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Colgate Palmolive Company
Jeffersonville, InSO3 Sulfonation PlantProcess Overview
General Description
The sulfonation process consists of two continuous falling film ballestra reactors capable of approximately 50/tons per day of active ingredient.
The design of the processing plant encompasses a gas plant, sulfur burning, SO3 conversion, sulfonation reactors, aging, neutralization, hydrolization, pH trim and exhaust gas treatment
The original process was designed for sulfonation of dodecyl benzene and ethoxylated alcohols. It was later converted to sulfonate alpha olefins and lauryl alochols
Plant History
• Chemithon sulfonation plant commissioned in 1977 for liquid detergent business
• Produced Sulfonated Dodecyl benzenes and ethoxylated alcohol surfactants for first 20 years of production
• An additional sidestream Ballestra reactor added in 1982 for sodium lauryl sulfate surfactants
• Refurbished with new reactors and process control system in 1996 to produce Alpha Olefin and Exthoxylated Alcohol surfactants
• Plant scheduled for shutdown in October of 2006
Plant Metrics
• The gas plant of the process is designed to burn 450 lbs/hr of sulfur and is the limiting processing system
• The process has two Ballestra sulfonation reactors, one with seventy two tubes and one with thirteen tubes.
• In 2005, asset utilization was 87% and the plant has produced in excess of 55 million pounds of various surfactants the last two years
Process Systems
• Raw Material Storage and Handling• SO3 Gas Plant• Reactor Sulfonation• Neutralization (sodium hydroxide)• Hydrolizer ( Alpha Olefin’s only)• Exhaust Gas Treatment• Finished Product Storage and Loading• Utilities and Process control
Building 42 - Sulfonation
Alcohol & Alkane storage
Molten Sulfur Storage
Primary blower – Gardner Denver
Air Dryers – Alternating Dual system
Sulfur burner
SO2 to SO3 Converter
SO3 Cooler and Mist Eliminator
Top of Ballestra Reactor (60 Tubes)
Bottom of Reactor Liquid/Gas Separator
Neutralization Skid
Hydrolizer Unit – Alpha Olefins only
Sulfuric Acid Scrubber
Caustic Scrubber – exhaust gas
Electrostatic Precipitators –exhaust gas
East Product Storage & Loading
West Storage and Loading
Wonderware & Allen Bradley PLC Controls
Trane Chiller
Process Cooling Tower
Utility & Energy Consumption
Available thru technology suppliers
Technology Suppliers
Chemithon Corporation5430 West Marginal Way SWSeattle, WA 98106 USATel: (206) 937-9954Fax: (206) 932-3786, (206) 937-9933E-mail: [email protected]@chemithon.com
Ballestra CorporationVia Piero Portaluppi 17 20138 Milano (Italy)tel +39 2 50831fax +39 2 [email protected]