Pilot Plants
Make your CAPEX investments more reliable3V Group has always maintained a strong focus on R&D and in-house engineering development in the chemical, environmental and process equipment fields, allowing some of their technologies to gain international recognition.
3V Tech benefits from 3V Group's advanced R&D centers located in Italy & the USA.
Mozzo (BG), Italy
Complete Multi-purpose 4 floors test center, with the necessary utilities and suitable to handle hazardous products.
Grassobbio (BG), Italy
Mainly dedicated to environmental research and to lab scale testing.
Georgetown (S.C.), USA
Lab and pilot testing.
With state-of-the-art pilot plants our centers are optimally equipped for testing in the fields of:
- Batch filtration & drying
- Evaporation, crystallization, distillation, drying
- Highly-viscosity products
- Wet Oxidation
Services
We offer you the following services:
- Lab scale testing for preliminary screening and equipment selection
- Pilot plant trials for scale-up to industrial units, design of optimal operating conditions
- Highly qualified testing personnel
- In-house test facilities and mobile rental units
- Physical-chemical analysis of product samples
- Detailed testing reports
- Large sample quantity for customer's further R&D activities
- Development of particular equipment, plants and processes for your application
- Multi-step test plants can be set-up
Pilot units
We have at least one pilot unit for each type of equipment we manufacture, which conceptually is manufactured identically to the industrial sized equipment. Most of our pilot units are manufactured in Alloy C 22 as material in contact with the product. This guarantees a compatibility with most products used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
The following pilot units are available for testing:
- Lab filters, filter-dryers and vacuum dryers
- Lab glass evaporators
- Lab thin film/short path evaporators
- Filter-dryers and various other filtration equipment
- Vacuum dryers of various kinds
- Short path evaporators
- Anaerobic digestion reactor
- Wet Oxidation pilot plant and other basic instrumentation for on-site experimental activities
Mobile pilot units
If testing at customer site is preferable to our pilot plant, we have available mobile pilot units, designed for an easy transport and installation.
Furthermore our specialised personnel is available to validate the installation, provide training and assist during the initial test phases.installation.
Pilot Plants detailed information
For detailed information about our pilot plants, see table below.| Thin Film Evaporation | ||||
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| Code | Type | Note | Applications | Basic Range of operation |
| P85/015 | Vertical thin film evaporator | Skid unit available for rent | Viscous, thermo-sensitive and fouling product | 0 < T < 200°C 1 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 101 kg/h |
| P100/015 L/P | Vertical thin film evaporator and Dryer | With different type of rotor | 0 < T < 300°C 1 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 101 kg/h |
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| 2 inch | Vertical thin film evaporator | Lab. Skid unit available for rent. Made in glass and in alloy. | 0 < T < 375°C 0 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 100 kg/h |
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| HSRD 075 | Horizontal thin film evaporator and dryer | With different type of rotor | 0 < T < 200°C 1 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 101 kg/h |
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| H-TFE | Horizontal thin film evaporator | Skid unit available for rent | 0 < T < 200°C 1 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 100 kg/h |
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| Short Path Evaporator SPE or Molecular distillation | ||||
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| Code | Type | Note | Applications | Basic Range of operation |
| 2 inch | Short Path Evaporator | Lab- Skid unit available for rent. Made in glass and in alloy. | thermo-sensitive, high boiling product | 0 < T < 375°C 0 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 100 kg/h |
| SP 200/0.3 | Short Path Evaporator | Made in Hastelloy C22 | 0 < T < 300°C 0 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 101 kg/h |
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| Vacuum Dryers (Microwave MW assistance available) | ||||
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| Code | Type | Note | Applications | Basic Range of operation |
| ES200 | Horizontal paddle dryer | Skid available for rent | Heat sensitive, Active pharmaceutical products | 0 < T < 300°C fv < P < 7 bar Order Magnitude 100 kg/ Batch |
| HSRD 0.75 | Horizontal thin film dryer | With different type of rotor | Sludge, high viscous | 0 < T < 200°C 1 < P < 1000 mbar Order Magnitude 101 kg/h |
| EMV 45 | Conical dryer | Several type of agitator Made in Hastelloy C22 |
Gentle drying, good mixing | -20 < T < 180°C fv < P < 5 bar Order Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
| EV 120 #96-901 | Vertical pan dryer | Hastelloy C22 | Gentle drying, API Pharmaceutical, OEL control | -20 < T < 165°C fv < P < 5 bar Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
| EV 120 #94-016 | Vertical pan dryer | Hastelloy C276 | -20 < T < 165°C fv < P < 1 bar Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
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| EV 94-902 | Lab-dryer | Hastelloy C22/AISI 316L | -10 < T < 150°C fv < P < 1 bar Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
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| Filter Dryers (Microwave MW assistance available) | ||||
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| Code | Type | Note | Applications | Basic Range of operation |
| C32 | Nutsche Fiilter | Hastelloy C22 | OEL control, API Pharmaceutical | -29 < T < 177°C fv < P < 7 bar Order Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
| 99-903 | Nutsche Fiilter | Hastelloy C22 | -20 < T < 150°C fv < P < 7 bar Order Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
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| H61 | Nutsche Fiilter | Hastelloy C22 | -29 < T < 150°C fv < P < 7 bar Order Magnitude 101 kg/ Batch |
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| Filter | ||||
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| Code | Type | Note | Applications | Basic Range of operation |
| FAP 97-011 | Leaf filter | Metal mesh | Clarifier, Catalyst recovery, waste water treatment | -10 < T < 164°C fv < P < 7 bar |
| FRP | Rotary Pressure Filter | Metal mesh | Continuous filtration | 0 < T < 130°C FV < P < 4 bar Order Magnitude 101 kg/h |