Gas Reactants at a plant
Gas Reactants at a plant
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Hi,
We are working on a Senior Mini Design Project, creating a vinyl chloride plant. We were unsure what to assume about our incoming reactants. We need roughly 75 kmol/hr of Ethylene, 40 kmol/hr of chlorine, and 20 kmol/hr of oxygen. I have done some basic calculations, and it seems that bringing these into the plant in some sort of gas container would be impossible, so I was wondering, would we assume that they could be piped in from somewhere, or would we have to buy them liquefied. Is it reasonable to assume they could be piped in?
Thanks for the help,
Jeremy
We are working on a Senior Mini Design Project, creating a vinyl chloride plant. We were unsure what to assume about our incoming reactants. We need roughly 75 kmol/hr of Ethylene, 40 kmol/hr of chlorine, and 20 kmol/hr of oxygen. I have done some basic calculations, and it seems that bringing these into the plant in some sort of gas container would be impossible, so I was wondering, would we assume that they could be piped in from somewhere, or would we have to buy them liquefied. Is it reasonable to assume they could be piped in?
Thanks for the help,
Jeremy





RE: Gas Reactants at a plant
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RE: Gas Reactants at a plant
The oxygen could come in liquefied by tanker truck, be stored in storage tanks and vaporized as needed for your process.
http://www.uigi.com/cryotank.html
Chlorine can be delivered by rail or truck.
http://www.pwtag.org/researchdocs/Used%20Ref%20doc...
Also google chlorine institute.
Looks like ethylene can also be shipped by truck or rail
http://www.lyondellbasell.com/techlit/techlit/Hand...