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Matches provides conceptual process and cost engineering services to the chemical,
energy, manufacturing and
metallurgical industries at very competitive rates. These services help customers evaluate alternatives during
the early stages when decisions significantly impact a project's value. Matches'
combination of process and cost evaluation focuses your strategy on the key elements of
research, process development design, construction, operation and remediation.
- New Product/Process R&D Study
- From laboratory or operating data, Matches prepares process flow diagrams, material and
energy balances, selects/sizes equipment and prepares operating instructions for
implementation of a pilot plant for either new product or new process development.
Matches also projects the design to various phases of commercial operation. This
typically includes capital and operating costs for several production rates. This
focuses development effort and decisions.
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- One of the test of developing a new technology is "How does it compare with
existing technology?" Is it simpler, better or lower cost? Matches
compares the complexity, risks, capital and operating costs with existing
technology. This comparison improves decisions by focusing on costly steps and value
to the customer.
This type of approach is well suited to solving environmental problem that often have
many solutions. What is the best technology? Matches' comparative analysis of
process, timing and costs analysis allows a better technology selection. If
required, Matches prepares a test program, monitors it and develops final conceptual
design. Select R&D to
request a conceptual design study.
- Evaluating Feed (Raw
Material) Purchases
- Feed cost and quality significantly impact a the
economics of operation. Knowing what to pay for
raw materials (Should you make your own?) and
determining penalties for impurities is critical to a long term raw material supply
agreement. Matches estimates the manufacturing cost of your raw materials from your
suppliers point of view. The estimate shows the impact of various operating factors
on your suppliers costs and give you insight into how inflation factors impact the
supplier's costs. In addition, Matches estimates the impact of feed quality on your
operations. This allows the development of penalties for feed impurities that
reflect their impact on your cost. Knowing these costs focuses the supply decisions
on "What is the most cost effective feed material?" and "How do I get
the best value?" With this information, you can negotiate a better
raw material purchase contract.
Select Feed to request a raw material study.
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- Process Optimization Study
- Change keeps an operating unit efficiency
and competitive. Matches provided technical
assistance to optimize process units often as a third
party. Typically, optimization requires a change that produces an increase
in value. Expenditures on changes can be justified and optimized.
Benchmarking can identify changes that create value.
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- Better instrumentation, better
control, process improvement, improved reactor performance,
equipment cleaning, or adjusted process parameters may result in improve raw material utilization,
reduced energy consumption, improved product quality, reduce pollution,
increase plant throughput, improved ease of operation, improved process
reliability, and improved safety.
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- Optimization requires maximization of the perceived
value less the cost of the change. Optimization studies confirm the cost of change, provide a
measure of benefits and justify change. An optimization study identifies the best
changes and keep a producer competitive. Select Optimum
to request a optimization study.
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