A PRESENTATION

ON
SIX MONTH
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING GAINED
AT
NASCO HOUSESHOLD PRODUCT COMPANY,
JOS
PLATEAU STATE
PRESENTED
TO
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
BY
JAPHET JORCYNTHA ECHON
U11CE1003
25TH APRIL 2016

OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION

SUMMARY OF WORK Experience

LINKAGE OF WORK EXPERIENCE TO THEORY

LINKAGE OF WORK EXPERIENCE TO FUTURE ACADEMICS

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCE GAINED

CONCLUSION

BRIEF HISTORY OF NASCO

Nasco group of company started in 1963 as northern fibre company with

the production of bags, carpet, rug in the central city jos of plateau state.

As effect of growth, the company emerged into branches which involve;

Nasco household, Nasco foods, Nasco pack, and Nasco fibre.

NASCO Household Products Limited was established in 1977, to

manufacture detergents, soaps and industrial chemicals like sulphonic
acid and glycerine.

NASCO Household Products Limited has an employment size of about

1,000 Skilled and unskilled. The detergent plant has an installed plant
capacity of 3 tonnes of detergent per hour and utilizes between 2-3
tonnes of detergent per hour.

NASCO HOUSHOLD
NASCO HOUSEHOLD CONSIST OF THREE SECTIONS SHOWN IN THE CHART
BELOW
NASCO HOUSEHOLD

DETERGENT
PLANT

SOAP PLANT

SULPHONATION
PLANT

DETERGENT PLANT

The detergent plant was where I carried out my industrial training

It has an installed plant capacity between 2.5 3 tonnes of detergent per

hour of storage tank.

The main function of the detergent plant is to produce dry detergent for
within the required density range for packaging and transportation with the
main objective of making profit

Detergent production is a neutralization process where acid (linear Alky

Benzene sulphonic acid) reacts with base (soda ash) and mixed together
with other fillers in a Crutcher to give detergent slurry as product. The slurry
is pumped to storage tank with the aid of seepex

(rotary) pump

units of the detergent plant

Detergent plant

Auxilliary unit
melting of silicate
Dissulution of blue
dye powder

Sulphonaton
section
Storage of
sulphonic acid
Batch slurry
preparation unit
Preparation of
slurry
Blowing section
Spray drying of
detergent slurry to
powder
Packaging unit
Packaging of dried
detergent

Summary of work experience

The detergent production process is listed below

mixing and filtering at the batch slurry preparation unit(BSP)

Fuel combustion at the hot air generation chamber

Spray drying, quality check, crystallizing and seperation at the blowing

unit

ABS and moisture determination at the quality control unit

Perfuming, addition of sparkles and density balance at the post mix unit

Packaging and weight check at the packaging line

The detergent plant

View of the batch slurry preparation

unit

Materials and Equipment

Materials

Sulphonic acid

Water

Dissolved silicate

Soda ash

Kaolin

STPP

Sulphate

Hypo

Blue dye

EQUIPMENTS

crutchers : mixing of raw material into slurry form

vibratory filter; separation of fine products from undissolved solid

seepex pump; it is a rotary pump that adds energy to the slurry by

sending it to the booster tank ( storage tank)

booster and aging vessel: used to store the produced detergent slurry

high pressure pump: it is a reciprocating pump that pumps slurry to

the spray dryer

spray dryer: consists of about 12 atomizer nozzles that transforms the

slurry into droplet form to creat last surface area for drying

EQUIPMENTS CONT

Conveyor belt: conveys the dried product through the airlift to the
cyclone

Cyclone: the cyclone separates the fine particles from dust and sends
the dust back to the spray dryer.

Crystallizer: gives the detergent powder a uniform shape and adds

density to the powder.

Storage tanks; for storage of dried detergent

Pakona. Its a machine use for packaging of detergent

Analytical balance; this is used for measuring density of dried product

Inside view of the spray dryer with

atomizer nozzles

Linkage of experience to theory

understanding of Heat and mass transfer

Convection heat transfer
knowledge Unit operations

Melting

Mixing

Filtration

Drying

Crystallization

sieving

Transport phenomena

Flow through pipe and airlift

LINKAGE OF EXPERIENCE TO FUTURE

ACADEMIC WORK

Saftey

Plant operation and control

Plant design

Management

Team work

Health

Professional knowledge gained

Waste management ( recycling)

Managerial skills

Process optimization

Problem solving

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT

The discharged air is environmentally friendly because clean air is

discharged from the cyclone into the atmosphere

CONCLUSION

The unit operations involve in detergent manufacturing is melting,

mixing, filteration, drying , sieving and packaging. Nasco household is a
reliable industry for practical experience and good training because it is
not small and it is not too large an industry.

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