I am the Production Manager of a chemical plant. The Operators and Foremen are required by the plant management to attend Emergency Response Training which can be very physically demanding. I had a foreman approach me who said he was in his 60s and felt like he should not be required to attend...
My facility has a product that requires exposure to light to reduce the color. Has anyone seen, specified, or designed a large (~10,000 gal) transparent or translucent tank that would be placed into a chemical plant or refinery that would satisfy API or other guidelines.
Thank you to unclesyd for your responses. I have contacted oxilume.
Thank you to IRStuff for your response. Could you provide a company, consultant, or literature that I could contact? I would be very interested in talking to someone who could help us out. Do you have any other information...
I have some ideas to expose the sunlight to the product: 1. install glass piping and circulate the storage tank using its centrifugal pump. 2. install translucent (or transparent) piping material and pump through the line as the tank is circulated. 3. install a lamp inside the storage...
Our facility has a product that has a high color content. The goal is to remove the color from the product by exposing it to light. Some research has been done to determine what wavelength of color is most effective; sunlight will work. Does anyone have experience in process design in a...
I thank you all for your responses. For the pump project discussed above, I am working with a few other people (my peers but, unlike me, do not have engineering degrees) in deciding which option works best for the plant. I tried to describe the options in the most unbiased way I could but I...
I appreciate all your comments; however, I was looking for a stronger argument from responders. I would like to know all the reasons why you would choose one option over the others. Thanks
We have a reflux drum from a tower that operates under vacuum. The NPSHr by the pump from this drum is not being satisfied by the NPSHa of the system. We made a decision to install a pump with a slower speed motor. With the slower speed motor, the discharge pressure will be less than the...
I have a centrifugal pump that should be working fine but isn't. According to the pump curve, this pump should be transporting the required flow, which it is. The TDH on the pump curve is about 300' but only about 1/2 of that is needed. I would expect the control valve downstream of the pump...
