Plant elevation · schematic
We find where, quantify it, and lead the work that fixes it. Seventeen years running EPC projects and process optimisation across power generation, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing.
17 years in the field · $75M in projects managed · 6 countries · 4 working languages
Heat rate against load · schematic
Three results from our own work, stated as numbers rather than adjectives.
−13% heat rate on a 2×150 MW CFB boiler
% heat rate
2×150 MW CFB boiler.
Heat rate · Boiler · Operations
+22% output from an air separation train, delivered 8% under budget
% output
Air separation train, delivered 8% under budget.
Throughput · Industrial gas · Capex
−34% unplanned outages after twenty root cause investigations
% unplanned outages
After twenty root cause investigations.
Availability · RCA · Maintenance
Fuel gas train · schematic
Four numbers from your plant. The tubes show what a 1% heat rate improvement saves in fuel each year. Your figures stay in your browser.
Fuel saved by 1% better heat rate
US$ thousand / year
The tubes stay dark until all four numbers are in.
Fuel cost = MW × capacity factor × 8,760 h × heat rate × fuel price. One percent of it is the figure in the tubes. Gross figures, before any project cost.
Pipe rack, isometric · schematic
For owners, lenders & investment committees
Feasibility, heat and mass balance, waste heat recovery and debottlenecking studies that end in a number a committee can approve. Options costed and ranked, payback stated, assumptions written down where anyone can challenge them.
Ask about a studyFor operating plants
Availability, efficiency and cost per unit treated as one problem rather than three departments. Root cause analysis on the failures that keep repeating, maintenance strategy built from your own failure data, and performance tests that establish what the asset can actually deliver.
Ask about a performance programmeFor EPC execution
Schedule, budget and scope control from basic engineering through handover, with interface management between owner, EPC contractor and OEM. Commissioning and startup readiness where the risk concentrates, including permit-to-work systems built for the site rather than for the binder.
Ask about owner’s engineeringFor engineering & operations teams
Lean Six Sigma, root cause analysis and project management delivered on site, in Spanish or English, on your own process data. The people who will run the asset after we leave are the ones in the room.
Ask about a training programmeFeedback loop · schematic
Two weeks in the historian and on the plant floor. Heat rate, availability, cycle times, cost per unit, and the maintenance record behind them. We agree the numbers before we discuss the causes.
Process mapping and statistical analysis to isolate the one or two constraints carrying most of the loss: combustion, heat recovery, a transfer system, a procedure. Everything else waits.
A costed engineering case: options, balances, capital, payback, risk. Complete enough for a capital committee to decide on, and specific enough for a contractor to price.
Engineering change, procedure change or capital project, sequenced and supervised. We stay through execution, including the difficult conversations with contractors.
Dashboards your team maintains, procedures they wrote, and training so the gain holds after the engagement closes. The asset stays improved without us in the room.
The diagnostic needs JavaScript. Email info@fragaligroup.com and we will send you the questions.
Project locations · schematic
Tucumán · Argentina
1,024 MW combined cycle, Tucumán, Argentina
MW
Combined cycle. Project management across the gas turbine and HRSG scope on one of the largest thermal builds in the region.
Tucumán case studyCentral America
+35% output from a hydropower revamp in Central America
% output
Hydropower revamp. Output lifted by more than a third from an existing scheme, with no new civil works.
Hydropower case studyGuatemala · Panama
Two 300 MW thermal generation projects, in Guatemala and Panama
MW × 2
Thermal generation. Guatemala: process and project engineering through construction and commissioning. Panama: owner-side project management across a multi-package build.
Guatemala case studyPanama case studyEG Process is an independent engineering practice. Its method did not come from one job title but from working each phase of a plant’s life, on the owner’s side and the contractor’s.
Study
Heat exchange networks and waste heat research at National Taiwan University, then feasibility and heat and mass balance studies for owners and lenders.
Build
EPC execution and commissioning on thermal and combined-cycle builds in Argentina, Guatemala and Panama, on the owner’s side as often as the contractor’s.
Operate
Root cause investigations, outage reduction and performance programmes on operating plants.
Transfer
Lean Six Sigma and root cause training, so the gain stays with the crews who run the plant.
Lead engineer
The practice is led by a process and project engineer with seventeen years in power generation, industrial gas, oil and gas and heavy industry across Latin America and the Caribbean. The team works from Antigua Guatemala, natively in Spanish and English, and professionally in Mandarin. EG Process is a Fragali Group practice.
Education
Credentials
Languages
Tools
A thirty-minute plant loss review, in English or Spanish. If it is not something we can help with, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
The two most likely places your plant is losing money.
A rough dollar range for each, from the numbers you bring.
The first measurement we would take, and what it costs.
Request a plant review
