Environmental

From the processing of biofuels and recovery of catalysts, to concentration of bio-based chemicals, LCI thin film evaporation technology provides reliable, continuous processing of difficult environmental evaporation processes. LCI's core products include thin film evaporators, short path evaporators, thin-film dryers, and high viscosity processors. Our thin film evaporation technology allows us to solve problems that were previously difficult or impossible for our clients, including:

• Strip solvents from temperature sensitive products
• Process foul-prone or foaming products
• Maintain consistent product quality with short residence times and narrow product quality distribution
• Obtain high product purity by stripping impurities to very low residual levels
• Short residence resulting in better product quality, consistency, repeatability, and control especially for once-through, continuous configurations
• Run at deep vacuum levels to distill high-boiling or temperature sensitive materials
• Concentration of dilute products such as fermentation broths
• Remove solvents from petroleum products such as bitumen
• Maximize recovery and quality of pure glycerin from crude streams (i.e. soap stock, biodiesel)
• Recovery of catalysts for silicon processing
• Recovery of organic products from tars and residues
• Recovery of solvents from photovoltaic resins
• Evaporation of radioactive waste water

Environmental Case Studies

Dewater Bio-Based Fuels