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The Role of a Chemical Process and Plant Design Consultant

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In today’s rapidly evolving chemical industry, the role of a Chemical Process and Plant Design Consultant has become more critical than ever. Whether it’s a greenfield project, plant expansion, process revamp, or digital transformation, an experienced consultant ensures that the design is efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable. With over 25 years of experience in chemical plant design, process optimization, and […]

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Packed Column Diameter Estimation

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In our plants we use structured packed columns for gas-liquid operations, such as distillation, absorption, stripping, degassing, etc. As a process engineer we are required to estimate the packed column diameter during design calculation. Or, many times we need to check the maximum possible throughput capacity from the existing installed column. Apart from this sometimes

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Six Sigma Methodology – Define Phase

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Six Sigma is a statistical tool for process improvement. This is a step-by-step systematic approach to solve the problems and we know it by DMAIC methodology also. In Six Sigma we convert real life problems into statistical problems. After converting we use statistical tools to find the statistical solutions for that problem. Afterwards, these statistical

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Heat Pump in Distillation Column

Process Engineering / K Mehra

In Chemical Process Industries (CPI), distillation columns are the main steam consumers. And, as a process engineer, we are continuously keep on working to minimize the steam consumption norm. So that we can reduce overall variable cost of the product. Therefore, to achieve this objective we can work upon various improvement initiatives. These various techniques

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Vapour Absorption Refrigeration Cycle in VAHP

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The chilled water and chilled brine are cold utilities, which we use to remove heat at lower temperature levels than cooling water. We use these utilities in our chemical process industries (CPI) to remove heat from air-conditioning system, process equipment and fluid streams. From cooling water at supply temperature 32 0C, we can achieve cooling

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Automation and Controls for Batch Reactor

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You can see in many processes; we use thermic fluid to maintain the reaction temperature. In reactor jacket or coil thermic fluid circulates to maintain required temperature conditions. For, efficient reactor operation automation and controls of the reactor is very important. Moreover, same thermic fluid system you can use for reactor heating & cooling requirements

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Fired Heater Process Calculations and Automation

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In chemical process industries we use Fired Heater or Furnace to supply the heat at higher temperature levels. When I say high level, it means around greater than 500 0C. As we know other sources of heat supply are boiler, thermic fluid heater and molten salt heating systems. Out of these boiler and thermic fluid

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Data Analysis in Process Improvement

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This article is to understand the data analysis in chemical process improvement in chemical process industries. As, we all have witnessed industrial development from manual operation to fully automated controlled one. Plant operations and controls have gone under tremendous transformation since then. Mainly, we can categorize this transformation in four major heads as, Analog and

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