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Organic Synthesis in a Spinning Tube-in-Tube (STT¢) Reactor
Citation:
Anderson, L. A. AND M. GONZALEZ. Organic Synthesis in a Spinning Tube-in-Tube (STT¢) Reactor. Presented at American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, Denver, CO, August 28 - September 01, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform EPA
Description:
Continuous-flow reactors have been designed to minimize and potentially overcome the limitations of heat and mass transfer that are encountered in chemical reactors and further experienced upon scale up of a reaction. With process intensification, optimization of the reaction is also performed on the same scale reactor in which large scale production will take place in, thus reducing the need for redesign of the process. Mixing efficiency within the reactor also contributes to a limitation of mass-transfer and leads to effects on the reaction rate. The Spinning Tube-in-Tube (STT®) reactor by Kreido Biofuels, Inc. is a continuous-flow reactor producing a thin film within a highly mixed reaction zone. The STT® reactor has been demonstrated inorganic synthesis to produce a high throughput of product in good yields. To further demonstrate the effectiveness of this reactor, results from a Ritter will be presented.