Process Engineering

Whether you're in biotech, pharmaceutical, or industrial processing, we can help you optimize your flow-related designs.  Alden is an independent, third party laboratory that provides a variety of consulting services—from component testing, to scaled experimental models for large installations, to complex computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling.

Our particular focus is on scaling up successful lab-scale technologies to commercial-scale systems when flow processes are important. This service becomes particularly important when mixing rates, reaction rates, and mass transfer rates are all on a similar time scale.

Examples of projects and applications include:

Pharmaceutical

• Chromatography scale-up
• Filter optimization
• Bioreactors

Manufacturing

• Pre-cast concrete curing chambers
• Fiberglass forming improvements
• Extrusions
• Process heating / cooling

Bio/Chemical Engineering

• Algae pond optimization
• Biofuels
• Commodity chemical production
• Carbon capture / sequestration
• Fermentation
• Mixing / reaction tank design
• Multiphase heat and mass transfer

Electrical Flows

• Grid scale energy storage
• Flow battery optimization
• Plasma vapor deposition