1.ELEKTROCHEMISCHES KOMBINAT, BITTERFELD NEW INSTALLATIONS PLANNED FOR 1953-1955 2. ELEKTROCHEMISCHES KOMBINAT, BITTERFELD CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS FOR 1952.

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SUBJECT 1. Elektrochemisches Kombinat, Bitterfeld&ATE DISTR. 18 May 1954
New Installations Planned for 1953-1955
2. 'Elektrochemisches Kombinat, Bitterf e14}jO. OF PAGES 8
Capital Investment Projects for 1952
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Elektroohemisohes Kombinat, Bitterfeld, List of Projects for New Installations
(valued
No. Designation Capacityl Estimated costs
(in 1,000 DMZ)
(1) (2) (3)
Total
(4)
Work Projects
(in 1,000 DME)
1953
1954
1955
1952
1953
1954
(6)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
1 Caustic soda 15,000 tons 14,000 11,000 30000 - 100 200 -
chlorine plant III, of NaOH per
south. 93 mercury year
Cells, auzi1iary
apparatus, and
rectifier installation,
800 volts, 20,000
amperes
2 Chlorate, conversion 8,000 tons of 2,400 1,400 1,000 - 30 20
of systems 3 and 4 to X0103 per year
graphite anodes 220000/30,000
tons per year
3 Potassium biohromate, 1,800-tons per 700 500 200 - 10 10
conversion to contin- year
uous absorption, 4,800/6,600
ixa~sEtall of a 002 tons per year
condfr~ `ration ir1.>etallation.3
etc.
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(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
4
Graphite, raising the
load by 15,000 amperes
2,100 tons
per year
1,200
800
400
-
20
20
to 50,000 amperes, by 2900/5,000,
moving converter from electrical
aluminum plant I, and industry;
enlarging the rectifier 3,400 tone
building toward the per year
east 9,600/13,000,
metallurgical
industry
5 Titanium dioxide,
doubling the
installation;
magnetite electrodes
and new construction
Crude nitric acid,
three new combustion
furnaces, five ab-
sorption towers
7 Tricresyl phosphate,
completion of con-
version to continuous
process
8 Reza products, includ-
ing pentachlorophenol;
transfer of enlarged
installation to North
Plant and installation
for processing residues
for pentachlorophenol
Methylsne chloride,
enlarging installation
in present building,
also increasing
electric power supply
10 Vinidur tubes, in 1953?
new building with four
small presses and stor-
age battery station,
also eight mixing
mills, power supply; in
19541 two large presses
and three mixing mills,
power supply
2,500 tons 3,500 1,000 2,500
per year
2,500/5,000
tone per year
8,600 tons per 8,000 2,000 6,000
year
21,000/29,600
tons per year
3,000 tons per 600 500 100
year
6,000/9,000
tons per year
170 tons per 3,000 1,200 1,800
year
10/90 tone per
year in 1953
90/180 tons per
year in 1954
2,400 tons per 2,900 1,600 1,300
year
1,200/3,600
tons per year
500'tone per 2,800 1,800 1,000
year in 1953
300 tons per
year in 1954
11 Vinidur boxes, enlarge- 4.2 million, 1,500 1,300 200
ment of building 296 3 million/
and social activities 7.2 million
rooms, calender with
2,000-millimeter rolling
width and four mixing
mills in building 282
20 50 20
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(1) (2) (3)
12 Special foil, 5 million DM
calendar and four
mixing mills
13 Caustic potash, in 20,000 tons of
North Plant, rebuild- KOH per year
ing of decomposing (figure
unit I with 160 new illegible- may
cells for 26,000 be 30,000)
amperes with output
equivalent to units I
and II, enlargement of
vaporizer I, new instal-
lation for dissolving
X01 in decomposing unit
II; no increase in DC
supply
14 Tungetic acid plant, 300 tons per
North (industrial) year
15 Ferrotungeten, 500 tons per
third electric year
furnace and build- 500/1,000 tons
ing wing per year
16 Aluminum, 1953; 10,000 tons per
Shop 3 - 144 fur- year
naces, one rectifier 15,000/25,000
installation, 900 tons per year
