Technology development
1999 - 2003
Primary Screening - Used for new discoveries
TECHNOLOGY
- Reactor System: Bead reactors, 48-fold tube reactors
- Volume: <1 ml
- Shape: Powders (100 - 500 μm)
- Reaction type: Gas-phase reactions
APPLICATIONS
- Emissions control
- Selective oxidation
- Syngas conversion
- Methanol-to-hydrocarbons
2004 - 2008
Secondary Screening & Catalyst Testing - Used for continuous improvements
TECHNOLOGY
- Reactor System: 16-fold tube reactors
- Volume: Up to 10 ml
- Shape: Shaped materials
- Reaction type: Gas and liquid products, trickle-bed applications
APPLICATIONS
- Gas-to-alcohols
- Gas-to-acetic acid
- Hydroprocessing
2009 - 2013
Parallel Extrudate Testing - Used for kinetic modeling & process development
TECHNOLOGY
- Reactor System: 1-fold to 16-fold parallel tube reactors
- Volume: Up to 300 ml
- Shape: Commercial extrudates & others
- Reaction type: Gas and liquid products, trickle-bed applications
APPLICATIONS
- Hydrocracking / Resid upgrade
- Light cut naphtha cracking, methanol-to-olefins, others
- Naphtha reforming, transalkylation, others
2014 - 2018
Pilot Plant Testing - Used for commercial production at industrially relevant conditions
TECHNOLOGY
- Reactor System: 1-fold pilot plant reactors and recycle reactors
- Volume: 100 - 10,000 ml
- Shape: Extrudates
- Reaction type: Gas and liquid products, trickle-bed applications; catalyst and process Scale-up
APPLICATIONS
- FCC
- Fine chemicals starting from biomass-based intermediates through selective oxidation or selective hydrogenation
- Integration of refining & petrochemical processes
