Pilot Testing & Scale-Up
Pilot Testing & Scale-Up
Overview
Before chemical production begins, or construction starts, and before engineers design the facility, an optimal chemical process must be developed, and proven. At GMM Pfaudler’s world-class Process Test Facilities, our experienced chemical process engineers perform pilot testing and develop and optimize your process, as well as collect the data required to design your commercial-scale facility.
Facilities
Our world-class Process Test Facility located in:
- America (Rochester - NY),
- Europe (Waghäusel – Germany)
- Asia (Karamsad - India)
Pfaudler’s pilot testing facilities support its reaction, evaporation, distillation, separation, filtration, and drying technologies for its Pfaudler, Normag and Mavag brands.The process equipment and utilities in Pfaudler’s facilities are custom-configured for each of its client’s needs.
Pfaudler has multiple utility systems, providing a wide range of operating conditions, including: a high-capacity multi-stage vacuum system, for vacuum down to less than 0.01 millibar, hot thermal oil up to 345°C, steam to 180°C, and cooling systems from -12° to 140°C.Pfaudler’s facilities are designed to handle flammable and corrosive products in volumes as low as a 1 liter and up to 1000 liters totes.
Typical applications
Typical reasons for testing at Pfaudler’s Process Test Facility include: new process development, product purification, yield and purity improvement, process optimization for cost-reduction and increased profit, spent acid recovery, and VOC reduction to meet environmental regulations.
Just a few of Pfaudler’s product examples:
- Polymers, pre-polymers, monomers
- Sterols
- Spent acid recovery
- Vitamin E and Vitamin C
- Biodiesel
- Polyols for new green technologies
- Oil re-refining
- Omega 3 (fish oil)
- Solvent recovery
- PT-Meg
- Triethanolamine
- Waxes