Chemical company Grace Brothers was part owner of Northern Chemical site at Kidder Point. The report below describes in detail the industrial processes active there in the late 1960s that a Superfund case in Massachusetts that was documented in the feature movie "A Civil Action".
Information Request Response by W.R. Grace & Co,
Appendix 3. Plant Description for Northern Chemical, Searsport
Complete document 75 pages (pdf) (Pages 58 to 75: Maps & Diagrams)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page# and Title
1. Location
1. Place
2. Community
3. Communications: land, water, telephone, telegraph
4. Climate
4. Topography
4. PLANT SITE
4. Boundaries
4. Map
5. Plot Plan
5. PRODUCTS & RAW MATERIALS
5. History
5. Products
6. Raw Materials
6. Block Flow Diagram
6. Performance
8. Table 1 NCI Annual Production 1962-1963 1963-1964 1964-1965
9. Manufacturing Facilities
9. Normal Superphosphate Plant
9. Sulfuric Acid Plant
10. Ammonium Sulfate Plant
11. Alum Plant
11. Ammonia Plant
12. Nitric Acid Plant
13. Ammonium Nitrate and Solutions Plant
13. UTILITY FACILITIES
13 Power Generation
13 City Water
13. Salt Water
14. Purchased Power
14. Natural Gas
14. Fuel Oil
14 OFFSITE FACILITIES
14. Offices
15. Fences
15. Roads
16. Dock
16. Laboratories
16. Railroad Spurs & Rolling Stock
17. Employee Change House
17. Parking Area
17.Yard Lighting
17. Safety and Fire Equipment
18 .Stores
18. Maintenances Shops
19. Warehouse
19. Portable Tools and Vehicles21. PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS
21. Sulfuric Acid
24. Normal Superphosphate
29. Ammonium Sulfate
32. Alum
36. Ammonia
42. Nitric Acid
46. Ammonium Nitrate
51 Utilities (bottom of page)
55. AMMONIA STORAGE
58 DIAGRAMS
58 FIG 1 Location Map NCI Plant
59 FIG 2 Property Plan NCI Plant
60 FIG 3 Plot Plan NCI Plant
61 FIG 4 Block Flow Diagram
62 FIG 5 Simple Flow diagram. NCI sulfuric acid plants
63 FIG 6 Simple Flow Diagram NCI Superphosphate Plant
64 FIG 7 Simple Flow Diagram Ammonium Sulfate Plant
65 FIG 8 Simple Flow Diagram NCI Alum Plant
66 FIG 9 Simple Flow Diagram Syn Gas Prep, Ammonia plant
67 FIG 10 Simple flow Diagram Syn gas puriufication
68 FIG 11 Simple Flow Diagram, compression, synthesis & storage
69 FIG 12 Simple Flow Diagram NCI Nitric Acid Plant
70 FIGURE 13 Simple Flow Diagram Ammonium Nitrate Plant
71 FIG 14 Simple Flow Diagram NCI Solutions Plant
72 FIG 15 Simple Flow Diagram Power Distribution
73 FIG 16 Steam Distribution NCI Plant
74 FIG 17 Water Distribution NCI Plant
75 FIG 18 10,000 ton Ammonia Terminal
END OF DOCUMENT
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