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The group of Prof. Marin at the University of Gent approached ILS to provide a 16-parallel trickle flow reactor. This had to be an extremely flexible unit that could be used both for high-temperature gas-phase reactions at up to 700°C as well as lower-temperature trickle-flow reactions at up to 100 Bar.

Sasol needed a high-throughput tool to substantially increase their capacity for testing Fischer Tropsch catalysts without increasing their need for more unit operators. It was important to have a system capable of both catalyst screening as well as ageing and kinetics testing, and they needed an increase in reactor channels while keeping catalyst amounts to a minimum.

For this particularly challenging project, ILS was approached by Evonik interested in having a flexible, High-Throughput reactor unit capable of operating up to 300Barg. The reactors should be designed for speciality-chemicals production in trickle-flow mode with ability to dose liquid gases as well as viscous feedstocks.

Syngenta approached us with a request to have a cost-effective, reliable, flexible and easy to operate high throughput system for screening of air- and moisture sensitive homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts in a corrosive environment. To overcome this challenge we designed them a manually operated 20-parallel screening unit with two temperature blocks with 10 high-pressure reactors in each segment. Each temperature block of 10 reactors was split into 2-rows of 5 reactors operating at separate pressures, designed for 100barg and 200°C in this case.

This is an example for a Multi Reactor Catalyst Testing unit, which we have designed for Repsol as multipurpose tool for catalyst and feedstock evaluation for hydroprocessing reactions (e.g. hydrodesulfurization and hydrocracking). The greatest challenge in this project was to design a unit that fulfils all budget, space and safety requirements while providing a large flexibility in operating conditions (T, P, F,X) as well as the capability to handle a large variety of feedstocks and products. Also unit robustness was key element as catalytic studies up to multiple months need to be executed.