Expo Technologies

Purge and Pressurization Enclosure

Case Study:
Ethylene Pilot Plant
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 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 company’s 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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 Customer Benefits
Design • A custom designed
system with enhanced
safety features
• The Expo Technologies team used: • These safety features
• More than 80 sheets of technical drawings in the design of the allows the client to
produce ethylene in a
system laboratory environment
within a Zone 2
• Parts included: hazardous area
• 52 door locks
• 276 stainless steel bosses
• 40m of door seal gasket
• 26mm thick laminated glass windows

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