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US 4,985,208 AGranted
Polymerization reaction apparatus
AssigneeNippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.
InventorsHitoshi Sugawara, Minoru Goto, Yoshitaka Sakamaki, Toshio Fujita
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AssigneeNippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.
InventorsHitoshi Sugawara, Minoru Goto, Yoshitaka Sakamaki, Toshio Fujita
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This invention relates to a polymerization reaction apparatus which is composed of a vertical cylindrical vessel, a rotating shaft inside the vessel, a plurality of agitating blades attached to the shaft, and a large number of plate-like heat transfer elements attached to the inner wall of the vessel, disposed radially between the agitating blades, and internally equipped with a passage for a heat transfer fluid, and in which apparatus a polymerizing mass passes through a gap between the rotating shaft, the agitating blades, and a large number of the plate-like heat transfer elements and exchanges heat with a heat transfer fluid circulating inside the plate-like heat transfer elements, effecting uniform removal of the reaction heat or uniform heating of the polymerizing mass and preventing vertical mixing.
A polymerization reaction apparatus which comprises a vertical cylindrical vessel having at opposite ends an inlet and an outlet for a reacting mass, a vertical rotating shaft inside said vessel, a plurality of horizontally agitating, blades attached to said rotating shaft at prescribed intervals along the axis of said rotating shaft and being adapted to agitate a reacting mass in the same horizontal plane without substantial backmixing, and a plurality of heat transfer plates, said plates being internally provided with a passage for a heat transfer fluid entering from the outer wall of said vessel, said plates protruding at predetermined intervals from around the inner wall of said vessel into the space between said agitating blades, and which are disposed radially around the rotating shaft thereby forming a plurality of vertical channels between said plates, and in which apparatus a reacting mass fed from the inlet of said vessel passes through said channels without substantial backmixing between said plurality of heat transfer plates.
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