Chemical Process Plant – The Chemical World

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Chemical Process Plant The Chemical World
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• The process of manufacturing chemicals on a large
  scale is carried out in a Chemical Process Plant.
  For this process many different kinds of units,
  equipments and technology is used. There are
  various sectors which use technology called fluid
  systems and which is similar to chemical process
  plants. These include plants like pharmaceutical,
  water and waste water plants, natural gas
  processing plants, power plants, beverage
  production facilities and more.
• The production of chemicals is carried out using
  chemical processes. These detailed industrial
  methods differ from plant to plant even if the
  same chemical is created with differently scaled
  capacities. The various equipments used in a
  chemical plant include large vessels also known
  as units. These units are connected to each other
  with the help of pipes or any other material
  commuting equipment. The use of the same is done
  for carrying streams of materials which include
  solids like slurries or liquids or even gaseous
  substances. There are various different types of
  units and subunits in a plant which include
  mixing units, heating, cooling, combustion units,
  etc. The chemical process plants also have
  storage tanks that come with level indicators
  that indicate the amount of liquid the tanks have.

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• The chemical process consists of unit operations.
  The raw material is known as feed or feed stock.
  After the feed is done for each unit as well as
  the as the plant as a whole, the resultant
  product coming out from each unit is called
  intermediate product and output from the plant as
  a whole are final products wherein the product as
  well as the feedstock, or either of the two can
  be mixtures or individual compounds.
• The equipments used in chemical process plants
  include vessels that are usually cylindrical in
  shape so that they can hold vacuum or high
  pressures without any kind of rupture. These
  chemical plants also use heat exchangers which
  perform the tasks of boiling, condensation,
  heating as well as cooling together with other
  units like distillation towers. The other
  equipments used in chemical process plants
  include fluid systems that are used for carrying
  different liquids and gasses, and consists of
  different types of tubes and pipes in different
  sizes as well as valves which are utilized for
  controlling the flow, compressors that manage the
  pressurizing and moving of gases and pumps do the
  same thing for liquids.
• All the Process Plant Machinery and equipments
  used in chemical process plants even if they are
  used process equipments, they all are insulated
  so as to maintain the temperature inside as well
  as maintaining the safety. Even the fluid systems
  have flow measuring devices or sensors for
  temperature as well as pressure at different
  points in the plant for measurement and safety
  purposes.

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