Process Development and Optimization

Buss ChemTech AG designs not only plants, it operates 3 pilot plants and an own laboratory focussed on reaction technology and process analytics. Together with its analytical capabilities they build the basis for our success. Our development process is based on the model below. Depending how far you are with your development process we start our work at any point of the process.

Your added value

Within one to two weeks we normally define all necessary parameters to design an industrial plant with full guarantees on performance. That means product quality, yield and consumption figures. This allows you to verify the profitability of your process in a very short time by an independent third party which even guarantees you the result. This provides you with a certainty you normally do not have.

We have successfully optimised more than 800 reactions in the chemical industry.

 

Our full-service offers the direct route to your goal. You get everything you need from a single source and can focus on your core competence. An efficient way to save precious time and money.

In case the client has no concrete information about his process we start our work in the laboratory. It is equipped with several small scale reactors, including a FTIR monitoring system as well as a catalyst screening unit. It allows us with little costs to understand the kinetics and to make a forecast about the expected performance of the industrial plant. This will allow you to decide in this very early stage if you feel it is worthwhile to go to the next phase of the development.

The main focus in our laboratory work covers:

• Catalyst screening
• Gas/liquid reactions in laboratory scale (Small scale synthesis)
• Reactions with corrosive compounds
• High pressure reactions in batch and continuous mode
• Separation (filtration, distillation, drying)
• Phosgenation
• Development of analytical methods
  

The results will later be confirmed in our pilot plants which are also the basis for the performance guarantee we offer you for your industrial plant.

 

Buss ChemTech has three pilot plants in operation including pre-/post-treatment, filtration, separation facilities.

SRM - 15
Working volume	15 lt
Max. operating pressure	50 barg
Max. operating temperature	220 °C
Material of construction	Hastelloy C-200
Suitable processes	Hydrogenations, oxidations, corrosive compounds

 

SR - 50
Working volume	50 lt
Max. operating pressure	100 barg
Max. operating temperature	275 °C
Material of construction	1.4571

 

 

APR - 15
Working volume	15 lt
Max. operating pressure	0.5 barg
Max. operating temperature	-20 - 180 °C
Material of construction	Glass, PTFE

The APR-15 unit is located in a closed and purged containment which allows us to run high toxic reactions like phosgenation.

 

Filtration Systems

• for continuous operation we use line filters of different materials
• for batch operations we work with several different types of batch filters

Analytical Services

To support our laboratory and pilot work we have a well-equipped analytical laboratory which allows us to analyse the results of our work continuously. We work with the following main tools:

• Gas-Chromatography (GC)
• High-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC)
• Real-time Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy FTIR
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
• Photometry
• Standard analytics like titration, sieve analysis etc.