Pressure-regulated multi-reactor system
AssigneeAurotec GmbH
InventorsStefan Zikeli, Friedrich Ecker
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Abstract
A device and a method are provided for reacting a starting material in at least two reactors connected to each other, including the reacting of the starting material in a first reactor to a first product, removing the first product from the first reactor using a jet pump, wherein a negative pressure zone of the jet pump is operationally connected to the first reactor, so that the first product of the first reactor moves through the negative pressure zone in a propulsion jet of a propulsion medium of the jet pump, conducting the propulsion medium having the first product into a second reactor, wherein the first product is allowed to react into a second product, separating the second product from the propulsion medium and discharging the separated second product.
Claims17
A device including at least two interconnected reactors, suitable for continuous operation with contaminating substances, comprising:
- a first reactor connected to a jet pump via a line, wherein in a pre-heating zone, starting materials are heated to a temperature below a reaction temperature, and in a reaction zone, the starting materials are heated to the reaction temperature, wherein the jet pump is configured for producing a negative pressure in the first reactor, and wherein a negative pressure zone of the jet pump is operatively connected to the first reactor via the line, so that during operation, a first product fluid of the first reactor passes through the negative pressure zone into a propulsion jet of the jet pump;
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- a second reactor having a longitudinal axis and including a reaction region and a container region, wherein the propulsion jet extends along said longitudinal axis and at least partially within said second reactor to introduce a propulsion medium together with the first product fluid of the propulsion jet into said reaction region of said second reactor, said reaction region including a porous, surface enlarging matrix configured to form a second product fluid, and said container region configured to store said propulsion medium separated from said second product fluid, said second reactor including an outlet for said second product fluid formed in said second reactor and a pump for conveying the propulsion medium from said container region for feeding into the jet pump as propulsion medium.
A device including at least two interconnected reactors, suitable for continuous operation with contaminating substances, comprising:
- a first reactor connected to a jet pump via a line, wherein in a pre-heating zone, starting materials are heated to a temperature below a reaction temperature, and in a reaction zone, the starting materials are heated to the reaction temperature, wherein the jet pump is configured for producing a negative pressure in the first reactor, and wherein a negative pressure zone of the jet pump is operatively connected to the first reactor via the line, so that during operation, a first product fluid of the first reactor passes through the negative pressure zone into a propulsion jet of the jet pump;
- a second reactor having a longitudinal axis and including a reaction region and a container region, wherein the propulsion jet extends along said longitudinal axis and at least partially within said second reactor to introduce a propulsion medium together with the first product fluid of the propulsion jet into said reaction region of said second reactor, said reaction region configured to form a second product fluid and said container region configured to store said propulsion medium separated from said second product fluid, said second reactor including an outlet for said second product fluid formed in said second reactor as well as a pump for conveying the propulsion medium from said container region for feeding into the jet pump as propulsion medium;
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- a condensate separator in the line between the first reactor and the jet pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.