Gas handling is a significant aspect of modern metallurgical plant design. It can have a major impact on the plant operating factor, and can often limit plant capacity. Gas handling represents 25 to 50% or more of a project’s capital cost and is necessary to ensure compliance with environmental and occupational hygiene regulations.
Drawing upon more than 50 years experience in metallurgical plants, Hatch’s Gas Handling Group provides experienced specialists in the design of new systems or the troubleshooting and upgrading of existing systems.
Productivity is often higher in clean plants. Our Clean Plant Design approach, in combination with a deep understanding of process fundamentals, ensures worker welfare and productivity is maximized in a cost-effective manner.
- Process gas handling
- Gas cooling and conditioning
- Gas cleaning
- Flue gas desulfurization and other gas absorption
- Flare stacks and thermal oxidizers
- Fan systems
- Waste heat boilers
- Sulfuric acid plants
- High temperature furnace off-takes
- Water-cooled hoods and ducting
- Refractory lined ducting
- Large diameter ducting and stacks
- Combustion chambers
- Evaporative spray coolers
- Quench towers
- Gas absorbers (spray towers, tray towers or packed beds)
- Secondary hoods and enclosures
- Heavy metal stabilization
- Reverse osmosis
- Ultra filtration
- Zero discharge plant
- Pollution prevention through process change
- Heat recovery
- NOx, VOC’s and CO reduction
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Physical modeling
- Gas handling dynamic simulations
- Dispersion modeling and permitting
- Greenfield and retrofit
- Plant audits and condition surveys
- Industrial ventilation
- Air and water pollution
- Noise control
- Waste management
- HAZOP and risk evaluations
