Production of Sustainable Synthesis Products

We offer:

• Process development and conceptual engineering of efficient, cost-optimized processes for the production of sustainable synthesis products according to the needs of our customers in the chemical and process engineering industries
• Evaluation of catalysts through screenings, kinetic studies and state-of-the-art characterization techniques
• In-house planning, design, automation, commissioning and operation of mini-plants
• Process characterization in industrial mini-plants
• Development and validation of kinetic and thermodynamic models for the dynamic and stationary simulation of reaction and separation processes
• Customized separation processes (adsorption, distillation) for the preparation of synthesis products for application tests (e.g. engine tests)
• Analysis of catalyst deactivation, time-on-stream effects and extraction of real-time process operation data over several thousand operating hours
• Techno-economic feasibility studies and life cycle assessments (LCA) of PtX processes

Your benefits:

• Our many years of experience in the field of Power-to-X guarantees you reliable and competent support in solving your individual issues.
• Our highly customized test benches provide you with fast and precise measurement results for your process developments.
• Our stationary and dynamic simulations are experimentally validated in our multi-faceted infrastructure and reduce the scale-up risk.

We develop efficient chemical processes for the industrial production of sustainable synthesis products. This is based on detailed and experimentally validated models to describe the reaction kinetics and thermodynamic behavior of the substance mixtures. We optimize the processes and determine technical and economic KPIs using industry-oriented process simulation tools such as Aspen Plus or customized simulation tools on the basis of Matlab/Simulink developed in house. In addition, we intensify processes by coupling reaction and material separation in order to make them more efficient and economical.

We eveluate homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts in our highly developed test rigs. We use parallelized high-throughput reactor systems, fixed-bed reactors and batch reactors. State-of-the-art measurement techniques enable us to examine the processes taking place in the reaction down to the last detail. Using fiber optic temperature measurement, we can measure and understand the thermal behavior in the reactor with millimeter precision. At the same time, advanced analytical methods allow us to analyze products locally along the reactor, even in dynamic synthesis processes. Based on this data, we carry out detailed catalyst screenings and generate customized kinetic models to precisely describe the reaction behavior. We also use state-of-the-art measurement techniques such as NAP-XPS or µXRF to analyze the processes on the catalyst surface in order to evaluate catalyst stability and understand deactivation mechanisms.

We plan, design, automate and operate test benches to investigate our processes under industrially relevant conditions. Based on our in-depth understanding of the thermodynamics and kinetics of the processes, we are able to implement customized plant designs in a CE-compliant manner. Through the operation of these plants, we collect detailed data for a successful, experimentally validated scale-up.