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Flow Reactor Range: Coflore
Versatile. Productive. Efficient.
Laboratory Scale
100 mL Reactor Volume
Pilot / Production Scale
10 L Reactor Volume
Production Scale
100 L Reactor Volume
Flow Reactors that suit your chemical process, not the other way around
The Coflore flow reactor takes you from discovery chemistry to production plant
Process development
Scale up
Route scouting
Reaction optimisation
Catalyst screening
Solids compatible
Multiphasic reactions
High pressure chemistry
Liquid-Liquid extraction
Biocatalysis
Immobilised catalyst
Slurry flow
The Coflore Agitated Cell Reactor (ACR) is an actively mixed, bench-top flow reactor, ideal for developing and optimising chemical processes in flow, or for when limited quantities of reactants or material are available or required. The Coflore ACR reactor process channel is divided into ten reactor cells, equivalent to ten CSTRs in series for plug flow.
The processes developed on an ACR platform have a straight-forward path to scale up via the larger volume CTR, followed by the Coflore RTR. This flow reactor is compatible with a wide range chemical processes and residence times making it extremely versatile:
For a 5-minute residence time, the Coflore ACR produces 1.2 L of material per hour.
The Coflore Agitated Tubular Reactor (ATR) is a dynamically mixed, variable volume tubular flow reactor of up to eight reactor tubes in series for plug flow (0.35 to 10 L reactor volume). All eight reactor tubes can be heated and cooled independently of each other, samples can be added, reagents can be removed at each end of each reaction tube.
The Coflore ATR is directly scalable from the Coflore ACR, with active mixing technology, to produce material at pilot and production scales. From here, the Coflore ATR is scalable to the Coflore RTR offering the jump from tonnes to kilotonnes.
For a 5-minute residence time, the Coflore ATR produces 120 L of material per hour.
The Coflore Rotating Tube Reactor (RTR) is a 100 L production scale flow reactor, capable of processing countless reactor volumes without interruption. Such throughputs have the potential to produce many thousands of tons of material per year from a single reactor. The Coflore RTR operates as a ten-stage, actively mixed, and self-baffling plug flow reactor.
This flow reactor employs inertia-generated radial mixing to give high mixing performances without the need for rotating drive shafts, mechanical seals or wall mounted baffles. Which enables the Coflore RTR to overcome difficulties in mixing that can be present in flow designs when processing higher volumes and throughputs.
For a 5-minute residence time, the Coflore RTR produces 1,200 L of material per hour.
