{"id":3905,"date":"2022-06-23T06:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T06:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawkins.salttest.co\/?page_id=3905"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:59:06","slug":"chemical-process-engineering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/forensic-investigation\/engineering\/chemical-process-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical & Process Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering are essentially interchangeable terms, whether it is engineering chemistry to make a desired product on the industrial scale for example a pharmaceutical drug or a beer or simply process materials for some beneficial purpose for example in water treatment or renewable power generation.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The breadth of industries that employ engineers having the necessary relevant skillsets is enormous and such engineers often rise to manage plants, sites etc owing to their breadth of knowledge of an overall process and being able to interact on a knowledgeable bases with the other types of engineers needed to be successful in manufacturing.<\/p>

The Covid pandemic saw much global scientific research for workable vaccines. While the scientists and medical specialists identify and test vaccines, it is chemical engineers who then establish how to manufacture on the vast scales seen, consider how to optimise the chemical reactions required, how to pump, heat, cool, purify, separate the process materials to obtain the necessary pure and sterile product so that mechanical, electrical and other engineers can then make and build the equipment required.<\/p>

The effect of global warming means that the world of power and energy has been undergoing fundamental changes in recent years following the increasingly rapid global paradigm shift away from the \u2018traditional\u2019 large fossil fuel power stations and vehicles powered by oil and gas from refineries and gas plants towards the \u2018new world\u2019 of the use of renewable power and distributed or embedded generation.\u00a0 As new technologies are identified, process engineers work with other engineering specialties to introduce the new technology into industries to improve efficiency and emissions.\u00a0<\/p>

Large process plants are expensive and failures in such equipment and incidents during operation can easily lead to property damage costs into the $10m USDs. The lead time for replacement equipment can often be many months, and correspondingly the business interruption costs can often be extreme. Smaller plants, for example farm based anaerobic digestion plants, often have shorter lead times, but their engineering can be equally sophisticated. The root causes of such losses can be complex and can reside with the actions of the operator, the manufacturer, service provider or a combination.<\/p>

Whilst large equipment is often supplied and supported by well-known and established manufacturers, equipment associated with the new technologies can be sourced from any of several newly established organisations who may not have the experience or capability to be involved with failure investigations.\u00a0 The involvement of original manufacturers and operators as the sole expert participant in investigations can also sometimes be contentious and the addition of an independent voice can be vital in these cases, as well as being unfamiliar as the potential requirements for lawyer if required several years later.<\/p>

At Hawkins, we have engineers and scientists who come from design, consultancy and operational backgrounds across the full range of technologies, who can understand the full depth and breadth of the issues which may have led to a failure.\u00a0 Our personnel have experience of forensically investigating losses worldwide on a wide range of process plants and sites from traditional oil refineries and chemical and pharmaceutical plants through to breweries, food production, power and energy generation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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