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    scrubber or bed? Need to remove methyl Cl from ethylene

    Greg, Thanks for the distillation suggestion. We were wondering about a bed because we have some existing vessels that currently have alumina (to remove H2O and MeOH) and have found a media from UOP that can remove the methyl- and ethyl-chloride, but not very well. The caustic bead was...
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    scrubber or bed? Need to remove methyl Cl from ethylene

    I need to find a unit op to remove methyl and ethyl chlorides from an ethylene vent gas being sent back to a cracker charge gas machine. Any ideas? We are looking at packed beds from UOP and someone suggested caustic bead beds, but i can find no info or vendors. Most stuff I find relates to...
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    Help: need to remove methyl chloride from ethylene vent

    I need to remove methyl and ethyl chlorides from an ethylene gas vent (about 6Mg/h) going back to an ethane cracker. I am trying to find a unit operation to remove these two organic chlorides. Inlet concentration about 1200 ppmw. Could anyone direct me to an appropriate technology or vendor...
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    Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

    A good book for young engineers is called "Learning to Think (at MIT)" by an author whose name i cannot recall. I loaned the book many years ago and never got it back. This book describes the author's journey through engineering school and gives a good perspective on how we...

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