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System Solution: Miprowa® Matrix
System Solution: Miprowa® Matrix
The document discusses the application of the Matrix reactor in chemical processes such as ethoxylations, peroxide reactions, diazotizations, and nitrations. These processes present challenges due to high reaction enthalpies and safety concerns.
System Solution: Miprowa® Matrix
The Matrix reactor is an upscaled version of the Miprowa® Lab reactor, designed for production. It maintains the same structural design as the production reactor, ensuring consistency and reliability.
Typical Reactions
The reactor is suitable for reactions like ethoxylation, peroxide reactions, diazotization, and nitration.
Operating Conditions
- Throughput: 80 to 200 mL/min
- Residence time: 25 to 50 seconds
- Pressure: 4 to 20 bar
- Temperature: 30 to 70 °C
Technical Specifications
- Temperature range: -10 to 250 °C
- Pressure limit: 24 bar
- Reactor volume: 58 to 1400 mL
- Volume flow: 10 to 390 mL/min
- Residence time: 20 seconds
Materials
The reactor uses materials such as Hastelloy® C22/C276, Alloy 625, Stainless Steel 316, FFKM, and PTFE, which are suitable for handling high pressures and temperatures.
Key Considerations
- Corrosion must be considered, especially in nitration processes.
- Fast implementation of Design of Experiments (DOEs) is possible.
- The reactor's channel geometry allows for quick screening of reaction parameters due to short residence times.
- The feed of reactants is critical, and reliable pumps are essential for successful operation.
Conclusion
The Matrix reactor offers a robust solution for scaling up chemical reactions, providing benefits such as fast parameter screening and high-pressure handling, making it a valuable tool in process development.
Catalog excerpts
System Solution: Miprowa® Matrix Typical reactions : ethoxylation, peroxide reactions, diazotization, nitration, etc. Based on our experiences with a large number of different customer projects over many years we have come up with several reactor set-ups combining specific reactors from our portfolio with suitable pumps and other peripherals. These equipment combinations have already proven their usefulness in the field for certain types of reactions and are optimized for customer benefit. For applications like ethoxylations, peroxide reactions, diazitizations and nitrations the challenges lie in very high reaction enthalpies, and process safety due to the chemicals involved. The Matrix reactor is the scale-up of the Miprowa® Lab to production. It uses the same structures as the production reactor. Example: Nitration
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Our Process Development Team say: The Matrix reactor uses the same channel geometry as the production reactors. Small reactor volumes allow for high pressures and temperatures. Consider corrosion in the case of nitrations. Fast screening of reaction parameters because residence times are short. Fast implementation of DOEs. The feed of the reactants is of critical importance. Reliable pumps are the key to success. Technical Specifications Typical reactions Temperature range Pressure limit Reactor volume Volume flow Residence time Media-wetted materials ethoxylation, peroxide reactions, diazotization,...
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