Nitro Cellulose Plant

Brief Overview
 

Capacity:

15,000 TPY 

Technology:

Baker Perkins 

Status:

Still installed & available for inspection  

Major Upgrades:

- Smokeless packed out area - Late 1980's
- Dehydration area - Late 1980's
- Control system was redone with D.C.S. - 1990's
- New S.A.C. (Sulfuric Acid Concentration) unit - Late 1990's
- N.A.C. (Nitric Acid Concentration) was overhauled - 1990's

Products Produced:

Nitro Cellulose

Documentation:

complete

Major Equipment:

- 1 Feed Hopper: 6' x 4' x 6"ss live bottom continuous 3000 lb/hr infeed hopper
- 1 Belt Conveyor: 48" wide powered belt cross over conveyor
- 5 Pots: Industrial alloy fabricators 38"d x 86"ss compartmented and linked reactors w/agitator
- 1 Feed Tank: 42"ss centrifuge feed tank
- 1 Pusher Centrifuge: Baker Perkins Model S-48" diameter 5-stage screen and pusher plate vertical centrifuge. Misc. pumps and filters.