Process Technologies Overview

Artisan is a world leader in thin-film separation technology

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Artisan specializes in thermal separations involving evaporation, distillation, and stripping of difficult–to–process materials. Our thin–film processors handle a wide range of products including thermally unstable materials and viscosities exceeding one million centipoise, as well as solids-containing and foaming materials.

With residence times ranging from 30 seconds to a few minutes, our processors are ideally suited for purifying high-value products like antioxidants, specialty chemicals and polymers, pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages.

Evaporation: Artisan’s horizontal thin/wiped-film processors are specially designed to evaporate, concentrate or even strip volatile components from heat-sensitive and viscous materials. The horizontal design permits evaporation rates of up to 99% without product degradation. Learn more about Artisan Rototherm^® …

Distillation: Artisan’s high capacity Dualflo™ distillation trays are widely used in processing foaming and fouling materials. Dualflo trays have no down-comers or over-flow weirs, thus minimizing solids accumulation and potential fouling. Our packed columns are designed with proprietary internal condensers to eliminate vapor lines for ultra high vacuum applications requiring minimal pressure drop and maximum efficiency. More information …

Solvent Recovery: Artisan’s thin/wiped-film evaporation and distillation technologies can be combined to recover solvents from a wide range of products or waste streams for reuse. For many applications, purities exceeding manufacturers’ specifications can be achieved. Learn more about Artisan Rototherm^® …

Stripping: Artisan’s unique stripping technologies are designed to remove volatile components from relatively non-volatile materials to ppm or even ppb levels without product degradation. Applications involving heat sensitive, viscous, foaming or solids containing materials are ideally suited for our technologies. More information …

Continuous Reaction: Artisan’s horizontal thin/wiped-film processor can perform continuous liquid/liquid and gas/liquid reactions, including, saponification, esterification and other equilibrium driven reactions. In most cases, reaction and subsequent evaporation/stripping of the by-products are accomplished simultaneously, while discharging a solid product. Learn more about Artisan Rototherm^® …

Drying: Artisan’s horizontal thin/wiped-film dryer can simultaneously evaporate and dry a variety of products in a single pass. Products ranging from active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s) to a number of food additives, precious metals, and even nano-particles have been effectively dried to a free flowing powder, while preserving the quality of the products. More information …