Modular additive manufactured reactor system
Assignee3D-Cat B.V.
InventorsJohannes Arnoldus Maria Willemsen, Gabriel Francis De Scheemaker
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a modular reactor system for carrying out processes comprising mixing, chemical reactions, heat exchange and/or separations, the reactor system comprising of at least one additive manufactured module, the module each performing at least one process unit operation, and optionally, an external housing.
Claims23
A modular reactor system for carrying out processes on an industrial scale comprising mixing, chemical reactions, heat exchange and/or separations of chemical reactants and/or (by)products, the reactor system comprising of at least one additive manufactured module, the module being configured for performing at least one process, and optionally, an external housing,
- wherein the industrial scale process has an entrant fluid minimum flow rate of at least 5 liters per hour,
- wherein the additive manufactured module comprises a reaction space having a mean major diameter of at least 5 cm, and a mean major height of at least 10 cm;
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- wherein the additive manufactured module comprises a porous ceramic material with a section of at least one of:
- a catalyst material and a sorbent material;
- wherein the section is formed with the catalyst material or the sorbent material comprised in the additive manufactured module.
A modular reactor system for carrying out processes on an industrial scale comprising mixing, chemical reactions, heat exchange and/or separations of chemical reactants and/or (by)products, the reactor system comprising:
- at least one additive manufactured module comprising a ceramic material, the module being configured for performing at least one process at a temperature up to at least 450° C.;
- and optionally, an external housing;
- wherein the industrial scale process has an entrant fluid minimum flow rate of at least 5 liters per hour;
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- wherein the module comprises a reaction space having a mean major diameter of at least 5 cm, and a mean major height of at least 10 cm;
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- wherein the ceramic additive manufactured module is formed with at least one of a catalyst material and a sorbent material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.