Thermal flow reactor

Fig. 4.14. Rapid thermal flow reactor as used to determine the kinetics of the fast first-order reaction between CO2 and OH ions COj + OH" = HCOj ...

C.S. Wilcox and his research team designed and synthesized chiral water-soluble cyclophanes based on carbohydrate precursors. These compounds are also dubbed as glycophanes and they are potentially valuable enzyme models. The key macrocyclization step utilized the Glaser coupling and the reaction was carried out in a thermal flow reactor at 80 °C in 67% yield. 

The majority of thermal polymerizations are carried out as a batch process, which requires a heat-up and a cool down stage. Typical conditions are 250—300°C for 0.5—4 h in an oxygen-free atmosphere (typically nitrogen) at approximately 1.4 MPa (200 psi). A continuous thermal polymerization has been reported which utilizes a tubular flow reactor having three temperature zones and recycle capabiHty (62). The advantages of this process are reduced residence time, increased production, and improved molecular weight control. Molecular weight may be controlled with temperature, residence time, feed composition, and polymerizate recycle. 

The temperature counterpart of Q>aVR ccj-F/R and if ccj-F/R is low enough, then the reactor will be adiabatic. Since aj 3>a, the situation of an adiabatic, laminar flow reactor is rare. Should it occur, then T i, will be the same in the small and large reactors, and blind scaleup is possible. More commonly, ari/R wiU be so large that radial diffusion of heat will be significant in the small reactor. The extent of radial diffusion will lessen upon scaleup, leading to the possibility of thermal runaway. If model-based scaleup predicts a reasonable outcome, go for it. Otherwise, consider scaling in series or parallel. 

The catal5fsts were tested for CO oxidation in a flow reactor using a 2.5 % CO in dry air mixture at a fixed flow rate of 200 seem. Thirty milligrams of the catalyst were used for each experimental run. The reaction was conducted at 298, 323, 373 and 473 K with 75 minutes duration at each temperature. The carbon monoxide conversion to carbon dioxide was monitored by an online gas chromatogr h equipped with a CTR-1 column and a thermal conductivity... 

Simpler methods of generation of intermediates in the gas phase are the thermal ones. The thermal reactions are carried out either in Knudsen effusion cells under equilibrium conditions or in flow reactors at very low pressure. Effusion cells are widely applied for the evaporation of monomeric... 

Figure 20.1b shows two possible thermal profiles for endothermic plug-flow reactors. This time, the temperature decreases for low rates of heat addition and/or high heat of reaction. The temperature increases for the reverse conditions. Under conditions between the profiles shown in Figure 20.1b, a minimum can occur in the temperature profile at an intermediate point between the inlet and exit. 

The reactor has facilitated a diverse range of synthetic reactions at temperatures up to 200 °C and 1.4 Pa. The temperature measurements taken at the microwave zone exit indicate that the maximum temperature is attained, but they give insufficient information about thermal gradients within the coil. Accurate kinetic data for studied reactions are thus difficult to obtain. This problem has recently been avoided by using fiber optic thermometer. The advantage of continuous-flow reactor is the possibility to process large amounts of starting material in a small volume reactor (50 mL, flow rate 1 L hr1). A similar reactor, but of smaller volume (10 mL), has been described by Chen et al. [117]. 

Dahl, J. et al., Solar thermal dissociation of methane in a fluid-wall aerosol flow reactor, Int. J. Hydrogen Energ., 29, 725, 2004. 

The kinetics of the thermal hydrogen-fluorine reaction were studied at 110° by Levy and Copeland54 using a magnesium flow reactor. The reaction was found to be first order in F2 but the rate was independent of both H2 concentration and surface/volume ratio of the reaction zone. They concluded that the reaction was initiated and terminated at the walls. The same authors55 investigated the inhibition of the reaction by oxygen in the same apparatus over the temperature... 

Vaezi, V., E. S. Oh, and R. C. Aldredge. 1997. High-intensity turbulence measurements in a Taylor-Couette flow reactor. J. Experimental Thermal Fluid Science 15 424-31. 

A high molecular weight hydrocarbon gas A is fed continuously to a heated high temperature mixed flow reactor where it thermally cracks (homogeneous gas reaction) into lower molecular weight materials, collectively called R, by a stoichiometry approximated by A 5R. By changing the feed rate different extents of cracking are obtained as follows ... 

In the US, two programs were reported High Temperature Solar Splitting of Methane to Hydrogen and Carbon, and Rapid Solar-thermal Dissociation of Natural Gas in an Aerosol Flow Reactor. 

In chapters 2-5 two models of oscillatory reaction in closed vessels were considered one based on chemical feedback (autocatalysis), the other on thermal coupling under non-isothermal reaction conditions. To begin this chapter, we again return to non-isothermal systems, now in a well-stirred flow reactor (CSTR) such as that considered in chapter 6. 

Assess the potential of a thermal treatment of the off-gas, assuming that the reaction takes place in a plug-flow reactor. Determine the optimum reactor conditions for destroying N2O, while optimizing the yield of NO. The off-gas stream can be assumed to have the following composition (volume-based) 30% N20,0.7% NO, 300 ppm CO, 3% H20,4% O2, balance N2. 

P. Glarborg, K. Dam-Johansen, J.A. Miller, R.J. Kee, and M.E. Coltrin. Modeling the Thermal DeNOx Process in Flow Reactors. Surface Effects and Nitrous Oxide Formation. Int. J. Chem. Kinetics, 26 421-436,1994. 

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