Operation method for multichannel apparatus and multichannel apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
InventorsAkira Matsuoka, Koji Noishiki
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Abstract
A method of operating a microchannel reactor, in which a reaction channel is formed, includes generating a reaction product by causing a chemical reaction in a raw material fluid while causing the same to flow through a reaction channel. If the flow rate of the raw material fluid and/or the reaction product fluid flowing through a reaction channel decreases, a fluid which is inert to the raw material fluid and the reaction product is mixed into the fluid flowing through the reaction channel, in a flow rate corresponding to the decreased flow rate and at a position downstream of the introduction position of the raw material fluid into the reaction channel.
Claims6
A method of operating a multichannel apparatus in which a reaction channel is formed, comprising a step of generating a reaction product by generating a chemical reaction in a raw material fluid while causing the raw material fluid to flow through the reaction channel, wherein if a flow rate of at least either one fluid of the raw material fluid and the reaction product fluid flowing through the reaction channel decreases, a fluid which is inert to the raw material fluid and the reaction product is mixed with the fluids flowing through the reaction channel in a flow rate corresponding to the decreased flow rate at a position on a downstream side of an introduction position of the raw material fluid into the reaction channel.
A multichannel apparatus comprising a reaction channel for generating a reaction product by generating a chemical reaction in a raw material fluid while causing the raw material fluid to flow, wherein:
- the reaction channel includes a mixing portion for introducing, if a flow rate of the fluid of at least either one of the raw material fluid and the reaction product flowing through the reaction channel decreases, a fluid which is inert to the raw material fluid and the reaction product into the reaction channel to mix with the fluids flowing through the reaction channel;
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- the mixing portion is arranged at a position on a downstream side of a position for introducing the raw material fluid into the reaction channel.
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