Case Study
Distillation & Recovery of Hydrochloric Acid
Mech-Chem Associates engineered, fabricated and installed a distillation system designed to drive off and recover Hydrochloric Acid for the processing of a mixed acid solution. Our customer faced two needs: First, their source of chemistry was no longer available due to the fact that their supplier was discontinuing production of the main catalyst needed in their chemical process. This meant our customer now had to bring the manufacturing of this chemical in house. Second, their current equipment was incapable of producing the necessary quantities of product, at the required volume and purity, on a reliable and consistent basis. The chemistry begins as a mixture of Hydrochloric Acid (HCl), Water and a second Acid all blended together in a Chemical Mix Tank. The pro