Reactor apparatus

An apparatus effective for treating materials under selected temperature conditions and with agitation, which comprises:

• a. a liquid-tightly closeable tubular materials-treating chamber,
• b. a temperature-control fluid jacket spaced away from and enclosing at least substantially its overall body portion thereby to provide a temperature-control fluid chamber enclosing said body portion,
• c. divider means within said control fluid chamber and extending in at least substantially liquid-tight engagement with its wall and that of said treating chamber and dividing said control fluid chamber into a plurality of substantially equal control fluid compartments, said divider means comprising an annular divider member in like liquid-tight engagement and lying in a plane substantially normally transverse to the central axis of said chamber;
• d. means to enable rotating the tubular jacketed treating chamber end over end about an axis lying substantially in said plane and also substantially normally transverse to said central axis;
• e. temperature-control fluid ingress means to enable feeding said fluid to about the correspondingly same inlet location of each said compartment and while the treating chamber is being thus rotated;
• f. control fluid egress means at about the correspondingly same outlet location of each said compartment to enable discharging heat-control fluid from said compartments while said chamber is being rotated;
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• g. flowing fluid diverter means in each said compartment intermediate its fluid ingress and egress ends to affect the flow course of fluids through it to enable providing substantially overall uniform heat transfer through the wall separating said two chambers.