Expo Technologies

Purge and Pressurization Enclosure

Case Study:
Ethylene Pilot Plant

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Client

Our Experience

Our client is a major producer of fine and

speciality chemicals in Germany

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Equipment
A small scale ethylene pilot plant purged with
nitrogen within the companys factory
premises

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The Challenge

Our Experience

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

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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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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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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

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Purge + Pressurization + Innovation

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Purge + Pressurization + Innovation

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