Chemical companies plants

Dow Chemical Company plant in Freeport, TX. The Freeport plant is the home of Dow s largest chemical manufacturing installation in the world and one of the world s largest chemical plants. In 2004 Dow Chemical and GM began the installation of fuel cells to convert excess hydrogen into electricity. 

Monitoring data on the ambient air levels of PBBs are very limited. The concentration of hexabromobiphenyl in air samples collected downwind and crosswind from the White Chemical Company plant in Bayonne, New Jersey was 0.06 ng/m (DeCarlo 1979). 

Polybrominated Biphenyls. Soil samples from the bagging and loading areas of the Michigan Chemical Corporation plant in St. Louis, Michigan, contained PBBs at concentrations of 3,500 and 2,500 mg/kg, respectively (Di Carlo et al. 1978). PBBs (mostly decabromobiphenyl, but some lower brominated biphenyls down to hexabromobiphenyl) in soil near the Hexcel Chemical Corporation plant in New Jersey and the White Chemical Company plant in New Jersey ranged from 40 to 4.6 mg/kg and from... 

The technology spread to North America. In 1869, the first phosphate fertilizer in Canada was produced by the Brockville Chemical and Superphosphate Company, owned by Cowan and Robertson. The Brockville Chemical and Superphosphate company operated between 1869 and 1884. The plant closed because the local pyrites source for sulfuric acid manufacturing became exhausted. Three years later, the owners opened a new superphosphate and sulfuric acid plant in Smiths Falls, ON (closed in the 1920 s) the sulfur for the Standard Fertilizer and Chemical Company plant came from Sicily and Japan. Other plants opened in Canada during the 1880 s ... 

Eor this example the cost of the battery limits plant is about four times the purchase cost of the equipment. This number is about two for module I-type plants designed and iastalled by the fine chemicals company itself, and about six for expanded module IV-type plants designed and built by contractors. 

Quality Control. Because fine chemicals are sold according to specifications, adherence to constant and strict specifications, at risk because of the batchwise production and the use of the same equipment for different products ia multipurpose plants, is a necessity for fine chemical companies. For the majority of the fine chemicals, the degree of attention devoted to quahty control (qv) is not at the discretion of the iadividual company. This is particularly the case for fine chemicals used as active iagredients ia dmgs and foodstuffs (see Fine chemicals, standards). Standards for dmgs are pubHshed ia the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) ia the United States (6) and the European Pharmacopeia ia Europe (7). 

Until 1982, almost all methyl methacrylate produced woddwide was derived from the acetone cyanohydrin (C-3) process. In 1982, Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Company introduced an isobutylene-based (C-4) process, which was quickly followed by Mitsubishi Rayon Company in 1983 (66). Japan Methacryhc Monomer Company, a joint venture of Nippon Shokubai and Sumitomo Chemical Company, introduced a C-4-based plant in 1984 (67). Isobutylene processes are less economically attractive in the United States where isobutylene finds use in the synthesis of methyl /i / butyl ether, a pollution-reducing gasoline additive. BASF began operation of an ethylene-based (C-2) plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 1990, but favorable economics appear to be limited to conditions unique to that site. 

Countries produciug commodity LLDPE and their capacities, as well as production volumes of some U.S. companies, are Hsted iu Table 5. Iu most cases, an accurate estimate of the total LLDPE production capacity is compHcated by the fact that a large number of plants are used, iu turn, for the manufacture of either HDPE or LLDPE iu the same reactors. VLDPE and LLDPE resius with a uniform branching distribution were initially produced in the United States by Exxon Chemical Company and Dow Chemical Company. However, since several other companies around the world have also aimounced their entry into this market, the worldwide capacity of uniformly branched LLDPE resins in 1995 is expected to reach a million tons. Special grades of LLDPE resins with broad MWD are produced by Phillips Petroleum Co. under the trade name Low Density Linear Polyethylenes or LDLPE. 

Synthesis. The total aimual production of PO in the United States in 1993 was 1.77 biUion kg (57) and is expected to climb to 1.95 biUion kg with the addition of the Texaco plant (Table 1). There are two principal processes for producing PO, the chlorohydrin process favored by The Dow Chemical Company and indirect oxidation used by Arco and soon Texaco. Molybdenum catalysts are used commercially in indirect oxidation (58—61). Capacity data for PO production are shown in Table 1 (see Propylene oxide). 

Production and Economic Aspects. Aspirin is produced in the United States by The Dow Chemical Company, Rhc ne-Poulenc, and Norwich (a division of Proctor Gamble). Globally, Rhc ne-Poulenc has additional production faciHties in France and in Thailand. Bayer is self-suppHed from production units in Spain and Turkey over the years many small plants have been estabHshed around the world for regional or country supply. The aspirin market is increasingly globally suppHed. Aspirin is generally considered mature, and only population increases and new uses will affect its production and demand, which is thought to be of the order of 30—35,000 t for total world consumption. The May 1995 price was 8.30/kg (18). 

