Bench-scale studies - a corner stone

Bench scale studies are a corner stone of new developments within catalyst and processes.

Testing catalysis

Topsoe's bench scale laboratories are equipped with hundreds of test units mainly constructed in-house, and our proprietary know-how forms the basis of the design of these units.

In some cases tests are carried out to investigate the influence of various poisons on catalyst behaviour, in other cases the units are used for catalyst screening of potential new catalysts. In certain business areas the bench scale units run long-term run tests for customers, in many cases based on feeds imported directly from refineries.

Testing data

Bench-scale testing also involves gathering data necessary for construction of kinetic expressions used in the reaction models. These reaction models are applied in the design of industrial plants.

The transformation of knowledge from bench-scale units via computer models into design of industrial plants is considered one of Topsoe's core competencies.