Entries of May, 2011
Propylene Oxide Storage & Distribution Project
Location: Mill Hall, Pennsylvania Date Completed: 2008 Project Scope Venture Engineering was contracted to provide front-end and detailed engineering for a new propylene oxide storage and distribution project at Croda Inc.’s specialty chemicals production facility in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. Croda’s manufacturing facility, located in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania, produces modified long chain fats, oils, amines and [...]
Fueling Boilers with Landfill Gas
Location: Mill Hall, Pennsylvania Date Completed: 2008 Project Scope Venture Engineering and Construction was contracted to provide a front-end engineering study to investigate the feasibility of utilizing landfill gas (LFG) in place of conventional natural gas for firing the plant boilers (Superior boilers located next to the maintenance shop) at the Croda Mill Hall, PA [...]
Ethylene Oxide Debottleneck
Location: Mill Hall, Pennsylvania Date Completed: 2008 Project Scope Venture Engineering was contracted to provide front end and detailed engineering for a process debottlenecking project at Croda’s specialty chemicals production facility in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. Croda’s Mill Hall manufacturing facility produces modified long chain fats, oils, amines and alcohols using ethylene oxide (EO) or propylene [...]
Polyether Polyols Expansion
Location: Northeast United States Date Completed: 2008 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide EPCM services for a polyether polyols expansion. Polyether polyols are one of the main components in polyurethane systems and are used in many consumer applications, such as rigid foam insulation and flexible foam seat cushions. The expansion increased [...]
Biodiesel Plant
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Date Completed: December 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide front end engineering services, including process modeling utilizing ChemCAD dynamic simulation, PFD development, P&ID development, equipment sizing and selection, general arrangement of the plant, equipment and instrument lists, and capital cost estimate, for a Greenfield 18.0 M [...]
Cold End Upgrade
Location: Monaca, Pennsylvania Date Completed: 2008 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide engineering services for a new glass inspection and packaging line. This expansion of the Monaca Facility allowed the plant to bulk palletize automatically. The glass product was conveyed through several test stations and into the palletizer. And from there [...]
Burlington County, New Jersey Gas Conditioning System
Location: Burlington County, New Jersey Date Completed: 2011 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide its patent pending Biogas Conditioning System to improve the quality of the Landfill Gas at this Landfill Gas to Energy (LFGTE) facility. The landfill uses approximately 2,500 scfm of landfill gas to produce approximately 10 MW of [...]
Landfill Gas to Energy Project-Butte County, California
Location: Butte County, California Date Completed: 2011 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide its patent pending Biogas Conditioning System to improve the quality of the Landfill Gas at this Landfill Gas to Energy (LFGTE) facility. The landfill uses approximately 1,000 scfm of landfill gas to produce approximately 2 MW of power [...]
Brea, California Gas Conditioning System
Location: Olinda Landfill; Brea, California Date Completed: 2011 Project Scope Venture was contracted to provide its patent pending Biogas Conditioning System to improve the quality of the Landfill Gas at the Olinda Landfill Gas to Energy (LFGTE) facility located in Brea, California. The LFGTE facility will use approximately 11,500 scfm of landfill gas to produce [...]
Landfill Gas to Energy Project – Brea, California
Client: DCO Energy–EPC Contractor Broadrock Renewables LLC–Owner Location: Brea, California Date Completed: 2011 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide various engineering, design, procurement and equipment supply as part of an EPC contract with DCO Energy for a new combined cycle landfill gas to energy facility at the Olinda Landfill in Brea, [...]