Challenging Industrial Chemistry

Advanced Chemical Solutions for Industrial Processes

Confidence in Demanding Chemical Environments

At BC Research Inc. we combine our customizable facilities and technical expertise to perform unconventional chemistries under demanding reaction conditions reflective of those used in industrial processes. While others may avoid such testing, our work routinely involves the safe handling of toxic, explosive, corrosive, and highly volatile chemicals under harsh reaction conditions. Our robust safety programs allow us to identify and safely manage the risks associated with extreme operating conditions such as high temperature and high pressure.

Our team has extensive experience working with challenging industrial chemistries and demanding operating conditions. This includes the generation, handling, and utilization of hydrogen in both chemical and electrochemical applications, as well as the operation of multiphase reactor systems that involve highly exothermic reactions with thermal runaway potential. We also have deep expertise in the use of distillation, scrubbing, and stripping columns to recover and purify a wide range of reactive and/or hazardous gaseous and liquid streams. In addition, we design and operate novel high-temperature thermochemical reactors for renewable fuel production and hydrogen generation. This experience has given us a deep understanding of the material requirements, critical process control parameters, and safe operating practices needed to work under demanding reaction conditions.

Some recent examples of our work in this space include:

  • Conducting long-term corrosion tests of various metal alloys in high-temperature oleum and concentrated sulphuric acid.

  • Studying the adiabatic exothermic nitration of benzene into mononitrobenzene utilising nitric acid and strong sulphuric acid.

  • Evaluating and refining the operating conditions of a sulphuric acid recycling and reconcentration system developed by NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd..

  • Developing a gas-phase method to decompose nitrogen trichloride in chlorine gas at close to ambient pressures with limited heating.

  • Operating sub-critical hydrothermal processes to treat wastewater containing nitro-hydroxy aromatic compounds.

  • Utilising high-temperature scrubbing and stripping columns to recover volatile organic solvents, which were then subsequently purified through distillation.

Our Core Research Areas

Biobased Products

Converting renewable feedstocks into sustainable chemicals, fuels, and functional materials

Chemistry of Multiphase Systems

Leveraging interfacial phenomena to control reaction kinetics, phase separations, mass and heat transfer, rheological properties and overall process efficiencies

Challenging Industrial Chemistries

Designing systems with real chemistries, using real feedstocks and operating at industrial temperatures and pressures to develop and validate chemical process technologies

Hydrogen Separation and Processing

Developing processes and unit operations that support a growing hydrogen-based economy

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