Process Description MicroUnit Systems

The micro unit systems consisted of 17 pilot plant reactors controlled through PLC’s via a Labview DSCM interface. Each system utilized similar equipment setup in varying configurations, because of this a common list of tags was one of the required design objectives.

Process Description unit 437


Up to four different gasses are to be reacted with one or two of a large number of liquid hydro- carbons in a reactor, under pressure and heat. The gasses and liquids are controlled by an operator using the interface shown in image 1. The gasses are injected through a series of flow control valves, and the liquids through a series of ISCO pumps. The system also required the ability to purge all lines with Nitrogen through
another series of flow control valves. The system required the use of the Labview DSC module which communicated with the System hardware via an SCXI interface. Upon Completion of a reaction a sample would be injected into a GC and tested for composition.


Results

The system has been completed and tested. It is capable of operating with either of two reactor systems. The first of which is described above, the second is a less complicated system utilizing a syringe pump instead of the four large ISCO pumps.
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