Adsorption is the most energy-efficient technology for purification and separation in the biorefinery process. As Avantium R&D Solutions, we are dedicated to design ideal biorefinery which converts biomaterials such as trees or other sources of cellulose into...

Some chemical conversion reactions are considered enabling for the energy transition and for the implementation of renewable feedstock for industry. Society depends on our successes.  “After moving the work group Behrens from Duisburg-Essen to Kiel, we are now...

Avantium R&D Solutions (RDS) entered into an agency agreement with Daiichi Jitsugyo (DJK), a respected industrial machinery specialist based in Japan. This collaboration, which began in 2022, aims to provide enhanced service to Avantium RDS’s customers in Japan....

Argonne National Laboratory used Avantium’s 16-reactor fixed bed Flowrence® XR unit to study the deposition of 23 different metallic precursors for propyne dimerization to hexadienes in a high-throughput data-driven campaign. Using a Flowrence® XR high throughput...

Selecting catalysts for refineries depends on pilot plant test data due to its direct insight into their performance, enabling best catalyst selection for increasing margins. However, processing renewable feedstocks can be complicated given the broad range and quality...

The France-based IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) has renewed its partnership with Avantium R&D Solutions (RDS) and signed a maintenance and support contract for the coming five years. Currently, IFPEN owns and operates several Flowrence® high-throughput research...

With an increasing amount of focus on closing the carbon loop, reusing waste materials is a key. Many strategies are being explored, with a focus on pyrolysis emerging as a highly promising strategy to transform plastic waste into valuable resources. In this...

As a result of unprecedented inflation in costs of energy and materials, on top of disruption in supply chains resulting in cost increases of key components, Avantium RDS announces a price increase across its product portfolio of Flowrence® units and Contract R&D...

Within the many laboratories of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia lies the High-Throughput Laboratory in the KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC). The KCC has multiple Avantium’s Flowrence® High-Throughput units, designed to test...

Avantium’s Flowrence® XD high-​throughput nano-​flow fixed bed unit allows the evaluation and performance test fixed bed heterogeneous catalysts sensitive to air and moisture. The unit can be adapted to specific reaction and process conditions on demand.Following the...

AMSTERDAM, 11 October 2022, 17:45 hrs CEST – Avantium N.V., a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that its business unit Avantium Catalysis will expand its business to focus increasingly on R&D solutions for sustainable chemistry. In...

Today, we announced that Avantium Catalysis will transform its business to serve the growing demand for R&D into sustainable chemistry (Click for Press Release). In addition to providing advanced catalysis R&D systems and services to customers worldwide, we...

Avantium’s Flowrence® XD parallel reactor unit is highly flexible, self-contained 4-reactor fixed-bed catalyst testing unit which excels at producing valuable data promptly leveraging high-throughput chemical technology. This technology offers you step-change...

  Hi everyone, I hope you are healthy and life is returning to normal for you after the lockdowns. As you can see, this time we are including video as well as written updates. In this issue, we cover our new high-throughput testing platform the Batchington, new...

Avantium is proud to announce that it has been awarded a tender concerning one Flowrence® XR unit for SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP) China. The new system will be used to study novel methods of storing hydrogen in liquid carriers and...

AMSTERDAM, 01 March 2022 – Avantium Catalysis and Japan-based industrial machinery specialist DJK entered into an agency agreement to better serve Avantium’s catalysis customers in Japan. Through DJK, Avantium expects to generate leads for both its Flowrence units as...

In the last decade, air quality, both indoor and outdoor, has become a cause of growing concern due the influx of air pollutants resulting from human and industrial activity. A such, it has become increasingly important to research and discover adsorbents which can...

Welcome to the December 2021 Catalysis Insider newsletter! Our news items header says it all: still mostly at home. Who would have guessed some two years ago we would still be in a lockdown situation (which in NL has just again become stricter). Nonetheless, I hope...

Avantium Catalysis performed an independent catalyst evaluation of Naphtha Reforming catalysts to support the catalyst selection for OMV Schwechat Refinery CCR unit.Schwechat Refinery is one of the largest and most modern inland refineries in Europe processing 9.6...

