161a Pilot Plant for Distillation and Extraction Testing

Donald J. Glatz and Lori Mason. Extraction Equipment, Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC, 45 Eisenhower Drive, Paramus, NJ 07652

Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC (KMPS) is a leading supplier of distillation and liquid-liquid extraction equipment. Pilot plant testing is often required to optimize the process conditions and generate the data for accurate design of production size equipment. Thus, a fully equipped pilot plant, including analytical laboratory is maintained and operated for process development. Included in this poster are pictures of typical pilot plant equipment set-ups for distillation and liquid-liquid extraction. Also shown are the equipment used for vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) and liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) data generation that is typically the first step in a process development program for these operations. On occasions where it is not feasible and/or economical to ship chemicals to an off-site pilot plant, pictures of the portable equipment used for on-site testing is shown as well.