Engineering & Design Services
The Process and Mechanical Engineers at Principal Technology have decades of experience in process design, equipment design, and troubleshooting for industrial, manufacturing, petroleum, and energy clients. We can help design your process and equipment, rate existing units, troubleshoot and optimize current operations, and train your operators. Whether it is bringing to life an idea from the back of a napkin or expanding existing units, our engineers can find the right solution for your process.
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Our engineers have the experience to take your initial ideas and turn them into practical equipment and process designs. We can help size a new pump or design a new processing unit. We can turn troublesome existing units into robust, state-of-the-art facilities with well-trained operators.
Our projects range from small pump and exchanger systems to large-scale greenfield processing units with advanced controls. We know that the best design is simple and easy for your operations staff to run it as intended.
We help our clients by finding the root cause of operation problems and determining the right process or equipment modifications that are simple and controllable.
Being a trusted advisor to our clients is a cornerstone of our mission to provide valued engineering solutions. We cannot solve every problem, but our commitment to our clients is to understand their unique challenges and deliver independent technical advice and support.
learn morePlanning to expand existing facilities, add a new modular process unit, or install skid-mounted packaged equipment comes with unique design challenges... Meeting these challenges while providing ergonomic access for operations and equipment maintenance through the entire operating life of a project is where our designers earn their pay.
learn moreAdvanced instrumentation and control system design is a critical element of our mission to provide efficient engineering solutions.
learn moreThe electrical engineers at Principal Technology have years of experience working on heavy commercial, industrial, and manufacturing projects. Our electrical engineers can provide engineering expertise to support your project design, permitting, construction, and operations, from new installations and facility expansions to performance, power, and safety studies.
learn moreAs an engineer or designer who likes to see your work come to life, Prototype and Proof-of-Concept projects are just plain fun! PTI's multiple discipline-technical expertise and professional experience have afforded us the pleasure of working on numerous prototype and proof-of-concept development projects.
learn moreFrom process performance evaluation to modernizing legacy equipment, our process, controls, and electrical engineers help clients improve process system performance, extend the working life of your equipment assets, and maintain compliance with current safety standards.
learn moreTeach, Show, Do, Review, and Apply... (We didn't invent it, but we use it). Meaningful training is the cornerstone of our successful projects. Whether it is a basic control system that is new to your operations, a critical process safety or combustion management system, or a large operating plant... Principal Technology engineers are committed to the successful operation of any system we provide our customers - for the life of the equipment!
learn morePrincipal Technology has 25 years of experience designing and building systems to remove and recover sulfur from process streams. Our Sulfur portfolio includes all units in the Sulfur Block - Amine Treating and Regeneration, Sour Water Strippers, Sulfur Recovery, Tail Gas Treating, Thermal Oxidizers and Incinerators, Sulfur Degassing, and Oxygen Enrichment. Our experience ranges from front-end engineering, operations support and training through Turn-key EPC of plants ranging in nameplate capacity from 2 LTPD to multi-train 1000+ LTPD facilities.
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A southern, heavy oil refinery undergoing an expansion needed to increase its amine processing capacity. They wanted to achieve that goal by reviving equipment from an idled unit as much as possible. Our engineers evaluated their expansion plans, determined the new amine requirements, and identified the modifications required for the idled equipment to meet those requirements. We rated existing equipment to determine bottlenecks, specified tower internals to increase capacity, re-rated existing pumps, exchangers, and piping, and detailed changes to existing instrumentation for capacity expansion and process controllability.
Our client approached us with the challenge to reduce their municipal water costs at their machine wash facility by reclaiming spent wash water, treating, and reusing it in another part of their process. The current technology for direct recycling and filtration systems suffers from maintenance headaches and excessive odor problems and is not an option.
PTI engineers met with stakeholders to understand the unique details of their process, analyzed the reclaimed water samples, and developed a separation and treatment strategy to recycle this waste stream efficiently. PTI’s engineers designed the process with the goal of using common industrial equipment to keep the system cost-efficient and minimize supply chain challenges for custom components.
After completing the design and reviewing the 3D Model with our client, we fabricated the initial prototype in our Plano, Texas facility. With the system in our shop, our engineers and shop personnel completed an initial function test and performance run before shipping the unit to our client’s facility.
Once onsite, our engineers provided operator training and assisted with the initial start-up and full-capacity operation. The unit is in operation and undergoing long-term performance testing. Our client has targeted the system to become the standard water reclamation module for all their US-based facilities.
Principal Technology is a full service engineering firm with additional support for system integration, fabrication, sulfur recovery, amine treating, and a wide selection of turnkey solutions.
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