Chemical Plants
When you need storage for a chemical plant, you want someone who knows the industry and the stringent requirements for safety. Great River Industries has been in construction, repair and maintenance, coatings and linings, and turnarounds for many years. Our goal is to utilize our GRI 360 Program to scape and execute your goals. Regardless of the size of the project, we strive to compete each one with efficiency and maximum safety.
Creating Safe Equipment and Storage for Chemical Plants
Great Rivers Industries specializes in chemical plants and we offer a wide range of services in the construction field. This includes above ground storage tanks. Both mechanical and structural steel fabrication and installation, loading equipment installation, turnarounds, setting of equipment, coatings and linings, and more.
Chemical plants are usually large-scale operations that work with various chemicals to convert them into products. Because they use specialty equipment and technology, they have unique needs when it comes to storage. They may have a single line for one product or multiple lines for multiple products. These lines may be interconnected using special piping to carry the material.
These plants may use liquids, gas or a combination, each of which must be placed in proper storage. The plant must meet federal, state and local regulations to ensure the chemicals don’t contaminate each other, the products or the environment.
Understanding Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions not only alter each individual substance, but they can impact the surrounding environment. Storage containers must take into account how the chemicals will react with each other as well as individually. Since the reaction may change how each chemical behaves, storage manufacturers have a more difficult job in building structures that can handle different situations.
With these chemical reactions, some compounds may be converted into other chemicals. Some may react at high temperatures and pressure while others require low temperatures or low pressure. When developing the right storage containers, the company must think about the various behaviors each chemical may exhibit. They must understand the different ways a chemical reacts alone and when combined with other chemicals.
Storage manufacturers that work with chemical plants must have thorough expertise in chemicals and their reactions as well as knowledge of the industry and the regulations which govern it.
Great River Industries offers such expertise and experience with chemical plants to ensure each container and every piece of equipment is safe for the plant workers, the environment and others who may be affected.