UIC's portfolio of products and services covers the entire life-cycle of vacuum distillation scenarios.

A typical entry point for any given separation task is an extensive analysis of the feasibility of vacuum distillation in our test lab. This is usually accomplished with one of our lab units.

	Lab	Pilot	Production
Material	Glass	Stainless Steel
Throughput	10…20 kg·m-2·h-1	100…200 kg·m-2·h-1
Model	KDL 1 … KDL 30 DSL 5	KD 6 … KD 10 RF 6 … RF 10	KD 30 … KD 5000 RF 30 … RF 5000
Objective	Feasibility: investigate what can be accomplished	Scalability: determine relevant performance parameters	Efficiency: optimize process performance
Examples
UIC's Portfolio of Plants

Once the feasibility is assessed and the relevant target parameters are identified, a scale-up on one of our pilot plants is pursued in order to determine the optimal process parameters for industrial production.

Taking into account our extensive experience, piloting with representative material may allow a very reliable prediction of the performance characteristics of a production plant. Based on pilot trials we may also offer process guarantees.

With the key figures that have been gathered in the pilot trials, an industrial plant is designed, fabricated and put into operation.

Last but not least we offer extensive after-sales services including supply of spare parts.

The design points and fields of application of our three plant categories are summarized in the attached table. The difference in throughput rates of glass vs. stainless steel is primarily due to the different thermal conductivity.

The KD… label refers to short-path distillation units, whereas the DSL… and the RF… labels refer to thin-film distillation units.

Scalability

Feed rates that can be processed in distillation plants from UIC span almost 5 orders of magnitude starting at ~ 200 g/h up to ~ 10 t/h.

Apart from material properties, the key determinant for feed rates is the evaporator surface. It can vary from ~ 0.01 m² to ~ 50 m².

Typical plant sizes from UIC are depicted in the adjacent diagram. Glass units (lab) are represented in blue and stainless steel units (pilot, production) are represented in red.