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Overview
JCHEM Design is based in the North East of England, and offers consultancy in process evaluation and development, and in process modelling, based on over 35 years of experience in design and R&D in the chemical industry. JCHEM Design can help you evaluate or develop new or existing processes, model and understand the design and performance of your plant, and help you evaluate options for process routes, energy efficiency and effluent treatment.
Areas of Expertise
- Feasibility studies
- Process technology evaluation, process and reactor modelling
- Process development and optimization
- Selection & application of effluent treatment technologies
- Energy efficiency, heat and power integration
- Reactor design, specializing in heterogeneous catalysis
- Process design method development
- Analysis of research and plant operating data
- Development of process engineering models
- Process engineering design and modelling software
- Preliminary process engineering packages and equipment design
Recent Experience and Assignments
- Development of reactor heat transfer model for major catalyst company
- DEFRA project on Assessment of Biomass to Chemicals - specification and evaluation of technology routes for biomass gasification to chemicals
- Design of Organic Rankine Cycle demonstration unit for power recovery from low grade heat
- Report on chemicals production routes from natural gas for major process contracting company
- Application of Organic Rankine Cycle to large scale chemicals manufacture
- Options evaluation for debottlenecking of effluent treatment system for overseas petrochemicals company
- Process investigation of plant corrosion problem
- Options evaluation for gas scrubbing of distillery kiln exhaust gases
- Energy audit of gas processing plant for major oil and gas company
- Design of relief system for pilot scale test unit
Qualifications and Registrations
- Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Chartered Engineer
- Chartered Scientist
- Honours degree, B.Sc.(Eng) in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London
Brief Career Details
Independent process and chemical engineering consultant since 2005, and previously over 30 years process design and R&D experience in the chemical industry working for ICI, DuPont and INVISTA. Extensive experience in a wide range of process technologies, including heat and power systems, effluent treatment, reactor design and kinetic modelling, process modelling and process evaluation.
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