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Once an industrial process unit is identified as a potential for energy efficiency improvement, the following project steps are required to implement the project.

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Chemical engineering in one of the most important professions, because chemical engineers are responsible for energy, clean air, safe drinking water and food, drug manufacturing and other consumers products. Chemical engineers possess the right set of knowledge to bring innovations, new solutions, applications and deliver different kinds of projects.

Composite curves are a synonym for the application of pinch technology and improvement of the unit's energy efficiency. Learning how to read them can be of great value in estimating the energy efficiency level of the current plant design.

Today, using the process data in a simple and practical way should be the primary knowledge of every chemical engineer. 

Being able to recognize and use all the potential hidden in the process data is of immense importance in order to be able to operate the process in a more stable, efficient, and optimized way.

Every optimization project requires development of benefit analysis or a benefit study to estimate the payback period of a project before making investment decisions. What are essential steps in performing a good benefit study?

Has chemical engineering lost its strive to support, praise and value creativity?
Has the constant struggle to fulfill monthly, quatarly, yearly sales plans, reduce costs and stick to strict structure totally wiped out the growth potential that rises out of creativity?
How to work on fostering more creativity to make great ideas a reality? We must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and learn on a daily basis.

Putting together a compelling case study is one of the most powerful strategies for attracting future customers and proving your credibility. Developing and presenting a good case study is very often one of the key steps in selling your product, engineering knowledge or service. Engineering case studies are often a challenge because they require a good balance between values and risks, shared information and estimation of costs and benefits.

Maintaining good performance of the heat exchanger networks is a major part of an energy efficiency program and pinch analysis is a brilliant technique to do that because it is both simple and practical. However, there are some questions that very often pop-up when talking about pinch analysis. 

A successful simulation project is one that delivers useful information or a result at the appropriate time to support a meaningful decision or a task. However, achieving that is not always an easy task. A simulation project is much more than building a model, so the skills that are required go well beyond knowing a particular simulation tool. What are most important engineering habits when building a robust and reliable process models?

The need for sustainable development of our society that balances social, environmental and economic aspects is bringing major developments in chemical and processing industry. Priorities are slowly but surely changing, new products and technologies are being developed, old technologies are being revised and new perspectives for existing processes are being defined.