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                            From Lab Theory to Pilot Scale

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                            With over a quarter of a century of engineering expertise in the Company, we are developing lab programmes to model both scale-up and scale-down.  We help customers estimate pressure drop, material loading, kinetics and other basic calculations.  With either our own or customer data we can further optimise flow rates, number and height of theoretical plates.  We have new lab programmes in place to measure particle boundary layer, internal pore diffusivity and other key product parameters we believe will allow for better full scale performance at lower scale-up risk.

                            Pilot Scale & Off the Shelf Solutions

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                            For pilot and mid-scale, PhosphonicS offers a number of off the shelf solutions including pre-packed cartridges.  For the pharmaceutical, speciality chemical and small scale-industrial setting we supply can supply pre-packed polypropylene cartridges.  For short tests we lease a two column pre-packed system suitable for continuous industrial  processing.  Data from this off the shelf kit can but used to design specific full scale equipment for customers who need to process large volumes of liquid (tonnes/year).

                            Full-Scale Custom Engineering 

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                            Many of our precious metal recovery applications (mining and industrial chemical applications for example) process such large volumes of stream that a customized solution is more relevant.  The solutions will take into account the stream concentration, flowrate, inventory cost of the metal, loading and unloading operations, health and safety and other requirements.

                            We have internal chemical engineers who can work directly with your team, and we have relationships with equipment vendors in both the EU and  Asia  to manufacture custom equipment to a variety of price-points.