Lab and pilot pressure reactors 0.25 - 500 liter

Modular glass pressure reactors (0.25 – 5 liter) and metal pressure reactors (0.25 to 500 liters), designed for seamless scale-up across laboratory R&D, kilo labs / pilot plants, and small-scale production. Designed for challenging operating conditions, these versatile systems are ideal for demanding applications including hydrogenation, polymerization, corrosion testing, and catalyst screening, as well as API synthesis. Full compliance with PED, ASME, ATEX and cGMP requirements.

Small pressure reactors 10 – 600 ml

Compact glass and steel pressure reactors from 10 to 600 ml, available in stirred or unstirred configurations for research & development (R&D) in industry, academia, and research institutions. The portfolio includes parallel pressure reactor systems operating 2 to 6 reactors simultaneously for high-throughput catalyst screening and reaction optimization. Typical applications include hydrogenations, catalyst screening, polymerization, process development, chemical research and analysis of reaction kinetics. Designed and manufactured in full compliance with applicable pressure equipment directives (PED, ASME).

High pressure and high temperature reactors 100 ml – 5 liter

High-pressure and high-temperature laboratory reactors with working volumes from 100 ml to 5 liter. Made of stainless steel or highly corrosion-resistant Hastelloy®, these reactors are designed for severe operating conditions with pressure ratings up to 500 bar and temperatures up to 500 °C. Typical applications include supercritical fluid research (supercritical water & CO2), hydrothermal synthesis, polymer depolymerization, and corrosion testing. Designed and manufactured in full compliance with applicable pressure equipment directives (PED, ASME).

Metal-free (inert) pressure reactors 100 ml – 20 liter

Metal-free (inert) pressure reactors with working volumes from 100 ml to 20 liter, designed specifically for processes demanding exceptionally high corrosion resistance or high product purity avoiding metal contamination. The use of non-metal materials (in contact with media), including borosilicate glass, glass-lined steel, ceramics, PEEK, PFA, and PTFE guarantees inert reaction conditions. These reactor systems (stirred autoclaves) are fully customizable and available in volumes suitable for R&D, scale-up, and pilot scale. Typical applications include high-purity API synthesis, electronic chemical synthesis, organometallic reactions, processes involving aggressive mineral acids, corrosion testing, battery material research, metal-sensitive catalyst testing and mining & metallurgical research. 

Hydrogenation systems

Pressure reactors designed for hydrogenation and other gas-liquid-reactions, scaling seamlessly from 10 ml to 600 liter reactor volume. High-efficiency gas entrainment stirrers (gas introduction) perform efficient gas dispersion ensuring excellent mass transfer, reproducible reaction kinetics, and high selectivity. Available as turnkey automated hydrogenation solutions or semi-automated with hydrogen dosing using our proprietary bpc 2 dosing system. For high-throughput R&D work, our fully automated parallel pressure reactor systems (PPR) are the ideal solution for rapid catalyst screening and efficient reaction optimization. Typical applications include heterogeneous and homogeneous hydrogenation and other gas-liquid reactions, catalyst screening and reaction optimization. 

Magnetic couplings & magnetic stirrer drives

Corrosion testing autoclaves

Accessories for pressure reactors

Measure, control & automation

Product selection pressure reactors / stirred autoclaves

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