Detailed Project Report (DPR) on industrial salt (sodium chloride)

INDUSTRIAL SALT (SODIUM CHLORIDE)
(CODE NO.1926)


Salt is the common name for the substance sodium chloride (NaCI), which occurs in the form of transparent cubic crystals. Although salt is most familiar as a food supplement, less than 5% of the salt produced in the United States is used for that purpose. About 70% is used in the chemical industry, mostly as a source of chlorine. Salt is also used for countless other purposes, such as removing snow and ice from roads, softening water, preserving food, and stabilizing soils for construction.

The earliest humans obtained their salt from natural salt concentrations, called licks, and from meat. Those people who lived near the ocean may have also obtained it by chewing seaweed or from the natural evaporation of small pools of seawater. Meat became a more important source of salt as hunting was developed, as did milk when sheep, goats, horses, camels, reindeer, and cattle were domesticated. Even today, certain peoples—such as the Inuit of the far north, the Bedouin of the Middle Eastern deserts, and the Masai of east Africa—use no other form of salt.

As agriculture developed, leading to an increased population and a diet consisting mostly of plants, it became necessary to devise ways of obtaining salt in greater amounts. The earliest method of salt production was the evaporation of seawater by the heat of the sun. This method was particularly suited to hot, arid regions near the ocean or near salty lakes and is still used in those areas. Solar evaporation was soon followed by the quarrying of exposed masses of rock salt, which quickly developed into the mining of underground deposits of salt. Two thousand years ago the Chinese began using wells to reach underground pools of salt water, some of which were more than 0.6 miles (1.0 km) deep.


COST ESTIMATION

Plant Capacity                                    50.00 TON/day           
Land & Building (2 Acres)                Rs. 4.05  Cr  
Plant & Machinery                              Rs. 2.80  Cr     
W.C. for 2 Months                               Rs. 89.18 Lacs
Total Capital Investment                   Rs. 7.88 Cr          
Rate of Return                                    21%  
Break Even Point                                64%


INTRODUCTION                                            
CHEMISTRY OF SODIUM CHLORIDE                                
RAW MATERIALS                                            
USES AND APPLICATION                                        
BIS SPECIFICATION & INTERNATIONAL STANDARD                    
PROPERTIES & CHARACTERISTICS                                
OCCURRENCE OF SALT                                        
MARKET SURVEY                                            
WORLD DEMAND OF SALT                                    
IMPORT & EXPORT STATISTICS OF SALT IN EUROPEAN UNION                
GLOBAL PRODUCTION OF SODIUM CHLORIDE                        
PRESENT MANUFACTURE OF INDUSTRIAL SALT (SODIUM CHLORIDE)            
METHOD OF SALT MANUFACTURE                                
MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF INDUSTRIAL SALT (SODIUM CHLORIDE)        
PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM                                    
METHOD OF PROCESSING TO MANUFACTURE SODIUM CHLORIDE            
NOVAL SODIUM CHLORIDE PRODUCTION PROCESS                    
RAW MATERIAL CALCULATION                                
PLANT LAYOUT                                            
PRINCIPLES OF PLANT LAYOUT                                    
PLANT LOCATION FACTORS                                    
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN THE PROJECT REPORT                
SUPPLIERS OF PLANT & MACHINERIES                            
FILTER PRESS                                            
SUPPLIERS OF PLANT AND MACHINERIES (IMPORTED)                    
SUPPLIERS OF RAW MATERIALS                                
                     

APPENDIX – A :

 1.      COST OF PLANT ECONOMICS      
 2.      LAND & BUILDING                                      
 3.      PLANT AND MACHINERY                                  
 4.      FIXED CAPITAL INVESTMENT                             
 5.      RAW MATERIAL                                         
 6.      SALARY AND WAGES                                     
 7.      UTILITIES AND OVERHEADS                              
 8.      TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL                                
 9.      COST OF PRODUCTION                                   
10.      PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS                               
11.      BREAK EVEN POINT                                     
12.      RESOURCES OF FINANCE                           
13.      INTEREST CHART                                       
14.      DEPRECIATION CHART                                   
15.      CASH FLOW STATEMENT                                   
16.      PROJECTED BALANCE SHEET