Process development, optimisation and plant troubleshooting
We have many years experience of working alongside engineers in developing and improving chemical processes, from laboratory optimisation programmes using statistical design techniques, to full analysis and mass balances at pilot plant level, up to trial planning and optimisation at the 500 cubic metres scale.
Contact our consultant chemist Dr E. H. Fowles on 01244-351644 (UK) for further information or
email edmund@efchemicalconsulting.co.uk.
How our consultancy can help with your chemical processes
- Advice on manufacturing routes to new products
- Process literature research to help short-cut the plant trial programme
- Advice on trial parameter setting, both at pilot plant and lab-scale, including experimental design, determination of operating window, and full analysis of trial results
- Organising chemical analyses, determining suitable test-houses, QC and chemical analysis methods and making analytical equipment purchase recommendations
- Calculation of full mass balances for batch and continuous processes
- Contamination and impurity identification with interpertation of results
- Characterisation of raw materials and advice on specifications
- Characterisation of powdered products, relationships to performance, and advice on drying and milling conditions
Product and process examples
- Iron oxide pigment and catalyst production using a combination of wet chemical precipitation, dissolution and oxidation processes
- Production of silicone emulsion and hydrophobic silica in oil antifoams
- Gasification routes to recover chemicals and energy from mixed inorganic and organic waste streams. Some of the work carried out on this project is given in the waste gasification case study