Just about every chemical processing or manufacturing
plant can be expressed as a series of operations called
Feed Preparation,
Reaction, Conversion and Product
Recovery and Purification.
Optimizing these processes involves not only looking
at how each step in the system can be improved, but at how the processing steps,
the equipment used in them and the stream produced are independent.
Feed Preparation, Product Recovery and Purification
typically involve some type of separation technology. Often, this means vapor-liquid
separation in knock-out drums, heat exchangers, overhead accumulators, evaporators,
crystallizers, liquid-phase reactor vents, compressor feed or surge drums and
the like. Liquid mist entrained in the product vapor undermines the process
of performance, stealing your plant profits in several ways: |
