Central Processing Facilities

It is the job of the process engineer to see that any new plant meets federal and state regulations. He may do this by designing a system to handle the wastes, or he may arrange for a municipality or a central processing facility to treat his wastes. In the latter case he must be careful, since if the plant processing his wastes goes on strike or is temporarily shut down he may be forced to shut down his own facilities to avoid stiff pollution fines. 

Primary separation facilities process the produced fluids and gases into individual streams of gas, oil and water. These facilities are commonly referred to as Gas Oil Separation Plants (GOSP s), Central Processing Facilities (CPF) or if located offshore on drilling, production and quarters platforms (PDQ s). The offshore platform may either float on the sea or be supported on steel or concrete supports secured to the ocean floor, where it is capable of resisting waves, wind, and in Arctic regions ice flows. In some instances surplus oil tankers have been converted into offshore production and storage facilities. 

Spent catalysts need to be reclaimed either on site or at a central-processing facility, rather than being sent to a... 

Cold mix asphalt (central processing facility) - The RAP processing reqnirements for cold mix recycling are similar to those for recycled hot mix, except that the graded RAP product is incorporated into cold mix asphalt paving mixtnres as an aggregate substitute ... 

Mainframe Large, generally centralized processing facility, usually found in large financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, and the like, used to hold and process very large databases. 

The central processing facility to manufacture ethanol on 70 million-gal/year scale might serve an area of 50,000 to 100,000 acres. In locations where... 

Very large quantities of other straws and crop processing residues are also produced. Many such residues are produced at centralized processing facilities. While some of this residual plant matter should be left on the field, much of it can be removed and used elsewhere without degrading soil fertility. For example, rice straw is often burned to clear the fields for the next crop. There is considerable political pressure in the United States and elsewhere to eliminate or greatly reduce this practice of field burning. 

Unit processing cost for Ambrox in the central processing facility... 

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