Building 740 Large Scale Lab
A large laboratory operating area is available on the first floor of Building 740. The approximately 66' x 36' lab is situated on the first floor. Its ceiling height varies from a low of 8 feet to as high 12 feet. There is also a large hood that measures 3 feet deep by 24 feet wide and approximately 35 feet in operating height. A large service door allows access for large equipment and fork trucks. This building currently has a full range of utilities and services, including 240V and 120V electric service. Besides city water and sewer, the Building 740 large scale lab has steam service at 200 psig and 30 psig, plant air at 90 psig.
Building 771 Layout and Utilities
Building 771 at the Technology Park was originally constructed to be a high pressure laboratory and pilot plant facility. The building has 24 operation cells varying in length, width and height to be used for large and small scale experimentation and pilot units. These cells are separated from the operating area by a 15" concrete and steel reinforced wall. There is also one large scale pilot area that measures 12 ft. deep by 40 ft. wide and approximately 40 ft. tall. Included in this building are four labs, 5 offices and two maintenance shops.
This building currently has a full range of utilities and services. A 480V, 240V and 120V electric service bus runs the entire length of the building. Besides city water and sewer, building 771 has steam service at 200 psig and 30 psig, plant air at 90 psig and a 160 psig low pressure Nitrogen header that also runs the full length of the building. A central vacuum system is installed but has been out of service for about 5 years. Situated next to building 771 is a bulk gas tank farm. Building 771 currently uses Nitrogen at 500 psig, Oxygen at 500 psig, Hydrogen at 400 psig, and an ethylene and ethane header to supply gases for R&D use.
Building 770 Annex
A laboratory extension installed onto Building 770 contains 2425 sq. ft. of laboratory/pilot plant space
very well suited to scale-up work. The lab contains four 2-story walk-in fume-hoods with cat-walk for full
access at both levels (~24 ft length x 30” deep x 20 ft height). It also contains four full-length lab benches
and three normal-size lab fume hoods for sample preparations.
Installed in a portion of the lab is a Moore/APACS control system potentially expandable to the entire lab. Computer access is available via wireless and network connections. Installed utilities include electric, cooling water, high pressure (200 psig) steam, nitrogen, and air utility headers in all hoods. There is outside dock-access to two sides of building, and drum and cylinder storage access on the building dock.
Market Development Plant
The Market Development Plant is a facility used to produce developmental or small commercial quantities of various products. It includes the basic infrastructure and utilities required for the construction and operation of pilot and small production facilities. The Plant is located on the grounds of the Technology Park and consists of two major buildings with associated support facilities.
Building 707
Building 707 is a 3 story concrete structure, containing operating cells, an electrical control room, utility room, conference room, library, archive file room on the 1st level, 8 offices, men’s locker room/restroom on the 2nd level, control room, lunch room, lab, and women’s locker room/restroom on the 3rd level.The operating section of 707 is consists of 3 stories of 12" thick reinforced concrete walls on 3 sides and fiberglass panels on the south side. It consists of 11 cells 10 ft. x 18 ft. and one 21 ft. x 18 ft. The cells contain process equipment ranging from 5 gal to 2000 gal in either 316 SS or glass lined reactors.
The building has a freight elevator, emergency lighting, gas detectors, alarm system & fire water spray protection.
Building 706
Building 706 is a 3-story concrete structure, consisting of electrical control room, utility room, control room, lunch room, and restroom on the 1st level, 4 offices, and rest room on the 2nd level, men’s locker room/restroom, and lab on the 3rd level.
The operating section of 706 is also 3 stories of 12" thick reinforced concrete walls on 3 sides and fiberglass panels on the south side. It consists of one cell 23 ft. x 20 ft. and one 26 ft. x 34 ft., 5 walk in hoods with cylinder feed station set up in one of them. The cells contain process equipment ranging from 30 gal to 1000 gal in either 316 SS or glass lined reactors.
On the west side of 706 is a structure that holds 2 glass lined vessels and other operating equipment.
The building has a freight elevator, emergency lighting, gas detectors, alarm system & fire water spray protection.
General Facilities
Available utilities include a chilled coolant at -10°C, control air, process air, cooling water, nitrogen, steam,
120v single phase power, and 460v three phase power. Building 707 is equipped with a flexible, relatively easy to
reconfigure control system that is used to control operations in multiple cells. The scale and size of most of
the equipment is suitable for drum scale materials handling. However, bulk materials as large as a tank truck can be
handled. A tank truck loading/unloading facility can handle up to 2 trucks at a time. A moderate amount of warehouse
space and outdoor lay-down space is available on the land around the MDP, included a hot room for maintaining high
freezing materials. A roofed, concrete pad for drum storage is available nearby. A small out-of-service flare is
available to the MDP.
