Many specialty chemicals are produced using batch processing. Continous processing using catalysts, services, and systems from Applied Catalyss enables higher productivity with lower production costs. Applied Catalysts offers assistance in converting your batch chemistry to a continuous fixed bed process at all sages of development.
Specialty Chemicals
About Our Process
Current batch reactor processes can be converted to continuous processes by catalyst selection and engineering to commercial systems.
Pain Points We Solve
It is not common to have an organization that spans the catalyst development process from lab scale to commercial production.
Implementing catalyst development technology rapidly enables rapid commercialization and maximizes the NPV created by implementing the developed catalyst.
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Process Catalysts
Custom Catalysts
With a proven record of Custom Catalyst manufacturing services and a foundation of knowledgeable chemists and researchers, Applied Catalysts’ monolithic catalyst supports even the most challenging design and processing needs from manufacturing to development, ensuring high performance.
Applications Supported
CO2 Capture
Using an activated carbon monolith catalyst for CO2 capture has a number of advantages. First, activated carbon in the monolith can absorb and desorb CO2. Second, activated carbon is a high-capacity support for other base adsorbants, such as alkali or alkaline earth metal carbonates or amine-functionalized polymers.
Chemical Processes
ACMC catalysts can be used for continuous chemical processes, including hydrogenation of organic liquids and gases, reductive alkylation, amination, Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbons, and oxygenates and acids, hydrochlorination, hydrodenitrogenation, and hydrodesulfurization. Our solutions are aimed at supporting activated carbon monoliths used in the chemical process.
Catalyst Processes
Hydrogenation
The hydrogenation process involves the addition of hydrogen to organic substrates. The functional groups being converted in the organic substrates can be olefinic to aliphatic groups, aromatic compounds to aliphatic compounds, nitro groups to amines, nitrile groups to amines, acids to aldehydes, and aldehydes and ketones to alcohols and ethers. Hydrogenation can also be used to remove sulfur, nitrogen, and chlorine content in molecules.
Industries Served
Pharmaceuticals
The manufacture of pharmaceuticals often contains one or more catalytic hydrogenation steps. Monolith catalysts convert the functional group of a molecule selectively into a new one to produce the starting material for the next synthetic step. Applied Catalysts can provide ACMC monolith-based catalysts for continuous flow process chemistry, enhancing the sustainability and low cost of manufacturing pharmaceutical products.
Services
APPLIED CATALYST CAN HELP YOU INSTALL A CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR YOUR CURRENT BATCH PROCESS
Here is what you can expect:
- catalysts proposed for your process based on internal and external catalyst options
- semi-pilot and show tube demonstrations including Pilot production runs for market development
- lab scale testing and catalyst development, as needed
- engineering and fabrication of modular pilot and commercial systems
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