K'AI-YUAN CHEMICAL PLANT, YUNNAN PROVINCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000300210084-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: February 27, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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Approved For Release 2001/03/30 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000300210084-7
Approved For Release 2001/03/30 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000300210084-7
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27 February 1964
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MEMORANDUM TO: Chief, Resources Division, ORR
25X1 A ATTENTION R/CH
THROUGH Chief, Requirements Branch, Reconnaissance Group, CGS
FROM Chief, CIA/PID (NPIC)
SUBJECT K'ai-yuan Chemical Plant, Yunnan Province
REFERENCES (1) ORR Requirement RR/135/63
(2) CIA/PID Project C 767-63
1. This memorandum is in answer to your requirement which requested
annotated enlargements of the Chemical Plant in K'ai-yuan, Yunnan Province,
Communist China.
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A complete analysis of this plant cannot be MaIM a is time because the plant
is still under construction and its final products are not known. However, it
appears that this plant will produce nitrogenous fertilizers.
3. The northern portion of the plant contains a steam plant, a retort build-
ing, two gasometers, scrubbers and a contact oven. In this series of buildings
and equipment hydrogen and nitrogen gas will be producted and stored in the east-,
ern gasometer. This gas will then be pumped to the large monitor roof building,
in which it will be compressed and synthesized into ammonia. The processes, thus
far, are common to most nitrogenous fertilizer plants. The remaining installations
at this plant are still under construction and therefore their identification is
tenative. Part of the ammonia produced will be sent to the small building, SE of
the compressor and synthesis building, to make nitric acid. The remaining ammonia
fertilizers produced or will be
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stored. When this plant is compared to other fertilizer plants of a similiar
size, such as the plants located in Canton and Ch'u-Hsien, a sulfuric acid plant
is normally found at the location of the large double-bay arch roofed building.
Since the other facilities and the flow process at these plants appear similar,
it is assumed that the sulfuric acid plant at installation, will be located
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of this plant will vent the unusable gases produced. The apparatus to convey
the pyrites, if pyrites are used as the source of sulfur, to the plant and to
remove the waste and the roasters have not as yet been constructed. This equip-
ment probably will be placed between the warehouses and the acid plant. The
small, well ventilated building south of.the possible-acid-plant-is a-possible
finished product building. There is a conveyor leading from it to the warehouse
adjacent to the railroad spur. A more accurate description can be gdven only
after construction has been completed.
25X1A 4. The analyst on this project was who may be contacted
on extension 2546, should you have any questions concerning this project. This is
considered a complete answer to your referenced requirement.
Enclosures:
2 Annotated Photographic Enlargements
(CIA/PID/IB-P-321/64 and 322/64)
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