chemical storage tank FRP Articles

Award Winning Large Diameter FRP Stacks For Magnesium Extraction Plant

When Fabricated Plastics Limited of Maple (Toronto), Ontario, Canada was awarded a contract by a world renowned Mining/Metallurgical Company, it proved to be a chance to exhibit their engineering excellence in several ways. First they had to demonstrate that their proposed use of Fibreglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) was clearly the material of choice in competition with other materials. Then they ...

Aug. 29, 2012

By Fabricated Plastics Limited

The world needs storage space for crude-oil glut

Today we are surprising with this new published in the Wall Street Journal. The crude oil storage space in U.S., Europe, South Korea, Southafrica and Japan would be expected to hit the maximum capacity due to a crude-oil production glut. For this ...

Mar. 9, 2015

By Toro Equipment S.L.

Evaporator Limits Boron to 5 PPM at award-winning chemical plant

Problem: The biggest challenge confronting Rohm & Haas Corp. in building a wastewater plant for its chemical facility in Elma, Wash., was meeting Washington State Dept. of Ecology limitations on boron of 5 ppm. The Elma plant manufactures sodium borohydride, a versatile chemical used in a variety of applications ranging from the generation of sodium hydrosulfite for reductive bleaching of ...

Dec. 25, 2011

By Oil Skimmers, Inc.

Chemical Industry: Sale of by-Product HCl Covers Cost of Emission Control System Problem Case Study

Some of the specialty chemical processes at a major chemical manufacturer’s plant result in considerable HCl loading in the off-gas. The HCl must be removed before the off-gas can be discharged to the atmosphere. Production of saleable by-product HCl solution was an important goal when looking for a high-efficiency HCl removal system. The company wanted to achieve a very low level of ...

Feb. 15, 2016

By CR Clean Air Group, LLC

Chemical Industry: HCL System Exceeds Current Regulations Emission control meets requirements while recovering by-product for sale Case Study

Chemron manufactures high-quality specialty chemicals and surfactants for personal care products, industrial, institutional, oil field, mining, coatings, lubricants and water treatment. Some of the operations result in the creation of hydrochloric acid with high variable rates. As expressed by Bill Frost, of Chemron: “Chemron maintains a strong environmental commitment, which views ...

Feb. 15, 2016

By CR Clean Air Group, LLC

Material Matters - An Engineering and Fabrication Challenge

The world of engineering is a very large and diverse universe which ranges from electrial, mechanical and civil to environmentaland structural. It is true that their varied disciplines have many qualities in common, e.g. the mixture of logic, creativity, awareness of cost /benefit ratio etc., are requirements of all engineering. It is equally true that each discipline has its own mind set, ...

Aug. 29, 2012

By Fabricated Plastics Limited

Case study - Pemaco superfund site remediation

OVERVIEW Pemaco was formerly a chemical facility located in a light industrial and residential area of Maywood, CA, adjacent to the Los Angeles River. No one knows how long hazardous substances had been leaking into the ground but the operations date back to the 1940's. Up until closure of the facility in 1991, chlorinated solvents, aromatic solvents, and flammable liquids had ...

Mar. 10, 2016

By Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc.