In chemical industries raw materials enter into reactor and reaction takes place to convert them into products. These reactions can be either catalytic or non-catalytic. Reactor temperature and pressure depend on the reaction conditions. In chemical plants some reactions occur at low temperatures, it can be as low as ambient temperature. While some occurs at […]
Boilers are the source of energy in form of steam, electricity or both for industries. They supply steam for various heating requirements of the plant. Moreover, provide electricity to drive motors and lightening requirements, which we generate using steam turbines. Therefore, boiler efficiency directly related to cost of steam and electricity. In industries we generally
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This article will give you an insight to understand the distillation column operation. Also, you will understand the effect of subcooled reflux temperature on distillation column process. The reflux temperature is very important as this affects distillation column energy requirement and throughput as well. As we all know, distillation columns are widely used to separate
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As we know to validate theoretical solution or new product design, we need to conduct actual trials. These experiment trials we conduct to observe the impact of various input variables on output variables. Before implementing the solution on commercial scale, it is better to check them at pilot scale. This way we can avoid any
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We can recall there was an era in manufacturing. When product was the priority and focus on manufacturing cost was secondary. We were not bothered about the raw material norms, utility norms and other overhead cost of the product. Because, that was the time of supplier’s market. That was the time when most of production
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In current competitive market scenario, there is a huge pressure on the product margins. This situation is posing big challenges for business heads to retain their current market shares as well as getting new customers. Therefore, manufacturing team continuously keep on facing the challenges from our business heads to reduce the variable cost of production
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In current competitive market scenario, there is a huge pressure on the product margins and production capacities. This situation is posing big challenges for business heads to retain their current market shares as well as getting new customers. Therefore, continuous process improvement is a major challenge for the manufacturing team, which is a requirement from
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Digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in chemical process industries are in starting phase. However, we have witnessed huge transformation of chemical industries. Before 18th century production of chemicals was in batch mode. The plant operation was totally manual and human dependent. At that time product delivery was on top priority as
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Pumps are just like a heart of any chemical plant, which are continuously running for feeding, circulating or transferring fluid from one point to another point inside a plant. For trouble free operation, appropriate selection of pumps is very important. For this you need to know the nature and characteristics of the service fluid .
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In chemical industries we apply insulation to reduce heat losses to the surrounding, which is the cost to product. You can see there are two components for total cost in insulation work. First is the cost of installation of the insulation. And, second is loss of profit due to energy loss from the insulation. Therefore,
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