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A Chemical Process Industry Perspective

The document discusses the importance of solids handling and fluid/solids separations processes in various chemical process industries. It provides examples of common unit operations used across industries like water conditioning, coal chemicals, glass, and more. These operations involve equipment like crushers, screens, conveyors, thickeners, dryers, mills, filters, and more. The intent is to highlight how integral solids processes are to industrial operations.

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A Chemical Process Industry Perspective

The document discusses the importance of solids handling and fluid/solids separations processes in various chemical process industries. It provides examples of common unit operations used across industries like water conditioning, coal chemicals, glass, and more. These operations involve equipment like crushers, screens, conveyors, thickeners, dryers, mills, filters, and more. The intent is to highlight how integral solids processes are to industrial operations.

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SOLIDS NOTES 2, George G.

Chase, The University of Akron

2. A CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

The chemical process industry makes heavy use of solids materials handling equipment
and separations. Some examples from Shreve and Brink (see HANDOUT 2.1)

R.N. Shreve and J.A. Brink, Chemical Process Industries, 4th ed.,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977.

include process flow diagrams showing the materials handling and fluid/particle
separations steps. Industries include:

water conditioning environmental cleanup


coal chemicals glass industry
industrial carbon phosphorous production
ceramics potassium production
paints nuclear industries
explosives and propellants food and food processing
agriculture sugar and starch
fermentation wood chemicals
pulp and paper plastics
synthetic fibers rubber industries
petrochemicals pharmaceuticals

A sampling of the process flow charts are in the 1977 publication, but for the most part
these processes have not been altered significantly. In today's industries we could add
other flow charts such as for terephthalic acid production for the polymer industry.
However, many of the unit operations steps would be the same as shown in these flow
charts.

The intent of showing you these flow charts is to make you aware of the important role
that solids handling and fluid/solids separations have in the industrial operations. We are
not going to go over each process in detail.

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SOLIDS NOTES 2, George G. Chase, The University of Akron

You should note the variety of equipment that is used:

crushing and screening oven bin


conveyor storage bins
vibrating feeders classifiers and screens
flotation cells pebble mills
thickeners filters
dryers pneumatic conveying
grinding mills slurry mixers
rotary kiln dust collector
classifiers cyclone separators
screw conveyors cake washing
leaching crystallizers
digesters beaters
fourdrinier

All of these operations have in common the handling and processing of particulate solids.

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