AMSTERDAM, 6 October 2021 – Ergon, Inc., has selected Avantium RDS to evaluate two hydroprocessing catalyst systems, utilizing the Avantium Flowrence® technology.The results obtained in Avantium Flowrence® unit with 16 parallel single-pellet-string reactors...

Advanced Refining Technology (ART), a joint venture between Chevron and W. R. Grace, has validated Avantium’s high throughput technology for independent catalyst testing of hydrocracking catalysts.Avantium have performed a series of hydrocracking catalysts tests in...

AMSTERDAM, 09 September 2021, 16:30 CET – Avantium, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry and catalysis R&D systems and services, announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avantium Catalysis, has been awarded a contract for catalyst testing...

Avantium is proud to announce that we have been awarded a tender to deliver a Flowrence® XR System to Sinopec Dalian Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemcials (Dalian RIPP), China. This unit targets high-throughput catalyst testing and screening on...

Welcome to the July 2021 Catalysis Insider newsletter! Another six months have passed since our previous Catalysis insider, and the Covid19 pandemic has still not passed. But, I hope this newsletter finds you in good health! In this edition, we highlight the trends...

Avantium is proud to announce that it has been awarded a tender concerning two Flowrence® XD systems and one Flowrence® XR system for the Catalysis Hub of ETH Zürich (CAT+ East). These units target high-throughput catalyst testing on a broad set of chemistries,...

Carlos Ortega, Daria Otyuskaya,  Erik‐Jan Ras, Luis D. Virla, Gregory S. Patience, Hendrik Dathe   The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 99, Issue 6, June 2021, Pages 1288-1306 Abstract The conventional one‐at‐a‐time strategy to evaluate catalysts is...

Avantium, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry and catalysis R&D systems and services, announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avantium Catalysis, has been qualified by Axens to test Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation Catalysts. Axens, an...

Welcome to the December 2020 Catalysis Insider newsletter! Dear Reader, Firstly, I hope all of you, your family and friends are healthy and are coming through the Covid-19 pandemic in good spirits. I wonder how many of you, like me, did not expect that we would be in...

IFPEN’s experimental methodology using HTT Flowrence units by Avantium The aim of the paper is to illustrate a global experimental methodology used by IFPEN in order to optimize the operation of hydroprocessing units at the refinery.  This involves the selection of...

SIE Neftehim, LLC has validated Avantium’s high throughput technology for independent catalyst testing of naphtha reforming catalysts. SIE Neftehim is a Russian engineering company specialized in the  development and introduction of oil refining and petrochemical...

Avantium’s high throughput test systems and services are key to our customers to efficiently optimize their catalytic processes. Due to the surge of interest in gas-phase applications, we are happy to announce David Denton will be supporting us to further these...

Albemarle has validated Avantium’s high throughput technology for independent catalyst testing of hydrocracking catalysts. Avantium performed a series of tests to evaluate hydrocracking catalysts from Albemarle using Avantium’s 16-parallel reactors micro-pilot plant....

Petroineos Lavera Refinery contracted Avantium Catalysis to perform an independent catalyst evaluation of several Pretreat and Hydrocracking systems from multiple suppliers for their upcoming HCU catalyst selection. We evaluated the performance of both the Pretreat...

Welcome to the July 2020 Catalysis Insider newsletter! I guess you do not need me to tell you that these are strange times. I hope all of you, and your family and friends have come through the pandemic so far in good health. Clearly, all of us have been affected in...

AMSTERDAM, 3 June 2020, 07:00 CET – Avantium N.V, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that Avantium Catalysis has received orders for several Flowrence® testing systems worth more than € 3 million from King Abdullah University of Science and...

AMSTERDAM, 3 June 2020, 07:00 CET – Avantium N.V, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that Avantium Catalysis has received orders for several Flowrence® testing systems worth more than € 3 million from King Abdullah University of Science and...

Avantium Catalysis performed a large project to support the catalyst selection with a series of testing runs to evaluate several cyclic-regen and semi-regen reforming catalysts with multiple feedstock’s for a major US oil refiner operating more than 10 refineries....

