Complete Process Engineering and Design-Build Solutions
You’re investing in more than equipment; you need a strategic partner who can validate feasibility, engineer the right solution, and sustain your system's performance over years of operation.
From concept to commissioning, we design, build, and integrate custom industrial systems that optimize performance, control costs, and simplify your operations.
At ALSYS, engineering isn’t just a step in the process—it’s how we turn complex fluid management challenges into reliable, long-term operational success.
Through ClearBakk, we combine nearly 35 years of global engineering experience with agile, local design-build execution. We don’t just supply individual components; we deliver fully integrated, turnkey industrial systems built to withstand your facility’s real-world demands.
Your Project From Concept to Operations
From early exploration and feasibility testing to custom modular fabrication and field support, we provide a single point of accountability for your process systems.
Separation Feasibility & Technology Evaluation
Structured analysis of your feed behavior, performance targets, and the perfect membrane/catalyst fit.
Pilot Testing & Industrial Trials
Validation under your real operating conditions to confirm critical mechanisms, flux, reaction behavior, and ALSYS system readiness.
System Engineering & Fabrication
Design, manufacturing, and configuration of skids, modules, and components that align with your real-world constraints.
Long-Term Operation & Lifecycle
Support Commissioning, audits, upgrades, and after-sales services that maintain the performance of your ALSYS system over the years of use.
ALSYS Engineering Capabilities
ClearBakk supports the complete development of industrial projects across complex fluid management, water treatment and modular infrastructure. These end-to-end service packages help you analyze process challenges, design and fabricate reliable systems and maintain predictable, efficient performance throughout your equipment's entire operational lifecycle.
Full-Cycle Process Engineering & Turnkey System Design
ClearBakk guides your project from the initial problem definition straight through to full system implementation. You don’t have to guess how a system should be sized, how components will interact, or whether a new installation will disrupt your existing processes. We provide structured feasibility studies, pilot testing, and detailed engineering designs that confirm system viability before major capital is spent—significantly reducing your investment risk.
By managing system development from early evaluation through to final commissioning, we ensure your equipment is custom-tailored to your exact operating conditions. Whether managing complex fluid dynamics, varied feed chemistries, footprint constraints, or stringent regulatory limits, we build for long-term physical durability and consistent, predictable production outcomes.
Our Track Record
We bring nearly 35 years of global engineering experience and over 500 successful industrial system deployments. Our engineering teams are experts in hydraulic design, modular integration, automated control strategies, and complex fluid management. You gain direct access to our pilot centers and a fleet of mobile test units across North America and Europe for real-world feasibility and scale-up benchmarking.
This deep field experience allows us to refine your operating windows, optimize your facility layout, and deliver robust, rugged designs that withstand demanding production schedules. You get an agile, responsive partner capable of supporting both day-to-day operations and your long-term infrastructure strategy.
Explore More
See how structured evaluation and engineered system design reduce implementation risk.
Advanced Modular Fabrication & Custom Industrial Systems
ClearBakk enables you to deploy fully integrated, decentralized process systems optimized for reliability, ease of maintenance, and long-term durability. When standard, off-the-shelf equipment isn’t enough, we work closely with your team to engineer and fabricate custom modular solutions—including world-class Polymer Hydration Plants (PHPs), specialized water treatment facilities, and rugged dry product handling systems—tailored to your precise operational demands.
Our Track Record
With a robust global manufacturing and fabrication footprint, we’ve designed and built some of the largest chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) and polymer hydration facilities in the world, capable of handling dry polymer up to 8,000 kg/hr. Our multidisciplinary teams collaboratively manage structural steel, piping, electrical, and automation controls to ensure every modular skid delivers predictable throughput under real industrial conditions.
Our fabrication excellence is backed by rigorous quality control, mechanical testing, and extensive R&D infrastructure. This comprehensive approach allows ClearBakk to build systems that seamlessly handle aggressive chemistries, advanced tailings mitigation, and high-volume fluid processing while optimizing your site footprint.
Explore More
Learn how developing membrane materials enhances long-term system performance.
Sustaining System Performance Through Commissioning, Field Services and Parts
Even the best-engineered system requires ongoing operational alignment to maintain peak efficiency. Our dedicated field operations and lifecycle teams help you stabilize startup conditions, optimize process controls, and troubleshoot performance changes before they impact your production schedule or bottom line. We provide the ongoing support needed to ensure your water treatment or fluid management system continues to deliver the maximum output for which it was designed.
ClearBakk provides hands-on, practical support across system commissioning, field audits, retrofits, and operator training. These programs help your team transition smoothly from construction to stable, efficient, long-term daily operations while preventing premature equipment wear, system inefficiencies, or downtime caused by variable site conditions.
Our lifecycle services also include refurbishing, debottlenecking, and optimizing aging systems, enabling you to significantly extend asset life and source vital replacement parts without requiring a full, costly replacement. This long-term partnership approach helps you maintain absolute reliability and drastically reduce operating costs (OPEX) across the system’s entire lifespan.
Explore More
Learn how custom modular fabrication enhances long-term operational performance.
Why Partner With Us?
Proven Global Track Record
With hundreds of successful installations deployed worldwide, our designs are tried, tested, and proven in the field. You get a single, clear point of contact and the peace of mind that comes with deep engineering experience.
Flexible & Responsive
Our collaborative, agile culture means we adapt to changing project needs quickly, giving you a level of responsiveness that large, rigid engineering firms simply can't match.
