CHEMISTRY
SUPPORTING YOUR R&D OPTIMISE YOUR PROCESSES
IFTS
On a day-to-day basis, the chemical industries must develop quality products that are more environmentally friendly. This means controlling water, energy and input consumption while reducing dependence on fossil raw materials. Regulatory changes also require the ability to constantly adapt and innovate in a sustainable development context.
Whether in inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, speciality chemistry, the pharmaceutical industry or cosmetics, unitary liquid-solid separation operations are omnipresent throughout the production chains. Their optimisation is a must for developing more efficient, more profitable and more sustainable processes.
Whether you need to concentrate precipitates or crystals or to clarify any liquid and suspension, our expert teams will find solutions to your problems:
- State-of-the-art technology monitoring
- Studies and tests in the laboratory or in situ
- Prescription of technical solutions
- Specific training.
With over 40 years of experience, we support chemical manufacturers in the optimisation of unitary liquid/solid separation operations.
OPTIMISE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
We provide the chemical industry with our expertise in water and industrial effluent management:
- Water recycling and reuse (REUSE)
- Reduction of consumption
- Optimisation of the quality and quantity of discharges
- Sludge treatment and dewatering
Our offer is available at all stages of your product’s life cycle: From idea to operational deployment.
Through our participation in the Carnot Institute “Water & Environment”, we are also committed to reducing the environmental footprint of our various industrial activities.
As an independent organisation, we provide neutral and objective advice to our industrial clients based on our expertise, our experience of tests conducted on real products and our knowledge of the market.
Studies & Tests :
- Physico-chemical and behavioural characterisation (size, shape, density, rheology, limiting dryness, etc.) of fluids and suspensions
- Characterisation of the performance of filters, filter media and membranes: efficiency and retention capacity, pressure drop, pore size distribution, friability, etc.
- Laboratory and pilot scale tests
- Advice on the choice of unit operations and filter media
- Process evaluation and optimisation
- Production of custom separated fractions
Expertise & Training :
- Technical expertise / On-site unit audit / Technology watch
- Operational assistance
- Assistance in drafting calls for tender
- Training (More information available here)
Our technical means available in the laboratory or for rent:
- Filter test benches
- Fluid-fluid porometer
- Filter-compression cells
- Laboratory equipment: centrifugation, coagulation, flotation, membrane separations, etc.
- Pilot filtration equipment: filter press, centrifugal decanter, decantation columns, etc.
Supply and rental of field equipment :
- Pilot modules for filtration, decantation and other liquid/solid separation technologies
- Chemical conditioning tests of sludge: BOOTEST
- Design of custom-made equipment
Some examples of IFTS achievements:
- Expertise of the effluent treatment plant of a chemical industry.
- Comparative study of the recovery and washing of crystals on a filter drier and on a centrifugal dryer.
- Exploratory tests of membrane filtration on an industrial effluent.
- Washing and separation of particles in an acidic suspension.
- Assessment of water consumption and use in a surface treatment process for internal reuse.
- Study of the precipitation and dewatering operations of gas scrubbing effluents.
- Clarification of used solvents for regeneration.
