1. Material Selection: The choice of appropriate plastic feedstocks for the intended chemical output and ensuring that the equipment being used can handle them.
2. Process Flow: Designing an efficient and safe flow process for raw material processing, chemical production, and product finishing.
3. Safety: Ensuring the safety of the workers, the equipment, and the facility as a whole.
4. Energy Efficiency: Minimizing energy consumption by implementing energy-efficient measures and ensuring that the process is optimized for energy usage.
5. Environmental Impact: Ensuring that the facility is designed to minimize waste generation and environmental impact, and that necessary regulatory compliance measures are in place.
6. Automation: Utilizing automation technology to increase efficiency and accuracy, reduce downtime, and improve safety.
7. Maintenance and Repair: Ensuring easy access and safe procedures for maintenance and repair activities to minimize downtime and ensure uninterrupted production.
8. Quality Control: Implementing quality control measures to monitor the production process to ensure consistency, reliability, and safety of the final product.
9. Operational Flexibility: Designing the facility to be flexible enough to change and adapt to changing production needs and possible future changes in feedstocks or products.
10. Upstream and Downstream Integration: Identifying and integrating upstream and downstream processes to ensure that the feedstocks produced can be easily integrated into downstream chemical production operations.
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