Oleochemicals and biochemicals industry

Sulzer provides advanced separation technologies for the purification of oleochemicals, platform biochemicals, and lignocellulosic chemicals. Our unique expertise is combining superior product purity with exceptional heat efficiency.

Through innovative methods like advanced heat integration and electrified distillation, we slash your energy consumption and costs, all while delivering the highest purity products. Achieve your most demanding performance and sustainability targets with our scalable and robust solutions.

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Main applications of oleochemical & biochemical industry

Oleochemicals

Fatty acids & fatty alcohols, Fatty acid esters, Specialty oleos, Amines and refined glycerol

Platform chemicals

Organic acids (lactic, succinic), Alcohols (BDO, butanol), Polyols (glycerol, ethylene glycol)

Lignocellulosic chemicals

Furfural, 5-HMF, Acetic acid, Methanol, Levulinic acid

Mastering the oleochemical and biochemical purification challenge

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Fatty acid & fatty alcohol purification

We deliver superior purity for core oleochemicals like fatty acids and fatty alcohols, a capability proven in over 200 reference plants worldwide thanks to our state-of-the-art packing and column internals. Our flexible partnership models range from complete basic engineering packages and key equipment to working alongside leading technology companies and EPCs.

Specialty esters & oleos

Achieving colorless, odor-free, and highly stable specialty esters demands versatile and precise separation. Sulzer offers a full range of separation technologies, from distillation and evaporation to liquid-liquid extraction and stripping, to meet the most stringent product specifications.

Process variability in fermentation

Fermentation is a dynamic process: impurity profiles shift with the feedstocks, the microorganisms, and the nutrient packages. Our experience with complicated feedstocks allows us to design robust purification systems that consistently deliver on-spec products, batch after batch.

Multi-technology purification

There is no single solution for purifying platform biochemicals. Success requires a holistic approach combining multiple separation principles, from initial concentration out of dilute streams to the final polishing steps required for the most demanding applications.

Sulzer offers tailored process solutions built around our proprietary separation equipment. Our unique strength lies in combining maximum product purity with outstanding energy efficiency, using advanced heat integration and robust designs that handle the specific challenges of oleochemical processing. Whether you are debottlenecking an existing plant or building a new state-of-the-art facility, our scalable and reliable solutions help you produce high-value oleochemicals that meet the strictest market demands.

Pushing the boundaries of process intensification, we offer a licensed reactive distillation technology for the production of isopropyl myristate (IPM), isopropyl palmitate (IPP), and isopropyl laurate (IPL). This process combines reaction and separation into a single, highly efficient step, significantly reducing capital investment and energy consumption while delivering exceptional product purity.

For platform biochemicals, we leverage our comprehensive technology portfolio (liquid-liquid extraction, distillation and stripping, evaporation, solid-liquid separation and crystallization, absorption), selecting and combining the optimal processes to meet your purity and cost targets. We engineer solutions that balance world-class performance with reasonable CAPEX and OPEX, transforming promising innovations from the fermenter into profitable, market-ready products.

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