At hte, we accompany R&D teams on their research journey. Among other things, our experts support you with workflow analyses, design and feasibility studies, or scientific work such as experiment design.
Researchers face a variety of challenges in their projects: from selecting the right technology, through designing efficient processes, all the way up to acquiring the necessary application expertise. hte is the world’s leading provider of solutions for lab-scale R&D workflows. Our consulting team helps find answers to questions that companies and research institutions are facing across the globe. For example, our experts provide support in selecting suitable catalysts and technologies, while also helping you identify and evaluate technological risks in a pre-project phase. We help customers that have little experience with certain chemical processes or catalysis to develop a new process or establish a new value chain. Should companies not have their own test laboratories or lack the requisite testing capacities, hte enables them to address their issues more quickly and generate high-quality data in the process.
hte not only offers consulting services in the research environment, but also builds flexible laboratory systems as turnkey solutions, conducts efficient catalyst and materials research in its in-house laboratory, and is an experienced partner for innovative process development. Our R&D consulting experts bring this comprehensive expertise in innovative R&D workflows to your projects. Benefit from our many years of expertise in engineering, design, automation, and software development, as well as our broad application experience and our first-class project management expertise.
Each of our R&D consulting projects starts with a precise understanding of our customers’ specific requirements, which we then translate into a quotation. The quoted services are highly project-dependent and individually tailored to your needs and objectives.
In a workflow analysis, we typically record your laboratory processes and then specifically analyze which steps can be expedited through parallelization, automation, or digitalization. We also evaluate how your entire workflow can be made more efficient here. An analysis of this kind is often the first step before a hardware project. This then provides you with a customized solution for automating your workflow without having to commission an entire engineering project upfront.
In a design and feasibility study, we check the general feasibility of your project without entering into the subsequent phases of concrete project execution. In addition, we carry out feasibility studies, for example before the actual project, in order to address critical points that are essential for the success of the subsequent project. Our experts examine various factors here, including reactor loading with a new type of catalyst such as fleece catalysts, and carry out packing studies. We also use analytical studies to validate the detection of critical components, for example in the development of GC methods for Deacon or testing of the lower detection threshold for NOx gases.
If your lab-scale EPC project involves significant technical risks, we can separate the “basic engineering” and “detailed engineering” project phases from the overall hardware project for you as a separate upstream project. Risks can be minimized by taking a detailed look at the system design and all components.
We carry out literature studies for you and, in cooperation with catalyst suppliers and technology licensors, make recommendations on catalyst or technology selection, as well as the experimental execution of catalyst tests. We can also prepare a project report with a scientific evaluation for you.
Digitalized and automated workflows in laboratories expedite the research process, increase the quality of results, and make results reproducible. We have the expertise to integrate various research systems and data sources into fully automated workflows. We can also integrate heterogeneous system landscapes and various analytical devices.
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