Process Engineering Projects

Perform a debottlenecking study of an aging Gas Dehydration Unit (GDU) treating natural gas from a declining gas field.

Develop a design for a skid mounted distillation column for the separation of glycol/water mixtures resulting from commercial airline deicing operations.

Provide process design services in support of a new high-purity titanium tetrachloride (TiCl₄TICL4) distillation train.

Investigate, simulate, and redesign a distillation train for series operation to purify titanium tetrachloride (TiCl₄TICL4) and remove unwanted color bodies.

Perform a revamp study of a topping refinery that would enable the production of naphtha, diesel, and vacuum gas oil.

Provide process engineering evaluation to develop process alternatives to improve refinery performance in a number of units.

Evaluate and recommend modifications to reboiler heat exchangers associated with the refinery’s stabilization and splitter distillation columns.

Design a specialty jet fuel distillation column.

Computer process simulations and operational evaluations of a new acquisition hydrocarbon light ends fractionation system. Simulation Diagram

Evaluate a new fractionation system for the potential production of a different light end hydrocarbon product, specifically cyclopentane.

Evaluate the production of alternate high purity light end hydrocarbon products, using a new fractionation system, to help fill excess process unit capacity.

Evaluate multiple technologies, as part of a new antimony refining facility, to regenerate a hydrochloric acid leaching stream from a dilute hydrogen chloride gas stream and to perform a process design of the selected regeneration technology. Simulation Diagram

Process design of a mobile skid mounted ethanol recovery process to recover ethanol from a winery waste stream.

Provide proposal level process engineering design support to a process equipment skid manufacturer for a distillation system designed to separate ethylene glycol and water.

Evaluate, rate, and recommend changes for all heat exchangers within a unit of an existing chemical production facility as part of a unit revamp project.

Evaluation of xylene recovery distillation columns for improving operating performance.

Prepare a process design package for a small, continuous hydrofluoric acid (HF) recovery system to reclaim valuable spent acid from the manufacturing process.

Evaluate an existing demonstration scale distillation system containing solids in the feed stream and recommend changes that would eliminate capacity bottlenecks.

Provide process engineering assistance to determine the optimum processing parameters for the neutralization of a chemical mixture.

Perform a technical evaluation and debottlenecking study of an ethanol plant's #1 beer distillation column.

Debottleneck the distillation section of a U.S. based biodiesel fuel production plant.

Provide a process design for a distillation train to produce ethanol, from a waste sugar fermentation facility, that was height restricted and had solids materials in the feed stream.

Troubleshoot beer columns at an operating ethanol plant and identify design and/or operational changes to improve the operation.