volts, 30,000 amperes,
in present building
17 Aluminum, 1954/56:
Shop 4, 144
furnaces, one rec-
tifier installation,
900 volts, 30,000
amperes, in new
building; foundry;
shops 1 and 2,
reconstruction,
otherwise same as
shop 4
20,000 tons
per year
25,000/45,000
tons per year
Of this, 10,000
tons after
I January 1955
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8) (9)
(10)
1,250
-
1,000
250
- 15
10
9,500
-
8,000
1,500
- 200
50
2,200
-
2,000
200
- 30
20
600
200
400
-
5 10
5
17,000
12,000
2,000
-
50 200
100
of
which,,
3,000
in
1953
37,000
17,000
20,000
- 200
200
(100
each
for
1955
and
1956)
18 Magnesium, dressing 4,500 tons per 20,000 18,000 2,000 - 100 300 200
installation, 64 year
baths, rectifier
installation, 500
volts, 24,000 amperes,
with reserve (6,000
amperes), in new
building
19 Rolling stock, 120
tank cars for ROH,
NaOH, and magnesium
solution, two loco-
motives, two railroad
cranes, 20 dump carts,
10 electric cars
4,500 2,100 2,400 - 10 20
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20 Expansion of rail
network, 2,000 meters
of new rails and
clearing of railroad
at North Plant
Expansion of water
supply system, con-
nection to Elbaue,
with 5,000-cubic-
meter reserve reser-
voir, four cooling
towers
900
2,200
400
500
1,000
1,200 -
20
40
400
400 -
15
15
-
2,000
1,000 1,000
50
50
50
700
1,000 -
10
30
400
400 -
10
20
500
100 -
10
20
1,500
3,000 3,100
50
100
100
22 Expansion of drainage - 800
network, laying of pipes
in present open ditches,
settling basins, etc.
23, Expansion of general - 4,000
power su
pp
l
y ne
t
wor
k
,
30,000-volt network,
two new junction
points, etc.
24 Storerooms for chemi- 1,700
pals, new building,
6,000 square meters,
with collar
28 Expansion of steam - 800
M& gas network
26 Central scrubbing 100,000 cubic 600
installation for meters per
generator gas day
27 Expansion of South 20 mw. 7,600
power
p
lant
,
r
econ-
struction of 10 boiler-
firing installations,
20-atmosphere boilers,
reconstruction of
turbine is, 6 megawatts;
Benson boiler, 60 tons
of steam; turbine 15,
25 megawatts
28 Expansion of North 4 mw.
power plant, two 30-
atmosphere boilers,
30 tons per hour, and
one back-pressure
turbine
3,500 1,500 2,000 - 30 70
29 Reconstruction of 80 mw. 50,000 15,000 30,000 5,000 200 400 400
Thalheim power
plant
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(4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
Tota1s: 204,750 78,000 91,900 31,050 860 2,330 1,166
(minus 3,000 which
was spent in 1952)
omm fit: Altho-Figh the title of this column in the original is
apac y , it appears that in most, if not all, oases the entries show capacity
jUrtles. When the entry gives three figures, the latter two separated by "/",
the first figure apparently shows the increase in capacity, the second the present
capacity, and the third the final capacity.
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Elektrochemisches Kombinat, Bitterfeld, Index of Titles of Capital Investment Projects
for 1952 (in 1,000 I)ME)
Cost of Entire
Pro ect
1952
Plan
1.
Remaining work on reconstruction of the plant for
foundry aluminum (first stage)
15,000
600
2.
Reconstruction of the plant for foundry aluminum
(second stage)
17,000
3,000
3.
Setting up a 30-ton steam boiler in the North
Plant, with complete reconstruction of coaling
and ash. removal .An$tallations
2,860
500
4.
Expansion of the PC installation to a capacity of
120 tone per month
1,050
1,050
5.
Remaining work on setting up the four mixing
mills and the four-roller calendar in the
plastics plant
1,027
130
6.
Setting up the back-pressure turbine in the
North Plant
800'
45
7.
Erection of the methylene chloride plant
845
845
8.
Expansion of the Gesarol and chloral installation
to a Capacity of 280 tons per month
690
690
9.
