Process Equipment Design
Safe, Efficient Solutions
Process equipment is equipment used in the processing of a raw material or product to make physical, chemical, thermal, or biological changes. Some examples of process equipment are distillation columns, reactors, pressure vessels, tanks, heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, valves and piping.
Equity engineers are known throughout the oil and gas and chemical industries as experts in the area of Process Equipment Design, and our Process Technology Group uses its extensive experience in unit operations as well as knowledge of industry codes and standards to design equipment for grass roots facilities and to support clients in retrofitting and expanding existing plants. Our engineers have worked in a variety of industries using the latest technologies to meet local, state, and federal codes while designing to recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices. Many of our engineers serve on various API and ASME committees and subcommittees that author industry codes and standards.
Our engineers put this experience to work for our clients, with safe, efficient solutions that provide:
- Overall cost savings
- Performance optimization
- Ease and safety of use – Ergonomic and layout considerations
- Maintenance-friendly design
Our Process Equipment Design services include:
- Debottlenecking Analysis - Identifies and eliminates process/production bottlenecks, enabling the user to quickly analyze the capacity of each piece of equipment as well as pointing out opportunities for increasing throughput with the minimum possible capital investment
- Grassroots Analysis - Solutions at the appraisal stage to provide information for management presentations and buy-in
- Front End Engineering Design (FEED) Study - From grassroots to retrofits, develops front end engineering design and economics studies with options analyses; these include initial sizing, process write-ups and options with financial cost/benefit
- Retrofit - Appraisals to help maintain and upgrade existing equipment as well as develop specifications for the purchasing new, auxiliary equipment
- Grassroots Design - Design of new plants from initial planning and development strategies, PFD and P&ID development, material and energy balances and equipment specifications through construction
- Troubleshooting - Custom solutions for problems with equipment and processes
- Third Party Inspection - Your representatives at manufacturers to make sure that equipment is built to design specifications, including supervision of QA/QC of construction and testing, witnessing and sign-off
Dr. Walter provides quality assurance/quality control oversight for a major refinery relief system documentation project. He reviews relief systems for adequacy, checks for deficiencies and verifies that protection from overpressure follows RAGAGEP. Part of that effort involves assisting in the development of design philosophies to promote consistency in the calculations. He has been responsible for pressure relief device system studies in chemical plant, refinery and pipeline transportation operations.
