Expertise to optimize process design and mitigate operational risk
Decades of experience in traditional power generation operations design and analysis to mitigate corrosion damage, safely store hazardous waste, enhance useful asset life, increase operational efficiency and effectively treat produced water and flue gases. Recent experience with geothermal power and energy storage include lithium battery recycling
OVERVIEW
Complex chemical behavior under harsh and hazardous conditions challenges safe and sustainable operations
The complexity of the chemistry, operating conditions and the sustainability requirements make the efficient and reliable operation of traditional power plants demanding. The safety and asset integrity requirements make nuclear power generation particularly challenging. Renewable energy sources like geothermal energy, energy storage and lithium battery, e-waste recycling are emerging technologies with immature processes that could benefit greatly from improved chemistry and process understanding.
APPLICATIONS
Mitigate operational risk and enhance asset integrity and sustainability
The ability to characterize complex chemistry behavior under a wide range of operating conditions coupled with ability to understand the process dynamics and deep domain knowledge of applications unlocks significant business value.
Performed turnkey simulation of the flue gas process and accurately identified the fate of several components like mercury and boron to accelerate research productivity and reduce laboratory experiments.
Developed thermophysical models and parameterized chemistry data to deliver rigorous and accurate chemistry insights that enhanced design effectiveness for a nuclear operator.
Performed turnkey simulation of the flue gas process and accurately identified the fate of several components like mercury and boron to accelerate research productivity and reduce laboratory experiments.
Developed thermophysical models and parameterized chemistry data to deliver rigorous and accurate chemistry insights that enhanced design effectiveness for a nuclear operator.
DIFFERENTIATION
Unique combination of expertise in chemistry, process simulation, applications engineering and industry knowledge
Only OLI delivers the blend of chemistry knowledge, deep understanding of applications, capability to perform mass, energy and species balance with an unparalleled software tool and trained experts to address complex process challenges in the power generation industry.
Standard consulting services
Services offerings with defined scope and deliverables
Health Check Services
One-day audit and assessment of health of designs, equipment and processes with recommendations to improve operations performance. Scope includes electrolyte chemistry behavior and phenomena, corrosion, fouling and scaling damage, water and air quality and hazardous waste disposal.
Design Consulting Services
Four-to-five week engagements to design optimal processes and materials of construction to overcome scaling, fouling and corrosion challenges, safely store and dispose hazardous materials, and eliminate toxins from water and emissions and increase sustainability.
Operations Consulting Services
Four-to-five week engagements to troubleshoot operations issues and develop recommendations to improve operations performance using integrity operating windows and chemistry insights to enhance asset integrity, operations efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Digital Transformation Services
Four-week projects to design, develop and implement capability to deliver automated insights on scaling, fouling, corrosion, water / wastewater and emissions treatment for research and engineering teams.
Six-to-twelve week projects to design, develop and deploy digital twin solutions for scaling, fouling, corrosion, water/wastewater treatment and hazardous waste management with operational data integration, operations dashboards and KPIs.
Custom Capabilities
Turnkey consulting projects to meet your unique needs
OLI Consultants use their expertise in thermophysical modeling, process simulation and industry specific domain expertise to create a custom services engagement to address your unique needs. The OLI team can develop custom thermodynamic models, create a private property database with your data, simulate your proprietary process and provide design insights or troubleshoot operations issues caused by corrosion, scaling, fouling or process operations in unsafe zones. No matter what your process design or operations challenge, OLI can assist you if it requires chemistry and process simulation expertise.
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