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Evaluate plant process equipment using the client's Aspen simulation and determine how the equipment needed to be modified in order to produce a new final chemical product.
Manage the equipment design effort and complete equipment specification packages for a new specialty alcohol derivative plant to be built in India.
Computer process simulation and process design of a multi-tower HCl absorption system in India, designed to produce concentrated hydrochloric acid from two production offgas streams. Simulation Diagram
Provide separation column design evaluation and sizing to a technology provider for the removal of propylene glycol from a water vapor stream.
Evaluate options and specify appropriate equipment for pressure/vacuum relief and tank blanketing requirements for a 1,000,000 gallon o-xylene storage tank as part of a tank recommissioning project.
Support inventor in efforts to commercialize new refrigerant products by generating expected physical properties through the use of computer simulation models.

Design major portions of a new continuous organic acid production facility.

Provide complete equipment specification and rating packages for all of the distillation columns and scrubbing towers for a monomer production facility.

Provide an engineering evaluation to help resolve fouling issue in the mineral spirits recycling fractionation unit at a use oil recycling facility.
Provide an energy optimization study for a mineral spirits recycling facility.
Rate an existing petrochemical distillation tower train for use in a new service and design a new distillation system if the existing towers were found to be inadequate.
Perform a technical feasibility study, best technical alternatives evaluation, and a preliminary process design for the production of benzoic acid in a new greenfield plant.
Develop a preliminary process design for a grassroots benzoic acid production facility.
Troubleshoot and recommend improvements to increase throughput through an MSM distillation trane.
Prepare a process design package for a small, continuous hydrofluoric acid (HF) recovery system to reclaim valuable spent acid from the manufacturing process.
Provide a commercial sized process design expansion for an existing facility producing agricultural superabsorbent material that was operating on a demonstration scale.
Evaluate an existing demonstration scale distillation system containing solids in the feed stream and recommend changes that would eliminate capacity bottlenecks.
Identify and evaluate technical alternatives to cool batch reactors during power outage events and thereby prevent unwanted reportable emission events.

Perform an independent process engineering review of detail engineering design deliverables for a new unit at an explosives production facility.

Perform a process evaluation / risk assessment and develop recommended process modifications to support implementing the use of pure oxygen instead of air in a batch reaction process.
Develop a scaled-up process design for a high-value specialty batch chemical product.

Perform a technical feasibility study for improving the processes at an explosives manufacturing facility.

Evaluate the required duty load and potential alternatives for the replacement of a chilled water system at a batch specialty chemical manufacturing plant.
Provide process engineering support to evaluate the safe operating conditions and limits of a catalyst batch reaction production system.
Prepare a detailed process design package for a new propionic acid railcar unloading system.