The AVN Blog

A need was brought to AVN to carry out a hydrotreating process on a specific feed material using a sulfided catalyst. AVN designed and constructed a reaction system that allowed continuous operation with appropriate feeds, including hydrogen, liquid feeds, other gases, and sulfiding agent. The unit was designed for safe… Read More

AVN was proud to sponsor the 40th annual “Melodies of Harmony: Symphony Sunday” event in Charleston, W.Va., on the University of Charleston lawn. Hosted by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Sunday, June 4 was an afternoon filled with free outdoor festival featured music, food, and games. The West Virginia Symphony… Read More

Polymerization of an olefin with a specific catalyst had been found by a customer to produce a product of interest in a small-scale batch reaction. AVN was engaged to assist in scaling up the process to generate 25 kg of product. Challenges included finding process conditions that would generate product… Read More

A customer needed to have kilogram quantities of target molecules synthesized by routes involving pressure reactions such as carbonylation, hydrogenation, and hydroformylation. AVN was able to demonstrate these syntheses in small stirred pressure reactors and then to scale up the procedures in larger reactors. Products were then purified by various… Read More

A product of interest to a customer could be produced by a catalytic reaction in a fixed-bed reactor, but catalysts and conditions for best operation were not known. AVN set up a catalyst screening reactor to test a selection of catalysts for their performance under a standard set of conditions. Read More