia as a self-
stripping agent for Urea production
-The cost of setting up of a Snamprogetti
process plant should not exceed the
business benefit.
-The temperature of the stripper should be
maintained at 225C
5. Benefit
metrics
Reduction in the cost of
maintenance
-The reduction is corrosion indicate the
need of less maintenance of the Urea
production plant.
-The plant set up should follow the
essential technical specification and should
maintain optimal temperature requirements
to realize maximum benefit.

Project
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Production of Urea (Snamprogetti process)
Identification of Scope and
Project Objectives
Development of the Process
Flow Diagram of the
Snamprogetti process plant
Development of the Business
Case
Finalization of the materials
needed to set up the plant
Development of the Working
Plan and Final Design
Estimation of the Final Cost
and performing the Cost
Benefit Analysis
Urea production using
Snamprogetti process
Setting up of the plant Benefit Realization and
assessment of project success.

Benefits Specification Table
Project: Production of Urea (Snamprogetti
process)
Date: 09.03.20
Potential
benefit
Benefit
metric
Benefit
metric
baseline
Accountability Benefit
metric target
Sub-project
High Process
Efficiency
Less
Production
Cost
3 months Project
Manager
Increase in
efficiency by
25% in first
three months
Urea
Manufacturing
High Quality
Product
Delivery of
High Quality
Urea
Every Month Plant Manager Improvement
in product
quality
without
increasing the
production
cost
Economic
Project
Flexibility in
Operation
Reduction in
operation and
maintenance
cost
Life time Process Flow
Executive
Less Labour
involvement
in operation
Labour
recruitment
project
Less
Corrosion
Increase in
efficiency of
the Urea
production
process.
6 months Plant Manager Reduction in
maintenance
cost by 40%
within first
six months
Cleaning the
equipment
project
Higher rate of
Conversion
Easier Urea
production
and increase
in flexibility
of Urea
production
Life time Plant Manager Improvement
in the overall
production
and efficiency
Process
Organizing
project

Business case tool
Project: Production of Urea (Snamprogetti
process)
Date: 09.03.2020
Business case
developed by
Please Insert Date Please Insert
Project reference
number
Please Insert Business area Urea Production Plant
Project Manager Please Insert Project Sponsor Please Insert
Business background The project aims in designing and implementing Snamprogetti process for
Urea production. In this process, ammonia directly reacts with Carbon
dioxide to produce urea. In this process ammonia act as a self-stripping
agent. This reduces corrosion and increases the efficiency of Urea
production.
Project description The benefits that can be obtained from the Snamprogetti process is
identified at the initial-stage of the proposed project to prepare the
business case for the project. The suggested procedure is a total recycle
technique of using ammonia as a self-stripping agent for generation of
Urea. The proposed process of Urea production increases the production
efficiency by internally recycling NH3 and CO2 in the Urea reactor
system. The combination is done at a temperature 186-189 degrees
Celsius. This process is more efficient in comparison to the other
processes of ammonia production as in Snamprogetti process almost 80%
of the CO2 fed for the chemical reaction is converted to Urea and the rest
20% is propelled back to reactor ensuring minimal wastage and reduction
in the production cost.
Delivery analysis The delivery of this project is subjected to realizing of the expected
benefits from the proposed project. The accomplishment of the project is
dogged by considerable reduction in the production of Urea by
Snamprogetti process. The maintenance department of the Urea
production plant can monitor the efficiency and the production cost to
check whether the proposed benefits are realized.
Business change
analysis
-Improvement in the efficiency of Urea production
-Decrease in the Cost of Production
-Reduction in the maintenance need and the cost of maintenance due to
less corrosion
- Increase in the flexibility of all the operations related to production of
Urea
Value-add analysis - Increase in the longevity of the equipment
- Less labour requirement for maintenance
Impact of not doing
project
Possible increase in the production cost of Urea and increase in the need
of maintenance.
Project approved Yes Name of approver
and date
Please Insert

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