This industry continues to focus on debottlenecking projects involving bulk material handling in silos, bins, transfer chutes, and conveyors to maximize plant efficiency, throughput capacity, and safe operation.
75% of chemicals are handled in bulk solid form during their manufacture. The chemicals industry provides the building blocks for companies manufacturing paints, pigments, coatings, adhesives, resins, consumer products, and foods.
Chemical Industry Services
- On-site audit to review process or flow problem
- Raw, intermediate, final grade flow testing
- Storage vessel, chute, or feeder design
- Pneumatic conveying testing
- Silo structural engineering (new, retrofit)
- Pilot-scale process modeling
Whether you are conveying raw materials from storage silos to a process, feeding powders to a reactor, or packaging products in bulk, Jenike & Johanson can help you achieve reliable material flow and high throughput capability.
Common Chemicals Industry Challenges
When feeding powders to reactors or conveying wet cake from a centrifuge to a dryer, poor material flow can result in throughput limitations, non-uniform product, or dust emissions/spillage. Reliable solids handling at chemicals plants will improve unit operations involving blending, extrusion, pneumatic or mechanical conveying, and heating/cooling. Reliable powder flow and a first-in, first-out vessel discharge pattern (mass flow) is desired to minimize cross-contamination of batches and ensure process efficiency.
Just some of the bulk materials we have successfully handled in the Chemicals industry to date. Common Materials Handled
Please note the below list is just a small sampling of the materials we’ve handled for clients in the Chemicals industry.
- Organics, inorganics
- Carbon black
- Titanium dioxide
- Catalysts
- Phosphates
- Sulfates
- Salts, acids
- Silicates
- Carbonates
- ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), Crumb, Pellets, Polymer, Resin, Terpolymer;
- AC Base
- AC Base Ethyl
- Acetylene Lampblack
- Acid
- Adipic
- Ascorbic
- Benzenephosphinic
- Benzoic
- Boric
- Fumaric
- Isophthalic
- Methyl Thiobenzoic
- Salacylic
- Stearic, Rubber Grade
- Terephthalic
- Trimellitic
- Trichloroisocyanuric
- Alginate Impression
- Alumina
- Activated
- Ash
- Beads
- Blast Media
- Catalyst Fines
- Flash Calcined
- Flour
- Gel
- Hydrate
- Reacted
- Trihydrate
- Aluminum
- Acetate
- Fluoride
- Oxide
- Sludge
- Trihydrate
- Amitriptylene HCl
- Ammonium
- Nitrate Prills
- Paratungstate
- Sulfate
- Thiocyanate
- Anatase
- Antimony Trioxide
- Arsenic Trioxide
- Barium
- Carbonate
- Ferrite
- Nitrate
- Stearate
- Titanate
- Benzophenone
- Beryllium Oxide
- Boron Nitrate
- Bromicide Powder
- Burnt Lime
- Calcium
- Carbide
- Carbonate
- Carbonate, Precipitated
- Caseinate
- Chloride
- Gluconate
- Magnesium Acetate
- Phosphate
- Phosphate Tribasic
- Precipitated
- Silicide
- Stearate
- Sulfate
- Carbon
- Activated
- Black
- Black Beads
- Butts
- Coating Magnesium Powder
- Fibers
- Fines
- Catalyst
- Fresh
- Rainey Nickel
- Spent
- Chrome
- Oxide
- Salt Cake
- Copper
- Hydroxide
- Sulfate
- Crystalline Silica Dust
- Diammonium Phosphate
- Dicalcium Phosphate
- Disodium Phosphate, Anhydrous
- Epsom Salt
- Foam
- Fumed Silica
- Gypsum, Synthetic
- High Calcium Hydrate
- Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
- Iron Carbonate
- Lithium Carbonate
- Lithium Hydroxide
- Magnesium
- Carbonate
- Chloride
- Dioxide
- Oxide
- Oxide, Burned
- Stearate
- Sulfate, anhydrous
- Sulfate, Hepta Hydrated
- Manganese
- Carbonate
- Dioxide
- Oxide
- Methyl Imidazoline
- Molybdenum Disulfide
- Monoammonium Phosphate
- Monocalcium Phosphate
- Monosodium Phosphate
- Neopentyl Glycol Hydroxypivalate
- Nickel Sulfate
- Organic Peroxide
- Phosphono Methyglycine
- Phosphorous Pentasulfate
- Polyvinyl Chloride
- Potassium
- Ferrate
- Bicarbonate
- Butoxide
- Carbonate
- Chloride
- Citrate
- Hydroxide, Anhydrous
- Nitrate
- Permanganate
- Stearate
- Sulfate
- Salt
- Briquettes
- Cake
- Silica
- Dust
- Gel Catalyst
- Hydrogel
- Laden Carbon Black
- Precipitated
- Silicon Carbide
- Sodium
- Acetate
- Aluminosilicate
- Anhydrous
- Bentonite
- Bicarbonate
- Borohydride
- Carbonate
- Caseinate
- Chlorate
- Chloride
- Chromate
- Citrate
- Cyanate
- Hexameta Phosphate
- Hydroxide
- Metasilicate
- Nitrate
- Perborate
- Perborate, Anhydrous
- Percarbonate
- Phosphate
- Silicate
- Sulfate
- Sulfate, Anhydrous
- Sulfate, Purified
- Tetraborate
- Triphosphate
- Tripolyphosphate
- Stannous Chloride
- Strontium
- Carbonate
- Ferrite
- Sulfone Monomer
- Sulfur
- Sulphate Fines
- Tetrapotassium
- Pyrophosphate
- Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
- Thermoplastic Traffic
- Marking w/Plasticizers
- Titanium Dioxide
- Tricalcium Phosphate
- Urea
- Coated
- Cyanurate
- Prills
- Zinc
- Carbonate
- Oxide
- Sulfate
- Zirconium
- Sulfate
- Sulfate Octahydrate
Some of our clients who we have successfully provided bulk material engineering services for in the chemicals industry. Chemicals Industry Clients
- BASF
- Dow
- Dupont
- Nova Chemical
- Bayer
- SINOPEC
- LG Chemical
- Eastman Chemical
- Praxair
- Aerojet
- Air Products & Chemicals
- Akzo Nobel Chemical
- Albermarle
- Albright & Wilson, Canada
- Allied Chemical
- American Cyanamid
- Arkansas Eastman
- Atlantic Richfield
- BASF
- B. F. Goodrich
- Biolab
- Borg-Warner
- BP Amoco
- Cabot
- Carolina Eastman
- Cedar Chemicals
- Chevron
- Clearon
- Conoco
- Degussa, Germany
- Dow Chemical
- Eastman Chemical
- Eastman Kodak
- E. I. DuPont de Nemours
- Engelhard
- Exxon/Mobil
- FMC
- Flexsys
- Great Lakes Carbon
- Great Lakes Chemicals
- Haartz
- Hoechst Celanese
- Hercules
- Huntsman Chemicals
- ICI America
- IMC Kalium
- Israel Chemical Products
- Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical
- Kalium Chemicals, Canada
- Kemira
- Koch Industries
- Lubrizol
- Mobil Chemical
- Monsanto
- Negev Phosphate, Israel
- Occidental Chemical
- Owens-Illinois
- Petro Canada
- Phibro-Tech
- Polaroid
- PQ
- Rohm & Haas
- Shell Chemicals
- Shipley
- Solutia
- Sun Chemical
- Texaco
- Texas Eastman
- Thiokol
- Union Carbide
- Vista Chemicals
- Wellman
- W. R. Grace
- Zeochem
- 3M