Isomer provided full-discipline conceptual engineering for the installation of a new ferric chloride production process at an existing facility. The FEL3 effort began with reviewing empirical reaction data provided from the client’s laboratory and pilot scale testing and scaling that data to develop heat and material balances. The effort also included process hazard analysis (PHA) applying the Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) methodology, equipment datasheet, specification and RFQ development, laser scanning the existing site, 3D modeling of the new project scope, material takeoffs, constructability review of congested areas, and TIC estimating. The project includes demolition of existing reactor and oxidizer vessels, foundations, and all associated equipment and piping. The new installation scope includes all reactors, agitators, heat exchangers, settling tanks, filters, air scrubbers, pumps, blowers, silencers, foundations, pipe rack, piping, electrical, lighting, load cells for tank telemetry, Coriolis metering, rotary valves, and instrumentation necessary for railcar unloading and bulk storage of raw materials, pneumatic conveyance, exothermic reaction, acid venting, unreacted solids separation and recovery, and final product storage.
