C1D1 Labs couldn’t be more proud to announce our new line of fire rated processing booths. This innovation came from our laboratory design and engineering team after designing more than 70 LPG. Flammable Liquid processing facilities for the processed material industry. Our designers noticed with the scaling of ethanol processing, more and more facilities were forced to create control areas inside their buildings. Control areas separate solvents in different parts of an processed material processing building and are built with fire rated walls.
Each control area in your building has it’s own MAQ or “Maximum Allowed Quantity of Solvent”. Our processed material processing lab design and engineering team is actually able to multiple a MAQ up to 4x with 4 different control areas. Taking a building that could have 480G of ethanol and creating a high volume solution that allows for 1,920G of ethanol. However, fitting large scale true industrial processed material manufacturing equipment into a F1 (this is the most used building for processed material processing) building can be a puzzle with multiple control areas. This is step one for building an efficient processing lab desgin.
For the longest time, the common processing facility had non-fire rated processing booths with LGP processing because it wasn’t common a manufacturer exceeded their MAQ – or maximum allowed quantities of solvent. That was unless a fire marshal or AHJ (common term for the authority who is reviewing your building plans) who required it. This made having a fire rating an unnecessary expense as the structure was simply designed to be preventative. However, with the increase in solvent with the scale of processed material processing facilities fire walls are now common in large scale processing.
Prior to the innovation of a fire rated processing booth from C1D1 Labs, architects were using a box in a box style of design where the fire walls were designed around and over the top of the modular processing room. This was not only an increase in labor, material. Overall build cost…but it also left little room for chillers that needed to be piped closely to the equipment. As the little gap between the c1d1 or c1d2 processing booth. The fire wall would create a very hot environment for these processing heaters and chillers.
Now, you can order a fire rated processing booth from C1D1 that creates the solvent separation required by NFPA / IFC. Local building codes and also meets the electrical and mechanical requirements for a C1D1 or C1D2 processing room. Stop wasting time and money with inefficient designs and inexperienced designers. Contact our processed material processing lab design team today! However, this kind of money saving happens all the time for our clients.
