Process Industry Case Studies

BHR Group serves process industries world-wide with all of its services. Projects range from a few days consultancy advice to major research projects or key design and retrofit projects.  Contact us for more details or to discuss your problem or opportunity

Chemicals

• Investigation into excessive bearing wear and mixing study of polymerisation process reduced plant downtime
• Identification of reactor design options including Process Intensification
• Scale model tests of gas mass transfer using self-inducing and sparged systems
• Design and process engineering service for client through design, pilot plant and implementation steps of a gas-liquid reactor
• Investigation of geometry and flow parameters of a gas-liquid ejector reactor

Fine Chemicals

• Identification of process conditions to optimise both extraction and separation while washing two immiscible fluids
• Audit of emulsion polymerisation process to improve plant design
• Audit and CFD simulation of  reactor followed by design of new process and CFD simulation of heat transfer capability

Nuclear Industry

• Design study of techniques suitable for sludge removal from nuclear waste ponds
• Rheology and design tests for minimum suspension velocity for design of a waste retrieval process
• Jet mixing design for sludge tank re-circulation

Petrochemical

• CFD study of catalyst bed flow distribution for gas phase dehydrogenation
• Development of 1/3 scale novel polymerisation reactor to investigate mixing efficiency and develop process
• Experimental sensitivity analysis of drop size distribution to process parameters for liquid liquid mass transfer

Pharmaceutical

• 2 year on-site consultancy to develop new plant and process
• CFD modelling of flow patterns to support product consistency improvement project for inhalation drug manufacture
• Process audit and trouble-shooting to solve agricultural vaccine production problems