Process understanding and reaction optimisation services
Improve the efficiency and scalability of your process
Efficient catalyst processes are the key to reducing cost, improving selectivity, and ensuring reliable scale-up. Our experts work with you to refine every aspect of your transformation, delivering performance and value at every stage.
Lower cost by optimising catalyst use
- Reducing catalyst loading and maximising yield and selectivity.
- Identifying optimal conditions, solvents, and temperatures.
- Applying cost modelling to determine the most efficient catalyst usage.
Greater selectivity for enhanced efficiency
- Obtaining critical scale-up insights such as quality of feedstock impact and mass transfer requirements.
- Kinetic modelling to understand reaction rates, catalyst inhibition, and/or deactivation.
- Characterisation of side produxts to support reaction optimisation.
Scalable success from lab to production
- Testing capabilities include parallel and stand-alone reactor studies, detailed kinetic studies and catalyst fate studies to guide removal strategies and metal recovery.
- Metal distribution mapping to support refining and purification
- Proven track record solving complex scale-up challenges.
How we deliver on reaction optimisation
- Dedicated expertise: Our team of highly specialised chemists is experienced in developing catalytic processes across diverse industries and transformation types.
- Lab-scale optimisation: Utilising advanced lab equipment including high-throughput optimisation modules, benchtop pressure reactors, and jacketed reactors.
- Integrated analytical support: Our analytical capabilities include HPLC, UPLC, GC, NMR, GCMS, LCMS, KF and DSC.
- Advanced analytical facilities: Leveraging our corporate research centre, including surface and metal analysis, solid-state NMR and crystallography, elemental analysis and ICP for metal content determination.
