CHEMICAL PROCESS EVALUATION

Chemical Process Evaluation

Chemical Process Evaluation

Pilot plants are, by definition, prototypes established to help develop new processes. They will generally be needed to produce small samples for clinical trials or commercialization, or to allow safe and reliable large scale against the bench scale production.

There is a debate as to when the pilot work is needed and how much needs to be undertaken. A plan of the program of work by a team well done, with the involvement of chemical engineers and production personnel and chemists, will usually provide the appropriate response to the project. The best solution depends on the type of process considered.

Many clients come to us wanting to chemical engineering process design assistance after a certain level of due diligence to confirm that the treatment technology should work in real life. Sometimes the information available include well-executed pilot plant data to test the warmth and balance information materials, and all necessary physical and chemical properties fully defined. Unfortunately, the information the most typical consists of academic papers, test data, laboratory and perhaps some information pseudo pilot plant property information listen only on key products, at best. The client usually has one or more technical staff who are excellent to go with the idea of process innovation, but they lack the industrial process or experiment design information to put the system to operate effectively reality - that if we can help.

Process to evaluate this information, the examination of the pilot plant configuration, examine the client's technical staff, and often perform a literature search to determine at what stage of development and process is what information may be missing . Frequently we make preliminary calculations, design verification to ensure that data and information, as presented, is not likely to break any laws compelling physics or thermodynamics. Often there is insufficient information to proceed and we then suggest a way forward is to gather additional information to fill gaps or rethink the entire process if major flaws are discovered. We strongly encourage clients to use the pilot plant test work by the great majority of difficulties related to the process. Our process engineers have extensive experience with the pilot testing and scale drawings and models. Both operations and our design experience allow us to make many suggestions for improvements in critical areas such as construction materials, equipment configuration, operational security considerations, operation and maintenance, process controls, and more. These entries ...