Process Engineering Projects

Comprehensive process design package preparation for a new batch specialty organic chemical manufacturing process. Simulation Diagram

Provide subcontracted process design and engineering support for a specialty chemicals plant expansion project during the detail design phase.

Develop an FEL-2 level process design package for a pilot-plant to convert Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to hydrogen.

Develop preliminary process design information (FEL-1) for an electrical generation unit driven by a municipal solid waste (MSW) pyrolysis system.

Provide a process alternatives evaluation and detailed process design package for a flexible scrubber system to remove a variety of biomass derived pyrolysis oils.

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

Develop process design information and perform a detailed technical review including process alternatives evaluations of an existing pilot-scale process that converts waste plastics/fiber to an engineered fuel product for use in power plants.

Design of a separations system as part of a waste plastics to liquid fuels process development effort, as well as provide a process engineering review of the remainder of the process.

Perform a process alternatives evaluation and subsequent process design to convert syngas to pure hydrogen for a fuel cell research center.

Create a scope of work package for potential contractors for the development of construction bids for a demonstration size cellulosic ethanol plant.

Perform a third-party evaluation of a preliminary process design to determine the technical and economic viability of the facility prior to full scale plant design.

Provide design services for the development of a cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in support of a proposal to the Department of Energy. Simulation diagrams: Pulverizing and Delignification, Bioreactor Section

Provide process design and engineering services for a pilot-scale sugar cane to ethanol production facility by designing an ethanol purification system, developing upgrades for an existing lime slurry neutralization system, and generating a plant-wide mass balance and accompanying PFDs.

Perform preliminary process engineering and design for systems downstream of a biomass gasifier to render a synthetic natural gas suitable for use in standard natural gas-fired combined cycle turbines generating electricity.

Performed preliminary process designs, for both demonstration and commercial scale facilities, using the conversion of biomass derived from municipal solid waste (MSW) to synfuel through biomass gasification and subsequent novel Fischer-Tropsch conversion from syngas.

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.

Develop overall ethanol plant simulation models, spreadsheets, and visual basic programming tools to improve the efficiency and accuracy of process design packages for new plant designs and ultimately yield a complete process design package essentially “at the push of a button” - Video Demonstration

Assist a technology provider with the development of multiple process design packages, for ultimate client-specific plant designs, utilizing a comprehensive process simulation and tools developed by PROCESS.

Provide engineering support to develop a cleanup process for a biogas derived from cow manure and upgrade the biogas to both pipeline quality natural gas and engine fuel for electrical power generation.

Build a generic and flexible biodiesel plant process simulation to improve and streamline the creation of plant design documentation packages, and do so across a wide variety of input variables. View simulation diagrams for various sections of the process; Transesterification, Methyl Ester-Glycerine Separation, Methyl Ester Drying, and Glycerine Soap Splitting.

Process design and engineering services for a waterless biodiesel production facility based on technologies provided by others.

Develop a preliminary batch process design for a biodiesel producer to recover methanol from crude glycerin.

Develop a process design package for a process to convert waste plastics into a synthetic crude oil via pyrolysis.

Provide a feasibility study and subsequent process design for a novel gas cleaning process to upgrade municipal landfill biogas to both pipeline quality natural gas and engine fuel for electrical power generation.