High Pressure Chemical Reactors

Supercritical Fluid Technologies introduced a new series of stirred reactors for high-pressure chemistry. The HPR Series Reactors have been designed for researchers who are interested in performing pressurised chemical reactions in their laboratories. Whether it is highpressure chemical synthesis or process development, the HPR Series is an excellent unit for those applications.

The reactors range in size from 50ml to 4 litres and may be operated up to 10,000 psi and 350°C. The reactors have a magnetically coupled impeller for optimal mixing. All high-pressure components are ASME rated and protected by a rupture disc for safe operation. These laboratory bench top models are ideal for applications where repetitive use makes convenience a necessity, such as catalytic studies, polymerisation, hydrogenation, oxidation, isomerisation, and dehydrogenation. All sizes are supplied as ready-to-use instruments requiring only utility connections prior to operation. The reactors are compact instruments that fit easily into a fume hood. Their modular design makes it simple and cost-effective to alter the unit’s basic configuration to adapt to new or evolving application needs.

All functions for the HPR Series Reactor are controlled by choices of two integrated processors (RxTrol Jr. or RxTrol Sr.) with a full colour touch screen. RxTrol Jr. consists of (2) temperature sensors (wall/interior mounting), and fuzzy logic PID temperature controls and mixing controls in a table top assembly. RxTrol Sr. offers many more advanced features utilising a microcontroller to perform all PID, ramp/soak, process trending, and interlock functions.

Additional options include vessel windows (<150°C operation only), additional ports, cooling coils, sample loops, stand alone pressure transducers, supercritical fluids pumps and reagent addition modules.