Baton Rouge plant

For the Baton Rouge plant, see Whitehead, The Dow Story, pp. 232-234 Brandt,... 

Cecil L. Smith/ Ph.D./ Principal, Cecil L. Smith Inc., Baton Rouge, LA. (Batch Proce.ss Control, Telemetering and Transmission, Digital Technology for Proce.ss Control, Proce.ss Control and Plant Safety)... 

Foster Grant is adding 500,000,000 lb/yr at Baton Rouge to be on stream by mid-1970. Commonwealth Oil is constructing a 400,000,000 lb/yr plant in Penuelas, Puerto Rico (startup... 

It is assumed that any East Coast site would obtain styrene from Puerto Rico or foreign sources. Any site located in the Midwest would obtain its styrene from Louisiana. To compare these sites the cost of styrene from these different sources must be known, as well as import duties and the specifics of the freeport laws which might be involved. A plant of this size would probably contract to receive styrene, and what special price concessions might be obtained would need to be investigated. Since information on this was not available it will be assumed that the only difference in the price of styrene at the site is due to the cost of transportation. The cost of shipping by sea from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia (- 1700 miles) is 4.51 ton=O.230/lb. The cost of shipping styrene from Baton Rouge, La. to Cincinnati, Ohio (-900 miles) is 1.7O/ton=O.O90/lb (see Fig. 2-5).29... 

Kongchum M. Effect of plant residue and water management practices on soil redox chemistry, methane emission, and rice productivity. PhD Diss. Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge 2005. 

Gerhard B (1993) Catabolism of fatty acid acids. In Moore TS (ed) Lipid metabolism in plants. CRS Press, Baton Rouge, p 527... 

Kommalapati RR (1995) Remediation of contaminated soils using a plant-based surfactant. Ph. D Dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA... 

US Department of Agraiculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Plants Database. Baton Rouge, LA National Plant Data Center, 2004. 

Systems in Plants, pp 77-104. CRC Press, Baton Rouge Asada K (1996) Radical production and scavenging in the chloroplasts. In Baker NR (ed) Photosynthesis and the Environment, pp 128-150. Kluwer Academic Pubhshers, Dordrecht... 

American companies became interested in the process during the war and initiated a substantial research program. Since production of specific alcohols was desired, more attention was focused on the use of narrow cuts of individual olefins in contrast to the mixed feeds employed by the Germans. The first commercial plant in the United States was constructed by the Standard Oil Company at Baton Rouge, La., in 1949. The main product from this plant is isooctyl alcohol produced from a heptene feed. As shown in Table 11-9, additional plants have been constructed by other large petrochemical companies, and the combined annual capacity at the end of 1956 exceeded 100 million lb of alcohols. In addition to isooctyl alcohol, the American plants produce normal and isobutyl aldehydes and alcohols, decyl and tridecyl alcohol. ... 

Another important innovation was the injection of oil as a liquid rather than vapor (8). This was very desirable in order to make best use of the large amount of heat available from regeneration, but it required a high rate of catalyst circulation. There was considerable concern about possibly forming mud and rendering the system inoperable. When the first commercial upflow plant started up at the Baton Rouge refinery a critical test was made to see if liquid feed injection was operable. Fortunately, the test was completely successful. 

May 1st, Startup first large plant at Baton Rouge. January, Startup second large plant. Bayway. 

It was pointed out earlier that a compression screw pump was used to provide catalyst circulation in the initial 100 /D plant and that it caused serious operating problems. Fortunately the concept of the standpipe to build up pressure was conceived at this opportune moment and was soon put to use. It may seem surprising, but the standpipe concept was only accepted after considerable persuasion and discussion. Confirmation was needed, so a standpipe 100 feet high was set up on one of the refinery fractionation columns at Baton Rouge, filled with catalyst, and aerated. Pressure gauges confirmed the calculated buildup in pressure, and when a valve at the bottom was opened the catalyst ran out as though it were a liquid. 

The 100 /D plant was again rebuilt to demonstrate the downflow operation in 1941, and simultaneously five more large scale plants of this type were under construction by Exxon, the first of which started operating in mid 1943. Figure 7 shows the Fluid Cracking units at the Baton Rouge refinery. 

Figure 7. The First Commercial Fluid Catalytic Cracking Plants at Baton Rouge, LA. PCLA 1 at left and at right are two of downflow designs.

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