You and your team are attempting to search for improvement possibilities in the chemical plant site. A list is being provided to enable person in charge to write down their improvement ideas. The seventeen improvement ideas below may give you a hint in order for you start brainstorming more ideas.
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Side stream filtration is a way to reduce suspended solid level in recirculating cooling water. A small portion (3-20%) of the cooling water is continuously filtered and returned to the system. Side stream technology available are pressure sand filtration and gravity continuous backwash filtration.
The importance of clean cooling water are reducing energy consumption, lower chemical consumption, lower maintenance cost, improving productivity and decreasing down time. So that’s why side stream filtration is very important. Read the rest of this entry »
A pilot project to capture CO2 or carbon dioxide from Dow’s chemical manufacturing plant will be developed in Dow’s plant in South Charleston, West Virginia, USA. The new facility will be able to capture CO2 of about 1,800 ton per year from coal-fired boiler’s flue gas in the plant.
The CO2 capture technology will be designed, build and operate by Alstom, a French energy service company. To bond the CO2 Alstom uses amines or ammonia derivatives and using heat to strip CO2 from the amines. Then amines could be recycled.
Meanwhile, Alstom is planning to start up its first CO2 capturing facility in a power plant in Poland.
By Alstom’s technology the captured CO2 could be injected underground for long storage or enhanced oil recovery. (greenwire.com)
A fire at a chemical plant in Avalon, Texas, USA, associated with hazardous materials, was occurred on 29 March 2009.
The fire could be extinguished within about 30 minutes. This accident had caused some nearby residents to be evacuated several hours. (chron.com)
Turnaround of Chemical Plant
Why Chemical Plant Turnaround is Important
I have experienced for 10 years dealing with chemical plant Turnaround. Turnaround of chemical plants is a cycle period of maintenance and repair of processing equipments (static and rotary), instrumentation, electrical equipments and laboratory equipments. Sometimes Turn Around time is also utilized to install new facility inside the plant, when the installation has to be done during plant shut down.
The major consideration in conducting plant Turnaround is to ensure that the entire processing equipments, machines and instrumentation can operate smoothly, stable and safely during the next year operating period in order to reach planned production volume. However, it doesn’t mean that each equipment has the same maintenance period. Some of the equipments may have one-year maintenance period and some of them may have longer than one year, it depends on manufacturer or vendor recommendations and equipments characteristics. Read the rest of this entry »
On 5 March 2009, BASF SE and The Dow Chemical Company announced that they had successfully started up a new propylene oxide plant in Antwerp, Belgium, with production capacity of 300,000 tones per year. Propylene oxide is used as raw material for the polyurethanes industry. Read the rest of this entry »