Expansion of the potassium and sodium chlorate
plants (System I)
660
119
10.
Erection of the ferrotungeten and ferrovanadium
plant
1,450
1,450
11.
Replacement of the magnetite electrodes with
graphite electrodes in the chlorate plant (System II)
600
600
12.
Remaining work on the pressure-raising station for
the water supply system which used water from the
btulde River
561
446
13.
Erection of the ferrochrome plant
410
410
14.
Erection of the ferromolybdenum and ferrotitanium
p ]ant
254
254
15.
Remaining work on expanding the titanium dioxide
plant to a capacity of 140 tons per month
475
419
16.
Erection of a ventilator cooling tower for the PC
plant, with a capacity of 1,100 cubic meters per hour
300
300
17.
Expansion of the PO plant (setting up the vacuum dryer)
350
62
18.
Expansion of the Siliron plant, from a capacity of
24,000 tons per year to a capacity of 36,000 tons
per year
285
285
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Cost of Entire 1952
Project Plan
19.
Erection of an Igelit-lined iron tower for the
crude nitric acid plant
250
250
20.
Expansion of the tricresyl phosphate plant,
from a capacity of 4,200 tons per year to 5,400
tone per year
230
230
21.
Chemical apparatus and technological equipment
for the inorganic plats
400
400
22.
Chemical apparatus and technological equipment
for the organic plants
354
354
23.
Rebuilding of the chromic oxide plant
200
200
24.
Erection of the installation for the production
of special iron powder for Pupin coils
190
190
25.
Expansion of the oxalic acid plant, from a capacity
of 1,650 tons per year to 2,000 tons per year
180
180
26.
25-megavoltY-ampere transformer for the power plant
150
150
27.
Expansion of the barium carbonate plaa.t
150
150
28.
Expansion of the plant for magnetic alloys, from a
capacity of 200 tons per year to 360 tons per year
130
130
29.
Remaining work on setting up a three-color printing
press and design-stamping unit for plastic sheet
65
13
30.
Piro-protection measures for various plants
250
250
31,
Replacement of the flat cathodes by corrugated sheets
in the electrolysis unit of the caustic soda paa nt in
the North Plant (System I)
90
90
32.
Remaining work on the expansion of the graphite
electrode plant
50
12
33.
Erection of the montan wax plant
80
80
34.
Expansion of the light metal extrusion press plant
70
62
36.
Rebuilding of the red phosphorus plant
60
60
36.
Erection of the special Igelit plant for the production
of cable material
50
50
37.
Control and testing equipment
as
25
38.
Stabilizers for phenoxypropylene oxide
15
15
39.
Power plants
a.' Reconstruction of the firing system of six 20-
atmosphere boilers, at 150,000 DM each
900
900
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Cost of entire 1952
Project Plan
b. Reconstruction of the firing system of two
20-atmosphere low-pressure boilers in North
Plant, at 180,000 DM each
c. Remaining work on first stage of construction
of the protective equipment for the generator 93 10
d. Putting the replacement oil switches into
operation in the 5-kilovolt switch installation 40
e, Reconstruction of 20-atmosphere boiler No. 18
in boiler house 2 200 200
f, Erection of an air-conditioning unit with a
capacity of 1,000 cubic meters per hour 175 175
Modernization of five switch cells in switch
house 1 90 90
h. Connecting machine no. 11 with the 5-kilovolt line 55 55
I. Remaining work on equipment for the high-
frequency telemeter installation 50 45
1. Second stage of construction on the new protective
equipment for the generator 30 30
m. Modernization of the high-frequency telephone
and extension of the Telephone network 30n 300
n. Setting up four switch cello in switch house 2 12 12
o. Structural changes in the fitters? shop 11 11
p. Now connections in switch house 2/4 10 10
q. Installation for the impregnation of wood for
refrigeration units 8 8
r. Equipment for the load-dispatcher9s office 25 25
40. Work protection and safety technology 200 200
41. Purification station for potassium chloride 140 140
42. Equipment for the plant laboratory and research
laboratory 162 152
43. Remaining work on the assembly of the mill for FCU
coagulate 21 6
44. Two grab cranes for unloading salt at the North Plant 150 150
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50,331 16,717
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