We are a world leading company in the field of chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, fragrance industry and especially the crude oil industry and are engaged in the development and construction of process distillation plants/laboratory equipment. Our main focus is on fully automated crude oil analysis.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a full-time employee (m/f/n) to start as soon as possible as:

Glass apparatus maker – Glass instrument maker – Glassblower

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Manufacture of columns, capacitors and other complex
• tubular glass components
• Silver plating and evacuation of components

Your requirements:

• Completed training as a glass apparatus maker or comparable
• preferably professional experience in the field of complex laboratory glassware

We offer you:

• A varied range of tasks in a growing,
• internationally operating company
• Taking on a position of responsibility
• A motivated and competent team with long-term employees

Are you interested?

Then we look forward to receiving your complete application documents (preferably by e-mail in a PDF file), stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, to

juergen.fischer@pilodist.de
Subject: Glasblower

We look forward to getting to know you!

PILODIST GmbH
Mr. Jürgen Fischer
Subject: Glasblower
Eichelnkampstraße 2
53340 Meckenheim

At the PITO in Stabroek, students today put a new distillation tower into operation. The seventh-year Chemical Process Engineering students thus have the opportunity to put everything they learn into practice.

Processor controlled crude oil distillation system for fully automatic operation exactly conforming to ASTM D-2892 (TBP), latest revision.

The system is computer controlled and designed for fully automatic operation throughout the different distillation runs at different pressure levels which includes:

• debutanization
• run at atmospheric pressure
• run at vacuum 100 Torr
• run at vacuum 10 Torr
• run at vacuum 2 Torr.

These different distillation runs are performed automatically, there is no need for any intervention by the operator. The system automatically manages the changes of all involved operation pressure changes from atmospheric to the different vacuum conditions automatically with. The duration of the intermediate cooling procedure in between the different runs is minimized by an intensive cooling of the flask charge as well as introduction of N2 into the system.

The system measures online the volume of each fraction before each cut is being discharged into an automatic fraction collector with 20 receivers. The fraction collector is equipped with an inbuilt electronic balance to measure the weight of each fraction. By replacing filled receivers the system can handle up to 80 cuts for the distillation of one sample. The receiver change is performed according to pre-selected cut temperatures or when a receiver is filled up to continue the cut sampling in the next receiver (to avoid overfillingof the receiver).

After the distillation the operator needs to weigh the gas trap as well as the flask residue by the external balance (part of delivery), the weights are automatically taken by the system and as a result the final data evaluation and TBP-curves in weight-% and volume-% are printed out and can be stored.

The system can optionally be equipped with an online density measurement system.

The system requires for operation water, nitrogen, compressed air and electricity to be supplied by lab infrastructure.

The following video shows the test procedure of the fire alarm system for PETRODIST 100 CC, manually activated.

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Encouraging and amazing news in difficult times for all of us:

For the fifth time since 2015 PILODIST has been appointed as one of “Germany’s Growth Champions 2021” by FOCUS Business Magazine in cooperation with the independent institute “Statista”. The nomination is based on the growth of turnover in the period 2016 – 2019.

We clearly understand this award is not only recognizing PILODIST, but also honoring the efforts, the dedication and commitment of all our distributors and friends. This is wonderful news and an extraordinary success. Hence we would like to thank you all for your tremendous commitment in selling PILODIST systems, because your continued activities and loyalty have made this possible.

As you all know, 2020 will be different. Just as so many others, PILODIST is affected by the worldwide pandemic situation, resulting in slightly decreasing sales figures until July. Nevertheless we are doing well now and all of our staff is back in full action since months. Sales are catching up since August and we are preparing for deliveries of projects/systems for delivery until the end of this year.

We are thrilled to have received this award again, which motivates us to continue our way with

• excellent product quality
• superior design
• innovative products
• quick spare parts supply and
• supportive and competent service both on site as well as by remote online access.

