Pilot-Plants - Complete Skid-Mounted Bench Scale to Pilot-Plant Process Systems for a variety of basic and applied process research and development applications.

Nurturing innovation for an extensive array of processes

PDC helps companies around the globe develop and capitalize on technical innovation and react quickly to new market opportunities. We provide our clients with leading edge technology tools for research and production applications in many industries.

Applications

Including but not limited to -

Polymers, Plastics and Elastomers:

• Solution Polymerizations
• Slurry Polymerizations
• Mass Polymerizations
• Fluid Bed Polymerizations
• Condensation Polymerizations
• Specialty Polymers and Monomer Recovery
• Ziegler-Natta
• Co-polymerization
• Solvent removal
• Ionic Polymerization
• Anionic Polymerization

Pharmaceutical:

• Separations
• Chiral Selectivity
• Parallel Synthesis
• Multi-step Processing
• Chromatography
• Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)
• Bio-processes
• Fermentation
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Laboratory:

• Catalyst Development
• Multi-purpose Mini-plants
• Supercritical Wet Oxidation
• Batch to Continuous-flow Scale-up

Food:

• Solids Blending
• Starch Processing
• Supercritical Extraction
• Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation

Energy:

• Alternative Fuels
• Syngas / Fuel Cell
• Supercritical Processing
• Liquefaction / Upgrading

Refining and Petrochemicals:

• Reforming
• Catalytic Reforming
• Syngas Process
• Isomerization
• Hydrotreating
• Hydrogenation
• Dehydrogenation
• Hydrocracking
• Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Steam Cracker or steam cracking
• Desulfurization
• Gas Processing
• Pyrolysis
• Catalytic cracking (cat-cracking)
• Catalytic Reforming
• Oligomerization
• Hydroformulation
• Metathesis Reactor
• Fractionation
• Condensation
• Aromatization
• Thermal Cracking

Chemical:

• Amination
• Alkylation
• Carboxylation
• Crystal Growth
• Nitration
• Oxidation
• Chlorination
• Hydration
• Hydrolysis
• Phase-transfer Catalysis
• Extractive Distillation
• Dimerization
• Carbonylation
• Disproportionation
• Crystallization
• Esterfication
• Heterogeneous Catalyst
• Homogeneous Catalyst
• Oxychlorination

Fully automated 3Kw reformer for hydrogen generation and purification. Reactors are constructed from exotic materials of construction for high temperature operation.

Multi-purpose reaction system with multiple feeds, tanks and weigh scales. Skid wired to control cabinet for customer hook-up to DCS.

Automated batch blending process

Glass polymerization system with modular reaction, liquid/slurry feed, temperature control system. Units designed to fit into standard 6 and 8 foot lab hoods.

LABORATORY SCALE CATALYST EVALUATION SYSTEM
The system provides flexible automation for four independent catalyst reactions.  The system is equipped four tubular reactors, controls and safeties for unattended operation and data collection.