Bedding plants

Today the walk up from New Eltham station to the Chantry is sunny, the suburban gardens bright with well-pruned roses and bedding plants laid out by ruler. Somehow the drone of a lawn-mower is as peaceful as the hum of bees in a meadow. When I reach the Chantry, the trees, which in my memory are hedges no higher than my head, hold the house and workshop in thick shadow. And when Uncle Gareth leads me into the house itself, the shadows are thicker still. 

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Fixed bed plants. In this type of plant, the process flow for all three feeds looks like the plant in Figure 20—3. The feed and compressed air are mixed, vaporized in a heater, and then charged to the fixed-bed reactor, a bundle of rubes packed with the catalyst. The ratio of air to hydrocarbon is generally about 75 1 to keep the mixture outside the explosive range, always a good idea. The feed temperature is 800-900°F, depending on the feed. The reaction time is extremely quick, so the feed is in contact with the catalyst for only 0.1 to 1.0 second. 

Fluidized bed plants. Some plants use a technology that differs from the scheme shown in Figure 20-3 in that the catalyst moves around with the feed during the reaction rather than staying fixed in the reactor tubes. The design, called fluidized bed technology, uses catalyst in a powdered form that is so mobile that it can be pumped like a liquid or blown like a vapor. 

Tough plant and vegetable stems Old bedding plants Fall leaves ... 

Perennials that do not normally survive a cold winter are usually classified, with annuals, as bedding plants, as they too need to be replanted annually. Plants such as pelargoniums or felicia can be overwintered in a frost-free greenhouse or a cool basement, cutting them back and then repotting at the start of spring. 

Herbaceous perennials can be planted in beds or borders by themselves, or mixed with bedding plants, shrubs, or roses. They can be placed in bold groups, lingering drifts, or small clumps, depending on the plant, its character, and the desired effect. Many flowers can be cut for flower-arranging, avoiding the high pesticide input and air miles associated with most commercial cut flowers. 

Susceptible plants Seeds, seedlings, cuttings, roots, and vegetable parts at or below soil level, such as carrot and celery. Will spread rapidly through trays of seedlings, such as bedding plants. 

Adedipe, N. O., R. E. Barrett, and D. P. Ormrod. Phytotoxkity and growth responses of ornamental bedding plants to ozone and sulfur dioxide. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 97 341-345, 1972. 

Elutriation is important in most industrial fluidized beds and is generally thought of as a disadvantage. In addition to the small particles which may be present in the initial particle size distribution, fines may be created in the course of operation by the attrition of bed particles. Elutriated particles usually need to be collected and recovered either because they represent the loss of product particles of a given size, because they must be separated from the exhaust gas for environmental reasons, or because of safety concerns there is a considerable risk of a dust explosion with very fine particles and perhaps especially so with many food particulates. Therefore the fluidized bed plant will require ancillary gas cleaning equipment such as a cyclone, filter or electrostatic precipitator to separate the fines from the gas. The loss of a particular size fraction from the bed may change fluidized bed behaviour and it then becomes important to return the fines to the bed continuously. 

Utilization of catalyst would be more efficient. Channeling has sometimes been experienced in fixed-bed plants, resulting in ineffectiveness of a portion of the catalyst bed. Trouble due to channeling has sometimes been experienced during regeneration. 

Atiyeh, R. M., Edwards, C. A., Subler, S., and Metzger, J. D. (2001). Pig manure vermicompost as a component of a horticultural bedding plant medium Effects on physicochemical properties and plant growth. Bioresource Technol. 78(1), 11-20. 

McSorley, R., Frederick, J. J. Response of some common annual bedding plants to three species of Meloidogyne. Suppl J Nematol 1994 26 773-777. 

Commercial Fixed-Bed Plant Design. The commercial fixed-bed MTG plant is very similar in design concept to the 4 B/D demonstration plant. A typical design of the reaction section of a commercial plant is shown in Figure 10. The feedstock may be distilled or crude methanol. 

Another process is the C I Girdler drum system, but it cannot compete in today s market because of size restrictions. Toyo has developed a spouting-fluid technology and by 1996 three plants were in operation. Stamicarbon will also license a fluid-bed plant that is similar to the Hydro-Agri design108. 

A further example of using chemical fluidized-bed processes is that of plants where fluidizable solids are used as a heat transfer medium. Willing [98] describes the use of this process for the cracking of oil arrears, but fluidized-bed plants are also suitable for catalytic or gas-solid reactions. The easy controllability of the reactor temperature is emphasized by Baranek et al. [7], wherein the heat of reaction can be used by immersed coolers to generate steam. The isothermal behavior, and the possibility of both supplying and removing heat, are further advantages. 

The measurements were carried out at a semi-industrial fluidized-bed plant DN 400. The scheme of the process is illustrated in Fig. 16.4, while the plant itself is illustrated in Fig. 16.5. 

The liquid injection is realized using a two-fluid nozzle (Co. Schlick, type 943, form 3, ring-shaped beam 20°-40°, dnozzie = 2.3 mm). A adjustable hose pump conveys the liquid from a store tank, and compressed air is used for the better spreading of the liquid. The investigations of Henneberg et al. [38, 39] in an industrial fluidized-bed plant showed that high nozzle injection rates may lead to low particle concentrations near the nozzle, and to overspray. 

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