Reactor & Purification

Reactor

Multi purpose reactors
PRT GmbH provides stainless steel jacketed multipurpose batch reactors for olefin polymerization. Our reactor systems are mounted in mobile stainless steel frames. The combination of the reactor, feed supply, injection and temperature control makes such a system a mobile plug-and-play tool. The reactor system is made for catalytic olefin (co-) polymerizations with precise hydrogen- and co-monomer concentration control. Slurry, gas phase, and high-temperature solution polymerizations can be carried out. Of course, these reactor systems can be used for free-radical polymerizations in emulsion, bulk, and suspension too. For catalytic olefin polymerizations, the system comes optionally with controlled purification units developed by PRT.

Our integrated aproach comprises all the essential elements of catalytic and free-radical polymerization technologies.

Volume range 0.5 – 300 L
Pressure range UHV -250 bara
Temperature range 10-220 ?C

The reactor itself can be optionally equiped with:

  • Bottem valve for sampling
    (when internal heater is not present)
  • Interchangable stirrers
  • Elevator system for easy handling
  • Stirrer speed control
  • Multistage safety system
  • Click here for an example of a 5-Liter propylene multipurpose batch reactor
  • Click here for an example of a 1.6-Liter ethylene multipurpose batch reactor
  • Click here for an example of a 5-Liter high temperature solution polymerization multipurpose batch reactor
  • Click here for an example of a 360-Liter pilot reactor for slurry polymerizations of ethylene

Purification

PRT has developed highly efficient purification units for catalytic olefin polymerizations based on BASF’s purification catalysts. We consider such units as indispensable for generating highly reproducible and reliable kinetic data and product sampling. Several units have been exported.

Our integrated aproach comprises all the essential elements of catalytic and free-radical polymerization technologies.

This is a purification unit 6PU

It is temperature and pressure controlled

It is used for purification of

• Ethene
• Propene
• Propane
• Heptane
• Hydrogen
• Nitrogen

The columms are skid mounted and can be pulled out for beter accessebility.

This is a 5pu purification for a polymerisation setup(just befor shiping)

The setup was made for 5 components ( Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Ethylene, Propylene and hexane.) the setup keeps the bed temperature constant and is pressure and flow controlled.