US 7,537,739 B2
Device and method for pressure and flow control in parallel reactors
Alfred Haas, Eppelheim (Germany); Wolfgang Strehlau, Dossenheim (Germany); Armin Brenner, Eppelheim (Germany); Oliver Koechel, Bubenheim (Germany); Markus Friess, Lindenberg (Germany); and Torsten Zech, Heidelberg (Germany)
Assigned to HTE AG, (Germany)
Appl. No. 10/583,753
PCT Filed Dec. 20, 2004, PCT No. PCT/EP2004/014509
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 18, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/063372, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 14, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 103 61 003 (DE), filed on Dec. 23, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2007/0148062 A1, Jun. 28, 2007
Int. Cl. B01J 10/00 (2006.01); B01J 8/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 422—196  [422/130; 422/129; 422/127; 422/131] 47 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for the parallel conduct or study of chemical reactions, comprising the following components:
(a) at least two spatially separated reaction spaces, each of which has an input side and an output side;
(b) on the reaction space input side, at least one common educt feed for the reaction spaces according to (a), or for subsets of them;
(d) on the reaction space output side, at least one connection per reaction space to at least one holding gas feed common to all the reaction spaces, or subsets of them; and
(e) on the reaction space output side, and downstream of the connection to the holding gas feed according to (d) in the product flow direction, at least one restrictor per reaction space, wherein the restrictors are configured to keep the pressure constant in all the reaction spaces even if volume fluctuations occur in the reaction spaces.