Conoco operated a stirred tank Pfaudler glass-lined reactor for the batch SO sulfonation of detergent alkylate. The plant utilized over-the-fence SO converter gas (8% SO ia dry air) having h batch cycles (264). AHied Chemical Company provided details for batch SO sulfonation (265,266)... 

The simplest unit employing vacuum fractionation is that designed by Canadian Badger for Dominion Tar and Chemical Company (now Rttgers VFT Inc.) at Hamilton, Ontario (13). In this plant, the tar is dehydrated in the usual manner by heat exchange and injection into a dehydrator. The dry tar is then heated under pressure in an oil-fired hehcal-tube heater and injected directly into the vacuum fractionating column from which a benzole fraction, overhead fraction, various oil fractions as side streams, and a pitch base product are taken. Some alterations were made to the plant in 1991, which allows some pitch properties to be controlled because pitch is the only product the distillate oils are used as fuel. 

Benzaldehyde is produced ia the United States by Kalama Chemical Incorporated, Kalama, Washington and ia Canada by Chatterton Petrochemical Corporation, Delta, British Columbia. Both plants were constmcted by The Dow Chemical Company ia the early 1960s to produce phenol from benzoic acid and both produce benzaldehyde as a by-product of that process (6). Production and sales figures for benzaldehyde are not available. 

The first large-scale commercial oxychlorination process for vinyl chloride was put on-stream in 1958 by The Dow Chemical Company. This plant, employing a fixed-tube reactor containing a catalyst of cupric chloride on an active carrier, produced 1,2-dichloroethane from ethylene. The high temperatures involved in the reaction were moderated by a suitable diluent. The average heat output from the reaction is 116 kJ/mol (50,000 Btu/lb mol). 

The Dow Chemical Company in the mid-1920s developed two processes which consumed large quantities of chlorobenzene. In one process, chlorobenzene was hydrolyzed with ammonium hydroxide in the presence of a copper catalyst to produce aniline [62-53-3J. This process was used for more than 30 years. The other process hydrolyzed chlorobenzene with sodium hydroxide under high temperature and pressure conditions (4,5) to product phenol [108-95-2]. The LG. Earbenwerke in Germany independentiy developed an equivalent process and plants were built in several European countries after World War II. The ICI plant in England operated until its dosing in 1965. 

The Texaco gasifier and a similar unit developed by The Dow Chemical Company are pressurized entrained gasifiers. At the top pulverized coal is mixed with reaction gas and is blown down into the gasifier. The reaction products leave from the side, and ash is blown down to a water pool where it is quenched. These units have operated at an Eastman Kodak facUity in Kingsport, Tennessee and at the Coolwater power station in California for an integrated combined cycle power plant. 

A similar design has been developed using a 161 MW plant by The Dow Chemical Company in its Plaquemine, Louisiana location. Destec, Inc. is a power subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and has joined with PubHc Service Of Indiana to build a new 230 MW plant near Terre Haute, Indiana. Operation is projected for 1995 (95). 

Nonstirred ARC runs may give answers that do not adequately duphcate plant results when there are reactants that may settle out or that require mixing for the reaction to be carried out (DeHaven and Dietsche, The Dow Chemical Company, Pittsburgh, Calif., Catalyst Explosion A Case History, Plant (Operations Progress, April 1990). 

Eastman Chemical Company has operated a coal-to-methanol plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, since 1983. Two Texaco gasifiers (one is a backup) process 34 Mg/h (37 US ton/h) of coal to synthesis gas. The synthesis gas is converted to methanol by use of ICl methanol technology. Methanol is an intermediate for producing methyl acetate and acetic acid. The plant produces about 225 Gg/a (250,000 US ton/a) of acetic anhydride. As part of the DOE Clean Coal Technology Program, Air Products and Cnemicals, Inc., and Eastman Chemic Company are constructing a 9.8-Mg/h (260-US ton/d) slurry-phase reactor for the conversion of synthesis gas to methanol and dimethyl... 

In 1930 BASF, then part of IG Farhen, installed a plant for producing 100 tonnes of polystyrene per annum and in 1933 the first injection moulded articles were produced. In the US semi-plant-scale work at the Dow Chemical Company showed promise of commercial success in 1934. As a consequence there became available shortly before World War II a material of particular interest because of its good electrical insulation characteristics hut otherwise considerably inferior to the polystyrene available today. Because of these excellent electrical characteristics prices were paid of the order of several dollars per pound for these polymers. 

ISCO Chemical Company Ferrous Sulfate Recovery Plant Master Plot Plan... 

An alternative source of the ethyl component was ethyl bromide, a less expensive material. It was at this point that GM called upon DuPont to take over process development. DuPont was the largest U.S. chemical company at the time. It had extensive experience in the scale-up of complex chemical operations, including explosives and high-pressure synthesis. The manufacturing process was undertaken by DuPont s premier department, the Organic Chemical section. GM contracted with DuPont to build a 1,300 pound per day plant. The first commercial quantities of TEL were sold in Februai-y 1923 in the form of ethyl premium gasoline. 

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