Industrial Gases

INDUSTRIAL GASES
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 140
CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRIES
2ND SEM A.Y. 2012-2013

This report is submitted to Engr. Antonio Rivera, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Chemical Engineering 140, Chemical Process Industries (2nd sem AY 1213).

Submitted by: ________________________ Jc Justine Quintos

Received by: _________________________ Engr. Antonio Rivera

Jc Justine Quintos 2008-09038

Chemical Engineering 140

Chemical Process Industries

INDUSTRIAL GASES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank my adviser, Engr. Antonio Rivera, for giving me all the help I need in doing this report. His patience and understanding kept me motivated in doing this report. To Jay Ranoco and Jaypee Ong, whom I always sought help in my ChE 140 course. To Allan Velasquez, for providing me resources to aid my research. To my father, I give thanks for understanding my desire to temporarily stop in my ChE degree, and pursue what I really want.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PHASE I
Overview

1-2 1 2 3-4 3 3-4 4-5 5-6 7-8 9-10

PHASE III
Health, Safety and Environment

Hazards Storage Policies Waste Management

18 18 18-19 19

Products Processes

Basic Market Data

Production Production Cost Import/Export Supply chain

Research and Development

20

OTHERS
Credits

Appendix

21-22 23-24

Market Segmentation Market Competition

PHASE II
Raw materials

Process flow

Equipment specifications Process flow diagram

12 12-13 13-14 15-16

PHASE I

INDUSTRY AND MARKET PROFILE
Market and Economics

1

OVERVIEW
Table 1-1. Common industrial gases by type. (source: Wikipedia)

The industry concerns itself in the manufacture of gases that are sold for and utilized in various industrial processes, several include manufacture of metal and semiconductors, polymer,

Cited: BATELEC: Chemical Process Industries by R. Shreve. Pages 70-75. Cryogen safety: Cryogenic Distillation: Cryogenic Distillation tutorial: Cylinder caps (cover page) Data: 2010 Market segmentation, Market share. Spiritus Group (Villavicencio, appendix) Data: Import of nitrogen and (Villavicencio, appendix) INGASCO Air Separation Plant product details: INGASCO ISO 9001:2000 certificate: 22 LENOXe: Linde Engineering Cryogenic Air Separation: Macroeconomics: Non-cryogenic processes: Storage tank: 23 APPENDIX Table 4-1. Import Data for Nitrogen from 1999 to 2010 YEAR 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 TOTAL GROSS KILO 3,944 68,797 2,025,611 10,503 4,270 127,578 32,905 6,923 82,989 5,186 8,116 1,257 2,378,079 Table 4-2. Import Data for Oxygen from 1999 to 2010 YEAR 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 TOTAL GROSS KILO 1,334 76,212 30,593 1,549 135,721 6,100 21,695 33,108 7,366 87,445 83,205 52,556 536,884 Table 4-3. Market segmentation (Spiritus Group) REVENUE (BILLION USD) 18 7 28 78 7 9 21 17 185 SEGMENT Cheical Refining Metallurgy Manufacturing Food Electronics Healthcare Others TOTAL 24 Table 4-4. Local market share (Spiritus Group) COMPANY Air Liquide Linde Gas TNSI (INGASCO) Other MARKET SHARE 30.11% 28.49% 17.20% 24.19%