A- Process Technology and Industrial Engineering
B- Strategic Planning of Business
Agro-business (Veg oils, bio-Diesel, bio-gas), Fine chemical, Petroleum, Petro-chemical, Foods processing, Paints and Resins, Cosmetics, Mineral processing, Pharmaceutical, etc.
1-Conceptual and basic design of industrial projects.
Design of basic processes and operations for pilot and industrial plants.
Chemical reactors, dispersers and homogenizers, distillation and absorption columns, heat exchangers, condensers, evaporators, spry driers, etc.
Scale-up projects from pilot plants to industrial plants.
2-Equipment, Process and Plant Design.
Design, redesign and increase of operation capacity of process equipment, modular processes, storage, and complete industrial plants. Including design, calculus, and mathematic simulation of industrial plants operating with chemical processes, obtaining a precise vision of processes outputs, yielding. Etc.
3-Technical-economic Industrial optimization.
Operation and economic optimization of equipment, process and industrial plants. Mathematics simulation of industrial operations and processes of industrial plants in chemical, petro-chemical, petroleum, and gas areas.
4-Environmental Engineering
Environmental regulations. Contaminants assessment. Controlling and processing of gas emissions. Dispersion analysis from smokestacks and flares. Liquids and sour waters treatment. Processing of solids contaminants.
4-Materials, critical equipment and failure analysis.
Risk of failure analysis of critical equipment. Current life and life extension of critical components, equipment and plants. Accident failure analysis. Material and equipment failure analysis. Properties and structural analysis of materials (NMR, Fracture-mechanical analysis, spectrographics analysis, etc.) to define process and economical risk factors.
5-Industrial Risk Management.
Risk assessment. Security and process risk analysis in industrial and chemical plants, and new projects in chemical, petroleum and petro-chemical areas. Industrial Risk Management. Design to prevent fires, explosions and toxic release. Dispersion models. Industrial Vulnerability analysis. Industrial accident investigations.
6-Industrial Risk Prevention.
Industrial Risk Analysis and Prevention. Development of safety procedures. Industrial risk prevention by using sequential Layer of Protection Analysis, LOPA, and its subdivisions (Instrumental Interlocks, Sequential Instrumentation Levels, SIL, etc.). Protection of closed and pressure vessels. Risk and Hazard identification. Process Hazard Analysis, PHA. Hazard and Operation analysis, HAZOP. Quantitative Risk Assessment, QRA. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, FMEA. Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis, FMECA. Risk Analysis in life extension of equipment and industrial plants.
7-Scientific and technical assistance for developing industrial products and processes.
Assistance to companies, laboratories, technical institutions and industrial companies to develop industrial products and production processes. Coordination of joint-venture projects of industrial companies with universities, research institutes, public and private institutions, etc.
8-Technical and contracts Inspections.
Technical inspection of process equipment, packaged and modular units, turnkey plants, industrial products, commodities, etc. at the vendor place following the specified standards. These inspections could include Quality Assurance and Quality Control documentation, design control, process of fabrication control, upgrade process control and Quality Control tests. Inspections to accept the purchase or clear partial or total payments before shipping.
B- Strategic Planning of Business
1- Strategic analysis, Economic planning and Business viability
Development and support of business strategic planning, technical and economical viability of projects, profitability analysis, present value, etc.
2- Technical and Economic viability analysis of projects, fusions and acquisitions
Performing technical and economical viability analysis of projects. Support in studies and negotiations of fusions and acquisitions of companies on South-America, including due diligence, environmental liabilities, etc.
3- Assistance and planning development of culture transitions
Minimizing the cultural transition impact in companies’ fusion processes, proposition of customized administration and management models.
4-Decision analysis and new project developments
Analysis and management of industrial projects, including “phase in / phase out.”
5-Economic results maximization through operative optimization.
Economic and operative optimization of industrial process. Restructuring production processes and product lines. Introducing new technologies, innovative and competitive products and industrial processes.
6-Strategic vision to open and develop new markets
Support in the strategy to extend and open new markets. Analysis of local and international markets. Strategy of international negotiations.
7-Confidential support to search for strategic partners in South America
Search for strategic partners for possible actuations, fusions, technology transfer, etc. Also, searching for strategic partners to supply raw materials, commodities, long-term contracts, etc. Performing economical and strategic analysis of the alternatives.
8-Government relationship and cultural support
Support to understand the relationship with local government, to understand and avoid mistakes with the Contractual, Environmental, Labor, Unions, etc. legislation and rules in the countries of South America.
