Catalyst
Pilot Plant
Overview
NCL's catalyst pilot plant facility can produce a range of solid heterogeneous catalytic material such as zeolites, silica-aluminas, binary oxides and supported metal catalysts used in a range of industrial processes for petroleum, petrochemical, organic/fine chemicals and detergent industries. The facilities for synthesis range from gram scale to a few hundreds of kilograms.
Mission
& Goals
- Scale-up, preparation and supply of catalysts based on NCL know – how.
- Custom – made synthesis of zeolites and other solid catalysts.
- Optimization and scale up of recipe for solid catalysts
Competencies
Synthesis of zeolites and
oxides
- Zeolites (ZSM-5 series), TS-1/ TS-2 (Titanosilicates), Mordenite, Beta, LTL, FAU, P).
- SAPOs. Oxide / Mixed oxide catalysts
Processing and shaping of solid catalysts
- Mixing and ball milling of catalyst powder.
- Extrusion of the catalyst with chosen binder. Solids powder can be shaped in the form of tablets, hollow spheres, balls, etc.
Facilities
- Reaction vessels with capacity ranging between 20 L and1000 L
- Spray dryers (3 kg/h and 30 kg/h), Pug Mill / Mix-muller (25 kg/batch), Sigma Mixer 15-20 kg/batch, Mixtruder (25 kg/h) Calciner (700 C, 60 - 100 kg/batch &1000 C°, 20 - 25 kg/batch), Neoprene-line ball mill (25-30 kg)
- Granulators with variable speed, Laboratory extruder/Hand operated extruder, Solid cylindrical tablet making machine, Ring cylindrical tablet making machine
Glimpses of current research
Contact
Dr. Rajiv Kumar
National Chemical Laboratory ,
Pune 411 008
Email :rajiv@cata.ncl.res.in
Phone :+91-20-2589 0976
Fax :+91-20-2589 0976