ACHEMA 2024 - Rieckermann

SERVICES

Global presence

KVT.technology (Kanzler Verfahrenstechnik GmbH), BDI-BioEnergy International and Rieckermann are united in their commitment and vision to supporting the global transition towards a circular economy. Building on each other’s strengths and uniting our know-how and expertise as well as capacities, we are strong partners for our customers worldwide, who are in the business of producing chemicals or energies for demanding global markets, relying on our innovative processing technologies and value-added services. Further we assist customers from a wider range of industries to handle their waste streams and draw value from that long-underestimated resource.

Innovation & research

Kvt.technology’s research focuses on environmental protection, closing material cycles, and chemistry based on renewable raw materials like vegetable oils, sugar, and wood. Innovation is a central element, promoted across various sectors. The R&D projects at the newly founded technology center in St. Radegund near Graz are a crucial pillar of the KVT-Group.

BDI’s GreenTech Solutions division (GTS) guides customers from idea to turnkey process plant, by offering expertise and acting as a sparring partner in the areas of green chemistry, recycling / upcycling, and biorefineries. As a full-service contractor with extensive experience in chemical process engineering, GTS scales up processes in state-of-the-art facilities, before building and handing over first-of-its-kind turnkey production plants.

BDI and KVT are now joining forces to advance resource-saving technologies for upgrading industrial residual and waste streams. The collaboration of the two companies, sharing the use of their R&D centers and pilot facilities, results in a unique network with regional and international players and vast combined innovative potential. Customers benefit significantly from the resulting accelerated development and scale of innovations.

EPC

Together we consult our customers worldwide on how to best support their successful business strategies with the right choice of processes and technologies. Based on individual requirements, we develop customized industrial plants from the first idea to a turnkey solution. In the execution phase we make sure everything is delivered on time and we handle construction, installation, commissioning and validation reliably under local conditions. Finally, ensuring smooth operations, we train the operating personnel and provide all required Technical Services during the entire lifecycle of the plant.

BOO & BOT Contracting

For selected projects, both Rieckermann and BDI engage in build-operate-transfer (BOT) or build-own-operate (BOO) business models with trusted customers.

Rieckermann provided industrial solution
Production asset ownership as the basis for loans
Confirmed offtake of produced electricity, fuel, heat, etc.
Contribution to the transition towards a circular economy
Interesting idea, possibly a unique venture

Contact us directly if you are interested and we will be happy to give you a more detailed outline of your individual options and respective benefits in person.

Global trade finance

We help you form partnerships with major players in export finance (lenders and ECAs), support your industrial endeavors’ entire lifecycle, and realize your global projects.
With more than 30 years of experience in the field, we consolidate multiple suppliers of your choice into one contract, achieving longer credit tenors & lower interest rates.

Strong risk mitigation elements
ECAs with AAA ratings from European countries (Germany, Austria & Switzerland)
Low interest level in Euros or US dollars
Funding up to 85% of the total contract volume
Long-term financing from 5 to 10 years (special cases with an extended period)
Multi-party negotiation & single contractual arrangement
Lower requirement for letter of credit (LC) in favor of suppliers

Technical services

At Rieckermann, our team of 150 trained and certified local field service engineers focus on your production excellence, providing long-term services and certified original spare parts.

Our close partnerships with our technology suppliers ensure that our team and your operators are always up-to-date keeping your machines up and running.

Our service engineers speak your language and know your local conditions well. They make sure your processing equipment is operating correctly and safely. Further, they support you with local content management, and ensure effective training of your machine operators and maintenance personnel on site.

Pre-installation

Site inspection
Shipping & unloading inspection
Construction coordination

Installation services

Installation & supervision of electrical, mechanical, and automation hard- & software
FAT & SAT execution
Commissioning, training & start-up support
Local project management

Local content

Installation crews
Provision of lifting equipment & material
Fabrication inspection services

After sales services

Warranty & maintenance repairs
Spare parts importation & warehousing
Revamp, retrofit, relocation & decommissioning

RENEWABLES TO CHEMICALS

Glycerine & its derivatives

KVT has developed and successfully established a process for the manufacturing of biogenic glycerine, based on the use of crude glycerine or raw glycerine from biodiesel production.
Depending on the applications, different glycerine qualities are required. From technical grade through pharmaceutical grade and up to kosher grade, the purification process is a key factor in ensuring the required quality.
Glycerine is a well-known versatile raw material with a vast range of industrial applications. Large glycerine availability resulting from the increased production of biodiesel, has motivated researchers to explore new glycerol-based applications. KVT offers consulting and engineering services to support customers who are interested in developing glycerine derivatives products and related production technology.
KVT has developed a process technology to produce sustainable green solvents from glycerine as glycerol-formal and isopropylidene-glycerol as well as the technology for the production of epichlorohydrin and epoxy resins.

