Supercritical Fluid Technologies has launched the HPR series of stirred reactors for high-pressure chemistry.
The HPR series has been designed for researchers interested in performing pressurised chemical reactions in the laboratory.
The company said the reactors are ideal for high-pressure chemical synthesis or process development.
The reactors range in size from 50ml to 4 litres and may be operated up to 10,000lb/in2 and 350C.
The reactors have a magnetically coupled impeller for optimal mixing.
All high-pressure components are ASME rated and protected by a rupture disc for safe operation.
The laboratory bench-top models are said to be ideal for applications where repetitive use makes convenience a necessity, such as catalytic studies, polymerisation, hydrogenation, oxidation, isomerisation, and dehydrogenation.
All sizes are supplied as ready-to-use instruments requiring only utility connections prior to operation.
The reactors are compact instruments that fit easily into a fume hood.
Their modular design makes it simple and cost-effective to alter the unit's basic configuration to adapt to new and evolving application needs.
All functions for the HPR series reactor are controlled by choices of two integrated processors (RxTrol Jr or RxTrol Sr) with a full-colour touch screen.
RxTrol Jr consists of two temperature sensors (wall/interior mounting), and fuzzy logic PID temperature controls and mixing controls in a table-top assembly.
RxTrol Sr offers advanced features utilising a microcontroller to perform all PID, ramp/soak, process trending, and interlock functions.
Additional options include vessel windows (<150C operation only), additional ports, cooling coils, sample loops, standalone pressure transducers, supercritical fluids pumps and reagent addition modules.
