In our industries we can find the use of Liquid Jet Pumps in applications such as pumping and mixing of the fluids. These industries can be related with chemical, food or pharmaceutical area. We know Liquid Jet Pumps, as Jet Ejectors or Jet Eductors also. This device uses high pressure liquid as a motive force […]
In our plants we use structured packed columns for gas-liquid operations, such as distillation, absorption, stripping, degassing, etc. As a process engineer we are required to estimate the packed column diameter during design calculation. Or, many times we need to check the maximum possible throughput capacity from the existing installed column. Apart from this sometimes
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Six Sigma is a statistical tool for process improvement. This is a step-by-step systematic approach to solve the problems and we know it by DMAIC methodology also. In Six Sigma we convert real life problems into statistical problems. After converting we use statistical tools to find the statistical solutions for that problem. Afterwards, these statistical
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In Chemical Process Industries (CPI), distillation columns are the main steam consumers. And, as a process engineer, we are continuously keep on working to minimize the steam consumption norm. So that we can reduce overall variable cost of the product. Therefore, to achieve this objective we can work upon various improvement initiatives. These various techniques
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The chilled water and chilled brine are cold utilities, which we use to remove heat at lower temperature levels than cooling water. We use these utilities in our chemical process industries (CPI) to remove heat from air-conditioning system, process equipment and fluid streams. From cooling water at supply temperature 32 0C, we can achieve cooling
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You can see in many processes; we use thermic fluid to maintain the reaction temperature. In reactor jacket or coil thermic fluid circulates to maintain required temperature conditions. For, efficient reactor operation automation and controls of the reactor is very important. Moreover, same thermic fluid system you can use for reactor heating & cooling requirements
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In chemical process industries we use Fired Heater or Furnace to supply the heat at higher temperature levels. When I say high level, it means around greater than 500 0C. As we know other sources of heat supply are boiler, thermic fluid heater and molten salt heating systems. Out of these boiler and thermic fluid
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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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This article is to understand the data analysis in chemical process improvement in chemical process industries. As, we all have witnessed industrial development from manual operation to fully automated controlled one. Plant operations and controls have gone under tremendous transformation since then. Mainly, we can categorize this transformation in four major heads as, Analog and
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