As the cost of energy soars, the application of combined heat and power (CHP) generation plants has become increasingly important within the process industry.

The Petroleum, Chemicals & Energy Practice has developed a significant capability in CHP, which includes the specific know-how surrounding the support, total cost of ownership, optimization, and permitting of fired processes. These relate to technologies applied to waste heat utilization, biomass consumption, emissions reduction, pre- and post-combustion carbon capture, and CO₂ sequestration, as well as environmental governances on emissions and permitting. Gas turbine specialization, gasification, renewable energy, and wastewater treatment also form part of the overall capability of our group.

Our client base includes:

• Industrial CHP plant owners
• Oil refineries and upgraders
• Power generation companies (including nuclear)
• Banks
• Governments

Our power consultancy capabilities include:

• Power market (modeling) studies
• Site selection studies
• Feasibility studies
• Conceptual design studies
• Project specification
• Project management consulting
• Performance optimization and de-bottlenecking studies
• Benchmarking studies
• Condition/performance monitoring
• Reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) studies
• Asset management support studies
• Due diligence/value assessment studies

Our consulting services are provided in support of the following power generation technologies:

• Gas-fired combined cycle power plants and peaking units
• Cogeneration/combined heat and power
• Conventional-fired power plants (coal and oil)
• Gasification power plants (coal and residue)
• Waste-to-energy biomass plants
• Biomass-fired power plants
• Wind energy (onshore and offshore)
• Hydro-power plants
• Fossil-fueled (near) zero-emission power generation
• New technologies under development
• Pre-combustion carbon capture technologies:
  • For coal and residue gasification
  • Reformer technologies for gas-fired power plants
• Post-combustion carbon capture technologies:
  • Amine-based CO₂ capture
  • Chilled ammonia-based CO₂ capture
  • Oxy fuel combustion
  • CO₂ capture studies