Epichlorohydrin

EPIPROVIT is an innovative and efficient technology to produce sustainable Epichlorohydrin and Epoxy Resins from Glycerine by an eco-friendly closed loop concept. The process includes an internal waste management that consist of a brine treatment system – SEABRINE – to purify the brine making it suitable for recycling in the Chlor-Alkali Electrolysis to close the cycle. All other effluents are treated in the waste incineration unit able to produce energy for the process.

In comparison with propylene-based technology, the EPIPROVIT process shows a significant reduction in by-products.
Compared to similar technologies the wastewater (brine) containing production residuals is nearly free of AOX. The brine is purified with the integrated KVT brine treatment plant. The pure brine can be recycled into the chlorine-alkali-electrolysis plant, which results in reduced operating costs.

Epoxy resins

KVT provides engineering and consultancy service for a sustainable process technology to produce epoxy resins and reactive diluents from epichlorohydrin and bisphenol A or bisphenol F within its EPIPROVIT+ concept the focus is set on utilization of renewable feedstocks to replace fossil based feedstocks as well as the recycling of used epoxy products.

Key advantages

Plant flexibility – allows production of different types of resins in the same plant
Production stability – thanks to our optimized plant design, the produced resins always have a consistent quality.
High efficiency – the technology ensures a rational use of the raw materials with an integrated recycling system and minimum by-product production

Phthalate-free plasticizer

KVT technology has developed a new plasticizer for polymers derived from plant-based feedstocks. The product is phthalate-free and non-toxic.

Key advantages

Non-toxic
Uses plant-based raw materials
Improved mechanical and physical performance over competing fossil based products
Lower operating cost and equipment wear due to improved viscosity – reduced absorption time by the plastics mixture

Blue & green ammonia

In face of a rising consumption of ammonia in all it’s different areas of applications, decarbonization efforts globally sure require both, the construction of brand new innovative green ammonia processing plants as well as the revamp of existing facilities to economic blue ammonia production plants.

Discover our innovative and reliable industrial solutions to produce blue and green ammonia, which rely on the proprietary technologies and licenses supplied by our trusted partner and leading expert in ammonia production processes: Casale.

Their unique patented pre-combustion carbon capture system increases the production capacity while reducing specific carbon emissions. Rieckermann further offers several comprehensive technologies completing the overall comprehensive industrial solutions for a wide variety of business needs.

Besides, Casale already pioneered in green ammonia process design with the construction of a first green ammonia plant in Italy about 100 years ago. Hence, their acquired experience is quite unique, and they constantly expand their expertise.

On top of that Rieckermann supplies several more complementing technologies completing the value stream for different business strategies, which we are very much looking forward to discussing with you.

Green methanol

Green Methanol has great potential as chemical feedstock in a wide range of applications, especially as fuel in shipping. We offer plant revamps for all kinds of base technologies, transforming production to green methanol with increased overall production capacities in cooperation with Casale, who innovate and develop the core technologies required to reduce carbon emissions. Their autothermal reformer (ATR) technology allows for mega capacities with reduced CAPEX.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Wet sulfuric acid

OXYSULF is a wet process technology for the recovery, regeneration and production of sulfuric acid from various types of off-gases, spent acid or sulfur burning. The process is based on wet-catalytic oxidation, or the combination of thermal and catalytic oxidation, of sulfur bearing compounds and the formation of sulfuric acid. A smart tail-gas treatment system allows to reach exceptional low SO2 emissions at stack.

Key advantages

Robust, high-quality acid condensation column
Guaranteed low SO2 emission and high sulfur oxidation efficiency
Highly efficient heat recovery system
Guaranteed low acid mist emission
Simple automated operation
Compact, modular construction

Brine treatment

SEABRINE is the brine treatment process to purify contaminated brine (industrial salted water), a byproduct of industrial processes, from hydrocarbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons. The purified brine can be recycled in other processes that require brine as raw material. The process is based on a high-pressure oxidation concept with a special designed reactor and heat exchanger systems for a maximum energy recovery and low to zero waste.

Save costs for crude salt and its logistics
Reduce costs for crude brine cleaning
Reduce costs for waste water treatment Low TOC values Reuse of purified sodium chloride brine in Chlorine/Alkali (C/A) electrolysis
Closed loop catalyst cycle
Recovery of hydrogen chloride and sodium hydroxide when combined with C/A electrolysis

Offgas treatment

Technologies for environmental protection, for the closure of material cycles, for the recovery of resources from waste streams.

CATOX – Catalytic Oxidation – is a technology for the treatment of off-gas streams with a medium heating value typically in the chemical, oil and gas or textile industry.

THERMOX – Thermal Oxidation- is a technology for the treatment of off-gas streams with a high concentration of VOC.

