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Expo Technologies
Purge and Pressurization Enclosure
Case Study:Ethylene Pilot Plant
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Watch the Expo Technologies team in action. • This time-lapse video demonstrates weeks of work in just
2 minutes
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Client• Our client is a major producer of fine and speciality
chemicals in Germany
Our Experience
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Equipment• A small scale ethylene pilot plant purged with nitrogen
within the company’s factory premises
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The Challenge• To design a purge and pressurization enclosure to house the
ethylene pilot plant• To build an enclosure that could be dissembled to fit through
factory doors and re-assembled in a Zone 2 hazardous area
Our Experience
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The Solution• The purge and pressurized enclosure was designed to
separate into 2 parts, so that it could pass through the factory doors
• The purge system was tailor-made for the enclosure and included features such as:
• Over-sized valves to accommodate low-pressure supply• Automatic change-over of purge gas to a secondary supply• A 2 hour purge timer
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The Solution• Additional features included:
• Internal heat exchanger • Reactor vessel, which operates at 600 DegC and 300 bar
• In the event of any rupture or major process line failure, the reactor vessel is protected by a N2 blowdown system
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Customer Benefits
• A custom designed system with enhanced safety features
• These safety features allows the client to produce ethylene in a laboratory environment within a Zone 2 hazardous area
Design• The Expo Technologies team used:
• More than 80 sheets of technical drawings in the design of the system
• Parts included:• 52 door locks• 276 stainless steel bosses • 40m of door seal gasket• 26mm thick laminated glass windows
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