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Using intermediate bulk containers also known as IBC tanks, is one of the most common ways to store and transport large volumes of liquid, pastes and solids, but extracting and transferring the content out of these containers is not always easy, particularly when handling hazardous fluids such as acids and alkalis.

It is common for food processing plants to operate 24 hours a day to meet up with the high demand from supermarkets, machine failure due to overheating can be catastrophic and cause substantial delays, downtime and ultimately costs through loss of production. The advanced machinery can often require small and precise amounts of cooling to keep the temperature of the internal parts low enough to avoid overheating.

The chemicals pass through cell stacks and then through a membrane that divides the fluids but also exchanges the negative and positive ions causing a reaction. As vanadium redox batteries are large and bulky, they are typically installed at power plants or electrical grids for grid energy storage.

In this instance, the customer had purchased a cheap plastic hand pump online and attempted to transfer a highly viscous polycaprolactone polyol unsuccessfully. Commonly referred to as polycaprolactonetetraol, this fluid is used is the manufacture of sealant, adhesives, elastomers, reactive diluents, and acrylic coatings.