We offer a comprehensive range of value engineered, dynamically mixed continuous flow reactors and peripheral equipment.
Salient features include:
Modular design capable of operating as a single stage system, or as a multistage cascade, or for parallel processing
Our reactors are fully scalable, with nominal working volumes from 3ml to industrial scales of 50L and beyond.
Variable Volume capabilities within a fixed tube geometry
Materials of construction - Glass, Stainless Steels, Exotic Alloys such as Hastelloy C22 and chemically resistant engineering plastics, such as Peek, PTFE and PFA
Single or Multi-Zone heating/cooling jacket options are available
Bespoke designs to match unit operation and customer requirements
Control System ranging from basic on/off agitation with variable speed, to a more sophisticated PLC based systems with optional ATEX certification
3 fundimental design forms cover a wide range of operating conditions
DART reactors are dynamically mixed and can be used to tackle many challenging flow processes, involving gas, liquids and highly concentrated suspended solids. Light sources can also be used for photcochemisrty applications.
Reactors designed specifically for biochemistry and photochemistry are also available. An Electrochemical reactor is in development and is due for release in 2021.
DART compared to Micro Reactors:
Many people may be familiar with the benefits and
limitations of micro tubes and channels, but some maybe less so with the
benefits of dynamically mixed reactors such as DART.
Due to their relatively small flow geometry, conventional
micro reactors are extremely capable. The
advantages of the DART over micro reactors are few in number but are nevertheless
totally compelling:
- SOLIDS HANDLING - The annular channel in a DART
reactor provides a higher working volume than that in a micro reactor, but
without sacrificing the amazing performance of micro reactors. Consequently where solids concentrations
reach the point where micro channels block DART reactors continue to operate.
- HEAT TRANSFER - The shear created by the
spinning agitator results in much better U values than are possible with micro
reactors.
- MASS TRANSFER - The shear created by the
spinning effect of the agitator produces vastly better mass transfer than is
possible in a micro reactor under the same flow conditions.
DART-DM Flow Reactors
Plug Flow | Micro Reactor Performance | Dynamic Shear Mixing
| Good U Values | Excellent Mass Transfer Capabilities | Low Pressure Drop | Variable
Volume | Multi-Zone Heat Transfer | Scalable | Flexible Design | Chemically
Resistant | Automated and Instrumented | Value Engineered | Small Physical
Footprint | Regulatory Compliance | Easy Reconfiguration | Pressure Rated | CIP
| ATEX Rated
Biochemistry | Crystallization | Catalytic (
immobilized
or slurries) | Hydrogenation | Photochemistry | and more
