Pilot Plant

Robinson Brothers Ltd(RBL) Pilot Plant facility is used  for scale-up and development of our  new products and processes as well as commercial manufacture to support our customer's smaller volume requirements.

The facility consists of 10 fully flexible reactors, available in both glass lined and stainless steel. The array of reactors gives a capacity from 50 litres up to 1250 litres. The reactors are complemented by a range of enclosed filter dryer's for solids handling with fractional and short path distillation equipment for liquids. The Pilot Plant is connected to the site ring main system meaning that the vessels are all vented to our abatement system.

The range of reactor vessels available is summarised below:

Summary of Service Facilities:

• Temperature range from -15°C to 150°C
• Pressure to 35 bar in Autoclave facilities
• Three Filter drier units in Hastelloy and Stainless Steel for Solids Handling
• Distillation equipment including Short Path Distillation unit (WFE) for Liquids
• Vacuum <1 mBar
• Vessel Venting to Incineration