Specialty Chemicals
Many specialty chemicals are produced using batch processing. Continous processing using catalysts, services, and systems from Applied Catalyss enables higher productivity with lower production costs. Applied Catalysts offers assistance in converting your batch chemistry to a continuous fixed bed process at all sages of development.
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About Our Process
Current batch reactor processes can be converted to continuous processes by catalyst selection and engineering to commercial systems.
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Pain Points We Solve
It is not common to have an organization that spans the catalyst development process from lab scale to commercial production.
Implementing catalyst development technology rapidly enables rapid commercialization and maximizes the NPV created by implementing the developed catalyst.
Are You a Catalyst, Service or Systems Provider?
Discovery
Which impurities and particulate contaminants are present in the process stream? This will help us determine the type of equipment and materials needed for the reaction.
What are the concentrations and volumes of the impurities? We’ll need to know the desired production volumes to determine the appropriate size and capacity of the guardbed.
What’s your timeline for implementation? Understanding your timeline will ensure that the guardbed can be designed, manufactured, and delivered in a timely manner.
What utilities do you have available? To ensure that the guardbed can be properly installed and operated, we’ll need to confirm available utilities, such as electrical power, water, and steam.
Share your current guardbed system with us. We’ll ask for details about the current equipment and its performance to better understand your needs and requirements.
Let's have a conversationIdentifying Milestones
Is the guardbed technology already in-house? We need to know if the client currently has a guardbed in place or if they will need to acquire a new one.
If not, we’ll run experiments. If the client does not have an existing guardbed, we’ll recommend running experiments to determine the reaction conditions and establish a design basis for the new system.
Project proposal. Once we have a design basis for the new system, we can produce a proposal. Based on the results of the experiments and the client's requirements, Applied Catalysts will develop a design basis for the new guardbed and produce a proposal outlining the equipment, materials, and costs involved in the project.
Let's have a conversationWhat's in the Project Proposal?
Our proposal outlines the scope, details, and costs involved in designing, manufacturing, and installing a guardbed.
The proposal includes an opportunity summary that provides a brief overview of the project, a process schematic that outlines the process flow and equipment configuration, the required utilities needed to operate the system, the required footprint area, and the required timeline for the project's completion.
Additionally, the proposal includes a budgetary price, which can be either for the sale or rent of the equipment, that provides a cost estimate for the system's design, manufacturing, delivery, installation, and ongoing support. All of these items are critical to ensuring that the client understands the scope and costs of the project and can make an informed decision about whether to move forward with the guardbed proposal.
Let's have a conversationOur Process For Guardbed Catalysts
Process Catalysts
Metal Oxide Catalysts (MOC)
MOC products offer advantages as it can be used in both reductive and oxidative environments. Other advantages include high strength, attrition resistance, and tunable surface properties for various applications.
Custom Catalysts
Delivering on a foundation of catalyst development of over 30 years, we offer monolith-based, particulate catalysts, PGM, and base-metal catalysts.
Activated Carbon Monolith Catalysts (ACMC)
At ActiveSite, we strive to meet the unique needs of every customer. Whether you have a particular catalyst type in mind or need some additional guidance, we can help find the best solutions through all stages, from development to commercialization.
Granular Activated Carbon Catalysts (GACC)
GACC products have a high surface area and inert support for numerous catalyst applications. We can help you develop, test, and deliver the right catalyst.
Systems
Modular Process Systems
ActiveSite offers catalyst development services based on heterogeneous catalysts. Combining our testing services with our catalyst development services accelerates project success and maximizes value creation for the customer.
CATALYST DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Catalyst Development
Active Site offers catalyst development services based on heterogeneous catalysts. Combining our testing services with our catalyst development services accelerates project success and maximizes value creation for the customer.

Catalyst Sourcing
There will be times when alternate suppliers are needed. As a supplier of catalyst and process technology ourselves, we can help customers source catalysts and chemicals in many areas.

Catalyst Testing
We offer lab-scale and show-tube scale testing of hydrogenation and other chemical processes under reductive or inert conditions. Other chemistries can also be run by request.
CATALYST SYSTEMS

Batch Reactor Systems
Batch reactor systems offer a reliable and flexible way to manufacture a wide range of chemical products and allow for better control over each reaction step, making them an ideal choice for many chemical manufacturers.

Continuous Reactors
Our continuous reactor systems offer productivity, reliability, and cost advantages for chemical manufacturing. Turn-key systems can be delivered.

Modular Process Systems
Designed for flexible just in time manufacturing, our modular process systems are the perfect tools for increasing productivity and driving profitability.

Separation Systems
Separation Systems are integral to a variety of industries that involve the processing of complex chemical mixtures that require safe, efficient, and reliable process equipment.
APPLICATIONS + INDUSTRIES SERVED
Biorenewables
Pioneering catalyst solutions for converting renewable resources into sustainable and eco-friendly bio-based products.
Learn moreCO2 Capture
CO2 capture is the absorption of CO2 from ambient air (direct capture) or from more concentrated streams from industrial and other combustion processes. We can provide supports that are ready for absorbants to be applied, or monoliths with absorbants applied to your specifications.
Learn moreFine Chemicals
Specialized catalysts designed for precision and efficiency in the synthesis of high-value fine chemicals.
Learn moreOleochemicals
Tailored catalysts facilitating the conversion of natural oils and fats into diverse industrial chemicals and products.
Learn morePharmaceuticals
High-purity catalysts designed to meet stringent regulatory standards for synthesizing complex pharmaceutical compounds.
Learn morePolymers
Innovative catalysts used in polymerization processes, crucial for creating a variety of synthetic polymers with desired properties.
Learn moreSpecialty chemicals
Customized catalyst solutions catering to the unique requirements of specialty chemical production, ensuring quality and performance.
Learn moreProcess - Performance Guaranteed Separation Systems
We give our clients the peace of mind that they need to invest in our equipment, knowing that it will perform as intended and meet their production goals.
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Rapid changeover from one chemistry to another
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Just-in-time manufacturing
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Seamless process scaleup