Bench-scale test systems

Not only are bench-scale systems from hte tailored to your specific requirements, they are robust, modular, and easily expandable. They offer our customers valuable support, for example when scaling up, during process development and optimization, as well as when performing extended catalyst testing.  

Typical high throughput systems from hte have 16 parallel reactors, as well as catalyst volumes of up to 10 ml per reactor. If your task requires larger reactors, or you wish to operate fewer reactors in parallel, this is when our bench-scale systems come into play. These systems for testing heterogeneous catalysts on a laboratory scale typically have between one and eight reactors with catalyst volumes of between 10 and 500 milliliters per reactor. Our expertise not only covers engineering and construction, automation, and software development here. In fact, we also have a great deal of in-house application knowledge on a wide range of chemical and refinery processes, which we can apply to hardware projects. 

25 years of experience in high throughput research

Our technology platform has been optimized for over 25 years, is modular and robust, and has been validated for numerous applications in the chemical, petrochemical and refining sectors. A software package developed by hte supports you in system operation and data evaluation.

At hte, we cover all areas of lab-scale EPC engineering with our experts in process technology, engineering, project management, automation, analytics, workshop, safety, service, and supply chain. 

Wide range of test systems for high throughput research 

Gas-phase 

This technology is designed for parallel catalyst testing and catalyst optimization of gas phases of chemistry. It is particularly suitable for testing with high temperatures.


Gas-to-liquid  

These plants were developed for parallel catalyst tests and catalyst optimizations for a number of synthesis gas conversions and related chemicals such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis or the conversion of methanol. They are optimised for medium and high-pressure processes and are also used for handling waxes.


Trickle bed   

These plants are designed for parallel catalyst testing and catalyst optimization for a variety of hydroprocessing applications from hydrocracking and hydrotreating to the conversion of starting materials of biological origin. High pressure or handling of highly viscous input materials such as HVGO is possible with this system.

Performance scope
  • Temperature range from 5 – 1,100 °C
  • Pressure range from subatmospheric – 300 barg
  • Catalyst volumes from 10 – 500 ml
  • Parallelization levels from 1 to 6-fold
  • Possibility of combining multiple units into a “system”, e.g. with shared analytics
  • Shapes ranging from industrial pellets to extrudates
  • Handling of demanding feeds, from liquefied gases (e.g. LPG) to vacuum or atmospheric residues

Accelerate your research with our laboratory plants

 At hte, we help research and development teams master complex tasks and find answers to their questions more quickly. Our high throughput systems are able to operate up to 48 reactors in parallel under identical conditions and produce large amounts of data. Thanks to the modular system design, we offer you flexible and adaptable test systems for your research tasks.  

At hte, we have expertise in laboratory-scale R&D workflows and have extensive expertise in the field of high throughput research. We expand this specialist knowledge every day on the systems in our laboratories through various customer projects as well as internal projects. What particularly sets hte apart is that plant engineering is closely linked to software and analytics, so that the plant can be integrated directly into the existing infrastructure.

Unleashing potential together

Our customers rely on our test systems for electrolysis and fuel cells to provide them with comparable and reproducible data under identical conditions.