Geismar, Louisiana

Eig. 6. Elow diagram for the Shell Chemical alcohol-olefin complex, Geismar, Louisiana, and Stanlow, United Kingdom. 

In 1984, acetylene production received a significant influx with the increase of capacity at the Borden Co. plant in Geismar, Louisiana. This influx provided an additional 33,000 t/yr, which were absorbed by the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and acetylenic chemicals market. Acetylene demand has... 

A second pressure on elemental production was the development of processes which remove impurities from phosphoric acid made by the wet process, to generate acid of equivalent purity to that obtained by the electric furnace route. Two such plants were brought on stream one at Aurora, North Carolina in 1990 by a joint venture of Albright Wilson, Texasgulf, and Olin, and another at Geismar, Louisiana, in 1991 by Rhc ne-Poulenc. These units have reported capacities of 47,600 and 31,700 t/yr elemental phosphoms equivalent, respectively (14). 

There are 12 producers of ethylene oxide ia the United States. Table 9 shows the plant locations, estimated capacities, and types of processes employed. The total U.S. production capacity for 1992 was ca 3.4 x 10 metric tons. The percentages of total domestic production made by the air- and oxygen-based processes are ca 20 and 80%, respectively. The largest producer is Union Carbide Corp. with approximately one-third of the United States ethylene oxide capacity. About 94% of domestic ethylene oxide capacity is located on the Gulf Coast near secure and plentiful ethylene suppHes. Plans for additional U.S. production ia the 1990s have been announced by Union Carbide (incremental expansions), Eormosa Plastics (at Pt. Comfort, Texas), and Shell (at Geismar, Louisiana) (101). 

Fig. 1.15 Schematic of the chlorine park in Geismar, Louisiana 1996 appearance.

The manufacturers and sites of major chloroform production facilities identified for 1993 (SRI 1993) include the following Dow Chemical U.S.A., Freeport, Texas, and Plaquemine, Louisiana Occidental Petroleum Corp., Belle, West Virginia and Vulcan Materials Co., Geismar, Louisiana, and Wichita, Kansas. Estimated annual production capacity (SRI 1993) from these facilities as of January 1, 1993,... 

Pittsburgh through Mobay and UniRoyal Chemical, which has production units in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and Geismar, Louisiana, as well as in Canada, Brazil, and Italy. 

The two current chemical producers of hydrazine in the United States are the Olin Corporation in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Miles Inc. in Baytown, Texas. The chemical was also produced by Fairmount Chemical Company, Inc., Newark, New Jersey, as recently as 1987. 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine is produced by Olin and Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc., Geismar, Louisiana. Estimates of past production (based on anhydrous hydrazine, although most production was of the hydrate) indicate that U.S. production volume was about 7,000 metric tons (15 million pounds) per year in the mid-1960s and increased to 17,000 metric tons (37 million poimds) per year in the mid-1970s. Production capacity in the United States was estimated at 17,240 metric tons (38 million pounds) in 1979 and about 14,000 metric tons (30 million pounds) in 1984, the most recent year for which information was located. 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine production volume was estimated to be at least 45 metric tons (99,000 pounds) in 1977 and more than 4.5 metric tons (9,900 pounds) in 1982 (HSDB 1995 Schmidt 1988 SRI 1987,... 

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). 

With Hugo Kroper, he demonstrated that carbon monoxide and ethylene formed propionic acid at 300°C and 200 atmospheres under the influence of nickel carbonyl. A silver-lined pilot plant for a continuous process was erected in 1943, but, owing to the war and the French occupation, a semi-works plant was not ready until 1951. Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, Reppe had used nickel carbonyl to carbonylate methanol to acetic acid, a reaction previously only possible under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. The war (and corrosion problems) delayed its development for over a decade and a full-scale plant was not built until 1957. It is still used at Ludwigshafen and by Borden at Geismar, Louisiana. ... 

Shell began large-scale production (200000 tons per year) in 1979 in Geismar (Louisiana, U.S.A.) and the capacity was increased to 590 000 tons per year in 1989. A second plant was also built in 1987 in Stanlow (U.K.) with a capacity of 270000 tons per year. 

The initial SHOP capacity in 1977 was 104000mtyr of linear olefins, which Shell currently markets under the trade name Neodene. Following several expansions, the current SHOP operating capacity is 330 000 metric tons per year at Shell s Stanlow (UK) site, and 920000mtyr at Geismar, Louisiana, giving an overall capacity of roughly 1.25 million mt of Neodene per year. ... 

Purified wet phosphoric acid is suitable for both industrial and food-grade use. Two plants were in operation in the United States in 1991. One is pictured in Fig. 10.8. This facility, operated at Texasgulf s plant in North Carolina, is rated at 120,000 TPY P2O5. The second purified phosphoric acid plant is operated by Rhone Poulenc at Geismar, Louisiana. Of the North American capacity of approximately 900,000 TPY of high-purity P2O5 or equivalent P in 1991, about 78 percent still was furnace-derived. ... 

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