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We help create a lower carbon footprint and a more sustainable process industry

8658 KTONS of CO₂ +

PDC has already helped to save 8658 kilotons of CO₂

1000+ energy projects +

PDC executed over 1000 projects, accumulating up to 50 gigawatts

1000+ reviews +

PDC has performed over 1000 independent third-party reviews

38 Years +

PDC has been active for 38 years as a leading consultant in the process industry

75% doctorates +

75% of PDC’s employees hold a doctorate degree in their field of expertise.

Up to 50% cost savings +

PDC has proven able to generate capital and operating cost savings of up to 50%

269 million euro R&D +

The total value of PDC’s collaborative r&d projects amounts to 269 million euros

50% bio-based & circular +

Bio-based and circular process developments represent 50% of PDC’s process work

Our expertise

Process Design Center (PDC) has both the experience as well as a go-getter attitude in supporting the process industry to do better and achieve more. We like to move onwards and go beyond where others may give up. These are the industry areas we consider to be our area of expertise.

No1 in process design

Bio based and circular

CCUS

Energy

Circular water

Third party reviews

Benchmarking

Prosyn

PDC Idea Factory

PDC Research Foundation

Our products and services

We offer specific services, that represents the various collaboration modes with our customers. Our flagship software product Prosyn is a key source in many of our projects. For a custom project set up get in touch.

Lighthouse projects

Smart-DAC PDC is one of the founders of CO2CirculAir B.V., a new direct air capture (DAC) start-up… read more +

Project 6-25 PDC leads the project selection, definition, and guidance of Project 6-25, which aims to reduce an additional six million tons of CO₂ emissions in Dutch industry… read more +

Redesigns for Shell Already in the 1990s PDC created lower carbon footprint designs for Shell… read more +

Biorefinery To date PDC developed and evaluated 16 alternative integrated biorefining processes, based on enzymatic… read more +

Prosyn membranes Prosyn Membranes is the world’s first Artificial Intelligence-based system for the selection and design of membrane separation processes… read more +

Plantics Our start-up Plantics won the “Renewable Material of the Year 2021” Innovation Award!… read more +

Client's experience

Jean-Luc Dubois

R&D Director at Arkema – France

Arkema has been in relations with PDC for 15 years on several internal and collaborative projects, such as F3Factory, EuroBioref, Carena, and more recently MMAtwo. In these projects, PDC’s expertise has been used as a cement between all the different process steps to put place new value chains. The professionalism of PDC has been deeply appreciated to find solutions in processes under development, and for its capacity to step back and look at the whole value chain globally.

Martin Atkins

Former chief scientist at BP in China and chief technologist at Petronas in Malaysia and currently CEO of green Lizard technologies and CTO of Poseidon plastics in the UK.

We have worked with PDC for over 20 years now with various partners in the Oil & Gas, bio, clean energy and chemicals/fuels sectors. PDC have helped us enormously with conceptual design studies and understanding competitive technologies, providing appraisal and TEA data in the same package to help our businesses strategies and make best decision for commercial design. The option to use PDC team throughout the development cycle as well really enhances option development and energy savings in order to “fix” the design to allow basic engineering packages to be developed for use with PDC. Working early with PDC at conceptual and TEA study has taken considerable amount of time off the path to commercialization. In some cases, the work with PDC has led us to stop projects early and prevent the team going down dead ends.

Victor Agreda

Former technical director and inventor of a reactive distillation process for the production of methyl acetate at Eastman chemical company – USA

PDC is an outstanding consulting company for the process industries. Their ability to combine first principles in chemical engineering, particularly in thermodynamics, with their tool set in simulation, process synthesis, and process design enables them to provide their customers with a rigorous, yet practical approach. Their support complements and augments projects in highly value-adding ways.

Daan Dijk

Former sustainability manager at Rabobank

PDC is one of the very few consulting firms that combine classical in-depth knowledge of the thermodynamics of unit processes with an industry broad overview of the costs and performance of available engineering solutions. This enables them to develop state-of-the-art energy efficient and cost-effective process designs. Their expert view and independent judgment helped me in making my own assessments.

Niels van Stralen

CEO at Chaincraft - The Netherlands

PDC challenged our technology and helped improving our process design, which has become the blueprint for ChainCraft’s first semi-commercial scale facility in Amsterdam that produces medium chain fatty acids from organic waste or residues. Their Prosyn technology and ideas have been implemented or are considered for future developments. Furthermore, they strongly supported us in our attempts to raise subsidies for further R&D and a full-scale factory.

Jeffrey Felix

CEO at CO2Circulair - The Netherlands

We are very proud to partner with PDC in the development of our SMART-DAC process for capturing CO₂ from the air. PDC’s expertise in process design has supported us in the further development of our process and in the design of a pilot-plant for the UK. A job well done! Personally, I also very much appreciate the opinions of experts as well as their evidence-based views. With their overall insight and experience in guiding the development of innovative activities PDC has been of great support. It is a real pleasure to have access to such a team of experts in the field of technology, science, engineering, finance and entrepreneurship.

Roberto Palomino

Omnia - South Africa

In 2017 our company started the journey of improving our energy management practices and we selected PDC to run a complete energy pinch analysis in 5 of the plants belonging to our fertilizer complex plus a complete site energy integration study between plants. During the course of the study, PDC was not the typical engineering service company but our partner who work with us to build the right business case and identify how we could get the maximum benefit. The professionalism showed by PDC during the study was definitely out of this world.

Jean-Luc Dubois

R&D Director at Arkema – France

Martin Atkins

Former chief scientist at BP in China and chief technologist at Petronas in Malaysia and currently CEO of green Lizard technologies and CTO of Poseidon plastics in the UK.

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