Holland & Hausberger has a unique strength in the chemical industry in that its team has a blend of cutting edge theoretical understanding of chemical processes and experience in “hands-on” practical engineering. This puts us in a distinctive position of being able to engineer chemical processes from fundamental concept through to final process design package (PDP) allowing for critical process efficiencies to be considered during the concept development and carried through to final implementation.

Unique strength in the chemical industry

We offer a range of process engineering services to the chemical industry. With our strong background in petrochemicals and in particular Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, we can develop high-level scoping/due diligence studies, prefeasibility studies and “bankable” feasibility studies (BFS), as well as basic engineering packages (BEP) for chemical plants.

We have experience in reaction- and separation-based chemical processes ranging from coal and biomass gasification to Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, ammonia synthesis, and distillation.

H&H offers scoping study/due diligence services, including:

• Identification of the proposed project parameters, both economically and technically. These address the local resource as well as the economic aspects of the opportunity.


• Identification of the suitability of the resource feedstocks to the available syngas and clean-up technologies for the production of the necessary downstream energy and fuel production.


• Identification and quantification of potential impacts of the project and associated risks.


• Development of a high level economic model for the application of the technology.

• The identification of suitable technologies for implementation in a proposed chemical and energy complex. In particular, the following process stages will be considered:


• Feedstock handling
• Syngas generation
• Syngas compression
• Syngas clean-up and purification
• Fuel generation
• Downstream product recovery
• Downstream power generation
• Downstream Fischer–Tropsch wax, diesel and naphtha refining.


• Development of a conceptual design for the proposed project including the following components:


• High-level mass and energy balances
• Process flow diagrams
• Feed, utility and infrastructure requirements
• Process technology options
• High-level costing of implementation for various options
• Quantification and characterisation of process effluent.


• Development of an economic model incorporating the technology selection arising from the conceptual design.


• Quantification of risk factors arising from the technology limitations associated with the selection made in the conceptual design.

For the elected process configuration we will complete:

• The full process design package
• The preliminary infrastructure design
• Detailed estimates of the investment and manufacturing costs
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
• Develop the execution plan for the project
• Determine the scope, quality, cost and time of the proposed project
• Develop project risk mitigation strategies

For the elected process configuration we will deliver the FEED package, including: