Our Engineering Services
Avocado Engineering specializes in chemical, process and mechanical design engineering. Wide variety of industries such as oil and gas, mineral processing, mining, power, chemical and food processing are designed and operate based on multiple processes known as unit operations. Processes are created to achieve certain design criteria. Operations often involve a combination of material flow, physical and chemical separation/mixing technologies and may include mechanical processes and chemical reactions. Processes require various equipment and raw materials for operation.
At Avocado Engineering, we use our knowledge of chemical/process/mechanical design engineering to provide the optimum solutions to various industries. We apply our knowledge of heat and mass transfer, separation/mixing processes, thermodynamics and reaction technologies, mechanical processes and material science to design processes. Our designs are based on waste and energy minimization and recycling processes.
Avocado engineering provides solutions to industries that produce waste materials to minimize waste production and the associated cost of waste management and processing. We specialize in designing integrated processes to manage the waste problems. We help companies to be clean and competitive in today’s market. We create engineered solutions for converting toxic and costly wastes into safe and valuable products. We also work on waste heat (waste energy) recovery operations to generate power (electricity) or use the extracted low value energy in other parts of the plant to maximize the productivity of the unit operations and reduce the carbon emission and save on energy bills of the plant.
We are for example involved in micro-power-generation systems using low value energy in factories that have some type of waste energy for example through hot exhaust gas ducts, or through hot water and steam that are otherwise wasted. Such operations have for example furnaces, boilers and kilns that use significant amount of electricity on the site. We help such operations to produce electricity on-site and use it on-site or export it to the grid. Low value heat/energy is generally ignored in many facilities around the world due to the lack of resources or simply because it was conventionally considered as a waste with no value. We can generate value out of the waste streams using integrated operations to minimize the emissions of the plant. We work on skid-type generators with a small foot-print that can be designed and manufactured to suit each site with its own waste energy conditions.
We also work on electricity generation processes from waste energy available from burning fuel in large ships (vessels) such as cargo ships, cruises and passenger ships and reduce the fuel consumption by using integrated electricity generation processes on board to feed the vessel electricity requirements. This is an attractive method of energy recovery, which saves the shipping lines significant amount of fuel and money.
Avocado Engineering is also involved in geothermal power generation as well as environmental solutions, which are applied to underground wells and operations that may have leakages into the aquifer, surface and atmosphere. We are working with our partner company, Annsca, which has developed its WAPPS technology for environmental protection where drilling operations and oil/gas/geothermal energy extraction takes place. WAPPS can also be applied in underground coal gasification (UCG) operations, coal seam gas (CSG) extraction wells and landfill gas generation units.
Avocado Engineering proudly works with associate partners and companies in Australia and overseas to achieve the optimum design solutions and to minimize the cost of design and manufacturing of equipment required for the operations.
Avocado Engineering provides complete turnkey solutions to establish complete zinc oxide plants using the latest technologies in corporation with our manufacturing partners. Existing zinc oxide (French Process) operations have significant energy wastage due to the nature of their design and technology used to produce the product. High temperature furnaces are in operation that lead to significant heat loss into the atmosphere and this means significant of fuel cost to the zinc oxide plant. To minimize this, we provide the best available solution in an integrated process to the customers. Also we provide the complete design and establishment of the zinc oxide bag-house processes and associated process equipment for a complete zinc oxide plant. We help our customers to build new zinc oxide facilities or revamp their existing facilities to minimize the cost of operation and produce various zinc oxide grades with the quality of interest. Zinc oxide is an important industrial product used in various applications, specially in tyre production and other rubber materials, as well as ceramics and pharmaceuticals.
Avocado Engineering also specializes in processing of zinc-bearing waste materials by hydrometallurgical & pyrometallurgical processes. In this area, we provide solutions to the galvanisation and zinc-waste processing plants. We design processes to convert toxic zinc-bearing wastes such as zinc ash from galvanization plants into valuable zinc chemicals such as zinc oxide, zinc sulfate, zinc carbonate, zinc chloride and zinc nitrate. We also provide technical solutions for dross management and recycling.