Project Highlights

Methanol, DME & GTL from Natural Gas

DME, Methanol, and GTL plant design for large & small-scale application both on and off-shore. Designs are able to handle a wide variety of natural gas compositions. 

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Topside Engineering for Off-Shore & FPSO

Innovative process design for challenging FPSO applications including production of fuels & chemicals from off-shore gas fields.

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Polymer Reactor & Properties Design

Breakthrough improvements in product quality by integrating first principle polymer chemistry with reaction engineering analysis.

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Heavy Oil Upgrading

Extensive experience of key process technologies in heavy oil upgrading process development, including feasibility studies, technology selection, process development, and engineering. 

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Safe & Cost-Effective Offshore Piping Design

Short-term operation planning in the form of operational safety studies, such as predicting the behavior of topside processes under a variety of scenarios. 

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Economic & Technology Feasibilty Studies

Independent evaluations of economic, market, and technical feasibility, as well as expert advice on reducing scale-up risk and project implementation plans. 

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Process Experience

The extensive process experience enables RES to quickly analyze problems and assess the feasibility of a solution.

Petroleum Refining

  • Delayed coking process

  • Heavy oil process

  • Hydrocrackers

  • Hydrotreaters

  • Slurry reactor design

  • Solvent deasphalting process

New Energy & Power Systems

  • Biomass gasification

  • Cellulosic biomass fermentation

  • Coal gasification

  • Dimethyl Ether (DME) plant

  • GTL plant

  • Reformers, autothermal & steam

  • Li-Ion Battery

Chemicals

  • Alpha-olefin

  • Acrylic acid

  • Ammonia

  • Bisphenol A (BPA)

  • Carbon black

  • Ethylene furnace

  • Ethylene dichloride furnace

  • Gamma-Butyrolactone

  • Methanol plant

  • Nitric acid

  • Styrene

  • Propylene oxide

  • Vinyl chloride (VCM)

Polymers

  • Ion Exchange Resin

  • Polyolefins - LDPE, LLDPE, PP, ICP

  • Suspension & Emulsion PVC

  • Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate, Alcohol

  • Polystyrene - GPPS, SAN

  • Engineering Plastics - PET, PBT, PC

  • Super Absorbent Polymer

Project Experience

RES provides a complete range of research and engineering services. See project highlights for detailed description.

Project Feasibility Study & Management

  • Technology comparison and assessment

  • Project implementation

  • Feedstock procurement

  • Product market size and price

  • Risks and mitigation

Operations Support and Training

  • Training program for process engineers

  • Start-up/Shut-down procedure and verification

  • Operator training simulator

Control & Safety

  • Process control design & verification

  • Emergency shut-down procedure verification

Process Engineering

  • Process development

  • Process design

  • Process feasibility study

  • Process cost estimation

  • Process scale-up

  • Process optimization

Reactor Development

  • Reaction mechanism analysis

  • Reaction mechanism development

  • Reactor troubleshooting

  • Reactor development

  • Reactor scale-up

  • Reactor design

Catalyst

  • Catalyst development

  • Catalyst optimization