Oscillating flow minireactor
AssigneePatheon Austria GmbH & Co KG
InventorsRafael Wilhelmus Elisabeth Ghislain Reintjens, Mehul Thathagar
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus comprising a) an unbaffled reactor or microreactor having a channel defined by a pathway, and b) an oscillating flow device, wherein the channel pathway comprises a plurality of directional changes. The reactor channel has a hydrolic diameter from 0.1 mm to 10 mm. A method of making said apparatus and the use of said apparatus to carry out a process on a suspension is also disclosed.
Claims11
An apparatus suitable for carrying out a process on a fluid, said apparatus comprising a) an unbaffled minireactor having a reactor channel defined by a pathway, and b) an oscillating flow device;
- wherein the reactor channel pathway comprises one or more directional changes;
- and wherein the net flow of the reaction stream is in the forward direction but the oscillating flow device slows, pauses and/or reverses this forward flow periodically;
- and wherein the frequency of the flow oscillation may vary from 0.1 Hz to 1000 Hz and the ratio between stationary flow to amplitude of oscillating flow may vary from 0.05 to 1000.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.