Engineering and Consulting
CN1F partners with the Imperial Chemical Company to tackle problem concerning plant efficiency to reduce overall running cost.
15th November 2020
Our Clients
We have worked with a multitude of international countries spanning 5 different countries, each presenting us with problems no other consulting group could solve. Currently, we are working with the Imperial Chemical Company, a subsidiary of the prestigious Imperial College London, who specialise in the production of Iso-propyl alcohol.
The Problem
They approached us after noticing that the utility cost of dehydrating their products were astronomically high. As specialists in this area we decided to tackle this problem head on.
Imperial Chemical Company IPA Plant
The Imperial Chemical Company approached us to find and implement the best solution that would be the most efficient at exchanging heat for this process. Their previous IPA plant design (figure 1.1) was full of inefficiencies and costed the company a massive £1200000 per annum of the heating of steam and £130000 per annum on the cooling of water. We highlighted the problem posed to us in our design brief (figure 1.2).
Figure 1.1
Figure 1.2
Their Requirements, Our Commitment
For this project we communicated with the client and received a set of requirements we had to achieve. Since this design flaw is costing them thousands of pounds per day, our CN1F team must design and implement the most efficient solution before 5:30pm on the 12th of November 2020. Most importantly, the cost of the process must be decreased massively to ensure the company can make the most profit from this process.