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INTRODUCTION
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Nitroline Philippine Corporation (NPC) is the first company to manufacture aniline in the Philippines. It is a company with technology and product sustainability, helping the socioeconomic and agriculture state in the country. It provides great leadership towards their workers and sharedresponsibility to take care of the environment while producing the highest standard of Aniline.
NPC will produce aniline through hydrogenation of nitrobenzene. The raw materials – hydrogen and nitrobenzene are readily available inside the Philippines. The main equipment used in this plant are the fluidized bed reactor which is operating at 350 C, continuous decanter, simple – continuous
distillation column, and the the steam distillation distillation column. The plant has a capacity of
15,252.858 MT⁄year .
The main consumers of aniline are the
pharmaceutical plants.
Nitroline Philippines Corporation is located in Sta. Maria Industrial Park, Sta. Maria, Bulacan. The town is only a few hours away from Metro Manila. Laguna and Manila is where most of the target market is located is 81.2 kilometers away from the location via North Luzon Expressway (NLEX).
Nitroline Philippines Corporation will first be introducing aniline in the province where the company is located, then to the neighboring provinces; the whole Philippines, to neighboring countries and then ultimately across continents. The aniline to be produ ced by Nitroline Philippines Corporation will be coming from nitrobenzene and hydrogen gas which is readily available not only in the Philippines but as well as neighboring Asian countries. The
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production process starts with the feeding of raw materials into the fluidized bed reactor, decantation, distillation then packaging.
The success of the company will depend on its product quality that must satisfy the customer’s expectation. If the company successfully meet the clients’ requirements, then the product product might be considered highly acceptable and of high quality. Therefore, the company is pledged to give the customer high-quality of products by ensuring that the process on producing a product is well-established and streamlined. The company will ensure that every product is at its best quality and the raw materials meet the intended quality for processing, checking the specification of the product e.g. purity, density, etc. must be properly regulated and performing laboratory experiments to test if the product’s product’s quality is well within specifications. The company will implement Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) to ensure that every tank of aniline produced contains quality liquid with purity of not less than 99% and that will eventually become quality raw materials to their v alued customers. Nitroline Philippines Corporation will address address the following constraints: ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS
Aniline products are used to manufacture a variety of end-products, ranging from polyurethane foam, Kevlar™ aramid fiber, and pharmaceuticals. and pharmaceuticals. It is also used as an antioxidant, activator, and accelerator in the rubber industry. The production cost of aniline by catalytic hydrogenation is 82% lower compared to other processes. The hydrogenation process provides an efficient recovery of high-purity aniline, which is required in some applications. The major constraint is the import of aniline. Since, there are no existing aniline plant here in the Philippines, it is an advantage for Nitroline Philippines Corporation (NPC) to
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