Process and device for carrying out reactions in reactor with slot-shaped reaction spaces

• Main Authors: HEMME INA, WILDNER WERNER, BECKER CATRIN, ROLLMANN JUERGEN, BALDUF TORSTEN, SCHUETTE RUEDIGER, BERTSCH-FRANK BIRGIT, MARKOWZ GEORG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.02.2008
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; APPARATUS THEREFOR; BLASTING; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OFGENERAL APPLICATION; GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL; HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS,IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT; HEATING; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING, DISPERSING; NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

Reactions between at least two fluid reactants are performed in a reactor comprising wall elements ( 1 ), slot-shaped reaction spaces ( 3 ) and cavities ( 5 ) for conducting a fluid heat-carrier through. Depending on the process and throughput, a modular structural design is chosen wherein an arbitrary number of wall elements ( 1 ) are assembled to a right-parallelepipedal block ( 24 ), the reaction spaces ( 3 ) are formed between lateral surfaces ( 2 ) of right-parallelepipedal wall elements ( 1 ), the reactants are introduced into the reaction spaces ( 3 ) from edge regions of one side of the block ( 24 ) and are conducted through the reaction spaces ( 3 ) in parallel flows and the fluid heat-carrier is conducted through the tubular cavities ( 5 ) extending in the interior of the wall elements ( 1 ).