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Alternative Transportsysteme für den Langstreckentransport in der Chemischen Industrie
Author(s) -
Bahke Erich
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.330561104
Subject(s) - chemical industry , pipeline transport , pipeline (software) , productivity , raw material , production (economics) , automation , environmental science , engineering , waste management , environmental engineering , chemistry , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , economics , macroeconomics
Alternative transport systems for long‐distance transport in the chemical industry. The survival of a company in the chemical industry is nowadays determined by the location of raw materials and the transportation routes and transfer centres to the chemical production sites, and particularly also on the availability of economical and environmentally unobjectionable transport systems and procedures. Increasing difficulties and legislation in the chemical industry, especially due to environmental and disposal problems, as well as the increasing density of mass flow thanks to increasing productivity, demand new technologies and alternative transport systems which can be integrated into a network of modern and environmentally appropriate conveying and storage systems. In a framework of increasing automation of all transport, pipeline transport will become increasingly attractive to the chemical industry with increasing environmental consciousness. Even though not all products can be transported through pipes, such materials can still be transported in „pipeline‐like” manner, i.e. continuously in closed systems.