Fatty Acid Plant Revamp
Publicada el 2026-07-29
Descripción de la oferta
I need a seasoned process engineer who lives and breathes oleochemicals to take full technical ownership of the fat-splitting / hydrolysis section of an existing plant upgrade. Your brief is to review our current operation, then design and optimise a revamped system that drives higher yield and reliability while fitting seamlessly into the wider refining train. The focus is squarely on fat splitting/hydrolysis, so I am looking for deep, hands-on experience with high-pressure hydrolysers, glycerine handling, thin-film or short-path vacuum distillation for product polish, and the fundamentals of vacuum systems sizing. You will be expected to: • Build a complete mass- and energy-balance from field data and laboratory characterisation of mixed acid-oil feedstock. • Select and size all critical equipment—reactors, heat exchangers, pumps, vacuum packages, separators—and lay them out for efficient maintenance access. • Define optimum operating conditions (pressure, temperature, residence time, steam rate, phase ratios) that maximise split completeness while protecting downstream distillation. • Validate or correct existing PFDs and walk the plant to verify every P&ID tie-in. • Provide concise, actionable recommendations on adsorptive bleaching and plate-and-frame filtration interfaces where required. Deliverables will include updated PFD/P&ID sets (PDF and native CAD), an equipment list with design duty and utility loads, a parameter optimisation report with supporting calculations, and a short slide deck summarising risks, assumptions and next steps for management sign-off. All calculations should be transparent—preferably Excel or Aspen-derived—so our in-house team can follow the logic. If you have 10+ years leading oleochemical or edible-oil-refining projects, a proven track record of troubleshooting hydrolysers, and the confidence to back your numbers in a design review, I’m keen to collaborate.
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