EKATO

Hydrogenation Plants and Hydrogenation Reactors

Hydrogenation Plants and Hydrogenation Reactors

Our hydrogenation portfolio includes:

• Consulting services
• Hydrogenation trials on EKATO rental equipment type ELA 5 at your plant
• Pilot scale hydrogenation trials (5 - 60 liters) at EKATO's hydrogenation pilot plant
• Conceptual and FEED studies
• Basic Engineering
• Detail Engineering
• Key equipment (EKATO hydrogenation reactors, catalyst preparation stations, catalyst filters, etc.)

EKATO designs and supplies hydrogenation plants for a wide range of industrial applications and industries:

• Flexible multi-product plants for the hydrogenation of pharmaceutical raw materials (API)
• Flexible multi-product plants for the hydrogenation of fine and specialty chemicals
• Plants for the hydrogenation of sugars to sugar alcohols
• Plants for the hydrogenation of fats, fatty acids and oils
• Plants for the continuous hydrogenation of basic chemicals

Modular Hydrogenation Plants

Modular hydrogenation plants from EKATO offer several advantages over conventional plants that are assembled on site. The main advantages of our modular plant technology are:

• One contact for everything: EKATO
• Shorter project lead times
• Lower total investment costs
• Very short interruption of the running production production, especially in case of plant extensions/conversions
• Precise and clean assembly of the plant in the modern large-capacity assembly halls at EKATO
• Safety test, function test and pre-commissioning commissioning including parameterization and configuration of the control system before delivery plant

A typical EKATO hydrogenation reactor module consists of:

• Steel structure of the hydrogenation reactor
• Piping and fittings
• Instrumentation
• Wiring and terminal boxes
• Insulation
• Control system (outside the skid)

Hydrogenation Reactors

At the heart of each plant is the EKATO hydrogenation reactor, which is equipped with a special agitator called EKATO combined gassing system. EKATO combined gassing is used in more than 500 gas-liquid reactors worldwide and is an important basis for our success in numerous industrial hydrogenation applications.

Technical data:

• Useful volume: 5 liters - 200 m3
• Design pressure: up to 220 bar
• Design temperature: 150 to 400°C
• Material: almost all metallic materials (carbon steel, stainless steels, Ni-based materials, titanium, etc.)
• Heat transfer vessel wall: double shell or half pipe coils
• Heat transfer internally: tube coils, tube bundle heat exchangers, plate heat exchangers
• Design always specially adapted to your needs
• Options: instrumentation, bottom outlet valve, discharge lances, sampling systems, bottom agitators, GMP design