Block flow diagram

The Eastman Chemicals from Coal faciUty is a series of nine complex interrelated plants. These plants include air separation, slurry preparation, gasification, acid gas removal, sulfur recovery, CO /H2 separation, methanol, methyl acetate, and acetic anhydride. A block flow diagram of the process is shown in Eigure 3. The faciUty covers an area of 2.2 x 10 (55 acres) at Eastman s main plant site in Kingsport, Teimessee. The air separation plant is... 

Fig. 3. Overall block flow diagram for Eastman s coal gasification—acetic anhydride complex (35).

Fig. 6. Simplified block flow diagram for the New Zealand gas-to-gasoline (GTG) plant (61). To convert m /h to gal/min, multiply by 4.40. HGT = heavy...

In a typical balanced plant producing vinyl chloride from EDC, all the HCl produced in EDC pyrolysis is used as the feed for oxychlorination. On this basis, EDC production is about evenly spHt between direct chlorination and oxychlorination, and there is no net production or consumption of HCl. The three principal operating steps used in the balanced process for ethylene-based vinyl chloride production are shown in the block flow diagram in Eigure 1, and a schematic of the overall process for a conventional plant is shown in Eigure 2 (76). A typical material balance for this process is given in Table 2. 

SASOLII a.ndIII. Two additional plants weie built and aie in operation in South Africa near Secunda. The combined annual coal consumption for SASOL II, commissioned in 1980, and SASOL III, in 1983, is 25 x 10 t, and these plants together produce approximately 1.3 x lO" m (80,000 barrels) per day of transportation fuels. A block flow diagram for these processes is shown in Figure 15. The product distribution for SASOL II and III is much narrower in comparison to SASOL I. The later plants use only fluid-bed reactor technology, and extensive use of secondary catalytic processing of intermediates (alkylation, polymerisation, etc) is practiced to maximise the production of transportation fuels. 

Fig. 15. Block flow diagram, SASOL II and III, where F-T corresponds to Fischer-Tropsch, and BTX is bensene, toluene, xylene. To convert m to...

Block flow diagram A simplified drawing representing a process. It typically shows major equipment and piping and can include major valves. 

Figure 12-31. Block flow diagram showing the reaction kinetics and thermodynamics needed to create a reactor model. (Source Reproduced with permission of the AlChE. Copyright 1996 AlChE. All rights reserved.)...

Figure 3.21 A simplified block flow diagram of a tire-to-fuel process,...

A block flow diagram is used to show the major process equipment and interconnecting process flow lines and flow rates, stream composition, temperatures, and pressures when necessary for clarity. The block flow diagram is a simplified diagram. 

Block flow diagram or simplified process flow diagram... 

Figure 5-4. A block flow diagram showing the combined reforming for methanol synthesis. ...

Figure 2.2. Block Flow Diagram for a Liquid Recycle Process...

Process technology information must include at least (1) block flow diagrams or simplified process flow diagrams such as the type shown in Figure 4.1 (2) process chemistry (3) DOE contractor-established criteria for maximum inventory levels for process chemicals ... 

Process safety information is compiled and made available to ah employees to facilitate the understanding and identification of hazards. This information includes block flow diagrams or process flow diagrams, process chemistry, and process limitations, such as temperatures, pressures, flows, and compositions. Consequences of process deviations are also required. This... 

Whilst improvements have been made in the efficiency of some individual items, the components of the standard block flow-diagram of Fig. 7.1 have changed little over the years. In this chapter, the potential improvements offered by a new concept in operation are considered. The subject here is a different kind of membrane that allows the gas-phase separation of chlorine from some of its accompanying impurities. 

ES-3 GATS Blue Grass block flow diagram, 8... 

Figure 19 Bay area refinery effluent treating block flow diagram. This refinery has a complicated wastewater treatment scheme because of the toxicity characteristics rule to separate streams with higher benzene concentrations for treatment in aboveground biotreater. (From Ref. 72.)...

Figure 1.1 Block flow diagram of a modern refinery.

Figure 7 depicts a simplified block flow diagram (BFD) for a typical biodiesel production process using base catalysis. In the first step, methanol and catalyst (NaOH) are mixed with the aim to create the active methoxide ions (Figure 4, step 1(b)). Then, the oil and the methanol-catalyst solution are transferred to the main reactor where the transesterification reaction occurs. Once the reaction has finished, two distinct phases are formed with the less dense (top) phase containing the ester products and unreacted oil as well as some residual methanol, glycerol, and catalyst. The denser (bottom) layer is mainly composed of glycerin and methanol, but ester residues as well as most of the catalyst, water, and soap can also be found in this layer. 

The initial field development plan called for reservoir natural depletion with provisions for future installation of water injection and gas lift facilities to enhance recovery. Fig. 2 shows a block flow diagram depicting the deck-mounted faciliues/utilities that have been designed and engineered lor the lazerka FPSU. 

Two versions of the MTG process, one using a fixed bed, the other a fluid bed, have been developed. The fixed-bed process was selected for installation in the New Zealand gas-to-gasoline (GTG) complex, situated on the North Island between the villages of Waitara and Motonui on the Tasman seacoast (60). A simplified block flow diagram of the complex is shown in Figure 6 (61). The plant processes over 3.7 x 106 m3/d(130 x 106 SCF/d) of gas from the offshore Maui field supplemented by gas from the Kapuni field, first to methanol, and thence to 2.3 x 103 m3/d (14,500 bbl/d) of gasoline. Methanol feed to the MTG section is synthesized using the ICI low pressure process (62) in two trains, each with a capacity of 2200 t/d. 

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