Method of manufacturing a reactor and set of reactors

摘要

A method of manufacturing a target reactor having a flow-channel system in which a plurality of reactants continuously flowing into said target reactor are mixed and interconvert to form a target volumetric flow-rate (f2) of a product continuously flowing out of said target reactor, wherein the smallest hydraulic diameter (dh2) of said target reactor is calculated based on the relationship;dh⁢⁢2=dh⁢⁢1⁡(f2f1)3-n7-nin a turbulent or transitional turbulent flow, wherein n is a non-integer number with 1>n≧0, between the corresponding smallest hydraulic diameter (dh1) of a standard reactor having the same fluidic type of flow-channel system, f1 is a standard volumetric flow-rate of said standard reactor carrying out the same interconversion, and f2 is said target volumetric flow-rate.

主权项

1. A method of manufacturing a target reactor having a flow-channel system in which a plurality of reactants continuously flowing into said target reactor are mixed and interconvert to form a target volumetric flow-rate (f2) of a product continuously flowing out of said target reactor, the method comprising the steps of:
determining a target volumetric flow-rate (f2) of a desired product produced by a chemical reaction running within a target reactor of a plurality of reactants flowing into said target reactor; providing a standard reactor designed to produce the same product and having the same flow-channel system as the target reactor, the standard reactor defining a standard volumetric flow-rate f1 and carrying out the same interconversion as the target reactor; determining the smallest hydraulic diameter (dh1) of the flow-channel system of the standard reactor; providing at least one process plate; forming a sub-flow-channel system in said process plate; and assembling said process plate with at least one other component to form the target reactor, whereby said sub-flow-channel system of said process plate forms at least a part of a flow-channel system of the target reactor, the flow-channel system having a length and a plurality of hydraulic diameters, one of said plurality of hydraulic diameters being a smallest hydraulic diameter (dh2) of said target reactor based on the relationshipdh⁢⁢2=dh⁢⁢1⁡(f2f1)3-n7-n  for a turbulent or transitional turbulent flow, wherein n=0 or is a non-integer number with 1>n>0, between the corresponding smallest hydraulic diameter (dh1) of the standard reactor having the same flow-channel system, f1 is the standard volumetric flow-rate of said standard reactor carrying out the same interconversion, and f2 is said target volumetric flow-rate.