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Sulzer Chemtech
Chemtech
Membrane Technology
Introduction
Process Technology
Sulzer Chemtech established the new business unit Process Technology
in Allschwil by combining its proven process solution capabilities for distil-
lation, membrane separation and crystallization with the activities of the
recently acquired company Kühni Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Detail Engineering
– Equipment design Skid Assembly
– Skid Layout 3D-model – Steel structure
Project Management
– Piping Isometrics – Equipment
– Equipment purchasing
– Process Automation – Piping, Valving
– Expediting
– Instrumentation
– Quality assurance
– Cabling/Junction Box
– Insulation Site & Start-up Assistance
– Supervision
Basic Engineering
– Commissioning
– Process description
From first – Operator training
– Process flow diagrams
– Piping and instrument diagrams concept to
guaranteed plant
Data Analysis from Operation
– Control philosophy
– Validation
– Equipment specifications
– Layout performance – Troubleshooting
– Preliminary operating
instruction
Test Centre
– Feasibility tests
– Membrane screening
– Bench scale testing Study
Process Design
– Pilot scale testing – Feasibility
– Expertise
– Hybrid installations – Conceptual design
– Process simulation
– Membrane separation
simulation
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Membrane Processes
Membrane processes are common Hybrid System: Distillation – Reverse Osmosis – Evaporation
place in industrial applications; they
replace evaporation and distillation High Boilers Low Boilers
at improved economics. Low Boilers
Salts
Novel hybrid separation concepts Stripping
with unique overall performance Condensation
characteristics are possible by Steam Evaporation
combining membranes with thermal Cooling
and/or extractive separation tech- Water Heating Medium
High Boilers Medium
nologies. Process Technology is Salts
able to engineer and supply hybrid Salts
High Boilers
systems as one coherent unit using
its expertise in both membrane and RO Water
thermal separation technologies.
Suspended and
emulsified solids Large molecules
Yeast
Cut of f > 200 kDa
Microfiltration (MF) Pressure 0.5 – 3 bar Organoselective Nanofiltration (OSN) Cut of f > 0.3 kDa
Pressure 8 – 30 bar
Small molecules
Colloids
Proteins
Bacteria Organic solvents
Concentration
Divalents Water
Sugars Methanol
Dextrans
SO42-, PO43-
Nanofiltration (NF) Cut of f 0.1 – 1 kDa
Pressure 8 – 30 bar
Key application areas in organic systems:
Monovalents – Dehydration of organic solvents like alcohols,
Salts
ketones, esters, ethers, etc.
Glucose
Purification
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Pervaporation
Methanol Azeotropes
0.8
Vapour fraction [organic]
0.6
Process intensification –
Separation of methanol from 0.4
Feed
Retentate
Vacuum
Cooling
Medium
Water Permeate
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Pressure Driven Membrane Technologies
Typical applications
Monomer / Polymer Separation and Concentration
– Concentration of temperature
sensitive products and API
– Recovery of homogeneous and
heterogeneous catalysts 8 % Monomer
2 % Polymer
– Clarification and concentration
of organic and mineral acids
UF or NF NF or RO
– Monomer/polymer separation
– Decolorisation of solvents 0.2 % 24 % Solvent
Monomer Monomer back to
– Removal of unwanted compo- 20 % 0.24 % process
nents in solution or suspension Polymer Polymer
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Inquiry Successful
Process commissioning
Experience scheme & Skid
with the Process design Start up of the unit
Cost manufacturing assistance
Separation application? estimation
task Process
solution
– Experience – Engineering
Process – Process
– Databases – Equipment
Engineering Engineering
– Literature Manufacture
– Testing
– (Testing) – Assembly
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Process Technology North & South America Asia Pacific
Headquarters Sulzer Chemtech, USA, Inc. Sulzer Chemtech Pte. Ltd.
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd 1 Sulzer Way 10 Benoi Sector
Gewerbestrasse 28 Tulsa, OK 74131 Singapore 629845
4123 Allschwil 2 USA Phone +65 6515 5500
Switzerland Phone +1 918 446 6672 Fax +65 6862 7563
Phone +41 61 486 37 37 Fax +1 918 446 5321 ctsg@sulzer.com
Fax +41 61 486 37 77
contactpt@sulzer.com
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd, a member of the Sulzer Corporation, with The activity program comprises:
headquarters in Winterthur, Switzerland, is active in the field of process • Process components such as fractionation trays, structured and
engineering and employs some 2500 persons worldwide. random packings, liquid and gas distributors, gas-liquid separators,
Sulzer Chemtech is represented in all important industrial countries and internals for separation columns
and sets standards in the field of mass transfer and static mixing with
• Engineering services for separation and reaction technology such as
its advanced and economical solutions.
conceptual process design, feasibilities studies, plant optimizations
including process validation in the test center
• Recovery of virtually any solvents used by the pharmaceutical and
chemical industry, or difficult separations requiring the combination
of special technologies, such as thin film/short-path evaporation,
distillation under high vacuum, liquid-liquid extraction, membrane
technology or crystallization
• Complete separation process plants, in particular modular plants
(skids)
• Tower field services performing tray and packing installation, tower
and column maintenance, vessel welding, and plant turnaround
projects
• Mixing and reaction technology with static mixers
• Cartridge-based metering, mixing and dispensing systems, and
disposable mixers for reactive multi-component material
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