Hydrogen

Consulting Services for Hydrogenation to Help Improve Your Plant Productivity Consulting Services for Hydrogenation to Help Improve Your Plant Productivity

It's not easy to solve complex plant process problems in today's lean operating environment. The experience of the people at Air Products in the areas of reaction engineering and catalysis is available to assist your staff with your scale-up, troubleshooting, and debottlenecking problems. Our Hydrogenation and Oxidation Consulting and Support Services group would like to be your partner in removing obstacles to plant productivity. On many occasions we have helped customers improve process conversion rates and batch times on a full-plant scale. One example is illustrated here.

Air Products' Consulting Services Can Help You

• Decrease Batch Times
• Increase Throughput

Efficient gas/liquid mixing and headspace turnover are crucial in most processes carried out in stirred tank reactors. To illustrate the importance of these parameters in overall system performance, a series of batch soybean oil hydrogenation experiments were performed to study the effect of gas headspace turnover rate on batch time.