Consulting & Expertise
In-House Technical Expert Groups
Coastal Chemical developed the Technical Service Group to provide value-added services to our sales team, customers, and suppliers. This team consists of resources with backgrounds in engineering, chemistry, as well as in production handling systems & operations. They understand that the primary functions of a successful chemical program are to ensure that our customer’s marketable product meets specification and to maintain the integrity of the physical processing system related to corrosion and design capacity. This team functions as Product Champions, Engineering Support, Laboratory Analysts, and Trainers.
Product Champion
Product Designs (alumina, mole sieve, SulfaGuard, carbon, BTEX, catalyst, caustic, etc.)
Customer personnel training for amine treating, physical solvent training, EG and TEG glycol dehydration solid desiccant (mole sieve, alumina, silica gel) dehydration, sulfur plant operation, H2S scavenger applications, heat transfer fluids, industrial coolants, BTEX, etc.
Computer simulation modeling (amine, AGR, TEG, Gas/Spec) to debottleneck process operating units in conjunction with efficiency and optimization efforts.
Engineering Support
Process design, recommendation, evaluation and selection
Plant commissioning, startup and shutdown support and equipment surveys
Customer site visits and plant walkthroughs
Pipe & Instrument Diagram (P&ID) reviews
Troubleshoot operational or process problems with corrective recommendations
Phone consultations
Molecular sieve moisture break through tests
Oversee procedures (mixing, loading, product applications and installation)
Product recommendations
Laboratory Analysis & Training
- Interpretation of lab analysis reports
- Recommendations to correct problems. Usually involves additional Coastal products
- Responsible for training new employees – sellers & next generation technical engineers
- Industry surveillance and knowledge sharing with Sales group
Other Support Services
- Research & Development
- New product technical issues
- Technical papers and literature
- SDS
- Product safety issues
- Inventory quality issues
Computer Simulations
Amine, Glycol, Carbon, Desiccants, Adsorbents
Coastal represents the top chemical producers in the world and provides the most extensive product offering available. Our expert technical staff are the most experienced in the industry, and we are always available to provide customers with value-added services that will increase their operational efficiencies and improve their overall profitability. One of the services Coastal technical services provides is computer simulations.
Our technical service engineers combine plant/field data with industry best practices to simulate a wide array of processes using Bryan Reseach & Engineering’s Promax, a versatile process simulation software package. Promax provides a complete package for a variety of acid gas removal systems, such as Coastal’s AGR II solvent, generic ethanolamines (MEA, DEA, and MDEA), and specialty formulated amines. It is also used to model dehydration with TEG and hydrate inhibition with methanol and EG. Modeling amine and glycol units can provide relative design data, such as proper circulation rate, reboiler duty required, and expected loadings. For existing units, the technical service engineers can work exclusively with plant personnel to model the plant with current operating conditions and provide unique troubleshooting capabilities.
Computer simulations enable our technical team to create, monitor, and manage chemical injections programs; simulate pipelines to estimate critical parameters like pressure drop and temperature changes across various fields and/or geographic regions; calculate air emissions, VOC emissions, and BTEX calculations. Another aspect of our computer simulations is designing and recommending adsorbent products, such as sieve, aluminas, and silica gels. Our simulation packages can provide important process data such as stream physical properties, hydrate curves, phase envelopes, and fluidization calculations. Additionally, technical service engineers work in conjunction with our suppliers who have their own proprietary simulation packages.
Turnkey Vessel Change Outs
Our turn-around managers save you time and money! One of our managers helped a client prevent a major delay during the loading phase of a refinery project by identifying a shortage of material and then coordinating its purchase and delivery.
Coastal offers total management of turn-around activities at refineries, including multi-unit projects. Our managers coordinate vessel change- outs, interact with contractors and refinery personnel and write daily reports. In addition, our customer service team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We do whatever it takes to satisfy our customers.
Vessel Change - Outs
The top-notch Coastal team has the experience and knowledge to provide comprehensive support for change-outs of catalyst/adsorbents. In close collaboration with our clients, we tailor the job scope to optimize unloading, loading, and handling of spent products.
Coastal delivers a complete service package that includes seminars and training, optimization of vessel designs, customization of vessel change-outs and recycling options for handling spent products. In addition, we offer a complete line of world-class loading/unloading products and services, including:
Activated Carbon
Molecular Sieves
Air Dryers
Activated Alumina (Reactors/Claus)
Glycol Unit Cleaning (Tail Gas)
Heat Transfer System Cleaning (Alky Vessels)
Amine Unit Cleaning (Chloride Guard)
Contact our consultants and experts.
800.535.6182
Coastal Chemical