ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Modular process skid

Okay kiddo, so imagine you are making pancakes with your mom or dad. You have all the ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, and milk, and you mix them all up in a big bowl. But instead of pouring the batter onto a pan, you pour it onto a special pancake maker that already has everything it needs to cook the pancakes.

That's kind of what a modular process skid is. It's like a giant, ready-to-go mixer that can handle all sorts of ingredients and make something completely new out of them. But instead of pancakes, it's used for things like making medicine or cleaning chemicals or even making food.

The "modular" part means that it's made up of different pieces or modules that can be put together in different ways depending on what you need to make. So just like you can mix and match your pancake batter ingredients to make different flavors of pancakes, companies can use different modules to create a variety of products or chemicals.

The "process" part refers to the steps involved in making something. Like with your pancake example, there are steps involved in mixing the ingredients, cooking the pancakes, and serving them for breakfast. With a modular process skid, there are different steps involved too, like mixing, heating, cooling, and filtering different chemicals or ingredients.

And the "skid" part is just another word for the metal base that everything sits on. You can imagine it like the big plate you use to serve the pancakes on.

So all together, a modular process skid is a big, customizable machine that can be used to mix and create different products, like medicines, chemicals, or even food, by following different steps in the process. It's kind of like a special pancake maker, but for grown-ups and much more complicated!