The pilot installations are large enough to enable our experts to reliably scale-up the process to commercial size.

Pilot plants and test rigs for the following applications are available for customer testing:

• Extrusion and Devolatilization of Polymers
• Admixing additives into highly viscous melts
• Extrusion and Foam Injection Molding with physical blowing agents
• Heat Exchange for low and highly viscous products
• Dispersion of immiscible liquids and gas/liquid
• Mixing/blending of any kind of low and high/low viscous products

This not only requires modern pilot plants, but also analytical methods to verify product quality. Sulzer Chemtech uses the LIF method for measuring mixer performance. It enables our engineers and scientists to directly measure the homogeneity of the mixing effect.

LIF: Laser Induced Fluorescence Technique for Mixer Performance