Scale-Down-Reactor

Novel tool for process development Together with members of the association Miniplant 4.0 the group of Prof. Dr. A. Zogg has developed a novel Scale-Down-Reactor. The new prototype reactor is installed within the process technology center at the FHWN-HLS. The hart of the novel Scale-Down-Reactor is a heat exchanger, the heating / cooling – finger (H/C-Finger), used to imitate the heat transport behavior of the production-scale plant.  The H/C-Finger has the same heat transport behavior and surface to volume ratio as the production plant. The H/C-Finger is 3D printed and can be made of stainless steel, Hastelloy as well as glass lined. Based on this novel heat transfer principle it is now possible to investigate the impact of the wall temperature as well as the wall material on the process already in early stages of process development.  Effects such as the formation of by-products due to…