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Peter van der Meer
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Aad Bouman
After this experience I have been involved in starting up new factories for production processes and the optimization of these processes.
The next periode I have been… -
Bench Scale Pretreatment
The system is able to simulate the major pretreatments in a batch-wise process. The capacity of a batch (feed basis) at the bench scale unit is…
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Pilot Scale Pretreatment
A variety of chemical and/or physical treatments of biomass can be applied, e.g. autohydrolysis, acidic and alkaline treatments, liquid hot water, SO2, steam explosion (catalyzed/uncatalyzed). A…
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Hydrolysis
For the hydrolysis of these process streams, BPF has vessels of up to 10 m3 available, enabling hydrolysis at both high and reduced viscous conditions.
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Stirred 10 L – 4 m3
Mixing is applied by speed controlled Rushton turbine stirrers. Dissolved oxygen levels in aerated processes are controlled by computer models. All ingoing and outgoing flows are…
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Bubble column 8 m3
Agitation is accomplished by bubbling a gas of choice through the column. The bubble column is located in the ATEX (T3) zone.
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Separation
Then it can be transported to the downstream processing pilot plant or shipped to a customer.
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Cell disruption
The BPF has a pressure homogenizer with a maximum working pressure up to 700 bar.
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Solid liquid separation
With a variety of unit operations available, such as several filter presses, centrifuges and membrane filtration.