Company Overview

Generating Equipment and Chemical Engineering & Plant.

This focuses on a complete chemical process design, which establishes the sequence of chemical and physical operations; operating conditions; the duties, major specifications, and materials of construction of all process equipment; the general arrangement of equipment required to ensure the proper functioning of the plant; line sizes; and principal instrumentation. The process design is summarized by a process flowsheet, a material and energy balance, and a set of individual equipment specifications. Two main categories of process equipment are proprietary and custom-designed. Proprietary equipment is designed by the manufacturer to meet performance specifications made by the user. This category includes equipment with moving parts such as pumps, compressors, and drivers as well as cooling towers, dryers, filters, mixers, agitators, piping equipment, and valves, and even the structural aspects of heat exchangers, furnaces, and other equipment. Custom design is needed for many aspects of chemical reactors, most vessels, multistage separators such as fractionators, and other special equipment not amenable to complete standardization. Although the design of a chemical process plant is initiated by chemical engineers, its complete design and construction requires the inputs of other specialists: mechanical, structural, electrical, and instrumentation engineers; vessel and piping designers; and purchasing agents who know what may be available at attractive prices. On large projects all these activities are correlated by a project manager.