PERLITE PRODUCTION IN MOBILE COMPLEXES FOR CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT INSULATION IN THE PROCESS OF ITS BUILDING

Abstract

Efficiency and safety growth of cryogenic equipment and especially air separation units is accompanied by the requirements increase to the quality of heat insulation. The most widespread type of insulation is perlite bloating sand. For growing demands in the oxygen and cryogenic engineering branches, Russian company Cryogenmash has developed some new technical conditions on this type of heat insulation, used in cryogenic equipment. The Group of companies Bentoprom is a large perlite manufacturer, using new technical conditions. It produces high-quality perlite, which is used not only by the Russian cryogenic equipment manufacturers but also by such well-known companies, as Linde and Air Liquide. For last years the Group of companies Bentoprom has been using both stationary equipment and also mobile complexes which allow to produce perlite bloating sand for its insulation on the ground where large-capacity cryogenic equipment is built. Successful work on some objects created by Linde Gas in Germany, Poland, Austria and Russia in 2009 and 2010 is reported.