Chemical Industry

Recover valuable chemicals (acetic acid and furfural) from wastewater streams while reducing environmental risks, meeting strict compliance requirements, and minimizing excessive energy consumption.

Recover high-purity solvent from a feed containing 3–10% solids, while minimizing losses of solvent with solids and reducing high steam consumption. Create a reliable unit to recover maximum solvent for circularity.

A polymer producer needed to replace the existing binary column wastewater unit as it was not separating light and heavy alcohols from the wastewater efficiently and represented an environmental problem. The new system had to operate with enough flexibility to handle varying polymer production upstream.

The Customer would like to recover both ethyl acetate and toluene from a single waste that had variable compositions day-by-day. Very high yield (up to 98%) and purity (>99.8%) for both products were targeted. Furthermore, these products had a highly challenging water specification to fulfill (<200 ppm).  

Design a methanol–water distillation system for a green methanol plant powered only by renewable energy with no access to steam, while cutting down energy usage and aligning with the plant’s sustainability objectives.

Reduce high capital costs and large footprint of traditional phosphoric acid purification processes, which require multiple mixer-settlers or columns for extraction, scrubbing, and stripping steps.

Reduce phenol concentration in wastewater from 1,000 ppm to 300 ppm while reusing phenol to lower environmental impact and costs.

The client’s batch-based process produced phenol-rich wastewater with complex contaminants like formaldehyde and alcohols. This led to high variability, frequent manual adjustments, low efficiency, and reduced product quality.