UNIT CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND PRODUCTION CHEMICAL PLANT

摘要

1380352 Chemical plant W D HAHN 20 June [1 July 1971] 28901/72 Heading B1F A chemical experimental or production plant is built on the unit construction system wherein the plant is assembled from elements comprising chemical apparatus and/or machinery with pipe connections thereon, pipework leading to and from and/or interconnecting said apparatus and/or machinery, framework for supporting soil apparatus and/or machinery and said pipework and means for securing said apparatus and/or machinery and said pipework to the framework, and wherein the entire space occupied by the plant is notionally exactly divided into cubes having sides of length a by a three-dimensional system of gridlines, where a is at least 50mm, each piece of apparatus and/or machinery being circumscribed by a rectangular parallelepiped of which each dimension is an integral multiple of half the length a with said pipe connections terminating at the grid lines defining said rectangular paralelepiped or offset therefrom by a/2 and each of said elements having at least one of its axes lying along one of said grid lines.