— Process Engineering

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— Process engineering

Are you always confident that Capabilities your process designs are safe to ABB has a very strong team of chemical engineers with a broad range of design and operational operate? experience across all sectors of the process industry. This expertise allows ABB to offer practical and pragmatic advice to process Are you sure that proposed operators and to turn recommendations into process changes will integrate beneficial solutions. We can support all phases of operations; new projects and modifications, fully with your existing processes supporting and improving existing operations and equipment? and the important area of improving the safety of operations.

Do you find it hard to find process In particular ABB offers: engineering support that is -- A deep operational understanding, based on flexible and considerate of your our heritage and approach -- A broad experience of continuous and batch valuable time? processes across all unit operations -- Specialist expertise in safety related aspects of ABB provides technical and engineering services process design and support to improve performance in the areas of -- The backup of a range of uniquely experienced compliance, operations and engineering to engineers from other functions to support our customers in the chemical, petrochemical, oil & process work - including rotating equipment, gas, power and pharmaceuticals industries fired equipment, vessels, control, electrical & worldwide. instrumental, integrity and safety specialists

Process engineering is at the heart of all process industry operations: delivering safe, efficient and environmentally sustainable operations. Good process engineers play a vital role in improving operations business performance and managing risk; supporting all parts of the operations lifecycle.

A good engineer needs a very broad experience to independently investigate, analyse and provide pragmatic solutions for everyday operational problems. Good engineers also need to provide safe and compliant designs for new projects and plant modifications. Increasingly they are difficult to find, train and develop. 3

Our experience Process safety and environmental engineering We work flexibly with our customers across a -- Pressure relief broad spectrum of process engineering tasks, -- Safety action close out either on a client’s site or in our offices. -- Process safety verification -- Flare assurance Some examples of the services we can offer can -- VOC abatement be explained in 4 broad areas: -- Safety case support -- Dispersion and radiation assessments Process development and design - existing and -- Dust explosion protection studies new plants -- Electrostatics hazard protection -- Inherent safety in design -- Gas and vapour explosion protection studies -- Concept studies -- Vent collection system safety -- Process option generation and screening -- Effluent and water treatment studies -- Scale up and risk evaluation -- Technology economic assessment Training and software -- Process control philosophy -- PEL -- Front End Engineering Design (FEED and FEEP) -- Pressure relief -- Detailed design -- Commissioning support and operating Benefits procedures Working with ABB’s process engineering support -- Process modelling brings a range of benefits including;

Process plant operational improvement and -- Ready access to operationally focussed support experienced engineers -- Plant investigations and analysis -- Link to specialists in other engineering -- Design assessment and 3rd party review disciplines -- De-bottlenecking studies and design -- Pragmatic approach -- Process modelling and optimisation -- Unparalleled experience in safety engineering -- Process control assessments -- Efficient and effective working supported by -- Energy and utilities assessments leading edge approaches and tools - including -- Troubleshooting ABB’s PEL software for fast and reliable process -- Site engineering support calculations -- Unit operations assessment

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