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Thought provoking articles about our engineering experiences, important issues facing the process plant industry worldwide, and other useful topics that we hope you find of interest. Let us know if there is an issue you would like us to cover.
Fitting a Grease Plant into a Light Industrial Unit
One of the biggest problems with putting a grease plant into a light industrial unit is the amount of headroom available. Historically, run major companies fitted grease manufacturing plants in
Which Grease Should You Manufacture First?
Contrary to intuition, you need simpler and thus cheaper equipment to manufacture the more expensive complex greases, than cheaper mono-soap greases. Calcium grease, the cheapest type, foams badly during saponification
Process Upgrading or Changing – Can it Cause Unexpected Changes to the Product?
Sometimes it is necessary to change processes to improve productivity. However, there is a concern that the finished product may look different to the customer, even if the performance is
Automating process plants – common mistakes and how to avoid them
The Fears “Can we use this?”, asked the client when pointing to the two grease kettles during a recent commissioning visit, “without using this?”, when pointing to the two control
What can possibly go wrong?
You can anticipate most technical and financial problems that could arise in an engineering project, but there can also be the totally unexpected ones that trip you up later. Here
Commissioning visits – what we have learnt
If we were asked; “What is a typical commissioning visit like?”, we would be tempted to reply; “There is no such thing as a typical commissioning visit”. Although there are
Change of service
They say “You Live and Learn” and for us what we have learnt in recent years of managing grease manufacturing plant projects, is that the client’s major issue is often