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Process Intensification

Better Processes ... for Better Products .... and Bigger Profits!

BHR Group has been working in PI since the mid 1980s, and has amassed over 60 staff years of experience. This has been encapsulated in design guides and software, enabling our multidisciplinary team of chemists and engineers to rapidly address your needs. Highlights include:

  • the HILINE industrial research consortium, established in 1989, has provided its members with in-depth understanding of the performance of high intensity, in line mixers and reactors, such as static mixers, ejectors, pump mixers and rotor-stator mixers. HILINE has now been integrated into BHRSolutions' Fluid Mixing Processes (FMP) consortium, where work continues
  • combined chemical reactor-heat exchanger (HEX Reactor) design and development. HEX Reactors are suited to highly exothermic reactions where heat needs to be taken out as it is produced. Correct design leads to inherently safe processes and can result in significantly improved yield and product quality. BHR Group has characterised a range of existing heat exchanger types as reactors and has developed the Marbond HEX Reactor (in collaboration with Chart Heat Exchangers LP)
  • FlexReactor - combining the best features of the HEX Reactor with the flexibility needed for modern batch process plant
  • BHR Group has developed unique PI Design Methodologies, which enable process developers to approach PI in a structured way, starting with an audit involving business and process designers. These ensure that the correct opportunities are identified and PI technologies selected - rather than trying to force a process to fit into a particular piece of equipment
  • BHR Group has close links with other PI equipment vendors, so the solutions we offer are not limited to our own technologies.

We have applied our expertise to a broad range of chemical reaction types and features, across the bulk, fine and speciality chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors.

Reaction Types

Acid/base neutralisation
Alkyllithium reactions
Aminolysis
Arbuzov reactions
Azo-coupling
Borahydride reductions
Dehydration
Diazotisation
Grignard Reactions
Hydroboration
Hydrolysis
Hydrosilylation
Intra-molecular Diels Alder Nitration
Nucleophilic Substitution
Organo-phosphate synthesis
Oxidations
Polymerisation
Sigmatropic rearrangement
Sulphonation
Wittig reaction

Reaction Features

Single Phase

Gas Liquid - gas as reactant or product/byproduct

Immiscible Liquid

Liquid Slurries (non- or slow-settling) - as reactant or product/byproduct

Very fast to moderately slow (instantaneous to 15 minutes reaction time)

Very low to high temperature (-70 to 250°C)

Thermally neutral to highly exo- or endothermic (750 plus kJ/mol)

Highly corrosive reactants or products

Finally, you can be sure that if PI is not the right solution for you, we will tell you.
BHR Group is a world authority on the design of batch stirred reactors and other conventional process technology, as well as Process Intensification, so whatever your process needs, we can help you to run your process more effectively.

   
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