May 2001
Krupp Uhde, based in Sunninghill, is a subsidiary of the German based Krupp Uhde GmbH and offers services from concept-to-completion for the chemical, petro-chemical, oil & gas and fertiliser industries.
The company has been active in South Africa since 1954, and established a permanent office in 1981. A key aspect in the plant construction industry is the ability to provide first-class processes that guarantee the operator the maximum possible productivity, availability and cost-effective plant.
Krupp Uhde is continuously involved in improving and expanding its technology base with an in-house world recognised R&D facility.
Technologies offered are based on those developed in-house by Krupp Uhde (since Uhde himself developed the ammonia and nitric acid processes) and include: fertilisers, ammonia, organic chemicals, polymers (like polypropylene, VCM and polyethylene), electrolysis processes to produce chlorine and caustic, oil and gas extractive distillation processes, hydrogenation, de-aromitisation and pharmaceutical (secondary handling processes).
Contracting philosophies include reimbursable, cost plus fee to lump sum turnkey, depending on the client's requirements.
Krupp Uhde, a division of Krupp Engineering
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Design and Construction of Chemical Plants
Optimum design of mass exchange networks using pinch technology
N Hallale (Dept of Process Integration, UMIST, Manchester) ,DM Fraser (Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town),
Focus on design & construction of chemical plant
Plant Maintenance
Corrosion monitoring of plants: a diagnostic and maintenance tool
Michelle Sephton and Josias van der Merwe (School of Process & Materials Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand) ,
Blast cleaning: what you need to know
Charles Dominion (Blastrite) ,
Focus on plant maintenance
Plant Optimisation
Using an online nonlinear multiscale principal component analysis methodology for advanced process monitoring
SH Fourie and PL de Vaal (Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria) ,
Focus on plant optimisation
Projects
Centre of Excellence at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg addresses process synthesis methodology and tools for enhanced process, retrofit and optimization
Explained by Diane Hildebrandt
Separation
The measurement of low-pessure vapour-liquid equilibria for distillation design
MA Joseph (SASTECH) ,D Ramjugernath and JD Raal (Thermodynamics Research Unit, School of Chem Eng, University of Natal),
