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Process Engineering Services
FRPD Process Engineering Services and Consulting
Free Radical Process Design (FRPD) develops the best solution for your needs, by implementing bleeding edge innovation whilst retaining the fundamentals of quality, safety, efficiency and control.
We design and streamline processes for the energy, environmental, chemical, food, mining and water sectors, managing projects from concept to commercialisation/completion. We provide anything from complete processing systems to individual products and components.
We have the experience and knowledge to support your project for a range of situations, whether it be batch or continuous processes; debottlenecking or pilot plant design and scale-up; energy and chemical usage optimization or quality improvement.
Process Engineering Services
FRDP is a specialist high technology project development and implementation company, with specific skill sets focused on technology process development from concept to product.
Dr Pretorius, the company founder, has a PhD in Chemical engineering, with specialization in computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, and fluorine.
Technology Development
- Technology surveys and evaluation
- Desktop studies
- Scoping and feasibility studies
- Financial analysis, financial modelling and sensitivity analysis
- Advanced research and development
- Technology commercialization and product development
- Market research, business development and business plans
Process Innovation
- Literature surveys
- Basic experimentation
- Problem identification
- Solution formulation
- Optimization and debottlenecking
- Chemical formulation, evaluation, and sourcing
Process Implementation
- Project management
- Equipment and hardware procurement
- Construction
- Specialization in fluorination systems
- Tube fitting, installation, and maintenance
- Owner's engineering
Engineer Design and Consulting
- Flow sheets (block flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, mechanical flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams)
- Pilot and demonstration plant design, construction, and commissioning
- Specialist reactor design
- Fluorination system design
- Design verification
- Mechanical concept design
- Mechanical layout drawings
- Detailed manufacturing drawings
- Heat exchange system design
- Gas ventilation system design
- Phase separation system design
- Electrowinning/electrolysis system design
- ISO50001:2018 Energy Management System design and implementation
Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics and Optimization
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Advisory and consulting services
- Integrated value chain optimization
- Process parameter monitoring and interpretation
- Resource and task optimization for projects
- Data reconciliation and material accounting
