The parallel fixed-bed reactor from Symyx Technologies Europe is a high-throughput system capable of screening and optimising catalysts and processes.
It can be used in a variety of traditional applications within petrochemicals and refining, in addition to emerging areas such as biofuels and other biorenewable processes.
It provides data consistent with traditional laboratory-scale fixed-bed setups for gas, liquid and trickle-phase processes, and can be used effectively as a pre-screen for catalyst batches slated for use in pilot plants and manufacturing.
It also permits increased breadth of study, allowing the selection of more effective catalysts and process conditions.
Consequently, scientists and researchers will be able to test more catalysts under real-world conditions and see trends and impacts that are otherwise hidden.
The system provides online sampling and analytics, allowing seamless acquisition and databasing of catalytic results, and giving researchers access in near-real time as data from the system becomes available.
The parallel fixed-bed reactor also offers full integration capacity with catalyst synthesis equipment, allowing full correlation of catalytic phenomena to synthesis parameters within the Symyx software environment.
It can be delivered as a stand-alone Symyx Tool (16, 32 or 48 reactor channels) or as part of a Symyx Tools integrated workflow.
Symyx can also run experiments for targeted catalyst and process optimisation problems on the parallel fixed-bed reactor on behalf of a customer at Symyx Labs through Symyx Research Services.
