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Did you work with UOP Alkylation Unit Process-Piping, Reactor-Effluent, and Fractionator Flange Gaskets? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. UOP Alkylation Unit Process-Piping, Reactor-Effluent, and Fractionator Flange Gaskets, made by Universal Oil Products, sold from 1945 until 1985. Plaintiffs allegedly identified UOP alkylation units as sources of asbestos exposure through flange gaskets on reactor-effluent, acid-settler, and fractionator process piping during refinery turnarounds. Allegedly asbestos-containing compressed sheet and spiral-wound flange gaskets with asbestos filler at reactor-effluent piping, acid-settler flanges, isobutane recycle piping, and depropanizer/deisobutanizer fractionator flanges on UOP-licensed and UOP-supplied HF and sulfuric-acid alkylation units — cut and replaced by pipefitters and boilermakers during refinery turnaround work. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Pipefitters, Boilermakers, Insulators, and Millwrights. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around UOP Alkylation Unit Process-Piping, Reactor-Effluent, and Fractionator Flange Gaskets and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim against the manufacturer. This is educational information from an independent publisher — not a law firm — and is not legal advice.
Product Description
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Universal Oil Products Company (UOP) licensed, designed, and supplied alkylation units — both HF-acid and sulfuric-acid processes — to U.S. refineries across the mid-20th century, and that the flanged process piping around the reactor-effluent, acid-settler, isobutane recycle, and depropanizer/deisobutanizer fractionator sections was sealed with allegedly asbestos-containing compressed sheet gaskets and spiral-wound gaskets with asbestos filler material as originally specified and as replaced during turnarounds.
According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, a UOP alkylation unit turnaround required pipefitters to break dozens of process-piping flanges around the reactor, acid settler, and fractionator column bases, scrape the aged asbestos gasket material from the raised-face mating surfaces, and cut and install fresh CAF sheet or spiral-wound rings — with the scraping and cutting operations at the flange face allegedly releasing respirable asbestos fibers into the pipefitter’s breathing zone throughout the turnaround.
Workers Exposed
- Pipefitters breaking and remaking reactor-effluent, acid-settler, isobutane recycle, and fractionator process-piping flanges
- Boilermakers performing reactor, settler, and column internal repairs and manway gasket work
- Insulators stripping and re-applying process-piping and column insulation around flange work
- Millwrights and mechanics performing rotating-equipment work on alkylation-unit pumps and compressors
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