We have a silo that we will be using to store syrup. The silo heat transfer was designed for edible oil, so that the agitator is undersized, steam jacket over part of the vessel won't work since the thick syrup won't be agitated, concerned that the jacket will give a hot spot and burn the...
There are two soybean oil silos getting filled from a railcar ~once a week. We keep a Nitrogen blanket on the silos in case the oil is held for a few weeks, even though that doesn't happen often. (Blanket maintained at 6-7" WC with pressure/vac relief valve)
Our nitrogen generator seems...
We are adding hydrogen peroxide ~35% concentration, and need to find an appropriate flowmeter and/or flow switch. The flow is 50-60 mL /min, and it will be coming directly from a positive diaphragm pump, pulsing once a second for less than half a second.
I think that we may want to use a...
We have a shell and tube condenser off a flash chamber - product temperature into the flash chamber is 300ºF, we want to drop the temperature to 185ºF but no lower. If we go lower our solids increase and puts the product out of spec.
The condenser has been fouled. We ran an acid wash through...
