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US 2013/0171041 A1Published application
Chemical reactor with plate type heat exchange unit
AssigneeMethanol Casale S.A.
InventorsEnrico Rizzi, Ermanno Filippi, Mirco Tarozzo
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Abstract
An isothermal chemical reactor (1) is described comprising a plate (30) heat exchange unit (12), immersed in a catalytic bed (7) and destined to heat or cool the reagents in order to maintain the reaction temperature in a predetermined range; said plates (30) are formed by two flat walls (31, 32) and longitudinal spacers (33), with obtainment of parallel channels (34) for the circulation of a heat exchange fluid.
Claims11
An isothermal chemical reactor comprising:
- at least one internal plate heat exchange unit, arranged to provide a heat exchange between a fluid flowing through said plates inside the unit, and a fluid outside the unit, and contained in said reactor,
- each of said plates of the heat exchange unit comprising
- a first flat wall and a second flat wall, said walls being substantially two-dimensional and arranged parallel to and spaced from each other, and
- a plurality of internal spacer elements formed by metal strips connecting the first flat wall to the second flat wall, and spacing said walls from one another with obtainment of parallel channels defined between said walls for the passage of said internal fluid.
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