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DWH Process Consulting, LLC
Bio/Chemical Process Engineering Consulting
Dave Humbird, PhD, PE
Denver, Colorado, USA
About
DWH Process Consulting provides conceptual process design, simulation, and techno-economic analysis expertise to research institutions and startups. DWH also supports technical due diligence for commercial and philanthropic investors. Target sectors include renewable fuels/chemicals/power, industrial biotechnology, olefins and specialty chemicals, refinery and heavy industry decarbonization, CO2 capture, and fermented/distilled beverages.
Expertise and Services Offered
Process Simulation
- Aspen Plus - Aspen Custom Modeler - HYSYS
- Physical property fitting and estimation
- Distillation design and optimization
Techno-Economic Analysis
- Conceptual process design - Heat and material balances - BFDs and PFDs
- Preliminary equipment sizing + Aspen Capital Cost Estimator
Scientific Computing
- Excel + VBA power user
- Occasional use of Python for data analysis and visualization
- Past experience with C++, computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, data science and machine learning
Typical Project Descriptions
- Chemical engineering simulation subject matter expert: reactor and distillation modeling, physical property development, and capital cost estimation. DWH carries a license for the AspenTech products named above.
- Sustainability modeling specialist, delivering flowsheet simulations and physical modeling for renewable power, biomass conversion, hydrogen economy, CO2 capture, desalination, and other processes.
- Techno-economic analysis for early-stage (TRL 1-3) process-industry startups.
- Technical due diligence analysis for sustainability investors and philanthropic organizations.
- Training and mentoring engineering staff to grow in-house simulation and analysis skills.
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Find me on: - ORCID: 0000-0002-7885-1871 - GitHub: @dhumbird - LinkedIn: Dave Humbird, PhD, PE