EAD's Process Engineering department offers a full line of services from design to operations support to analysis to full participation in design-build initiatives. Our background in operations and business add value to your bottom line through understanding of LEAN, 6-Sigma and design for manufacturability and maintenance, among others. 

Scope definition and design vary with the initial conditions of the project but they can include any the following:

Process Design:

• Heat and material balances
• Process Design Criteria
• Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)
• Utility Flow Diagrams
• Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
• Process Heat Integration (Pinch Analysis)
• Aspen Plus Process Modeling
• Boiler System Optimization

Equipment Design and Specification:

• Reactor vessel design
• Distillation and extraction vessel design
• Distillation internal design – trays, packing distributors
• Process vessel sizing and specification
• Heat exchanger specification
• Pump sizing and specification
• Line sizing

Process Control - in partnership with our sister company EAD Control Systems we can assist you in the following:

• Control valve sizing
• Pressure relief valve sizing and specification
• Instrumentation specification
• Control loop specifications
• Loop tuning
• Advanced control specification – feed forward, bias adjustments, cascade loops
• Control system assessment/improvement

Process Troubleshooting:

• Process equipment analysis and rating
• Process de-bottlenecking
• Process revamp/expansion studies

By utilizing EAD Engineering you receive:

• Extensive, Licensed Process Engineering
• Process design and operational experience in soy bean processing, bio-diesel, ethanol, petroleum refining, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
• Project experience includes new plant design, plant expansions, and plant efficiency projects.
• Extensive process safety experience including Process Safety Management (PSM), Process Hazards Analysis (PHA), and Management of Change (MOC).
• Regularly scheduled updates and status meetings.