Japanese Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation subsidiary JPC selected Avantium to support their polymer catalyst research with Avantium’s unique multi-parallel batch platform. Within the scope of this project, Avantium will expand the functionality of its batch platform to...

These are truly unprecedented times, with the coronavirus affecting more than just our health. Avantium is taking all necessary steps to ensure the well-being of our employees, our partners, and the wider communities in which we live and work. In line with Dutch...

Welcome to the December 2019 Catalysis Insider newsletter! With the end of the year in sight, it is time for our final newsletter of 2019. In this edition we offer some useful tips to troubleshooting high-throughput experimentation, we describe some emerging...

PTT Global Chemical has selected Avantium Catalysis to perform independent catalyst evaluation of naphtha reforming catalysts and support the catalyst selection for their CCR unit. Avantium’s Flowrence® 16-parallel reactors system with individual temperature-control...

AMSTERDAM, 20 November 2019, 08:30 CET – Avantium Catalysis and Japan-based catalyst and process licensing company Nikki-Universal entered into an agency agreement to better serve Avantium’s customers and boost its business in Japan. Through Nikki-Universal, Avantium...

AMSTERDAM, 20 November 2019, 08:30 CET – Avantium Catalysis and Japan-based catalyst and process licensing company Nikki-Universal entered into an agency agreement to better serve Avantium’s customers and boost its business in Japan. Through Nikki-Universal, Avantium...

Accurate evaluation of catalysts performance is an important step in optimizing catalytic refinery processes with respect to product yields, run length, energy efficiency, and overall product quality. Utilizing high throughput multiple parallel reactors is key to...

Amsterdam, 10 September 2019 – The Research Association of High-Throughput Design and Development for Advanced Functional Materials (ADMAT) in Japan selected Avantium to deliver a Flowrence XR high throughput catalyst testing system to accelerate their research. ADMAT...

Thaioil has selected Avantium Catalysis to perform independent catalyst evaluation of Naphtha Reforming catalysts to support the catalyst selection for their CCR unit. Avantium’s Flowrence® 16-parallel reactors system with individual temperature-control and unmatched...

As a result of a successful collaboration between Prof. Krishna and Avantium, the Separation and Purification Technology journal recently published the article “Highlighting non-idealities in C2H4/CO2 mixture adsorption in 5A zeolite.” The focus of the study was...

Welcome to the July Catalysis Insider newsletter! Are you ready for the holidays? If you enjoy a good read during your travels or while resting at the beach, check the July edition of our Avantium Catalysis Insider newsletter. In this issue, we cover catalyst testing...

Avantium has decided to significantly expand the capacity to test commercial catalysts for hydrotreating and hydrocracking applications, to serve the strong demand for our independent refinery catalyst testing services. Choosing the best catalyst is of crucial...

Shell Catalysts & Technologies has renewed its partnership with Avantium Catalysis for four more years for the execution of catalyst testing programs with Avantium’s Flowrence® technology platform. The catalyst testing programs are tailored to accelerate catalyst...

A series of hydrocracking catalysts from Haldor Topsøe, a world leader in high-performance catalysts and proprietary technologies for the chemical and refining industries, were tested in Avantium’s refinery catalyst testing services. The results obtained and data...

A research programme demonstrated the comparative performances of a conventional sulphiding agent and Sulfrzol 54, an agent that offers safer, cleaner catalyst activation. In the full article, which you can download for free, Avantium provided high-throughput catalyst...

Excellent scientists require accurate and reliable R&D systems. Therefore we are proud that Avantium Catalysis could support this research. Promoted cobalt metal catalysts suitable for the production of lower olefins from natural gas Jingxiu Xie, Pasi P....

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), a major research and training player in the fields of energy, transport and the environment, commissioned Avantium as their preferred choice for the evaluation and comparison of multiple catalyst systems for Mild Hydrocracking. The feeds...

We are pleased to provide you our December Catalysis Insider newsletter. In this issue, we cover two topics addressing how to increase the success rate of catalyst testing programs – for complex tests with uncertain outcomes, and for hydrocracking tests. We also...

