Pilot trial Services
Stock Preparation
Services pushing your innovations for tomorrow’s successful products
The stock preparation system offers an excellent opportunity for testing all kinds of biomaterials with the possibility to customize and upscale processes up to the demo production phase
KCL Biomaterial Processing can be used by companies who develop new biomaterials from wood or other raw materials. KCL offers piloting services for R&D purposes including small-scale production. Typical customers are start-ups and new product developers, who utilize KCL’s process offering for market-entry phase.
Applications:
- Waste material refining
- Wood-based material refining
- Thermochemical reactions
- Side-stream materials
- Process development
- Pilot production
Stock preparation environment
KCL Stock preparation service is a combination of different unit processes for biomaterial treatment tailored to customer’s needs. For medium and high consistency, KCL has a 4 m3 digester with pressure up to 10 bar for e.g., chemical treatments. For low consistency KCL has LC refiners, pressure screens, thickeners, coupled with chests with various volumes.
- Pulpering
- LC refining
- Screening
- Thickening
- Handling of materials (e.g. chemical treating, heating)
- Preparing and feeding pulps for paper machine trials
- Converting various materials for further processing
The batch size that KCL is able to produce is suitable for industrial-scale processing. Find machine specific technical data here.
As a result, the customer will receive samples throughout the process, and the final product can be delivered to the customer or straight to further processing in accordance with the customer. The process parameters and key properties of the biomaterials samples are documented and reported.