摘要 |
<p>A heat exchanger and chemical reactor adapted to cause a first process fluid and a second reactant fluid to be mixed, the reactor comprising a bonded stack of plates, the stack containing a plurality of adjacent layers, each layer being formed of one or more plates, the plate(s) of each layer defining a passageway for fluid to travel across the layer from an inlet at a first edge of the plate(s) towards the opposite edge and back to an outlet at the first edge, the layers including a plurality of process fluid layers between temperature control fluids layers, a source of a reactant fluid being connected to the process fluid passageway at an inlet to or outlet from one of the process fluid layers, the inlets and outlets of the process fluid layers being arranged such that the direction of travel of process fluid is reversed between adjacent layers.</p> |