PILOT PLANT SERVICES
Intertek Pilot Plant Services
offers the flexibility to modify
our existing equipment and
flow schemes, install client
provided equipment or acquire
new commercially available
equipment, as needed, to
closely replicate the preferred
process configuration.
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Processing options include conversion
the site of the legacy Gulf Oil Research processing, separation processing and Intertek Advantages
and Development Center, Intertek Pilot thermal processing applications.
Plant Services helps clients evaluate Intertek is a leading Total Quality
catalyst and process technologies Assurance provider to industries
as well as generate real time process Our Solutions worldwide. Through our network of
data to support the design basis for Around-the-clock fully attended unit more than 1,000 laboratories and offices
commercial applications, optimization operations and analytical controls and over 42,000 people in more than
of production facilities, post mortem enable accurate, cost effective and 100 countries, the Group is re-defining
troubleshooting of process operations timely process technology evaluations. the industry with our Total Quality
and toll production. The pilot plants Each and every program is treated Assurance proposition.
can support a wide array of process with the utmost level of
technologies including delayed coking, confidentiality. Any data generated
during the performance of a pilot We go beyond physical quality control
desalting, distillation, fixed-bed reactor to provide total peace of mind through
processing, solvent refining and plant testing program remains the
intellectual property of our respective our innovative and bespoke Assurance,
visbreaking. Testing, Inspection and Certification
clients.
solutions for our customers’ operations
The Proposition and supply chains. Intertek Total
As an independent testing services Quality Assurance expertise, delivered
Mitigation of technical risk via a low-cost provider for more than 25 years, consistently, with precision, pace and
determination of processing technology our evaluations include processing passion, enabling our customers to
feasibility and commercial scale-up biostocks, chemicals, petrochemicals, power ahead safely.
success is done quickly and effectively petroleum, petroleum derivatives, and
through process pilot plant research unconventional feedstocks.
working hand-in-hand with our client
base which is comprised of academia,
cleantech startups, engineering firms,
government organizations, process
technology licensors and commercial
processors.
PILOT PLANT SERVICES
Fixed Bed Reactor Processing Additionally, through a secure internet • P73 is a light hydrocarbon solvent
• P63 & P67 each include two based access point, our clients can deasphalting unit with feed rates
2.5 L catalyst capacity access real-time hourly unit operating from 1.9-5.7 L/h utilizing
reactors with the option of inter-bed data for process monitoring anywhere co-processing propane, butane,
hydrogen quench, gas recycle, in the world. pentane or mixtures thereof.
liquid recycle, one pressure tower, • P96 is a two stage, skid mounted
two atmospheric towers and feed Common process applications include: Howe-Baker type electrostatic
rates from 1-5 L/h. • Aromatics Saturation desalter with feed rates ranging
• P84-P88 each include two 0.434 L • Catalytic Dewaxing from 10-57 L/h.
catalyst capacity reactors with the • Fisher-Tropsch • Small scale batch equipment for
option of gas recycle, liquid recycle, • Hydrocracking desalting, fractionation and clay
one pressure tower, one • Hydrodeoxygenation treating are available for preliminary
atmospheric tower and feed rates • Hydrodesulfurization project scoping and specialized
from 0.1-0.8 L/h. • Hydrodenitrification product yield and quality
• P106-109 and P110-113 each • Hydrogenation determinations. Batch distillation
include four 0.120 L catalyst • Hydrofinishing capacity from 0.1-568.0 L.
capacity reactors housed in a • Isomerization
common alumina heating block with • Reforming
feed rates from 0.06-0.3 L/h.
• Small scale batch autoclaves for Crude Oil and Heavy Oil
process screening and rapid Upgrading
depressurization. Batch autoclave • P2 and P3 are dual purpose units
capacity from 1.0-4.0 L. that can either operate in delayed
coking mode or in thermal cracking FOR MORE INFORMATION
These process pilot plants include (visbreaking) mode. P2 nominally
computer data logging, on-stream operates with a feed rate of 5 L/h +1 800 WORLDLAB (967 5352)
refinery gas analyzers and hourly and P3 nominally operates with a
material balance reporting. feed rate of 0.8 L/h. icenter@intertek.com
• P13 is a continuous atmospheric
and vacuum distillation unit that can
fractionate up to 538°C with feed intertek.com/testing/pilot-plant
rates of 38-57 L/h.
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