IBU-tec advanced materials AG

Expertise in process engineering, chemistry and mineralogy, combined with the performance and flexibility of our systems, offer you the best conditions for contract production. If you do not yet have the process data for industrial production, we will take care of this in a preliminary program in our facilities.

16 different rotary kilns and 8 pulsation reactors are available for your projects, trials and production needs, giving you a full range of size and configuration options.

It doesn't matter whether it's dosing systems, granulating devices or classification technology - the systems can be customized for a wide range of requirements and the resulting exhaust gases can be safely controlled with professional aftertreatment. Get to know our plant engineering possibilities.

We guarantee you consistently high quality, whether in pilot production, peak load coverage or pure contract manufacturing.

New products start with great ideas! But that's not all: good ideas need professional implementation - which generally starts with laboratory tests, usually leads to pilot trials and a competent engineering solution to design the complete production plant. Competent and transparent - from engineer to engineer. Our teams of experts analyze and evaluate your equipment and work processes and develop optimization measures.

Our core business in contract manufacturing yielded us decades of experience in planning, operating, converting and optimizing plants according to individual customer requirements. Put Leading Know-how to work for you in Rotary Kiln Construction and Optimization!

Scale-up trials designed to deliver swift and accurate answers to your important questions: You can depend on our experienced experts to quickly identify a working production-scale process, backed by supporting documentation and data – and all without fully committing your companies own valuable resources!

IBU-tec has everything you need for your scale-up project: a massive knowledge base derived from many years of testing materials and processes; a versatile lineup of rotary kilns and pulsation reactors; a full set of ancillary equipment for pre- and post-processing; and state-of-the-art laboratories. All of these capabilities in a single company at a single location – in a single package designed to meet your needs. This is the way to a reliable, quick and flexible scale-up strategy.

Together, we will create your individual program for process development by:

• Defining the steps of the (thermal) process and the corresponding parameters for achieving desired product specifications
• Designing and conducting experiments in lab-scale, to demonstrate process control and product quality
• Scaling up the process and reproducing lab results in technical and/or commercial scale

Pulsation reactors are used to subject materials to a rapid thermal shock, with extremely short residence times; typically used to produce ultrafine powders with special material properties.

The Pulsation Reactor, an IBU-tec innovation, primarily consists of a combustion chamber, a resonance tube and a product filter. Within the combustion chamber, a periodic-transient flame generates a pulsing hot gas stream. This gas stream is highly turbulent and carries the fed raw material with it. The pulsation tube serves as the reaction chamber, in which the desired reactions take place in 0.05 to 2 seconds. The end of the tube leads to a filter, where the newly created or processed materials separate from the offgas and deposit. Extremely fast heating and cooling rates differentiate the pulsation rector from other thermal systems. The material receives “thermal shock treatment” within a minimal residence time, in which a massive heat and material exchange takes place. This treatment leads to special properties in the material, which can be very advantageous. For example, the production and activation of catalysts, doping, or for materials with a special morphology.

8 different pulsation reactors are available for your project trials and production needs.

• Temperature range 250 – 1,000 °C
• Residence time: 0.05 – 2 seconds
• Reaction mode: continuous
• Material input: up to 160 kg/h
• Atmosphere: oxidizing, (reducing or inert upon request)
• Input material: suspensions, solutions, powders
• Typical processes: drying, calcination, oxidizing

At IBU-tec, 16 different rotary kilns are available for your projects, trials and production needs, giving you a full range of size and configuration options. This diverse spectrum of equipment is designed to be as versatile and adaptable as possible – as such, IBU-tec can offer clients almost any degree of thermal treatment necessary for project completion.

4 direct heated rotary kilns:

• Temperature range: 100 – 1,550°C
• Residence time: 15 – 180 minutes
• Reaction modes: continuous, batch, co-current, counter-current
• Typical Processes: calcination , sintering , reduction , oxidation and drying

12 indirect heated rotary kilns:

• Temperature range: 100 – 1,400°C
• Residence time: 15 – 180 minutes
• Reaction modes: continuous, co-current, counter-current, batch
• Typical Processes: pyrolysis, calcination, reduction and surface treatment of catalyst supports