Industrial hydrogenation plants

In order to work out the con­cept for a hydro­gena­tion reac­tor and the basic engi­neer­ing of the hydro­gena­tion plant, the oper­at­ing data and the relat­ed chem­i­cal and process para­me­ters must be avail­able. These can be deter­mined and opti­mized in the new Hydro­gena­tion Test Cen­ter of Eka­to. For this pur­pose, lab­o­ra­to­ry auto­claves of 3 liters and a hydro­gena­tion reac­tor made of Alloy C22 with a fill­ing vol­ume of 60 liters are avail­able. Both can be oper­at­ed at up to 100 barg and 250 °C. The flex­i­ble con­cept of this pilot plant not only allows a real­is­tic repli­ca­tion of the actu­al hydro­gena­tion reac­tion, but also the inves­ti­ga­tion of the cat­a­lyst han­dling sys­tem includ­ing the cat­a­lyst separation.
On the basis of this infor­ma­tion, Eka­to car­ries out the scale-up, designs the required process equip­ment, devel­ops an indi­vid­ual plant con­cept in close con­sul­ta­tion with the cus­tomer and esti­mates the invest­ment costs. An expe­ri­enced team of engi­neers spec­i­fies the plant equip­ment in the fol­low­ing Basic Engi­neer­ing phase to a lev­el ready for pro­cure­ment. Addi­tion­al­ly, the plant lay­out and the safe­ty con­cept are worked out, HAZOPs are con­duct­ed and the final invest­ment costs for the entire plant are pre­cise­ly deter­mined. If required, the com­pa­ny also pro­vides the entire engi­neer­ing ser­vices for the hydro­gena­tion plant in parts or in total: the detail engi­neer­ing, the sup­ply of the key equip­ment as well as instal­la­tion and com­mis­sion­ing sup­port. This includes the qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the hydro­gena­tion plant if it is to work under GMP con­di­tions later.