SwRI's Fuels Processing Center incorporates many services, safety features, and outside facilities for storage, blending, and bulk liquid handling. Fuels Processing Center Clients can avoid costly process upsets when trying new feedstocks or conditions by using the Institute pilot plants to produce special or new fuels. The Institute abides by secrecy and nonanalysis agreements, and results are free of vendor bias. Flexible program organization accommodates highly complex tasks, on various time scales and in coordination with the client. This block diagram of the Institute's hydrotreating pilot plant emphasizes special features, such as bottoms recycle and hydrogen recycle, that enhance its realism and accuracy.
Broken lines depict fully automated data collection and computer control.
Reforming and hydrocracking are readily accomplished in our hydrogenation pilot plant. Its versatile design and varied processing capabilities permit operation at a wide range of flow rates, temperatures, and pressures. Projects include improvement, new process development, and process parameter development. Trial oxidations of mill sludge Chlorofluorocarbon destruction SwRI begins many projects with custom bench-scale testing. This vacuum fractionation apparatus removes solvent from a feedstock with minimal heating of the sample.