PROCESS ENGINEERING PROJECTS

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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.
Perform dynamic process simulations for new products being transitioned from laboratory development to full scale batch chemical production.
Develop both preliminary and final process design information for a significant plant expansion project for a fine chemicals and specialty catalyst manufacturer.
Identify process changes to reduce cycle times of a silica based batch chemical reaction process and develop process engineering documentation to facilitate the implementation of these improvements.
Develop a preliminary (FEL-1) process design package for a new colloidal silica plant based on operating data from an existing plant.
Perform a feasibility study, process alternatives evaluation, and preliminary process design for converting an existing batch operation to a continuous process for a manufacturer of oxyalkylate resins.

Perform a PHA of various acids systems at an ammunitions production facility.

Perform a PHA of a solvent recovery unit at an ammunitions production facility.

PHA of an ammunitions plant hammer mill and dust collection system.

Evaluate the addition of a new feed stream source to an existing thermal oxidizer followed by development of a process design package for the modifications at an industrial chemical manufacturing R&D facility.
Provide detail process engineering support for the development of a process design package for improving a micro silica batch manufacturing process.