Advancing Technologies for Advancing Industries

Torftech is a Technology Company

Working across industries from minerals to waste to food, we design, provide and license industrial solutions for a huge range of gas-solid contacting processes using our proven, proprietary technology which both challenges and outperforms many conventional technologies used for the same purposes such as fluidized beds and rotary kilns. Our TORBED processors are at the forefront of process intensification technology, designed for maximum efficiency and sustainability, challenging established technologies across a range of applications and industries, their intensity and process control offering superior outcomes. The microwave-equipped TORWAVE processor extends the abilities of our technology, offering “unparalleled process control” and extending the possibilities for all-electric heating and carbon reduction already offered by the TORBED processor. We are proud to offer innovative solutions that can streamline industrial processes, while minimizing energy consumption and environmental impact, promoting carbon reduction, carbon capture and supporting a circular economy.

Examples of a wide range of applications include industrial catalyst processing, mineral processing, industrial gas scrubbing for carbon capture and commercial food processing. Click on the Technology and Processes TABs to explore further what we have done and what is possible.

We Offer

Efficiency

Expert engineers and designers work with you to deliver optimisation of both processes and the TORBED processor. This leads to energy, space and cost efficiency that are the hallmarks of our technology.

Control

Full automation together with excellent mixing and fast reaction rates combine to give excellent process control, enabling optimisation and giving you ideal products and processes.

Sustainability

Our technology not only enables new processes that are key to a sustainable, low carbon future, but also allows existing processes to be intensified, creating life cycle resource savings. In addition it offers opportunities for electrification of processes.

Intensity

Process intensification underpins all the benefits that the TORBED technology can offer your business. The high rates of heat and mass transfer means that the TORBED technology is ideally situated to advance industrial processing of solids and gases, such as biomass processing and industrial gas scrubbing.

News

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T1000: A Workhorse of Industrial Food Processing.

We identify our TORBED processors by their internal diameter in millimetres. The T1000 is regularly used in both industrial food processing and in mineral processing. We sold our first T1000 for food applications in 1988. The oldest operational one will celebrate its 30th birthday next ...

Carbon Reduction: Gas scrubbing and beyond.

As COP29 progesses against a background of floods in Europe and droughts in Africa, the need to reduce our carbon emissions and the level of carbon in the atmosphere becomes increasingly evident. As a technology company, this in our DNA. The raison d’être of our ...

CCS: is industrial gas scrubbing with Olivine the key to large scale carbon capture.

A few weeks ago, we published an item setting out details of work done by Newcastle University on dry gas scrubbing as a means of CO2 adsorption (The key starting point in any CCS process) and the particular effectiveness of the TORBED processor in industrial ...

The Technology

We can change the way you process

Our processors have capabilities in a range of gas-solid contacting processes from high temperature flash calcination to low temperature drying across a diverse range of industries. Often our processors offer an alternative to less resource-efficient conventional technologies.  Find out about some of the processes for which our technology has been used and see if we could assist you.