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12 November 2020

Why Use Phoenix for Your Plant Dismantling & Plant Relocation Needs

A Common Plant Liquidation Scenario Your company has made the tough decision to close a plant. This plant was running for years, and the company paid a lot to have it built, paid everyone’s salaries, and maintained or even modernized all of the production assets over the plant’s life but the plant needs to be sold off for one reason or another. Your company has called upon you to recover as much dollar as you can to help keep the organization alive, and better yet, healthy, in what is a constant battle in the marketplace. You’ve either: Have spent months, maybe even years trying to find a buyer that would operate the plant in place, without any success, while the plant’s assets lose value every passing day. Or, you can’t sell it to another company, as you are one of the few suppliers of the product the plant makes, and you don’t want to create a competitor, or improve a competitor’s position. Or, the plant is on leased propert

17 April 2020

Hydrogenation: Major Applications

Hydrogenation is a billion-dollar industry. Hydrogenating means to add hydrogen to something. According to Haldor Topsoe, hydrogenation comprises 48% of total hydrogen consumption, 44% of which is for hydrocracking and hydrotreating in refineries , and 4% for hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons (including hardening of edible oil) and of aromatics, hydrogenation of aldehydes and ketones (for instance oxo-products), and hydrogenation of nitrobezene (for manufacture of aniline). Hydrocracking & Hydrotreating Industrially, hydrotreating and hydrocracking are performed in down flow ‘trickle bed reactors’, where the gas and the liquid feed are sent concurrently through a fixed bed plug flow reactor. Although the flow pattern in the reactor can be reasonably approximated, the observed kinetics in such a trickle bed reactor are quite often affected by minor unplanned oscillations in the flow. How the gas and liquid collide and mix together affects the end prod

15 April 2020

Thermoplastics – A Focus on Polyethylene & Polypropylene

Thermoplastics are a class of polymers, that with the application of heat, can be softened and melted, and can be processed either in the heat-softened state (e.g. by thermoforming) or in the liquid state (e.g. by extrusion and injection molding). Over 70% of the plastics used in the world are thermoplastics, and the two most commonly used thermoplastics are both olefins, compound made up of hydrogen and carbon that contains one or more pairs of carbon atoms linked by a double bond. These two olefins are polyethylene and polypropylene. Polyethylene Polyethylene is a tough, light, flexible synthetic resin made by polymerizing ethylene, chiefly used for plastic bags, food containers, and other packaging. It may be of low density or high density depending upon the process used in its manufacturing. It is resistant to moisture and most of the chemicals. It can be heat sealed and is flexible at room temperature (and low temperature), and in additional to its material properties,

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8 Quart Ross Planetary Mixer LDM 2

200 Cu Ft Metalmecanica Rossi Screw Blender

1 Cu Ft Patterson Industries Blender

1 Sq Ft Ecodyne Fin Fan Heat Exchanger

392 Sq Ft Harsco Industrial Air-X-Changer Fin Fan Heat Exchanger

1080 Sq Ft Chart Fin Fan Heat Exchanger

11.5 " Dia De Dietrich Drum Filler

42 Sq Ft Virtis BM 3000 Lyophilizer

Sulzer 4600 GPM Diffuser Style Barrel Pump

10.5 Cu Ft Fatosa s.a. Stainless Steel Paddle Mixer

60 " Dia Lancaster Feeder

125 HP Lancaster K-8 High Intensity Mixe

1033 Sq Ft Outotec Plate & Frame Filter Press

Feeco International 6' Rotary Cooler

9' Dia Feeco International Double Drum Dryer

6000 Gal DCI Stainless Steel Kettle

3300 Gal Walker 316L stainless Steel Pressure Vessel

25 HP Morehouse-Cowles Disperser

141 Cu Ft Littleford Paddle Dryer

Vemag HP12E Vacuum Stuffer/Filler

12000 Gal Nooter 316L Stainless Steel Pressure Vessel

10000 Gal Cherry-Burrell Stainless Steel Tank

11000 Gal Larry's Mechanical 316 Stainless Steel Pressure Vessel

Accutek APS-228 Labeler

750 Gal Stainless Steel Tank

10000 Gal Sierra Stainless Inc. Stainless Steel Tank

7500 Gal Stainless Steel Tank

Fitzpatrick 1.5LX8D Chilsonator / Roller Compactor

125 Cu Ft Gemco 316 Stainless Steel V-Blender

400 Gal JH Day Sigma Blade Mixer

20 HP IKA Works DR 2000/10 Colloid Mill

100 HP Netzsch CS-650/800 Granulator

756 CFM Ingersoll Rand Reciprocating Compressor

57000 CFM Leffort Scrubber

3000 HP FL Smidth Ball Mill

10.17 Sq Meter 3V Tech Equipment 316 Stainless Steel Nutsche Filter

Sq Ft Chem-Tek Scraped Surface Heat Exchanger

4500 Gal Stainless Steel Tank

8600 Gal Stainless Steel Tank

12 TPH Overheated Industrial Watertube Boiler

Robatel BXP-800 Clarifier Centrifuge

4.4 Megawatt Siemens SGT 100 Matyure Typhoon Gas Turbine Generator

CFM/Aspiratori Industriali 01501S Industrial Vacuum

5 Cu Ft Patterson-Kelley Stainless Steel V-Blender

8.65 MM BTU Heatec Hot Oil Boiler

6500 Gal Feldmeier Stainless Steel Tank

5925 Cu Ft Peabody Carbon Steel Silo

2 HP Air Fluid Vacuum Pump

Zanasi AZ20 Filler

Fitzpatrick M.5 1 HP Fitzmill