Industrial Plant Services Limited. Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited. Industrial Plant Services Limited (IPSL) has been contracted to manage and operate MHTL’s four methanol plants in Point Lisas, Trinidad. IPSL is a privately owned independent operating company that provides a range of expert plant management services to existing and potential clients in the petrochemical/energy sector both locally and globally. The company was incorporated on September 21, 1999 and its corporate office is located at Atlantic Avenue, Point Lisas Industrial Estate, Trinidad, West Indies. IPSL’s services to clients include: Project Management Pre-feasibility Studies Front End Engineering Operability Reviews Plant Commissioning Other routine services associated with the management of the facilities In addition to being a shareholder, Helm AG, also acts as MHTL’s marketing arm in Europe providing a direct interface with the European market.
The company has been actively engaged in the international trade and distribution of methanol for more than 30 years. SCC – Southern Chemical Corporation » Methanol Emerging Uses. More recently developed industrial uses of methanol include adding it to wastewater effluent as a denitrification agent. Methanol speeds up the action of bacteria that convert nitrates in water to harmless nitrogen gas. Hundreds of wastewater treatment plants in the U.S. use methanol for denitrification.
Methanol is also sourced as a reagent and solvent in biodiesel production facilities. Biodiesel is diesel fuel that has been sourced from biodegradable materials (vegetable or waste oils) instead of petroleum. Biodiesel is made by reacting these vegetable or waste oils with pure methanol in the presence of sodium or potassium hydroxide catalyst. The chemical process is called trans-esterification. The objective is to convert fat molecules in the oils into an ester (biodiesel) and the remainder into glycerol, a byproduct that can be further processed and marketed.
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