Axens, an international provider of advanced technologies, catalysts, adsorbents and services, has qualified Avantium to perform independent testing of commercial C5-C6 isomerization catalysts after a thorough qualification program under commercially relevant...

Amsterdam/Thuwal, 30 October 2018: Avantium has delivered two Flowrence XD systems to KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) in Saudi Arabia to expand their R&D capacity for heterogeneous catalyst testing. King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)...

Please enjoy our July issue of The Catalysis Insider. In this issue, we focus on accelerated testing with advanced analytics, precision and accuracy for parallel reactors, and smart testing strategies. I hope you will find our newsletter informative and a good way of...

Amsterdam, 18 May 2018: Axens, an international provider of advanced technologies, catalysts, adsorbents and services, has qualified Avantium to perform independent testing of commercial naphtha reforming catalysts after a thorough qualification program under...

Amsterdam, 18 May 2018: Axens, an international provider of advanced technologies, catalysts, adsorbents and services, has qualified Avantium to perform independent testing of commercial naphtha reforming catalysts after a thorough qualification program under...

Amsterdam, 14 May 2018 - Avantium has delivered a Flowrence XR high throughput catalyst testing system to Nippon Ketjen Co Ltd - the first such unit  in Japan. Nippon Ketjen, a joint venture of Albemarle Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd, is a leading...

Amsterdam, 14 May 2018 – Avantium has delivered a Flowrence XR high throughput catalyst testing system to Nippon Ketjen Co Ltd – the first such unit in Japan. Nippon Ketjen, a joint venture of Albemarle Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd, is a leading...

·      South Korea is the perfect environment for Avantium’s Catalysis business ·      R&F Chemical to generate leads for Flowrence® units and service projects Amsterdam/Seoul, 3 May 2018: Avantium has joined forces with South Korea-based R&F Chemical to boost...

Amsterdam/Seoul, 3 May 2018: Avantium has joined forces with South Korea-based R&F Chemical to boost its Catalysis business in the region. South Korea has a highly-advanced technology and chemical sector, and several established national research facilities...

Avantium successfully performed comprehensive comparative catalyst testing of C5/C6 isomerization catalysts for a major US refining company. The program focused on evaluating the performance of two commercially available chlorinated alumina catalysts across a broad...

Avantium successfully performed comprehensive comparative catalyst testing of C5/C6 isomerization catalysts for a major US refining company. The program focused on evaluating the performance of two commercially available chlorinated alumina catalysts...

Amsterdam/Lyon, 23 April 2018: Axel’One Campus, an academically-oriented research facility, is inaugurated today. Two Avantium Flowrence® units are hosted at the core of the facility, which is under the leadership of research laboratory IRCELYON. One of the Flowrence® units will be used for gas-to-liquid applications.

Two Avantium Flowrence® units at the core of the facility in Lyon, France Units designed to significantly enhance R&D output and allow testing under demanding conditions Amsterdam/Lyon, 23 April 2018: Axel’One Campus, an academically-oriented research facility, is...

Please enjoy our December 2017 issue of The Catalysis Insider. In this issue, we focus on our catalyst testing services. We address strategic questions on how to build flexible testing capacity, as well as some of our unique capabilities to test complex and sensitive...

We are pleased to present to you Avantium’s first Catalysis Insider. A few times per year we would like to provide you with a brief overview of what’s new with Avantium, share insights and experiences in the field of high-throughput catalysis research and keep you...

Amsterdam, June 15, 2015 – Avantium has announced that it has appointed Steven Olivier as Managing Director of its Catalysis Services & Systems business. Avantium is a global leader in advanced catalysis R&D systems and services for the oil, refinery, chemical...

Amsterdam, October 16th, 2014 – Argonne National Laboratory purchases Avantium’s catalyst testing platform unit for various catalytic applications. The unit has been designed to significantly enhance the R&D output for various catalytic applications. Argonne...

Read our paper on comparative catalyst testing >read more Avantium is announcing the sale of its Flowrence® parallel fixed bed reactor technology for refining applications to UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, for use at UOP’s research laboratory in Des Plaines, IL....