Optimized Lifecycle Costs
We balance capital expenditure (CAPEX) with long-term operating costs (OPEX) during the design phase, prioritizing physical durability, reduced footprints, and easy routine maintenance.
Commonly Asked Questions About Engineering Services
Industrial processes impose heavy, often unpredictable demands on separation equipment. These FAQs address the most common questions about integrating ALSYS ceramic, polymeric, and hybrid membranes into real operating environments.
ALSYS begins with a comprehensive technical review designed to clarify the true nature of your separation or reaction problem. This includes a detailed understanding of feed components, identifying performance targets, and determining the operational stresses your system must withstand. Many projects fail during scale-up because early evaluations overlook critical factors. ALSYS evaluates all these factors before recommending a membrane or catalyst solution, ensuring that decisions are grounded in your real process behavior rather than assumptions.
- Feasibility studies using customer-supplied or otherwise representative process fluid
- Bench-scale tests to identify limiting behaviors and mechanisms
- Pilot trials that validate performance under real-world operating conditions
- Data-driven recommendations for scale-up and system design
These structured evaluations confirm whether your chosen technology is viable and reveal the operating window required for long-term reliability. Once data is validated, ALSYS guides membrane or catalyst selection, system sizing, hydraulic configuration, and integration planning to ensure a smooth transition to engineering.
ALSYS pilot systems are essential for de-risking your project and establishing confidence before capital investment. While bench tests provide foundational insight, pilots recreate operational complexity, including fouling, cleaning behavior, reaction variability, and the effects of process upsets, which cannot be replicated at a small scale. This allows ALSYS to refine your system behavior before you commit to full-scale equipment.
- Verification of separation or reaction mechanisms under real conditions
- Establishing optimal pressure, temperature, and flow parameters
- Identifying fouling, deactivation, or cleaning limitations
- Generating reliable operating data for engineering design
Pilot results then inform your system architecture, financial justification, and operational planning. This stage significantly reduces uncertainty and ensures your full-scale ALSYS installation delivers the performance and cost savings projected during evaluation.
Commissioning is often the most sensitive phase of a project. ALSYS provides onsite or remote support to validate hydraulics, catalyst activation, membrane loading, cleaning sequences, and control tuning. This ensures that your startup conditions are stable and perfectly aligned with your process requirements.
- Startup validation for hydraulics, controls, and system stability
- Training and hands-on operational guidance for plant personnel
- Troubleshooting of early-cycle fouling, reaction drift, or pressure instability
- Optimization of operating and cleaning parameters for reliable performance
Once operational, ALSYS continues to monitor and adjust to ensure your system maintains steady-state behavior. This reduces your ramp-up time and helps you avoid costly early operational interruptions.
Long-term performance depends on how well the system adapts to real-world dynamics — shifts in feed chemistry, impurity load, temperature, or cleaning behavior. ALSYS performs routine audits, on-site diagnostics, and rapid troubleshooting to maintain throughput and protect system longevity. This helps operators quickly address performance drift before it impacts production.
- Routine audits that identify emerging efficiency losses
- Optimization of cleaning, regeneration, and replacement cycles
- Root-cause analysis through membrane autopsies or catalyst characterization
- Upgrade and revamp strategies to improve aging or undersized installations
These ongoing services ensure your operating costs remain predictable and your ALSYS assets remain within their validated performance window throughout their lifecycle.
A key advantage of ALSYS is its ability to align material development with system engineering. Many separation or reaction failures are caused by mismatches between membranes/catalysts and the hardware or operating conditions in which they are used. ALSYS eliminates this risk by designing modules, skids, and control strategies around the physical and chemical behaviors of the materials themselves.
- Material development synchronized with hydraulic and mechanical design
- Testing that validates compatibility between membranes/catalysts and system hardware
- Adjustments to process architecture based on material performance
- Reduced commissioning risk and more stable lifecycle operation
This integrated approach ensures systems are easier to operate, more tolerant of variability, and consistently aligned with the performance observed during pilot validation.
The strongest results come when ALSYS is engaged early, before key decisions on materials, sizing, or system layout are finalized. Early involvement ensures that performance targets, operating windows, and cost assumptions align with what membrane or catalyst technologies can realistically deliver.
- Early-stage support that reduces CAPEX/OPEX risk
- Mid-project auditing to resolve integration issues
- Late-stage optimization that restores stability and improves economics
- Flexible engagement at feasibility, scale-up, or ongoing operation
However, ALSYS frequently joins projects midstream or even late-stage when operators face unexpected fouling, catalyst decay, off-spec product, or reliability problems. In these cases, ALSYS diagnoses underlying issues and provides actionable recommendations to recover performance.
ALSYS uses a packaged-services model that mirrors the natural progression of separation and reaction projects. This structure allows customers to engage at any stage while maintaining continuity from concept through long-term operation. Each package is built from decades of global field experience across chemical processing, water treatment, food and feed, energy, and specialty materials.
- Feasibility and pilot evaluation packages
- Engineering, development, and fabrication packages
- Commissioning and early-operation packages
- Long-term performance optimization and lifecycle support
These packages provide a consistent framework that reduces risk, accelerates decision-making, and ensures that the final system delivers stable, predictable, and cost-effective performance.
Let's Make Things Happen
Whether you’re looking to optimize an existing fluid system, source vital replacement parts, or design a custom treatment plant from scratch, our engineering team is ready to help you.