Manufacturing location: Pernis - Shell Chemicals(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The materials made at Pernis are used by customers to manufacture many everyday products including car parts, foam seating and bedding, paints, cooling fluids, pharmaceuticals and petrol.
The Pernis facility is part of a large industrial area which contains other petrochemical and refinery sites.
Nearby communities are the villages of Pernis, Rhoon and Poortugaal and the cities of Hoogvliet (Rotterdam), Spijkenisse, Vlaardingen and Schiedam, all in a radius of 7 kilometers.
The lubricant plant or Lube Oil Blending Plant of Mobil Oil B.V. in Pernis was built in 1955 and has been continuously expanded over the years.
The Lube Oil Blending Plant in Pernis is the second largest ExxonMobil plant in Europe and the sixth largest in the world.
The plant in Pernis meets all environmental requirements and has been certified according to ISO 9000 and a management system similar to ISO 14000l standards.
Press release: Expansion of Pernis Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) plant is latest step in implementing IPA strategy - Shell ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Shell Nederland Chemie BV plans to boost the capacity of its Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) plant at Pernis by 50,000 tonnes/year with an expansion expected to come on-stream in the second quarter of 2006. The additional production is intended to significantly improve the overall efficiency of the unit.
The plans to expand the Pernis plant follow the $40 million rejuvenation of the IPA and Methyl Iso Butyl Ketone (MIBK) asset base at Deer Park, Texas during 2002/3 and the closure of the IPA production unit at Stanlow, UK, in 2003.
Shell Nederland Chemie BV operates petrochemical plants in Pernis and Moerdijk (The Netherlands).
Results to date include reduction of required operational hours from 24 to 16, headcount reduced from ten to six, operational costs have been reduced 20%, and electrical energy consumption has been reduced to zero by burning vapors returned from the trucks to both generate electricity and eliminate emissions.
Details of this were documented in PROCESS Worldwide in the November issue article "Performance at Pernis".
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In a conventional distillation the reboiler is heated by low pressure steam and the overhead vapours are cooled with cooling water.
As a part of the modernisation of the whole propylene distribution system within the Shell site at Pernis, a new propylene-propane distillation column was built with the application of mechanical vapour recompression (MVR), built by Mannesmann Demag AG.
This was done to save energy, reduce the use of cooling water and increase the yield of the distillation process.
Shell Nederland Raffinaderij B.V. has awarded Aker Kvaerner the engineering, procurement and construction management contract for part of Shell's Emissions Reduction 2007 Project at its Pernis Refinery in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The project involves plot clearance, utilities and tie-ins for a cogeneration plant that will be built on the site.
The Pernis facility is the second largest Shell refinery and one of the ten largest in the world.
Alexandra Pernis, MD, has identified a novel protein called IBP that is activated when T cells are activated.
Now, Dr. Pernis is inducing the MS-like disease EAE in mice lacking IBP, to evaluate whether a lack of this protein diminishes the onset and/or severity of disease.
Exploring this novel pathway in the immune response that leads to EAE may lead to the development of therapeutic strategies for MS that inhibit IBP from activating the immune attack.
Articles by Fanzo, J. Articles by Pernis, A. Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1007/2003/2/303 $5.00
Address correspondence to Alessandra B. Pernis, Dept. of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons 9-435, Columbia University, 630 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032.
Pernis, A.B. The role of IRF-4 in B and T cell activation and differentiation.
Royal Dutch Shell's Pernis refinery breaks down - Forbes.com(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
AMSTERDAM (AFX) - A spokesperson for Royal Dutch Shell confirmed reports its Pernis refinery in Rotterdam had suffered a utility breakdown.
The Pernis refinery, with a capacity of 416,000 barrels of crude oil per day the largest in Europe and one of the biggest in the world, suffered from a lack of steam in one of the facilities, the spokesperson said, noting the cause of the failure was not yet known.
The spokesman said the refinery will be restarted as soon as possible.