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Process Intensification Audits
The key to successful Intensification!
Better Understanding = Better Intensification

Using our unique structured methodologies, we will rapidly screen your process for PI and identify the business benefits.

The audit starts with your business drivers - why might you want to intensify a process?

  • Will it open up opportunities for products which you cannot make in conventional equipment (e.g. because of safety considerations or because you cannot achieve the required product quality)?
  • Could it lead to yield improvements which will transform your process economics?
  • Will it help meet stated corporate demands for safer/cleaner/slicker/smarter processes?
  • Or will it make a step change in other aspects of process economics (e.g. energy use, capital cost, operating cost)?

The PI solution adopted will depend strongly on these drivers.

The next step will be to identify the process drivers - what conditions does the chemistry need to let it go at its optimum rate? And remember that PI can open up opportunities to operate under conditions that might not be obtainable in conventional equipment.

At this point it may turn out that insufficient is known about the process - which is where our Measurement Services come in.

Only when all this has been established are the options for the best piece of equipment considered - ensuring that the solution is 'business driven', not 'equipment driven'.

The outcome of the audit will vary, but typical deliverables will be:

  • outline process flow diagram
  • initial reactor selection and design
  • order of magnitude plant cost
  • recommendations for laboratory and/or pilot tests

 

   
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