Pilot Units

Process development and small-scale production

UIC pilot plants with Thin Film evaporators RF and Short Path evaporators KD offer everything you need for continuous distillation of your products.
They can be used for process development as well as for small-scale production. All important information for an upscaling process, process development and process optimisation
can be generated with the support of our pilot plants.

Among others, our pilot plants provide answers to these questions:
Which set-up and which setting provides the optimal product opportunities?
Where can temperature be reduced and thus energy saved?
How much throughput is possible with the planned distillation target?

Our pilot plants are also an integral part of our in-house innovation centre.
The knowledge gained from many different processes, is used to constantly check and improve the performance and quality of our plants.

 

Standard sizes of the UIC pilot plants: Thin Film evaporator RF and Short Path evaporator KD

Characteristic features

  • Capacity: 3 kg/h to 50kg/h
  • Heated surface: 0.06m² to 0.3m²
  • Max. heating temperature: 350°C
    (medium: thermal oil)
  • Operation pressure: 0.001 mbar to 1 mbar
    (Short Path distillator),
    1 mbar to 100 mbar (Thin Film evaporator)
  • Material: stainless steel, other materials on request

Pilot-scale distillation: Thin Film evaporator RF and Short Path evaporator KD

Different models available covering different requirements

 

Product development on a small production scale

 

Scale up to industrial plants

 

Plant Examples

Typ KD10
Totally jacketed Short Path distillation plant with degasser stage

 

Typ KD10
Totally jacketed Short Path distillation plant with
degasser stage and feed tank made of borosilicate glass

 

Typ KD10 & GMP
Short Path distillation plant with GMP aspects required by the customer

 

Typ RF 6  & KD6
Two stage Distillation plant in the smallest
available stainless steel version