PROCESS AND FACILITY DESIGN

In today's increasingly competitive and regulated business environment, managers of operating facilities must respond to a growing array of demands to achieve long-term profitability. Economic demands include:

• Reduce costs while improving quality
• Maintain efficiency while dealing with increased regulation and rapid changes in requirements and technology
• Minimize capital investment while improving productivity by streamlining the production process and reducing downtime.

All of these pressures must be met with due concern for the environment and the safety of workers and the community.

Parsons provides the entire package of facility layout, materials handling, storage and warehousing, and facility location for industrial and service facilities. We use a variety of computer software packages to aid in layout, material handling equipment selection, material flow improvement, and supply chain design.

Our experience has included broad facility modernizations and upgrades, expansions, new plants and energy-related projects, as well as smaller research, automation, controls upgrade, and systems integration. Parsons process and facility design expertise includes:

• Facility planning
• Facility site location
• Facility layout and design
• Structural design
• Material handling design
• Process design
• Front-end engineering
• Conceptual studies
• Process review studies
• Operational review studies

Process simulation capabilities include both steady-state and dynamic conditions, continuous and batch operations, linear programming, and phase and chemical equilibrium process. We develop heat and material balances, process configuration, equipment sizing, and economic trade-off studies an efficient and timely fashion. Our experience includes broad facility modernizations and upgrades, expansions, new plants and energy-related projects, as well as smaller research, automation, controls upgrade, and systems integration.

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