Cleaner Production Audit on PVA 17-88 process

China

1995

Full scale

MANUFACTURE OF CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS # 6

Background

Beijing Organic Chemical (BOC) Plant covers an area of 43 hectares and has 2605 employees. The fixed assets are 166 million US$. BOC produces polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyvinyl acetate emulsion and a ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer series with a capacity of 100,000 tons annually. So they have become the largest manufacturer of polyvinyl acetate emulsion, EVA emulsion and EVA resin.

Beijing Organic Chemical Plant participated in the Sino-Norwegian cleaner production program in China for economic benefit and to protect the environment. They need a sound use of resources and energy and a reduction in the consumption of energy and raw materials.

Cleaner Production Principle

Housekeeping; Process modification; Material substitution

Cleaner Production Application

The installation adopted a continuous and low sodium hydroxide belt alcoholysis process. At a fixed temperature with the catalysis of sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol, PVA is produced. There are four unit operations in the installation, including an alcoholysis reaction unit, a dry vacuum unit, a product package unit and a waste liquid recovering unit.

Waste stream information:

  1. The waste water from the installation mainly includes boiling the mixer and the evaporator. Waste water discharge was a total of 14 tons/day.
  2. The installation produces two waste gases: One is the uncondensed gas emitted into the air; the other is the gaseous methyl alcohol which is emitted from the dryer. Gas emission is 19 kg/h in ally.
  3. Waste residue from the dryer was 1.5 kg/h.

Cleaner Production Options

After screening the 28 options initially generated from employees for waste minimization, a total of 25 cleaner production options were identified. Eleven options (Class A) needed little or no investment. Fourteen options (Class B) may result in a good economic return, but need high investment. After analyzing the B options, a feasibility analysis was done on five options (Class B) and will be shortly implemented. The remaining Class B options are listed in a long term plan.

Housekeeping

  1. Strengthening the management of labor and process and maintaining strict process operation
  2. Making efforts to mobilize the employees to take part in the actions for the reduction of pollution.
  3. Controlling the water drainage.
  4. Strengthening the technological training for the employees.
  5. Strengthening the management of the package and maintaining strict checking programs.
  6. Pay extra attention to the repair and maintenance of the instruments, equipment and pipelines, eliminating spilling, dripping, leaking, etc.
  7. Strengthening the control of the raw materials.
  8. Taking good control of the purchased spare parts, and equipment.
  9. Recovering the analysis samples to prevent them from flowing into the drainage.
  10. Recovering the liquid from the vacuum pump.
  11. Recovering material from the bottom of precipitating trough.

 

Technology changes

  1. Fitting the thermal seal on the hood cover and the hand hole in the alcoholysis machine.
  2. Fixing the spraying liquid in the drier of cyclone collector.
  3. Increasing the area of heating exchanger for the plate-type condenser.
  4. Installing the automatic interlocked equipment between the feeding pump, rising pump, mixer and alcoholysis machine.
  5. Renewing the condenser of methyl alcohol, and the plate of the column.
  6. Replacing the vacuum pump.
  7. Raising the pressure and the quantity of the cooling water.
  8. Replacing the filter.
  9. Increasing the area of the heating exchanger for the condenser of emission gas.
  10. Changing the evaporation process into second saponification process in the process of waste water treatment.
  11. Increasing the concentration of risin reaction solution.
  12. Reducing the concentration of sodium hydroxide solution.
  13. Changing the stepless variable drive of the belt machine into the frequency converter.
  14. Changing the evaporation process into the mechanical separation in the waste water treatment process.

Stage of Development

Eleven of the housekeeping options have been implemented since the beginning of the CP project in 1995. It is planned to implement the remaining options.

Environmental and Economic Benefits

After implementation of the cleaner production project, COD discharge will be reduced 50% in the near future.

After implementing option 3, The recovered product will be 12 tons/year a value of about 0.25 million RMB.

Changing the evaporation process into the mechanical separation in the process of waste water treatment and replacing the filter.

Capital investment

(RMB)

Process equipment

2,404,000

Installation

200,000

Design

60,000

Contingency

200,000

Total

2,864,000

Total annual savings 854,000

Net savings 666,700

Payback period

4.3 years

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

19.3%

Renewing the condenser of methyl alcohol, and the plate of the column and replacing the vacuum pump.

Total capital investment (RMB.)

900,000

Saving on annual operation

272,000

Net savings

212,900

Payback period

4.24 years

IRR

19.6%

Raising the pressure and the quantity of the cooling water.

Capital investment (RMB)

Process equipment

36,000

Installation

1,000

Design

1,800

Contingency

1,000

Total capital investment

39,800

Saving on annual operation

18,400

Net savings

13,600

Payback period

2.9 years

IRR

32%

Cleaner Production Benefits

After implementation of cleaner production audit project, the workshop had a profit 0.98 million RMB per year. If the workshop implements options 25 and 19 and invests 2.9 million RMB on cleaner production projects, the COD effluent will be reduced 80.0 kg/day and waste water discharge will be reduced 4.08 tons/day. If the workshop implements options 16 and 17, and invests 0.9 million RMB on cleaner production projects, the emission of methyl alcohol from tail gas and the leakage of methyl alcohol from the vacuum pump will be reduced 76.3 tons/year.

Constraints

None reported.

Contacts

Industry/Program Contact and Address

Ms. Zhao Ling
Beijing Organic Chemical Plant
Dajiaoting, Eastern Suburb, Chao Yang District,
Beijing 100022, P.R.China
Tel: 86-10-7712255, ext 2968
Advisor Name and Address
Ms.Wang Hong
Beijing No.3 chemical Plant
Yong Ding MenWai, Fengtai District,
Beijing 100075, P.R.China
Tel: 86-10-7633388, ext. 625
Mr. Fu Xin
Office of Sino-Norwegian Cleaner Production Program
China International Training Center for Sustainable Development
No. 109 Wanquanhe Road
Haidian District, Beijing 100080, P.R.China
Tel: 86-10-2588146

Review Status

This case study was submitted to UNEP IE by the Sino-Norwegian Cleaner Production Program. It was edited and formatted for the ICPIC diskette in May 1997.

Subsequently the case study has undergone a technical review by Dr Prasad Modak at Environmental Management Centre, Mumbai, India, in September 1998.

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