Process engineering services
Conceptual engineering and feasibility studies
- Screening of overall chemical reactions and production pathways
- Alternatives identification
- Identification and evaluation of licensed technologies
- Block flow diagrams and major equipment identification
- Preliminary capital costs estimates
Basic engineering / FEED
- Process design basis
- Preliminary process flow diagrams (PFDs)
- Mass and energy balances
- Process modelling and process simulations
- Major equipment list with conditions of service
- Preliminary specifications of raw materials and utility requirements
- Process risk analysis
Detailed engineering
- Detailed specifications of raw materials, products and utilities
- Requirements to plant capacity / productivity, analysis of regulatory requirements
- Detailed mass and energy balances
- Final process flow diagrams (PFDs)
- Process descriptions
- Utility balances and utility flow diagrams
- Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
- Process control descriptions
- Process control diagrams
- Lists of equipment and instruments
- Process level specifications of equipment
- Specifications of instruments
- Material selection diagrams
- Hydraulic design and calculations
- Specifications of pipelines
- Relief device sizing and flare system design
- Equipment layout drawings
- General arrangement drawings
- 3D models of plants
- Tie-in list
- Development of process manuals and operating procedures
- Product sampling / testing plan
Operations support services
- Process evaluations, modernizations, troubleshooting, debottlenecking
- Scale-up, upgrade and performance increase of the production chain
- Process modeling and optimization using software tools
- Upgrade and modernization of heating / cooling systems
- Control system startup / tuning / optimization
- Assistance at commissioning and startup
- Development of operating procedures and process documentation
Process safety management
- Process hazard analysis (PHA)
- Resolving / engineering / implementing PHA recommendations
- Layer of protection analysis (LOPA)
- Safety integrity level (SIL) analysis
- Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP)
- Independent process safety audits
- Design of safety systems (interlocks, detection, suppression, utility and containment)
- Development of occupational safety programs
- Flare and relief systems design and evaluations
- Chemical compatibility analysis
Environment protection services
- Environmental risk management
- Evaluation of operating procedures for EPA or national environmental standards compliance
- Upgrade and modernization of exhaust air treatment systems
- Upgrade and modernization of waste and water treatment systems
| Industries | |
| Inorganic chemicals | Oil / gas processing and transportation |
| Hydrometalurgy and mineral processing | Petrochemical industry |
| Semiconductors and photovoltaics | Basic organic chemicals |
| Industrial solid waste recycling | Polymers and composite materials |
| Wastewater treatment | Fine organic synthesis and APIs |
| Exhaust air and exhaust gas cleaning | Extraction of components from biomass |
| Hydrogen energy | Thermal processing in food industry |
| Research and pilot plants | Biofuel and alternative energies |
| Process design Simulation of chemical reactions, thermal processes and mass transfer | |
| Absorption | Filtration |
| Adsorption | Flocculation |
| Biosynthesis | Flotation |
| Catalytic reactions | Fluidized bed |
| Chemical synthesis | Fractioning |
| Chromatography | Gas phase synthesis |
| Coking | Heat exchange |
| Cracking | Ion exchange |
| Crystallization | Membrane separation |
| Dissolution | Organic electrosynthesis |
| Distillation | Polymerization |
| Drying | Pyrolysis |
| Electrolysis | Rectification |
| Evaporation | Stripping |
| Extraction | Sedimentation |
| Fermentation | Solid phase synthesis |
| Equipment design Sizing, development and design of process equipment and production units |
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| Chemical reactors | Plug flow reactors |
| Columns and towers | Catalytic reactors |
| Distillation units | Bioreactors |
| Rectification units | Fermentation vessels |
| Adsorption units | Mixing vessels and storage tanks |
| Extraction units | Heat exchangers |
| Phase separators | Heating units |
| Evaporators | Cooling systems |
| Crystallizers | Ovens and furnaces |
| Vacuum and pressure filters | Scrubbers |
| Centrifuges | Cyclones |
| Dryers | Pumps and compressors |
| Ion exchange units | Pipelines and terminals |
| Process chromatography systems | Relief and safety valves |
