GEA Messo’s contributions to the field of Crystallization
began 1953, originally under the name Standard-Messo Duisburg; since that time,
GEA Messo has been a crucial participant in crystallization and related
purification technologies, throughout the world. GEA Messo’s broad and
successful involvement in the chemical, food, steel, and environmental
industries is proof of the acceptance it has gained within the International
Chemical Engineering community. At the turn of the century, GEA Messo boasts of
over thousand installations and references of its abilities in the design,
construction, start-up, de-bottlenecking, and turn-key delivery of evaporation
and crystallization systems.
GEA
Messo’s expertise encompasses all basic types of crystallizers for the
crystallization from solutions, such as the Forced Circulation or Draft-Tube
(MSMPR) crystallizer, the Turbulence DTB crystallizer, and the Fluidized-Bed
OSLO crystallizer. GEA Messo is thus in a unique position to address the
special needs of each of its clients, depending on the required product crystal
quality and size.
In addition to the
centerpiece of a crystallization system, the crystallizer, GEA Messo
offers the supply of optimized peripheral equipment, in several levels of
involvement. GEA Messo routinely supplies upstream and downstream components,
such as the pre-concentration in multiple-effect, mechanical vapor
recompression, flash, and other evaporator configurations, the de-watering,
thickening, filtration or centrifugation, drying, solids handling and
packaging. GEA Messo also supplies piping and instrumentation and process
control systems for its plants, installations in prefabricated and modularized
sections, and turnkey installations, as required by the client.
GEA Messo is a leader in its field
through in-depth reviews of its operating installations and research and
development. The Research and Development Department of GEA Messo is housed in
a two-hundred-square-meter laboratory, equipped with Test Units that simulate
batch and continuous operation of all basic types and configurations of
crystallizers. It has in-house analytical capabilities for direct determination
of concentration, supersaturation, and other physical properties of the subject
process liquors. Not only the design of crystallizers but the development of
optimized separation processes for our clients needs is in the focus of GEA
Messo chemists and engineers.
In
order that its know-how is continually enriched with cutting-edge developments
in the field of crystallization, GEA Messo has established the close
cooperation of several leading European Universities' Research Centers for
information exchange.
