Parallel flow process optimization reactor

摘要

A parallel flow reaction system for effecting four or more simultaneous reactions in four or more reaction channels, the reaction system comprising four or more reactors, each of the four or more reactors comprising a surface defining a reaction cavity for carrying out a chemical reaction, an inlet port in fluid communication with the reaction cavity, and an outlet port in fluid communication with the reaction cavity, a fluid distribution system for simultaneously supplying one or more reactants from one or more reactant sources to the inlet port of the reaction cavity for each of the four or more reactors, and for discharging a reactor effluent from the outlet port of each such reaction cavity to one or more effluent sinks, the fluid distribution system comprising a feed-composition subsystem for providing a different feed composition to each of the four or more reactors, the feed-composition subsystem being configured for simultaneously supplying a feed composition comprising at least two feed components in varying relative amounts to the reaction cavity of each of the four or more reactors, the feed-composition subsystem comprising at least one set of four or more flow restrictors, each of the four or more flow restrictors having a flow resistance that varies relative to other flow restrictors in the set. <IMAGE>