Tonnage production facilities

There are five tonnage production facilities in the U. S. and one planned for Sarnia, Canada (Figure 1). Linde, a division of Union Carbide, has two plants, a 30 ton/day at Ontario, California, and a 17 ton/day at Ashtabula, Ohio. Airco has a 6 ton/day plant at Pedricktown, New Jersey. Air Products and Chemicals has two plants, a 60 ton/day at New Orleans, Louisiana (Figure 2) and a 30 ton/day at Long Beach, California and also, a 15 ton/ day planned for Sarnia, Canada. 

Representative of agricultural equipment suppliers is the National Association of Silo Manufacturers in Norwich, N. Y. Data on production, sales, production facilities, labor, capital invested, and tonnage of critical materials used for silos are prepared annually. 

Cost of business interruption. The cost of business interruption is significantly influenced by various commercial factors. For example, if you are not producing at fiill capacity it may be possible to make up lost production at other facilities or when the plant comes back into operation. The business interruption costs will only be the additional costs of production, transportation and any lost sales. As these conditions can vary from month to month it may be more appropriate to adopt a standard method of calculating business interruption costs for PSM and ESH purposes. One commonly adopted approach is to estimate the tonnage of production lost and calculate the cost as being the difference between the sale price and all manufacturing, storage and transportation costs. 

Many factors play a role at this decision level. Type of kinetics, operational stability of the biocatalyst, form of biocatalyst, type of bioreactor, bioreactor operating costs, necessity of process control, compatibility with down-stream processing, tonnage or scale of operation, existing facilities and experience, feedstock, type of product, GMP, and others, are all involved in an intricate... 

Single superphosphate (SSP), also called normal or ordinairy superphosphate, has been the principal phosphate fertilizer for more than a century and supplied over 60% of the world s phosphate as late as 1955. Since then its relative importance has declined steadily. In 1975, it supplied only 20% of the phosphate fertilizer, and this figure fell to 17% in 1988. The decline in actual tonnage has been small, but most of the new facilities have been built to produce other, higher analysis products. For the world as a whole, TVA estimated 1972 SSP production at 7,87 million tonnes of P2O5 and IFDC mentions a figure of 7.083 million tonnes in 1988, which means a decrease of 10% over 16 years [1). 

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