Advanced chemical recycling services for hazardous and non-hazardous materials.
- Recovered Chemicals Offered
- Off-Site Chemicals Offered
- Advanced Processing Capabilities (coming soon)
KmX Chemical, a subsidiary of KmX Corporation, is a chemical recycler located in Virginia’s eastern shore using conventional and advanced processing techniques to provide a broad range of cost effective solutions to our clients. Our capabilities include distillation, evaporation and dehydration utilizing both molecular sieves and state-of-the-art membrane systems.
Our membrane dehydration, which can break water and chemical azeotropes, provides a range of previously unavailable recycling opportunities. In addition, through our parent company KmX Corporation, we offer skid-mounted units for long-term on-site processing solutions – with no capital investment and immediate financial returns.
Our plant, located on 13 acres of rail accessible land, has a DSP permit, is ATF approved to recycle ethanol, and operates in full compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements for accepting and processing both hazardous and non-hazardous waste. To provide a higher level of comfort our site has recently been equipped with access control and digital video surveillance.
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Technology Outsourcing
Our proprietary Tec Sep technology, slated for Q2 introduction at our New Church plant, can be designed, built and installed at your site to solve complex chemical separations of Azeotropic components with water and other organic solvents, as well as the removal of Volatile Organic Compounds from water.Some typical applications are listed below, each of which can increase productivity and reduce processing costs while generating significant returns on invested capital. Further we can offer this service on either a sale basis, or eliminating the requirement for capital expenditures, on a per gallon basis for an immediate financial payback.
Typical Applications
Isopropanol, ethanol: Standard applications, which can typically be dehydrated from their Azeotropes to fractions of a percent of water. Can increase product quality or provide de-bottlenecking of entrainer plants.
Ethyl acetate, butyl acetate: Materials that form Azeotropes in the miscibility gap. Azeo Sep is a superior technique for dehydration.
Acetone: Does not form an Azeotrope with water, but when distilled a large reflux is required. Azeo Sep is ideal for final dehydration or for de-bottlenecking existing distillation systems.
Acetonitrile: Forms an Azeotrope with water, is fully miscible with water. Can be dehydrated to low water concentrations with Azeo Sep. Avoids messing with contaminated salt solution and the re-distillation of salt contaminated organic phase.
Pyridine: Forms fully miscible, water rich Azeotrope, easily split by pervaporation or vapor permeation. Azeo provides alternative for final dehydration. Avoids entrainers and messy salt/alkali solutions.
THF: Straightforward dehydration by Azeo Sep down to a few hundred ppm of water. No messy chemicals.
MEK: Distillation is only possible with an entrainer because the Azeotropic composition is nearly identical to the miscibility limit. Azeo Sep is far superior.
N-butanol, n-propanol: Form Azeotropes with high water content so the distillation/phase separation process involves massive recycle streams. Azeo Sep plants are less costly to build and easier to operate.
Reaction mixtures: Remove by-product water to shift equilibrium, increase yield, speed.