Engineering and Manufacturing

Filling the gap between bench-scale and commercial production

During technology commercialization, a team of experts on the side that clients can always trust and have complete confidence in to help you successfully fill the gap between bench-scale operation and commercial manufacturing. Pilot plants are essential to obtain real data prior to the construction of a commercial plant. Primotron has devoted its activity since 2020 to the development of technologies dedicated to improving the design, construction, and operation mode of small-scale pilot plants, their data acquisition, and supervisory and control systems.
These systems with a high degree of complexity, a high number of operating variables, and the interrelationship among the requires an exhaustive study of the instrumentation and control in order to attain results provided by these systems that are representative and reproducible.

MEMBRANE FILTRATION systems

Pilot plant separation helps to determine process feasibility, plant design, and economics at an early stage and can give an accurate model of what a full-scale commercial plant could achieve.
Our comprehensive range of mobile membrane filtration plants and supporting plant equipment such as prefiltration, heating, and mixing skids as well as in-house laboratory services are available as an extended research facility for manufacturers wishing to develop and optimize their processes, to help them determine at an early stage a process feasibility, plant design and evaluation of the likely operating costs.

We Can Provide

Transport of pilot plants to and from your site (normally created)
The selection and supply of the required membrane (or membranes, if a comparative trial is to be undertaken)
The services of an experienced engineer for the duration of the trial
Detailed operating and maintenance instructions, together with operator training
Operation of the plant, recording of data, and production of samples during the trial, indicating realistic limitations and conclusions

Reactor Systems

Primotron is a leading manufacturer of reactor systems and pilot plants for chemical synthesis and API manufacturing; from lab through pilot to production. Our customers benefit from our products with:

Excellent process vacuum

Fast, easy, and efficient cleaning

Easy & fast installation/maintenance

Very short downtimes

Product specification

Jacketed glass reactor
Baffle with Pt100 temperature sensor
Continuously adjustable agitator speed
Dry running mechanical seal
Compact stainless-steel frame, mobile FDA conform, highly corrosion resistant

Reactor lift for easy reactor opening, cleaning, and stirrer exchange
3-wall reactor vessel for -90 °C chemistry
Glass distillation overhead
Sampling system
Probes for pH, others
CiP spray nozzle
IQ / OQ / PQ
Safety with flexibility

Modular Skid-mounted pilot plant

Scaling the process with a modular process skid will help to avoid interruptions to production and ensure higher quality fabrication of the process equipment. The quality construction of modular skids requires partnering with savvy process engineering experts. Primotron’s modular process skids are designed to demonstrate the viability of a process technology without the cost of a full production-level system. As an experienced process engineering design and modular process fabrication company, Primotron’s, skid mound pilots can save the process from costly mistakes. Using in-plant knowledge and a compressed build schedule, process technology is proven faster and production rates are met or exceeded. The range of our products includes:

Polymerization pilot plant

The Polymerization Pilot Plant, developed by Promotion is designed for continuous production at microscale. Primotron in cooperation with some pioneer manufacturers and one research and technology center in different collaboration projects has developed a pilot plant to produce polyolefins. The plant consists of two continuous stirred-tank reactors that operate in series and it also includes a pre-treating raw material area. Primotron computerized process control system allows direct control of temperature, level, pressure, and gas composition in the reactors. Primotron Plant is fully automatized and all of the process parameters, such as gas and liquid flows, operating pressure and temperature, residence time per reactor, etc., can be selected by the user, or modified within a wide range.

Up to three independent gas lines for both monomer and co-monomer feeding into each reactor and a nitrogen line as inert gas
Two solvent lines. A common stream is divided in two, feeding the solvent into each reactor at real-time
A catalyst line for catalyst addition in the slurry phase into the first reactor
A co-catalyst line for its addition in a homogeneous solution into the first reactor Reactors and flashes
The plant consists of three SS316 stirred tanks with high-pressure closure system provided with a magnetically coupled stirred head, a heating jacket, a cooling coil, valves, and accessories

CUSTOM PROCESS DESIGN

Primotron is the leading supplier of innovative, technologically advanced services to help you demonstrate and achieve your processing targets. Our first approach to process development is always simple, traditional, proven technologies. In the instances where this is not appropriate we offer custom process design.
We offer custom process design services when:

Emerging industries require innovative chemical engineering
Traditional approaches do not work well
Your processing plant experiences new constraints
Harsher economics require better recovery, more throughput or a reduction in operating costs
New regulations or legislation are enacted

With many technical experts specializing in a diverse range of fields, Primotron can develop new process technologies to help you resolve your processing problems. We can integrate new processing advances with existing technologies to address specific situations. Partner with Primotron for innovative yet practical custom process design.

Engineering Assistance and Scale up

We also offer additional engineering services for pilot plants and other projects including:

With several projects designed, built, and delivered to customers in Asia Pacific, Primotron’s unmatched engineering strengths, capabilities and experience allow us to confidently deliver projects that meet and often exceed customer expectations.

We know what equipment works as a chemical process scale-up is implemented, and how to achieve scale-up to production cost-effectively.

Looking to the future of our customer needs, scale-up considerations are a key component throughout the execution of our customer projects. Primotron’s goal is always to create fully scalable solutions for our customers, to provide an effective bridge from one process scale to the next.