ORGANO long ago took notice of chromatographic separation's usefulness as an industrial separation and refining technology and has accumulated many achievements in this field over the years. Furthermore, ORGANO has perfected the simulated moving-bed chromatographic separation technology and is playing an active role in the area of the fractionation of oligosaccharides and beet molasses.
The simulated moving-bed chromatographic separation device, being a continuous separation system, has both higher separation efficiency and lower cost compared to conventional fixed-bed devices.
However, in principle it was impossible for a fluid mixture to be separated into three or more components using a single simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation device. In order to separate a feed fluid mixture into three or more products, either the mixture had to be divided into two parts and the separation process repeated two or more times, or two or more separation devices had to be combined in a series.
We at ORGANO, having been informed by our customers who have come to know of the high performance of our simulated moving-bed device, were asked whether it would be possible to fractionalize component mixtures made up of three or more components while still maintaining a high level of efficiency. In responding to this request, we at ORGANO drew from our vast fund of experiences in fixed-bed and simulated moving-bed chromatographic separation devices, and our unique technology for use in the fractionation of multicomponent mixtures. As a result, we developed a unique simulated moving-bed system for the fractionation of multicomponent mixtures called the New JO Chromatographic Separation Device .
The New JO Chromatographic Separation Device is a multicomponent fractionation system perfected by the utilization and the systematic combination of the strengths of both the fixed-bed and the simulated moving-bed chromatographic separation systems.
The result is a revolutionary separation system which enables continuous operation and the separation of products into three or more divisions without reducing the high separation efficiency of the simulated moving-bed system.