CHLOROX is a technology for the treatment of liquid and gaseous chlorinated effluents with reliable emission control and safe operation. The process is based on a thermal decomposition of chlorinated organic compounds recovering steam and HCl.

Liquid-liquid extraction

Blue hydrogen

Hydrogen is becoming one of the most important CO2 emission free fuels for the chemical- and refinery industry. The patented highly efficient pre-combustion carbon capture technology is a unique approach to produce blue hydrogen while increasing overall production efficiency at the same time.

In this area we work together with Casale, who offer the technology as well as the process license. Benefit from this combined technical know-how, propriety equipment, as well as our full scope plant delivery from technology to EPC. Our local experts will accompany and consult you during the entire project and make sure everything is delivered on time and budget.

CO2 valorization

Within the carbon utilization process CO2 is used as a feedstock to be converted to different kinds of chemicals like e.g. synthesis gas, ethylene, or formic acid. At Rieckermann, we work together with our customers and consult them on arising business opportunities from this innovative approach, on which we work together with GIG Karasek. They supply a unique patented electrochemical reduction technology, which utilizes only CO2 and water as a feedstock, in addition to electric energy & a catalyst.

WASTE TO VALUE

Biogas

To reclaim waste streams and sustainably produce energy, any organic substrate can be processed using BDI Biogas technology. Ideal feed materials for BDI’s biogas process include waste and side streams from breweries, food production, and the poultry industry. This flexible anaerobic digestion process can be designed as single- or multi-stage, optimized for the specific feedstock to achieve maximum yield and product quality.

The compact design of the plant allows for direct on-site integration, generating process heat or electricity from the produced biogas. Alternatively, the biogas can be purified further and fed into the gas grid for profit. Additionally, the remaining digestate can be utilized as a certified agricultural fertilizer.

Customized process design
Energy independence and carbon credits
Energy as a service

Biodiesel

BDI-BioEnergy International develops processes and builds plants to convert even the lowest quality of waste oils and fats to biodiesel, exceeding the most stringent standards in accordance with EN 14214 and ASTM. The BDI multi-feedstock process can convert a wide range of raw materials such as animal fats, used cooking oils, trap greases, and vegetable oils into high-quality biodiesel with maximum yield and low operating and maintenance costs. For the most challenging feedstocks, the BDI RepCAT process makes use of a heterogeneous catalyst to convert raw materials consisting of up to 99 % free fatty acids to biodiesel and produces salt-free, distillate-quality glycerin as a by-product.

Maximum feedstock flexibility
Reusable by-products
Decades of experience

Pretreatment for SAF/HVO

With the BDI Advanced PreTreatment process plants, oils and fats are purified to fulfill the stringent requirements for use as raw materials for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) production.

BDI’s Advanced PreTreatment technology is a modular process concept consisting of the core modules PrePurification, washing, and adsorption, and is completed by other optional modules like our patented polyethylene reduction process. These are chosen based on the requirements for the different raw materials, e.g. used cooking oil, animal fat or palm oil mill effluent. This assures minimal losses of oil to achieve high yield and a high-quality purified product.

Robust and efficient
Modular process units
Patented system

Plastic to circular oil

For efficient chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste streams, BDI offers its SynCycle plastic pyrolysis process, which converts polyolefinic plastic to pyrolysis oil fractions that can be re-processed to new plastic products.

In the SynCycle process, plastic waste is cleaned, melted and extruded into a pyrolysis reactor, where it decomposes into pyrolysis oil vapors, which are recovered in a multistage condensation process. The resulting circular oils can be fed back into a refinery process or used as secondary feedstock for new plastic production. The process design is modular and compact, ensuring easy and flexible decentralized installation.

Modular process design
One-stop-shop for mixed plastic waste recycling
Optimized for decentralized installation

Industrial heat pump

The industrial heat pump technology utilizes liquid waste heat sources and low-pressure steam as process steam on a customized temperature and pressure level. This way, the overall energy consumption of your plant can be reduced, as well as the extent of dependency on fossil fuels.

This unique industrial solution mainly consists of a profound engineering & customization service offered by our partner GIG Karasek. With their engineering capacity and extensive experience in delivering proven MVR plants, they have progressed the concept to increase the efficiency of entire plants.

OUR BROCHURES & FlyerS

KVT COMPANY

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BDI - BIOGAS BREWERY INDUSTRY

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BDI - BIOGAS WHITE PAPER

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BDI - BIODIESEL & RETROFIT

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BDI - ADVANCED PRETREATMEANT

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BDI - SYNCYCLE

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BDI - GREENTECH SOLUTIONS

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RIECKERMANN - CHEMICAL & ENERGY SOLUTIONS

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RIECKERMANN - GLOBAL TRADE FINANCE

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