Innovative chemical engineering technology design is a research-driven engineering service delivered in partnership with Comprehensive Water Technology (CWT), a branch company of a Chemical Engineering and Technology University from Europe, so small-to-medium processes, plants, research facilities, and universities get chemical engineering technology that is researched, designed, tested, constructed, and implemented around their own end-use needs rather than adapted from a generic product.
PiControl and CWT run extensive technological research on pilot plants before any system is designed, using a scientific-research approach so every downstream design decision is grounded in measured process behavior rather than assumption.
The analytical research feeds directly into a conceptual and technological design, most often a sustainable water purification system, sized and configured for the process it needs to serve.
Where no off-the-shelf equipment fits, PiControl automates, develops, and produces the specific non-standard equipment the process needs, then specifies, installs, and wires the measuring sensors and designs the electrical cabinets around it.
The design is constructed and implemented, including laboratory research units where a project calls for one, and every innovative solution is adapted and applied based on the actual needs of the end user rather than delivered as a fixed template.
Innovative Chemical Engineering Technology Design is delivered in cooperation with Comprehensive Water Technology (CWT), the branch company of a Chemical Engineering and Technology University from Europe. Together, PiControl and CWT conduct the comprehensive study, design, testing, and final construction and implementation of innovative chemical engineering technology for small-to-medium processes, plants, research facilities, and universities.
The company's primary activity began with specific services and design systems for tap and waste water treatment, built on a scientific-research approach. Over time, the same approach was extended into other chemical engineering branches. Every innovative solution is eventually adapted and applied based on the actual needs of the end user, so no two projects are delivered the same way.
The examples below are delivered projects, not concepts. Each one started from the same research-first approach and ended in a working, automated system on a customer's site.
Four automated photobioreactors were designed and built for the optimal cultivation of specific microalgae, used to produce biodiesel from waste water — an example of the service reaching beyond water treatment into applied bioprocess engineering.
A tap water treatment plant was reconstructed after high concentrations of iron, manganese, and arsenic were found in the source water, and separately, filter plants for iron and suspended-particle removal have been designed and automated for water used in cleaning applications.
Beyond water treatment, the same design approach produced a diesel fuel foam testing system, a combustible gas mixer built to safely test industrial equipment against 8 flammable gases in explosive conditions, and a chemical reactor for soap production adapted to blind and partially sighted operators to specific ISO norms.
The scope covers the full path from analytical research to a wired, running system:
This service targets small-to-medium processes, plants, research facilities, and universities that need chemical engineering technology built around a specific analytical or operational problem, rather than an off-the-shelf system. Because the work is scoped project by project, an engagement can be as focused as one non-standard sensor installation or as broad as a full water treatment plant design, automation, testing, and start-up.
For universities and colleges already using PiControl's process control training and simulation tools, this service extends that relationship into applied chemical engineering research infrastructure — see process control solutions for universities and colleges for the training side of that work.
The CWT partnership, project scope, who it's for, and how to get started.
Ready to move a water treatment concept, a non-standard piece of equipment, or a research need from idea to a working, wired system? Schedule a consultation and a PiControl engineer will review the project and outline how CWT's research and PiControl's engineering would be scoped to your facility.