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Provide a process engineering evaluation of an operating petroleum refinery as a major part of due diligence for an investment company prior to potential plant acquisition.
Provide a wide variety of on-site process engineering support for a major global refiner.
Evaluate a refinery wide cooling water system in a challenging desert like environment to identify areas for improvement and recommend corrective measures.
Process design for modifying one of the crude unit’s preheat trains in order to achieve the optimum temperature and control for the desalter.
Evaluate process alternatives to reduce benzene concentrations in the gasoline produced by a petroleum refinery in order to bring operations in compliance with the Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT) regulations.
Conduct a debottlenecking study of two reformer units and provide viable options for improvements based on the results of technical and economic evaluations.
Computer process simulation and preliminary process design of a Vacuum Distillation Unit for preliminary capital budget use. Simulation Diagram
Provide troubleshooting and detailed column internals analysis for a poor performing fluid catalytic cracking main fractionator at a major U.S. petroleum refinery.
Provide a process simulation and determine the optimum column operating conditions for a hydrotreated vacuum oil stripper at a petroleum refinery.
Perform a preliminary engineering study for debottlenecking a petroleum refinery crude distillation unit and provide the process design for the improved unit configuration. Simulation Diagram
Develop a process simulation tool to assist refinery operations in maximizing the profitability of their atmospheric crude distillation tower.
Provide process engineering support to a process equipment design/fabrication firm by developing a detailed process design (FEL-3 level) package for a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Unit in a Cumene production process.
Perform a flare header and flare system capacity evaluation study at a petrochemical manufacturing complex.
Perform a process technology review and evaluation for processes to convert coal to chemicals via gasification.
Perform a process troubleshooting and evaluation study of a lab scale process that was producing undesirable properties in a polymeric plasticizer product.
Calculate sizing and recommend appropriate relief devices for a tank in olefin service.
Selection of Safety Integrity Levels (SILs) within a refining or petrochemical process Safety Instrumented System (SIS). Incorporation of these SILs into the clients PSM/RMP program.
Assist a PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) manufacturer by designing an optimized ethanol recover unit as part of an existing PTFE drying process.
Evaluate a new fractionation system for the potential production of a different light end hydrocarbon product, specifically cyclopentane.
Perform a process alternatives evaluation for the purification of an existing normal hexane product stream to meet higher purity product specifications.
Evaluate the production of alternate high purity light end hydrocarbon products, using a new fractionation system, to help fill excess process unit capacity.
Perform a technical evaluation of various processing options to purify an existing cyclopentane product into a much higher purity cyclopentane product.
Provide process engineering support for the design of a pilot-scale nuclear waste processing test unit.
Develop conceptual process design information for a challenging cooling water system in support of a fusion energy research program.
Provide on-site staff augmentation project engineering support at a nuclear materials processing facility.