IMPROVEMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF AN EXISTING FATLIQUOR PILOT PLANT

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dc.contributor.authorUGWU, Johnson Obunwa
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-05T08:48:23Z
dc.date.available2014-03-05T08:48:23Z
dc.date.issued2000-08
dc.descriptionA THESIS Presented to The Postgraduate School Ahmadu Bello University, Zariaen_US
dc.description.abstractExperimental and theoretical investigations were conducted on an existing sulphation pilot plant facility for production of leather lubricant, sulphated oil popularly known as fatliquor. This was carefully and critically done to evaluate the performance of the plant in respect of attaining the required process conditions. These include maintaining the sulphation reaction temperature of 25°C to reduce side reactions to enhance optimum yield of the desired product. In addition, the study evaluated the possibility of using the plant for as much smaller feed as possible, per batch of production, to reduce cost of experimentation on the plant. The test-runs revealed some design Lapses, such as the reaction temperature rising up to 41"C in the three test runs that were done. This may indict the cooling system that was earlier on, observed to have placed serious restriction on wide variation of process input required of a research project. A redesign of the cooling system was done as part of the investigations to confirm the observed under-functioning. The redesignen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3251
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectIMPROVEMENTen_US
dc.subjectPERFORMANCEen_US
dc.subjectEXISTINGen_US
dc.subjectFATLIQUORen_US
dc.subjectPILOTen_US
dc.subjectPLANTen_US
dc.titleIMPROVEMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF AN EXISTING FATLIQUOR PILOT PLANTen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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