Technology testing.

Standard characterisation

Visual inspection, mechanical resistance, bulk density, loss on drying — included in every campaign.

Application-specific tests

Saturation capacity, contamination assays, sorption isotherms — tailored to the contaminant and unit operation.

Fresh vs. spent comparison

Side-by-side measurement of new and field-recovered material to quantify real in-service performances.

Liquids entrainment

Mechanical integrity and capacity retention under liquid exposure — water, light and heavy hydrocarbons — replicating process upset conditions.

Hydrothermal aging

Repeated regeneration cycles under controlled temperature and steam partial pressure — capacity loss quantified via sorption isotherms before and after.

Active phase stability

Active phase retention and structural integrity through representative stress cycles — deactivation severity and remaining service life.

TSA/PSA cycling

Multi-cycle performance under representative swing conditions — capacity, attrition, and fines generation measured before and after the campaign.

Basket trials

Comparative campaigns across multiple vendors — blind to the source, anonymised in the report, ranked by the same protocol applied to every sample.

Product qualification

Formal validation campaigns for material manufacturers entering a new market — protocols matched to the target application, deliverable usable as supporting evidence in qualification submissions.

Technology development

Selection studies for operators evaluating a new technology family — adsorption vs. catalysis vs. membranes vs. filtration compared head-to-head for a specific separation duty.