ESDU Process and Environmental Technology is a collection of guidelines, methods, software and training developed to assist process designers and engineers in new plant design and retrofit projects. These tools are developed under the ESDU process ensuring validation by international experts, best practice, and data that is practical, clear and concise in its use and application. ESDU provides solutions to problems encountered in key disciplines of process integration, heat exchange, water management and crude oil fouling. The collection includes a wide range of design guides and software programs covering heat transfer and fluid flow mechanics for process engineering applications. These technologies are applicable to many industrial sectors including oil refining, petrochem, chemical, steel, textile, food, and paper and pulp processing.
Process integration is an important means of improving the efficiency of industrial processes.
ESDU has developed software tools that can be used in integrated plant design and are simple to follow and easy to understand. The network design methodology assists engineers in plant layout, controlling expensive piping costs and designing safer more easily understood plants. The simplicity provides a cost-effective means to combat expensive plant design and maintenance issues. This is a win-win situation for both the industry and environment. Crude oil fouling costs the refining industry billions of dollars in extra energy use per year with serious environmental implications.