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Catalytic Reactor Units for Continuous Hydrogenation and other Exothermic Catalytic Processes

01/24/2019 By Robert J. Gulotty Jr., Ph.D

Applied Catalysts is offering Catalytic Reactor Units for process intensification of Catalytic processes using their proprietary ACMC® activated carbon monolith catalyst technology.  These modular turn-key systems offer enhanced productivity, selectivity and lifetime for Hydrogenation and other catalytic chemistries.  Chemistry that is not equilibrium limited can be converted … [Read more...]

Miniature Membrane Separators and Separating Organic Solvents

10/25/2018 By R.C. Costello

  Introduction to Membrane Separators Zaiput Flow Technologies’ patented liquid‐liquid/liquid‐gas miniature membrane separators enable liquid extraction in flow chemistry‐based processes and provide a solution for typical batch‐based liquid extraction steps (i.e., slow settling time/separation of emulsions, elimination of the need to run batches at half capacity to … [Read more...]

Transesterification – Biodiesel Part 4

09/06/2018 By R.C. Costello

Transesterification

Overview The transesterification unit is designed to produce ASTM grade biodiesel by reacting low FFA oil or preesterified oils with excess methanol in the presence of a sodium methylate catalyst. Evaporator An oil drying system (Evaporator not shown) removes water and methanol after the esterification unit but prior to the transesterification system.  The recovered … [Read more...]

Understanding Biodiesel Chemistry – Part 1

08/02/2018 By R.C. Costello

In this 5 part blog series on Biodiesel Production, we will discuss the following 5 areas over the next 5 weeks: Chemistry Degumming Esterification Transesterification Purification When starting with crude degummed oils that have not been alkali refined, then step one is usually performed by the crusher and steps 2, 3 and 4 by our Biodiesel Technology. 1. … [Read more...]

Explosion Investigations with the Three Column Method – Part 3 of 3 in a Series on Explosions

06/21/2018 By R.C. Costello

Explosion Investigations Corporations spend enormous amounts of money on explosion investigations.  Yet experienced investigators know there are only 9 ignition sources. For an actual asphalt tank fire, the analysis is shown below and whether or not this ignition source was ruled out. Column 1 is labeled: What facts do we know about the incident Column 2 is labeled: What … [Read more...]

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