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

Design & Manufacturing Excellence

Our technical design expertise, extensive experience, and dedication to quality management make Pdc the right team to design the best solution for your processing needs.

• Multidesciplinary engineering staff with mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering expertise
• Leading edge technologies - The latest innovations in hardware, instrumentation, controls, and automation software

Complete in-house fabrication allows ultimate control over the machining, construction, quality control, production schedules, and costs.

• State-of-the-art computer numerical control (CNC) machines, enables Pdc to machine components precisely and economically
• Complex machining and welding operations performed in-house under strict quality control
• Systems are assembled, piped, instrumented, wired, configured, and fully tested prior to delivery

Confidentiality:

Due to the very competitive nature of our customers' businesses and the proprietary nature of the projects on which we work, PDC signs and adheres to secrecy agreements. Since PDC specializes in system design and fabrication and not in process engineering, you can be assured proprietary process knowledge will remain yours.

PDC also has orbital welding capabilities for sanitary, VCR and welded tubing requirements.

Skid-Mounted Pilot Plant System
Shown above: Front and rear views of a PDC pilot plant polymerization with product feed, handling and recovery modules, PLC/PC-based supervisory controls, data acquisition. Class 1 Division II

Control Panel
Shown above: A control panel for a PDC pilot plant

Complete Turn-key Capablilities

PDC is the ideal partner for providing packaged skid-mounted systems. Utilizing our extensive engineering and manufacturing resources, we deliver a full range of services.

• P&ID development
• Component and instrument selection
• 3-D solid modeling
• Complete system construction
• Control system design, programming and configuration
• Rigorous in-house testing and customer inspection
• On-Site installation and commissioning
• Operation and maintenance training
• After-sales service including upgrades and reconfiguration of control systems
• Comprehensive manual and drawings supplied with every system

Testing

PDC performs rigorous testing on each system after final assembly.

Documentation and Training

The delivery of every system includes a comprehensive system manual. PDC trains customer personnel on the operation and maintenance of the systems during factory testing or upon final installation.

Commissioning

After installation is completed at the site, PDC will inspect the installation, commission the system, and perform shake down and fine tuning of the system.

Controls

PDC provides control system design, programming & configuration. We supply PC, PLC, or DCS control systems utilizing the client's preferred hardware and software. Software includes but not limited to:

• Wonderware^®
• Intellution^®
• Cimplicity^®
• Think & Do^®
• LabVIEW^®
• RSView^®

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Display
Shown above: Click on the sample control screen image for a set of detailed images of PDC's SCADA software