ALKYLATION
- Sulfuric acid systems: planning studies, process design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, EPC follow-up, start-up
- HF: process design, troubleshooting and debottlenecking. Rapid Acid Transfer System (RATS) process design and dump time calculations.
- Safety and environmental control facilities
AMINE UNITS
- Screening Studies for Amine unit expansions and reconfigurations
- Process designs for grass roots and revamped Amine units
- Troubleshooting – system optimization, amine changes, amine degradation and heat stable salt control
ATMOSPHERIC DISTILLATION
- Screening Studies for APS expansions and crude run changes
- Process designs for grass roots and revamped APS units
- APS troubleshooting and start-up
- Improved heater operation for run length extension
COKE CALCINING
- Coke handling facilities, combustion systems, incinerators
- Environmental Control Facilities: SOx, NOx and PM
- System design (grass roots, expansions and revamps), start-up and, troubleshooting
DEASPHALTING
- Deasphalter Expansion: screening study including project economics, on-sites and off-sites impact
DELAYED COKING
- Fired heater tube failure troubleshooting, decoking operations consulting
- Coke cutting cycle time optimization/improvement
- Tower bottoms fouling assessment and mitigation
- Screening Study for Delayed Coker expansion
DEWAXING
- Dewaxer Expansion: screening study including project economics, on-sites and off-sites impacts
FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING
- Flue Gas scrubbing systems: technology development, process design, performance assessment, project engineering, detailed design, equipment specification and purchase, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
- FCCU: technology improvements (cyclones, feed zones, riser terminations), cold flow modeling, process design, operating guides, troubleshooting (high catalyst losses, poor circulation), downtime studies, start-up and turnaround support
- FCCU main fractionator: tray/packing design and rating, coke mitigation in desuperheating section. Process design, troubleshooting, start-up, operations
- Screening Studies for FCC expansions
- Process designs and detailed engineering follow-up for revamped FCC units
- FCC trouble shooting and start-up
- Electrostatic Precipitators: process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
- Cyclones (intern & external): process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
FLUID COKING
- Electrostatic Precipitators: process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
- Cyclones (intern & external): process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
GASIFICATION PETROLEUM COKE / COAL
- Planning studies, process design, existing equipment evaluations, start-up, troubleshooting
- Gas Clean-up: particulate & sulfur removal. Planning studies, technology evaluations, process design, vendor qualification, start-up, troubleshooting
HYDROCRACKING/HYDROTREATING
- Design Basis, process design, detailed engineering follow-up, troubleshooting, and startup support
- Fixed Bed reactor designs (high and low pressure units), recycle gas compression systems, absorbers, amine regeneration systems
- Cold eyes review of hydrotreating/hydrocracking systems, catalyst planning, unit performance monitoring.
- Training of process and operations personnel
LIGHT ENDS SYSTEMS
- Screening Studies for APS, FCC and Reformer light ends expansions
- Process designs for grass roots and revamped for APS, FCC and Reformer light ends units Light ends troubleshooting and startup
LUBES MANUFACTURING
- White Oils catalyst deactivation
- Additives manufacturing
- Lube oil blending, batch and JIT systems design and operations
- Lubes processing design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, quality improvement
REFORMING
- Design of proprietary high temperature catalytic reforming heaters
- Revamp designs for proprietary high temperature catalytic reforming heaters
- Process designs of grassroots Naphtha reformers
- Screening Studies for Naphtha Reforming expansions
SULFUR PLANT
- Tail gas clean-up unit. Process development and design
- Process design of tail gas cleanup unit revamp
SOUR WATER STRIPPER
- Screening Studies for SWS expansions
- Process designs for grass roots and revamped SWS units
VAC. DISTILLATION
- Screening Studies for VPS expansions
- Process designs for grass roots and revamped VPS units
- VPS trouble shooting and start-up
VISBREAKING
- Fired heater optimization studies to optimize yield / unit run length
- Furnace decoking operations consulting
- Start-up
- Fired heater coking predictive tools development
- Process design of grassroots Visbreaker
- Screening Studies for Visbreaker expansions