Performance Materials

performance materials

Custom Manufacturing — Capabilities

Processing Capabilities - Continuous

  • Distillation, single & multi component
  • High Pressure Reactions
  • Fixed Bed Reactions
  • Extrusion (reactions, blending)
  • Gas Phase Reactions high Temperature
  • CSTRs Stirred Tank Reactions
  • Filtration
  • Drying
  • Extraction
  • Wiped Film Evaporation

Processing Capabilities - Batch

Reactions - many types, alloys, glass, to 1000 psi:

  • Distillation: to 2 mm Hg
  • Liquid Blending
  • Drying, Dry Blending
  • Dispersions
  • Crystallization
  • Filtration
  • Centrifugation - semi batch
  • Solvent Exchange

Distillation Capabilities

Novolyte has extension batch and continuous distillation capabilities. We specialize in utilizing continuous and batch distillation schemes using multiple columns to effectively and efficiently process materials. Novolyte operates specialty distillation columns with processing temperatures up to 500°F and vacuums to 1 mm Hg.

A listing of our distillation columns by diameter and metallurgy is as follows:

Type Diameter (in)/Design Pot Size (gal) Trays Pressure (psig) Temp (°F) MOC
Continuous 8/T-D3 N/A 20 0-15 320 CS
  8/Raff (A&B)   20 0-15 320 CS
  10/AzeotH   45 150 500 316 SS
Batch 12/EC 250 40 2mm - 15 500 316 SS
  12/DP 500 5 15mm - 15 475 Glass
Continuous 12/T-2 N/A 25 0-15 320 CS
  12/T-D2   20 0-15 320 316 SS
  12/AzeotBR   25 0-15 320 CS
  12/Prod   30 0-15 320 CS
Continuous 16/T-3 N/A 20 0-15 320 316 SS
  16/T-D1   15 0-15 320 CS
Batch 18/PC 500 35 2mm - 15 320 316 SS
  18/BP 2000 5 15mm - 15 320 Glass/Teflon
  18/DPC 500 10 15mm - 15 450 Hastelloy C
Continuous 18/T-4 N/A 30 25mm - 15 320 CS
  18/T-5   35 25mm - 15 320 CS
Batch 30/T-514 4000 40 5mm -15 320 CS
  30/T-518 6500 40 5mm - 15 320 CS


High pressure tanks

Novolyte Technologies
High Pressure Capabilities

Novolyte Technologies offers comprehensive solutions with a wide array of equipment and services to meet your high pressure custom manufacturing needs. Novolyte's Louisiana site offer a combination of assets and capabilities that are unmatched in the industry, and include:

  • Superior metallurgy (titanium or stainless steel)
  • High pressure (up to 2700 psig)
  • High temperature (up to 600F)
  • Large vessels (up to 13,960 gallon)
  • Fixed bed reactors (up to 24" diameter)
  • Batch or continuous capability
  • Bench scale and pilot facilities for process development
  • Full solids handling capability

Novolyte has practiced the following high pressure chemistry/processes at a commercial scale:

  • Fixed Bed and Slurry Hydrogenation
  • Amination
  • Hydroformylation
  • Hydrolysis
  • De-Esterification

Novolyte's large reactors deliver superior economies of scale. Novolyte can offer a comprehensive solution to your outsourcing projects all the way from bench scale to commercial operation. Novolyte has a history of quality-driven partnerships, producing critical ingredients on a single source basis for global-scale operations. We have held ISO-9002 certification since 1993. We have the safety, health and environmental professionals that will work seamlessly with your staff and begin full scale production in the shortest time possible.

Novolyte has the resources to offer a superior one-stop solution for your Registered Firm high pressure outsourcing needs.