Phillips Pilot PlantVertical Pipe-Loop Reactor Design

6 Phillips Pilot PlantVertical Pipe-Loop Reactor Design 

In June of 1958, a 95-gallon vertical pipe-loop, pilot plant reactor was installed and placed into operation with the objective of solving the reactor wall-fouling problems encoxmtered with the stirred-tank autoclave reactors. 

The agitators necessary in the autoclave reactor were no longer required in the vertical pipe-loop system as a new design was disclosed in U.S. 

METHOD AND APPARATUS FORTHE PRODUCTION OF SOUD POLYMERS OF OLEFINS Hied Feb. 26,1962 

Patent 3,226,205 issued to Raymond G. Rohlfing on December 28, 1965, and assigned to Phillips Petroleum Company, which described a reactor impeller with a reagent feed inlet along the shaft. 

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