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New Plant Design, Fabrication and Erection 250 STPD Liquid CO2 Plant; Wisconsin, USA |
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UIG provided turnkey supply and
installation for a 250 tons/ day food and
beverage grade Liquid Carbon
Dioxide plant that recovers, purifies and liquefies CO2 produced by the Utica Energy
corn-to-ethanol plant (formerly Algoma Ethanol, L.L.P.) located in the
Town of Utica.. The ethanol plant and CO2 plant began commercial operation in June 2003. The Town of Utica is in Winnebago County, about ten miles southwest of Oshkosh. |
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plant including CO2
recovery, purification and liquefaction systems. The plant contains CO2 feed gas
compression, purification, drying and condensing equipment, an ammonia
refrigeration system, computer process control system, product analyzer
panel, two 500 ton liquid CO2 storage tanks and loading pumps.
The UIG scope of supply included project management, overall process and mechanical design, equipment fabrication, procurement services, construction and field support through plant commissioning and startup. UIG is providing ongoing technical support and training to plant operations and marketing the liquid CO2 product. |
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| Some of the larger skids being unloaded for installation in the building | |||
| Most major process components were
supplied on three large
skidded modules. Other plant components were included on several smaller skids.
UIG also supplied
two stand-alone columns, two 500 ton liquid CO2 storage tanks,
extraordinarily precise process and product analyzers,
a motor control center and the process control system. Process Skid #1 is 13 feet wide by 50 feet long. It contains CO2 booster compression, CO2 phase separation, the water wash tower and associated smaller equipment. |
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Process Skid #2, 13 feet by 50 feet, contains ammonia compression, drier vessels, CO2 gas chiller, CO2 reboiler, CO2 purification column, primary condenser, subcooler, vent condenser and high pressure ammonia receiver. The CO2 Blower Skid is 17 feet long and 9 feet wide. It contains the inlet vessel separator and CO2 raw gas blower. |
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| The two 500 ton liquid CO2 storage vessels are 119 feet long and 12.5 feet in diameter. |
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| Insulating Liquid CO2 Storage -- Storage Tanks and Truck Scale | ||
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Universal Industrial Gases, Inc.
2200 Northwood Ave. Suite 3
Easton, Pennsylvania 18045-2239 USA
Phone (610) 559-7967 Fax (610) 515-0945
All material contained herein Copyright 2003 UIG.