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Catalytic Reactor
A catalytic reactor is a reaction vessel designed to carry out chemical reactions that involve a catalyst, a substance that speeds up the reaction without being consumed.
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Product Description
A catalytic reactor is a reaction vessel designed to carry out chemical reactions that involve a catalyst, a substance that speeds up the reaction without being consumed. The catalyst can be solid, liquid, or gaseous, but in industrial practice, it is almost always a solid.
Some Catalytic Reactor Style
Fixed / packed bed reactor: catalyst stationary (most common);
Fluidised bed reactor: catalyst suspended by upward flow;
Tubular reactor: catalyst packed inside tubes, often for highly endothermic or exothermic reactions.
Application description
● Petroleum Refining: Fluid Catalytic Cracking, Catalytic Reforming, Hydrotreating, Hydrocracking, Alkylation.
● Bulk Chemical Production: Ammonia (Haber Process), Methanol, Sulfuric Acid (Contact Process), Nitric Acid (Ostwald Process), Ethylene Oxide, Acrylonitrile, Styrene.
● Polymer Production: Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Polyesters (e.g. PET).
● Energy & Fuels: Fischer-Tropsch (gas-to-liquids), Steam Methane Reforming (Hydrogen Production), Methanol-to-Olefins.
● Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals: Hydrogenation, Oxidation, Amination using precious metal catalysts (Pd, Pt, Ru).
Advantage
● Uniform temperature, high heat transfer rates, continuous catalyst regeneration, can handle large throughputs.
● Excellent heat transfer, near-isothermal conditions, ideal for highly exothermic or endothermic reactions.
● Continuous solids handling, catalysts can be added or removed while operating.
● High gas-solid contact, but some gas bypasses as bubbles (not perfect plug flow).
Specifications and Technical Parameters
Working pressure(MPa) | Negative pressure -0.1~40 |
Working temperature(℃) | -196~500 |
Heating type | Electric heating, water recycling, thermal oil, steam, far infrared heating, high frequency heating. |
| Tubular reactor can have a single wall and be heated with an external furnace or they can be jacketed for heating or cooling with a circulating heat transfer fluid. | |
Charging type | As per process flow chat. |
Main material | Contacting material inside kettle mainly use SUS304, SUS316LL, SUS321, SUS310, also can be produced by Titanium, Nickel Alloy, Hastelloy, Inconel etc, or lined with PTFE, PPL, PFA and Nickel according to different requirements of reaction media. |
Controller Device | Equipped with automatic or programmed PID or PLC to achieve: |
| Temperature display and control, accuracy ± 1 ℃ (or ±0.1 ℃); | |
| Mixing Speed display and control; | |
| Pressure display and control; | |
| Level display and control; | |
| Flow display and control; | |
| Valve open/close control; | |
| DCS system optional for keeping record of data. | |
Other Accessories | The structure of Tubular Reactor can be made completely as per customer’s request. |
| Can assemble various instruments as per request. |
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Reactor Volume
1-50L Lab
50-500L Pilot
500L+ Industrial
Reactor Temperature
-0℃-Room Coolant Circulation
Room-300℃ Thermal Oil
300℃+ Electric Heater
Reactor Pressure
-0.1-1.6MPa Low Pressure
1.6-10MPa Mid Pressure
10MPa+ High Pressure
Reactor Material
SS304, SS316L, SS321
Titanium, Hastelloy,
Nickel, Zirconium,
Or as per request
Welding Process
All welding process and operation are monitored by our CWI engineer
(America Certified Welding Inspector register no.21014761)
Documentation
PT/RT/UT/MT/VT/DNT
Full set welding documents
Material Certificate
Pressure Test Report
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