Mississippi Chemical Corporation

Inc., CF Industries Inc., and Mississippi Chemical Corporation) produced 73% of the nation s ammonia (Kramer 2000). 

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). 

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). 

Metabolite Significance - Janice Chambers, Mississippi State University Yousef Attalla, Velsicol Chemical Corporation James R. Gillette, National Institute of Health Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology. 

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

Two of his students at Sul Ross followed him to Houston and became his first graduate students. They are Dr. Peter Tsang, presently at Bendix Corporation, and Dr. Jose Sosa of Vulcan Chemical Company of Wichita, Kansas. In 1976 he was forced to retire from the University of Houston because of his age. He was made a Professor Emeritus, but not willing to quit, he accepted a position as Distinguished Professor in the Coatings and Polymer Science Department at the University of Southern Mississippi. He and Mrs. Seymour now have a home adjacent to the golf course in Hattiesburg. 

First Mississippi Corporation FRM Industrial and agricultural chemicals... 

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