First Chemical Corporation

The acidic contaminants can also be removed by employing a system that utilizes extractions, precipitation, distillation, and other treatments for rendering the waste stream acceptable for current disposal standards (18—20). First Chemical Corporation uses such a system. Residual nitric acid can be removed by a multistage countercurrent Hquid-Hquid extraction. The nitric acid (ca 25%) is then reconcentrated by distillation for further use. 

First Chemical Corporation, Du Pont, BASF Corporation, and Bayer Corporation (formerly Miles, Inc). ... 

Fire Retardant Chemical Association, 271 First Chemical Corporation, 223 Fhst Chemical Inc., 228 Fhst Quantum Minerals Ltd., 148 FLAME PLUS , glyphosate, 69 Fleming Laboratories Inc., 228 Fleurchem hic., 228... 

Event 10 Explosion—Mononitrotoluene. First Chemical Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi (October 13, 2002). Three workers injured fires, projectiles, and other damage to the plant and plant equipment (HighBeam 2008). 

HighBeam. 2008. Explosion at First Chemical Corporation plant, www.highbeam.com/ doc/lGl-92783471.html (accessed April 28, 2008). 

Financial support for this research by First Chemical Corporation, Pascagoula, MS, is gratefully acknowledged. 

Typical catalysts for the fixed-bed vapor-phase hydrogenation include nickel sulfide deposited on alumina. For example, First Chemical Corporation (since 2002 a subsidiary of DuPont) employs the Lonza process, with a fixed-bed catalyst of copper on pumice. First Chemical is the world s second largest merchant producer of aniline, at Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Baytown, Texas, and supplies North American Bayer Corporation with its aniline requirements for polyurethanes8. Similar processes are operated by Bayer, with a palladium catalyst on an alumina support, modified with vanadium and lead. A catalyst of nickel sulfide on ammonia has also been revealed. 

Currently, there are four United States producers of nitrobenzene E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company, Inc., Beaumont, Texas Mobay Corporation, New Martinsville, West Virginia First Chemical Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi and ICI Americas, Inc., Geismar, Louisiana (SRI 1988 USITC 1988). 

Facility First Chemical Corporation Location Pascagoula, Mississippi Date of Event October 13 2002 Chemical(s) involved Mononitrotoluene... 

This melt-processable homopolymer was first introduced in 1961 as Kynar by the Pennsalt Chemical Corporation (the company name being subsequently changed to Pennwalt). Other companies now manufacturing similar polymers are Dynamit Nobel (Dyflor), Kureha (KF), Solvay (Solef) and Atochem (Foraflon). 

As a result, the second-generation processes used rhodium as the metal. The first rhodium-catalysed, ligand-modified process came on stream in 1974 (Celanese) and more were to follow in 1976 (Union Carbide Corporation) and in 1978 (Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation), all using triphenylphosphine (tpp). The UCC (now Dow) process has been licensed to many other users and it is... 

The efficacy of monophenols containing bulky substituents was first described in the patents from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation [69] (42, Figure 8.17). They report high yields of aldehyde (> 90%) for the hydroformylation of 1-alkenes with high linearities. The l b ratios are generally above twenty using this ligand. 

Bromomethane is produced by reaction of methanol with hydrobromic acid, followed by distillation of the product (HSDB 1989 lARC 1986 Windholz 1983). Table 4-1 summarizes information on U.S. companies that reported the manufacture or use of bromomethane in 1987 (TRI 1989). The quality of the TRI data must be viewed with caution since the 1987 data represent first-time, incomplete reporting by these facilities. Not all facilities that should have reported have done so. Of the companies that did report, only two facilities produced bromomethane for sale and distribution the Ethyl Corporation production facility in Magnolia, Arkansas, and the Great Lakes Chemical Corporation production facility in El Dorado, Arkansas (HSDB 1989 SRI 1987, 1988, 1989 TRI 1989). The current combined production volume of these two facilities is approximately 19,500 metric tons (43 million pounds) (HSDB 1989 lARC 1986). This is nearly a two-fold increase over the production volume of 11,200 metric tons (25 million pounds) reported for 1972 (lARC 1986). 

The first winners of the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards were four chemical corporations, Pharmacia (formerly the Monsanto Company), the Dow Chemical Company, the Rohm and Haas Company, and the Donlar Corporation, and one individual, Professor Mark Holtzapple of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A tM University. 

In considering the future, however, we see several positive developments in Mexico s sulfur supply outlook. First, Mexico is making a major effort to rejuvenate its Frasch operations. By the early 1980 s, it hopes to increase Frasch output to about 2.5 million tons per year. For example, the Frasch mine which was owned by Gulf Resources and Chemicals Corporation (formerly Gulf Sulfur Company) is now being reopened and rehabilitated. 

The catalytic oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide was apparently developed into a commercial process by Zimakov (460). Zimakov assumes that ethylene is first activated by migration of an electron, then converted to a peroxide radical which initiates a chain reaction. His use of silver on corundum promoted with BaCh and modified by dichloro-ethane is similar to that disclosed in patents of Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation. 

Flowever, while no major breakthrough was made during the last ten years of the century in their traditional fields of endeavor, chemical corporations continued to improve the performance of their products by devising new methods for their manufacture. A case in point is supplied by the development of the metallocene catalysts. First described by Walter Kaminsky of the University of Hamburg in the 1980s and pioneered in the field of polyolefins by Exxon and Dow, these... 

Frontier Carbon Corporation s high output manufacturing has enabled it to sell this exotic carbon product at very reasonable prices. The lowered costs will drive industrial uses. Frontier Carbon is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation and Nanotech Partners. It was the first firm to create industrial quantities of fullerenes. It was launched with a manufacturing capacity of 40 tons of fullerenes yearly, using the brand name Nanom. The secret to Frontier s success is a combustion method that it developed for the high-speed production of fullerenes. This cost-effective process is continuous, with a constant stream of fullerenes exiting the system. 

Omega A process for making ethylene and propylene from C4 and C5 streams in oil refineries. It uses a proprietary zeolite catalyst in a fixed-bed reactor at about 500°C. Developed in 2004 by Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation and first commercialized at Mizushima, Japan, in 2006. 

Chemical corporations and LBO firms may move toward a best of breed model in which the complementary skills and resources of these two types of players are effectively leveraged to benefit both. In this natural, not necessarily inevitable, convergence, those who move first to reach across their respective cognitive barriers for creative collaboration stand to gain the most... 

Fluid grades of synthetic silica-alumina catalyst are manufactured by the American Cyanamid Company, The Davison Chemical Corporation, Morton Salt Company, and National Aluminate Corporation. At first the catalyst was dried and ground to produce the desired range of particle sizes. It was later found that by using spray driers micro-spheroidal particles of the desired size distribution could be produced directly without any grinding (7,10,145). The particle-size distribution can be altered, within limits, by changing the spray-drier conditions (145). 

Table III presents a heterogeneity of sources. House publications often contribute invaluable information respecting new chemicals, uses, and plant construction. The Society and technical journals are often first with the news. The difficulty is to separate the theoretical from that having economic promise. The publications of standard and Poores or Moody s relate to corporations and products. These sources contribute much of corporate plant activities as related to chemicals. Corporate prospectuses and annual reports as submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission bring the data to a producer level.

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