Update: Imperial Sugar Company's Port Wentworth Refinery

摘要

The facility was built with the philosophy of separate, isolate, and suppress. The goal of the Imperial rebuild at Port Wentworth wasn't merely to replace the facility that had been destroyed; it was to replace it with one that was state-of-the-art from a safety standpoint. The project included a number of safety objectives, including meeting or exceeding code, regulatory requirements, or recommendations from state, county, OSHA,CSB, and NFPA officials. The new Port Wentworth facility is designed tocontrol and eliminate the accumulation of dust. One of the major changes in production was the introduction of the "dense phase" concept to the sugar conveyance process. Previously, sugar was moved through conventional material handling systems with a considerable amount of open air space. The design team project engineers developed a plan for the use of a dense phase system where more tightly packed slugs of sugar are moved slowly in a way that minimizes dust formation and allows less room for air, which can significantly reduce the possibility of an explosion.