- Improve product quality, achieving >99% purity for multiple products in ONE batch cycle, while complying strict regulations.
- Unlock process agility, offering a highly flexible unit that substitutes numerous columns with ONE for complex separation challenges, in turn, minimizing CAPEX by up to 80%.
- Shorten batch time for higher productivity, designing concepts and workflows to reduce start-up and shutdown time to <15% total.
EXCELOT™ Batch Processes
Maximize product quality and tackle diverse tasks in one unit
EXCELOT is a solution platform offering tailored batch processes to address the most complex separation challenges across industries from waste management to fine and specialty chemicals, as well as flavor and fragrances. From the recovery of valuable solvents to the separation of essential oils into specific fractions, EXCELOT can be delivered as customized modular purification unit to meet your space and purity requirements.
- Solvent recovery (e.g. EtOH, IPA, MEK, EtAc, ACN, DMA, hexadiene and more)
- Multipurpose distillation (varying feed streams)
- Purification and fractionation of heat sensitive products (e.g. essential oils, limonene, menthol, eucalyptus, lavender, tea tree and API)
- Extraction of vitamins, nutraceuticals and essential oils
Features
EXCELOT™ key features
- Making use of Sulzer’s latest unit operation: integrating EvapCare™ evaporators, Mellapak™ packings for maximized product purity.
- Optimized control system: enabling our customers to shorten batch time and minimize product losses.
- Flexible and compact: leveraging over 60 years of expertise to design modular multipurpose plants.
- Guaranteed performance: thanks to scale-up trials in our pilot test centers backed up by numerous references.
Experience
EXCELOT™ is proven for:
- Medium-to-large batches: ranging from 250 L to 45 m3
- Flexibility: recovering multiple products from diverse feed streams at high yield (>80%) and purity (>99.5%)
- Challenging separation tasks: Separation of azeotropes mixtures and/or mixtures with limited VLE data
- Minimal losses: purifying heat sensitive and expensive products such as essential oils, flavor, aroma, API
- Smallest footprint: Modular unit for swift installation and for space limitation
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