Chemicals & Petroleum Products
CHEMICALS
Chemical technology is an integral part of manufacturing and, more often than not, a problem of mixing or product suspension becomes critical.
Able to handle toxic, flammable or corrosive materials, Pulsair™ provides remote control capability to protect your people in hazardous work environments.
Pulsair™ mixers provide environmentally safe mixing for any size tank or volume of product.
Mixing alcohol and solvents
With high evaporation points and low flashpoints, solvents often require the manufacturing processes to be in safe, enclosed environments. As controllers are pneumatically operated unless a remote control system is installed, the addition of a solenoid operated valve is required which could cause arcing. Pulsair™ uses nitrogen economically to seal the controller and suppress any arcing
Calcium Carbonate
An acetylene plant wanted to sell their calcium carbonate by-product; however their customers wanted a greater concentration of solids than the plant was able to provide. Solids settled to the bottom of the tank and were not picked up by the pumps. By installing a Pulsair™ system in their 20,000 gallon tank they were able to pump direct to a tank truck while mixing. The solids were kept suspended so the product could be delivered as slurry.
Silicone and kerosene mixing time reduced from 4 days to 1 day
In a test for South Coast Terminals, 100,000 centistroke viscosity silicone was added to a container of kerosene and mixed with a Pulsair™ mixer at a ratio of 40% silicone to 60% kerosene. South Coast is now making 90,000 gallon batches in one day instead of the usual four days.
Resin dilution on spec in 30 minutes
In a test conducted in France, Pulsair™ mixers used nitrogen to dilute 58,500 kg of resin with 8,000 kg of solvent within 30 minutes. With no significant changes after half an hour the company installed 24 tanks equipped with a Pulsair™ mixer.
Rail car mixing in 8 minutes
In tests of a fully instrumented railroad tank car, a chemical manufacturer was able to mix the contents (viscosity of water) in 8 minutes with a PulsairTM engineered system and in only 13 minutes with a Pulsair™ hand-held portable mixer.
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PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Pulsair™ systems are customised to suit the size of the tank and produce complete blends in a minimum amount of time.
Petroleum mixing and blending
Pulsair™ provides a range of mixing options: mixing base stock with additives, thinning heavy emulsions and holding additives in suspension until delivery.
Lube-oil blending and mixing
The largest Pulsair™ equipped tanks are the 2.6 million gallon (10,000 tonne) bunker fuel tanks on the Straits of Malacca in Malaysia, while the largest multiple tank installation is for 107 tanks in Portland, Oregon.
Remotely regulate mixing in multiple tanks
The Pulsair™ Programmable Controller regulates the mixing function in multiple tanks from a remote location.
The operator can mix and monitor every tank in the system by setting mixing parameters and timing functions on the controller's digital touch screen or keypad.
Plant throughput increased
Plant throughput can be increased without the expense of more tanks or people as on-specification blends of lube oils are mixed within 10-15 minutes of filling the tank which reduces the need for additional heat.
Heating costs reduced
When a mechanical mixer failed, one customer lost $75,000 worth of additives due to the overheating of 40,000 gallons of product. By switching to a Pulsair™ system they reduced their steam generating costs.
Gelled tar residue fluidised
Production halted when 8,000 gallons of partially gelled oil-tar residue could not be drained from a 12,000 gallon tank. Even after heating it was too viscous and required a high-torque agitator with special mounting. Pulsair™ fluidised the mixture within three hours with a PTM-2000 and after adding petroleum distillate the heavy tar was easily pumped from the tank and production resumed.
