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Mechanical and Piping Contractor Pipe Stress Analysis
This Midwestern contractor required assistance with determining the thermal stress and displacement for multiple steam and steam-in-place (SIP) process piping at a new facility that was being built. For this project, ADF performed pipe-stress and displacement analyses using the latest…
Sweetener & Beverage Manufacturer Sugar Railcar Unload & Transfer System
The existing sugar unload system was a vacuum pneumatic system. In the first phase of the project, ADF performed a study to identify why the effective sugar unload rates (22,000 lb./hr.) and the original effective design rates (30,000 lb./hr.) did…
Soybean Oil Facility New Process Preliminary Engineering
The FDA has made its final determination that Partially Hydrogenated Oils (PHOs) are not Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). FDA has set a compliance period of 3 years for food companies to re-formulate products without PHOs and/or petition the FDA…
Chemical Company Debottlenecking
A chemical company working with cyclodextrin, toluene, and decane needed to increase yearly production by 10% in the first year of operation and maintain an additional 20% after to meet growing customer demand. WORK COMPLETED: The project was completed in…
Secondary Containment Evaluation
A chemical company working with Lysine wanted to develop an overall facility site map drawing to show secondary containment volumes for each process area. The updated documentation will be referenced for future expansions and internal/external environmental audits. The secondary containment areas…