Process Engineering
Overview
Industrial process engineering is getting more complex with drivers for higher efficiencies, higher productivity, feedstock flexibility, reduced emissions, improved supply chains, cradle-to-grave analysis, improved environmental profiles, and lower total costs of ownership. Today’s process engineering has to go beyond the traditional methods, use a more holistic systems approach, and consider more cross-functional considerations than ever before.
Our services
Process Engineering Services for Oil & Gas and Clean Energy
Systems covered:
- Process simulation and analysis (Hysys, Aspen, VMGSim)
- Steady-state, dynamic, start-up, shutdown, upsets
- Process flow diagrams (PFDs)
- Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)
- Controls specifications and process control diagrams
- Safety analysis (HAZOP, PHA)
- Equipment specifications (process level) and sizing.
- Debottlenecking, energy conservation, and production upgrade studies with legacy plants
- Pressure relief systems and flare systems
- Process commissioning and startup assistance
- Emissions analysis
- Third party evaluations of process designs, plant investment due diligence
- Measurement and instrumentation specification
- Conceptual reactor, tower, heat exchanger design
Systems covered:
- Natural gas steam reforming
- Natural gas processing including gas compression, sulfur and carbon dioxide removal (acid gas treatment), hydrodesulfurization, gas/liquid separation (inlet separation), and dehydration
- Micro-LNG plants including liquefaction
- Syngas processing including shift reaction, autothermal reforming, pre-reforming, partial oxidation, gasification, and conversion to liquid fuels (Fischer-Tropsch, etc.)
- Combustion including burners, thermal oxidizers, hydrogen, catalytic combustors
- Biogas/biofuels processing, including water wash, pressure swing adsorption, thermochemical conversion, gas clean-up, methanol distillation recovery
- Hydrogen production, storage, conversion, compression, combustion, safety, filling stations
- Compact heat exchangers and reactors
- Vaporizers and spray humidifiers
- Adsorbent beds
- Absorbers and distillation columns
- Insulation systems
- Components include industrial (large, stationary) or transportation (lightweight, compact, serialized)
- Catalyst systems include pellets or monoliths
- Fuel cells
- Cryogenic systems
Example projects and case studies from our former experiences
- 250 kW Natural gas steam reforming fuel cell powerplant with dual stage turbochargers, 1997
- 5 kW Methanol steam reforming fuel cell auxiliary power unit, 2002
- 60,000 usgpd Micro LNG liquefaction plant process design, AltaGas, 2014
- Landfill gas clean up system for fuel cell plant including cryogenic siloxane removal, Microsoft/Quadrogen, 2014
Our example projects and case studies
- Biogas upgrader for pipeline renewable natural gas, 10,000 scfm, including depressurization analysis, Progressive Wastes, 2015
- Landfill gas biogas upgrader process reverse engineering, FortisBC, 2015
- Methanol distillation tower process design and sizing for biodiesel plant, Community Fuels, 2016