Pignat's standard-size, floor-standing Batch Continuous Distillation trainer (DVI/3000) allows students to operate both a continuous and batch distillation process.
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Pignat is a global leader in hands-on training systems for chemical and process engineering, offering robust, transparent units designed to enhance understanding of real-world industrial operations. With a focus on glass-based construction, Pignat’s systems allow learners to observe processes directly—bringing theory to life in both academic and industrial training environments. Trusted by universities, technical institutes, and research centers worldwide, Pignat products support education and experimentation across core disciplines like distillation, absorption, reaction kinetics, heat exchange, filtration, and more.
Pignat’s product range is thoughtfully organized to serve learners from introductory to advanced levels. Mini Units introduce essential principles on a lab scale, ideal for high schools, technical colleges, and undergraduate programs. Larger pilot and industrial-scale units replicate commercial conditions for advanced research and skill development, supporting graduate programs and workforce training initiatives. With transparent operation, integrated instrumentation, and options for manual or automated SCADA control, Pignat systems make it easy to visualize, analyze, and optimize chemical processes.
Explore individual process techniques—like distillation, crystallization, or extraction—or investigate full system behavior through multi-stage continuous plants and reactors. Every Pignat system is engineered for education, research, and innovation in the chemical sciences.
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Item Number:ABS/100The trainer allows students to study the absorption of NH3 or CO2 in water, determine the material balance of the gaseous solute, influence of operational parameters on efficiency of the column, thermal balance, packing factor, and more. Educational handbook and technical manual included. -
Item Number:REA/3000Pignat's Computerized Chemical Reactor (REA/3000) is a one-gallon, controlled, multi-purpose, jacketed glass reactor system specifically designed for education and research. This unit supports the study of controlled batch chemical reactions and allows students to operate and experience reaction processes and modify the variables upon which the reactions being studied are based. -
Item Number:DVI/100, DVI/300Explore the Pignat DVI/100 Continuous Distillation unit – a compact, glass-based educational system for studying thermal separation and column hydrodynamics in chemical engineering programs. -
Item Number:ABR/3000The regeneration process is observed on the second column, which is continuously fed. An energy‐saving heat exchanger is placed between the two columns to optimize energy usage. With this unit, students are able to study various control loops, determine mass balance, and process efficiency. The unit also includes a LabView monitoring system. -
Item Number:OTP-DCPignat's Controlled Distillation Unit (OTP-DC) is an automated, controlled, continuous distillation pilot plant. This industrial-scale unit allows students to study unit operations, maintenance, and process supervision. -
Item Number:DIS/1000Explore batch distillation principles with the Pignat DIS/1000. This lab-scale glass unit allows for in-depth study of vapor-liquid equilibrium, reflux control, and yield analysis in a hands-on educational setting. -
Item Number:EEA/1000 (Manual) and EEA/2000 (Computerized)Explore Pignat’s EEA/1000 and EEA/2000 ebulliometers for studying binary mixtures, boiling point determination, and liquid-vapor equilibrium under atmospheric and vacuum conditions. Ideal for chemical engineering education and lab research. -
Item Number:RAP/4000This self-contained system facilitates the study of pressure drop due to flow restrictions through valves, strainers, fittings, and pipe of varying diameters, different surface roughnesses, and lengths. The system also facilitates the study of flow rate measurement methods such as orifice assembly, venturi meter, variable-area flow meter, and by calibrated tank vs. time. -
Item Number:ABS/2000The trainer allows students to study the absorption of NH3 or CO2 in water, determine the material balance of the gaseous solute, influence of operational parameters on efficiency of the column, thermal balance, packing factor, and more. Educational handbook and technical manual included.
