We undertake large and small contracts, including the following:
Project review and preview. Avoid costly mistakes with a second opinion.
Scale-up studies.
Take the guesswork out of scaling your lab process.
Equipment design and evaluation
... for new or existing plant.
Technology reviews and scouting.
Identify best practice and review your options.
Troubleshooting and debottlenecking.
Meet your operational challenges.
Bespoke hardware.
Together with our engineering design partners we can supply your specialist hardware needs.
Short crash courses.
Learn to Do It Yourself.
CONTRACT EXPERIENCE
Techno-economic assessment and technology transfer:
Assessment of minerals wet-oxidation process as destruction technique for general liquid wastes.
Preparation of comprehensive comparative data for wastewater treatment process capital and operating costs.
Third-party review of equipment for toothpaste manufacture.
Technical, economic and safety assessment of pyrolysis process for destruction of controlled drugs.
Adaptation of terrestrial process engineering technology to recovery of oxygen from lunar regolith (European Space Agency).
Safety, reliability and hazards:
Thermal toughening of safety glass.
Hazard analysis in the handling of flammable solvents and vapours.
Design and validation of new fire protection hardware.
Safe processing of old fire extinguishers.
Management of multi-party consortia:
JOULE II 'Improved efficiency of adsorption processes'; 10 French, German, Danish and UK partners in process efficiency research.
Separation Processes Service (SPS); 20-strong international technology transfer panel in extraction processes.
Effluent Processing Club; responsible for planning, legislative and operations aspects of effluent treatment assessment.
Sonochemistry Development Club; managed multidisciplinary team (chemists, electrical engineers, hardware subcontractors) to demonstrate industrial practicality of sonochemistry.
For contract experience in solvent extraction, the handling and analysis of liquid-liquid systems, see Extraction