What we offer
- Mechanical, thermal, physico-chemical and enzymatic pretreatment of biomass feedstocks
- Logistics and storage:
- Truck (un)loading docks
- Bulk solid biomass storage (55 t silo, 3×90 t bunkers)
- Liquid storage (vessels up to 125 m³)
- Dedicated areas for IBC storage
- Chemicals storage outside production halls
- Refrigerated storage rooms, freeze and cool containers
- A wide spectrum of modular operation units
- Operation at various scale
Biomass Pretreatment equipment overview
Reactors for chemical pretreatment of biomass:
These reactors are suitable for acid (H2SO4, HCl…), alkaline (NaOH, ammonia…), sulfite, organosolv and other types of pretreatment
- Benchtop, 2 L (ATEX, glass lined, pressurized)
- 1 x 20 L (ATEX, Hastelloy, pressurized)
- 1 x 85 L (ATEX, stainless steel, pressurized)
- 1 x 500 L (ATEX, glass lined, pressurized)
- 1 x 1000 L (ATEX, glass lined, pressurized)
- 1 x 5400 L (ATEX, glass lined, pressurized)
Reactors for enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass:
- Lab scale hydrolysis
- 1 x 500 L
- 1 x 1000 L
- 2 x 4000 L
- 2 x 5000 L
- 4 x 8000 L
- 3 x 50 000 L
- and other intermediate scales
Reaction vessels for slurries with high solids contents
Auxiliary equipment:
- Milling
- Dry milling: roller crusher, knife mill, hammer mill, cutting mill, pin disk mill
- Wet milling: pulper (2000 L), inline mixer, inline colloid mixer
- Thermal treatment
- Direct steam injection
- Jet cooking with holding tube
- Dewatering and concentration equipment
- Netsch filter press (cake volume 68 L)
- Schenk filter press (cake volume 120 L)
- Welders filter press (cake volume 352 L)
- Welders ATEX filter press (cake volume 100 L)
- Alfa Laval decanter centrifuge NX416 (3160 G, max 20 m³/h)
- Foodec decanter centrifuge (3140 G, max 2500 L/h)
- Screw press
- Falling film three-effect evaporator, 5t/h water evaporation
- Wiped film evaporators, 2 kg/h and 250 kg/h water evaporation
Expertise
Experience in treating the following lignocellulosic raw materials:
- Agro-industrial side streams: paper pulp, spent grains, bagasse, press cakes, stillage…
- Agronomic by-products: corn stover, corn cobs, husk, fiber, stems, leaves, verge grass…
- Dedicated energy crops: miscanthus, poplar…
