COMBUSTION
- Refinery fired heaters (furnaces) – process design, troubleshooting and start-up. Coking evaluations, debottlenecking studies, revamp and new burner process design and evaluation.
- Fired heaters for low btu gas combustion – process design, rating, revamps
- Low-NOx burner retrofits – Process and detailed design, installation, testing, start-up
- Air preheat systems – process design, troubleshooting, start-up
- Air emissions evaluations and permitting for refinery, chemical plant and utility fired heaters burning gas, oil and coal
ENERGY CONSERVATION
- Cogeneration: gas turbine/steam turbine/fired heater/waste heat boiler. Process design, start-up, troubleshooting and operation
- Alternative Fuels Studies – Orimulsion, coke, Low BTU Gas (LBG). Grass roots, revamps. Fuel systems, combustion equipment, heat transfer equipment and emissions control systems. Screening studies, economic evaluations, process design, start-up and troubleshooting
- Site energy surveys to evaluate energy usage and develop prioritized list of potential energy saving projects. Prepare process design for targeted energy savings projects.
- High efficiency fired heater design including state-of-the art air preheater and process heat integration schemes
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
- Air emission control systems evaluations and selections
- FCCU Wet Scrubbing Systems – process design, troubleshooting, start-up
- Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP’s) (all processes) – process design, cost estimating, technology evaluation/assessment, bid evaluation, start-up, troubleshooting, performance evaluations, performance improvement
- Cyclone Systems (all processes) – process design, cost estimating, technology evaluation/assessment, bid evaluation, troubleshooting, performance evaluation, performance improvement, start-up
- Flue Gas Desulfurization (Wet, Dry, Throw Away, Regenerative)– process design, cost estimating, technology evaluation/assessment, bid evaluation
- Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Systems – process design, cost estimating, technical evaluation/assessment, bid evaluation, start-up, troubleshooting, performance evaluation and improvement
- Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) Systems – process design, cost estimating, technical evaluation/assessment, bid evaluation, start-up, troubleshooting, performance evaluation and improvement
- Fabric Filters [reverse air and pulse jet] troubleshooting, technology evaluation/assessment, commercial project development and project engineering
- Carbon adsorption system applications and evaluations
- Cryogenic (refrigeration) system evaluations
- Absorption system evaluations
- Condensation systems evaluations
FLUID MECHANICS
- Solid – Liquid slurry system design, troubleshooting
- Liquid – Gas system design and troubleshooting
- Liquid, Gas and Slurry distribution systems
- Piping network analysis
FLUID SOLIDS
- Shale retort systems. Process design, technology development Spent shale cooling system development, design and patent
- FCCU performance/troubleshooting/ cold flow modeling: standpipe pressure buildup, regenerator entrainment, dilute phase conveying, regenerator air distribution, catalyst/vapor separation, stripping
- FCCU design: main vessels, risers, standpipes, feed zones and injectors, cyclones, air spargers/grids, slide valves, stack valves, tertiary cyclone systems
- Particulate morphology
FRACTIONATION
- FCCU main fractionator: tray/packing design and rating, coke mitigation in desuperheating section. Process design, internals detailing, troubleshooting, start-up, operations
- Simulation, design, debottlenecking and troubleshooting of ethylene plant primary fractionators, refinery and chemical plant light ends towers and amine and aqueous towers
- Super-fractionator designs for polymer grade propylene and separation of isobutylene from butane-2
HEAT TRANSFER
- Solids heating and cooling. Fluid bed conveyors, pneumatic conveyor systems. Patents on several devices for solids heating and cooling. Process design, operation, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, start-up
- Simulation, design, debottlenecking and troubleshooting of heat exchanger networks and individual heat exchanger services
- Design and operation studies for enhanced surface exchangers, plate exchangers, spiral exchangers, and high flux tubes
REACTION SYSTEMS
- Extrusion based system for manufacture of organo-silane functionalized polymers. Process development, pilot scale testing, planning studies, process design
- Design of CSTR and fixed bed reactors
RHEOLOGY
- Developed laboratory test methodologies for assessing the behavior of dry (devolatilized) polymers, wet polymers and polymer solutions, at plant processing conditions
- Extrusion processing specialist: reactive extrusion, dewatering, drying, direct devolatilization, dissolving (solventizing), melting
SEPARATIONS
- Developed proprietary models for evaluating liquid – gas separation capabilities of structured packing CaCl2 Drier upgrade/expansion for C4 Unit: process engineering & design
WASTE WATER TREATMENT
- Assessment of existing facilities: to handle increased loadings; to meet more stringent discharge requirements; alternative / modified operating conditions; debottlenecking; operating cost reduction; troubleshooting Process definition/design of new grass roots treatment facilities
- Heavy metals removal and recovery
- Evaluation of emerging technologies
WATER TREATMENT
- Water softening: process design, planning
- Clarification: process design, planning, troubleshooting.
- RO systems: planning, process design and troubleshooting