Supercritical Fluid Technologies (SFT) has introduced a series of stirred reactors for high-pressure chemistry.
The HPR Series reactors have been designed for researchers who are interested in performing pressurised chemical reactions in their laboratories.
The reactors are suitable for high-pressure chemical synthesis or for process development.
They range in size from 50ml to 4 litres and may be operated at up to 10,000psi 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.
These laboratory bench-top models are suitable 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 into a fume hood.
Their modular design makes it simple and cost effective to alter the unit's basic configuration to adapt to new or evolving application needs, according to the company.
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 tabletop assembly.
RXTrol Sr offers many more advanced features, utilising a microcontroller to perform all PID, ramp/soak, process trending and interlock functions.
Further options include vessel windows (less than 150C operation only), extra ports, cooling coils, sample loops, standalone pressure transducers, supercritical fluid pumps and reagent-addition modules.