Thanks to all our clients and partners worldwide for this tremendous success we have enjoyed! Wishing you all the best for yourselves, families and staff – and most important: keep safe and healthy!

PILODIST proudly announces the inauguration of an additional adjacent new production hall for the assembly and testing of turn-key systems for distillation, extraction and thin-film evaporation.

Following our tremendeous growth over years it became neccessary to grow this area as more and more systems had to be assembled and tested simultaneously. This new assembly and production area of approx. 450 qm has been equipped with most modern supplies and provides more than 14 positions for the assembly of different systems.

We are happy and proud to announce that the following patent now has been officially been assigned by “Deutsches Patentamt” which is the German patent authorities.

Automatic phase separation

This is a special feature being used in the water removal (dehydration) option of our fully automatic crude oil distillation systems PETRODIST 100 CC. The water removal accessories separates the water from wet crude oils as ASTM D2892 requires dehydration before distillation for crude oils having more than 0,4% of water content.

The automatic phase separator automatically discharges precisely the separated water into a can without overlapping while light components that have been evaporated during the process are automatically being recharged to the distillation flask without operator intervention.

Today was the last work day of Norbert. He joined my earlier family business FISCHER Labor- und Verfahrenstechnik GmbH, founded by my father in 1967 and continued in PILODIST GmbH later on. So he was working for a total of 50 years in the same job, being responsible for the electronic department.

Norbert has always been an example of a loyal, committed, engaged and dutiful member of the team!

All our current team is unhappy to lose our valuable colleague but wish him happiness and health in his private life.

We all at PILODIST would like to thank you all for your visits on our booth. It has been a real pleasure to see you all and to introduce our latest PILODIST systems and to discuss pending projects. We have had a tremendous response from new distributors as well as endusers from all over the world.

Following some impressions from our booth.

We are proud to announce that PILODIST GmbH  been appointed for the second time as one of the “Growth Champions” of the German industry for 2017 by the German magazine FOCUS in cooperation with STATISTA.

We belong again to the TOP 500 German growth champions and are listed in the ranking on position no. 26 in the plant engineering and construction industry.

We all at PILODIST are overwhelmed about this repeated award which motivates us to continue our way with

• excellent product quality
• superior design
• innovative products
• quick spare parts supply and
• supportive and competent service both on site as well as by remote online access.

Thanks to all our clients and partners worldwide for this tremendous success we have enjoyed!

Please use our Maxwell-Bonnell-Calculator to convert actual temperatures (ACT) into athmospheric equivalent temperatures (AET) and to determine the pressure needed in the system so that AET corresponds to the ACT.

The Maxwell-Bonnell Calculator determines the atmospheric equivalent temperature (AET) from the observed vapor temperature (ACT) in the distillation system under vacuum.
The Calculator is also capable of determining the observed vapor temperature (ACT) in case the atmospheric equivalent temperature (AET) and the pressure are known.

With the new feature the Maxwell-Bonnell calculator is provided with an additional pressure determination. By entering an AET and an ACT, the user can now determine the pressure needed in the system so that AET corresponds to the ACT.

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We are proud to display a customized distillation system just recently manufactured and installed by PILODIST engineering team. The system has been designed to operate under atmospheric  as well as vacuum conditions down to 1 Torr in continuous and discontinuous (batch) mode by using either a circulation evaporator with level sensors or a distillation flask with electrical heating mantle. This specific system is completed with an automatic fraction collector which operates 10 receivers. It is designed with four distillation columns with silvered high-vacuum mantle and packed with SULZER packing and additional electrical column heating mantles to ensure adiabatic operation.

PILODIST 250 systems are designed by our engineering team according to specific customer needs to fulfill specific research or training projects. The variable includes the number of distillation columns, type and diameter of distillation column (bubble cap tray column or packed columns) for different throughputs, the number of feed and product take-off (discharge) points just to mention some criterias, all details being engineered depending on the job definition.

For further information contact info@pilodist.de, Phone +49 2225 955910 or fill out our Project inquiry.