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EXP’s sulfuric acid team delivers reliable, client-focused solutions
By: April Kabbash, Editor, Sulfuric Acid Today
With a mission to understand, innovate, partner, and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design, and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments. As a leader in the fertilizers and chemicals sector, EXP’s experts have provided solutions for sulfuric acid plants around the globe. The company’s committed team of professionals apply their knowledge to deliver integrated, innovative solutions across industries. With a commitment to clients’ bottom lines and operational needs, EXP’s sulfuric acid team brings proven solutions to help meet each customer’s goal, whether that is plant expansion, heat and energy utilization and recovery, plant optimization or reliability, or safety services. Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, EXP employs more than 3,500 creative professionals across North America who provide the passion and experience needed to deliver successful projects around the globe. Consistently ranked one of Canada’s top design and engineering firms, EXP is also the winner of countless engineering excellence awards. This team of experts is dedicated to providing innovative solutions across markets and geographies to solve clients’ most complex challenges. Those solutions, along with everything the company does, are firmly rooted in EXP’s core values: Integrity, Passion, Accountability, Transparency, Diversity,
and Community + Sustainability. These pillars consistently guide team members, no matter the size or scope of the job. As with most things in the sulfuric acid industry, finding the right people for the job makes all the difference to the outcome. Sulfuric Acid Today sat down with EXP sulfuric acid experts Vulcan Mutler, Trevor Van Daele, Douglas Louie, Wayne Boyd, Brennan Afelskie, and Yi Zhou to get their insights on EXP’s role in the sector. EXP serves a wide range of industries. What sets your sulfuric acid team apart? Vulcan Mutler, Senior Vice President of the Oil, Gas + Chemicals market: EXP experts have decades of experience across the complete range of acid plants, from sulfur burning through spent acid to metallurgical gas. To address the market’s dynamic needs of expected outcomes with tailored execution strategies that consider sustainability and unique client-specific requirements, EXP assembled the sulfuric acid team with recognized leaders in the industry, each bringing their unique experience to further enhance our ability to meet clients’ objectives. Furthermore, a significant portion of the sulfuric acid team is based in Houston, the center of the OG+C business, where there is a higher concentration of sul-
mental impacts, improving plant reliability, and increasing the capacity of operations. We are proud to deliver projects on time and on capacity that meet stringent process specifications and emissions requirements. What strengths do you as a group bring to a project? 3D rendering of plant during design process.
furic acid plants than anywhere else. What types of projects have you worked on in the sulfuric acid sector? Can you give us some details on your role in those projects and what EXP is most proud of? Trevor Van Daele, Director of Engineering, Oil, Gas + Chemicals in Canada: EXP experts have been engaged in nearly every type of sulfuric acid project, from the replacement of plant equipment, to capacity upgrades, to greenfield projects. EXP experts have contributed to noteworthy and sizeable projects around the world. Our role for each project, whether metallurgical, sulfur burning, or spent acid plants using single absorption, DCDA, advanced heat recovery, and scrubber systems is to provide engineering and process solutions to each plant, as well as support our clients in reducing environ-
Wayne Boyd, Process Engineer: EXP’s strengths relate to the wealth of experience in process knowledge and breadth of execution models. Our team offers clients flexibility in the marketplace, accompanied by professionals who possess the experience to meet owner’s requirements, including completing a project on time, within budget, and meeting technical expectations. In addition, EXP brings clients the comfort of established relationships with technology providers and key suppliers to streamline project success. This includes over 50 years of working in varying geographic areas from arctic zones to deserts, as well as high seismic zones. In addition, the team’s experience ranges from the smallest to largest capacity (3x5050 MTPD) plants and the ability to scale the scope of a project to the client’s needs with extensive experience designing the balance of plant facilities, including power plants, tank farms, loading and unloading facilities, water treatment plants, and other utilities.
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