H.E.L Group Catalysis and Hydrogenation
H.E.L Group has a long history of solving complex challenges for customers. Since 1987, the Company has worked with businesses and laboratories globally, providing proprietary automated solutions for the pharma, biotechnology, chemical, battery, and petrochemical sectors.
In industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to fine chemicals, scaling-up bench-top chemical reactions to production volumes carries a number of risks and challenges.
H.E.L Group’s range of catalysis and hydrogenation solutions provides powerful reaction screening and analysis in a benchtop package designed to give insights into high-pressure catalysis at the research, process development, or scale-up stage, with support for batch processing, parallel analysis, and continuous flow reactions.
H.E.L Group has a range of solutions to help you identify and quantify thermal hazards at the laboratory scale, which support your process safety and scale-up requirements.
ChemSCAN | Parallel Catalyst Screening and Development Platform
FlowCAT | A Bench-Top, High Pressure Flow Catalysis Platform
The FlowCAT is an automated high-pressure flow catalysis bench-top platform, designed for the development of continuous flow chemical processes. It supports both gas and liquid feeds, and so can facilitate the scale-up of both homogenous and heterogenous chemistries. It typically finds use in chemistries such as:
- Hydrogenation
- Oxidation
- Carbonylation
- Bio-fuel research
- Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
- Petrochemical processes
Control of the chemical process is configurable, and it can be tailored to automatically cover a range of process conditions – the latter of which can also be edited during operation if required. The temperature, pressure, and feed rates of the liquid and gas are all automatically controlled, as is the sampling at the end of each run and the initiation of the next. This delivers a high throughput operation, making the FlowCAT well-suited to a range of applications, including:
- Rapid screening of new chemistries
- Yield optimization studies
- Identification of new catalysts
- Small-scale production
Catalyst Screening Platforms | Manual Systems
Our complete range of multi-sample high throughput catalyst screening vessels has been designed to provide a simple easy-to-use tool for high-pressure reaction screening. They can be used directly with stirring hotplates or oil baths.
CAT 7, 18, and 24: The CAT 7, 18, and 24 are manual catalyst screening reactors, supporting 7, 18, and 24 vials, respectively.
DigiCAT 96: The DigiCAT 96 is an automated catalyst screening platform that supports a standard 96-well Zinsser block for high throughput screening early on in catalyst development.
PolyCAT 4 and PolyCAT 8: The PolyCAT 4 and 8 are bench-top, automated parallel catalyst screening platform, designed for the rapid screening of high-pressure reactions and catalysts.
