AQUAFIL Engineering GmbH of Berlin remains innovative to keep its position to produce highest polymer quality at lowest conversion cost. The latest innovation of AQUAFIL Engineering and a new milestone in the polyester area is the Open Hall Building (OHB) polycondensation plant which fits into a normal hall and only simply requires some platforms (see picture). Only a small part needs a normal building structure for DCS, MCC, control room and laboratory.
The building height of an AQUAFIL OHB bottle plant is 50 per cent less compared to other modern PET bottle plants (conventional CP+SSP or Melt Phase CP). This way the building and erection cost and time are reduced dramatically. The new bottle plant can produce viscosities up to 0.85 IV without conventional SSP.
In general the OHB plant technology achieves the lowest electrical consumption worldwide compared to other plants. The first line of the OHB plant is under erection in the US.
AQUAFIL Engineering has long experience in building and designing continuous and batch polycondensation plants for PET polymers for textile, film and bottle grades. The OHB design is available for continuous and batch plants of all capacities.