Description:
The family is a range of chemical reactors specifically developed for the teaching and demonstration of chemical reactor capabilities to chemical engineering students. Real chemical reactions take place within the reactors. Armfield has developed a number of representative reactions which are easy and safe for students to use in the laboratory environment.
The Chemical reactors teaching unit provides the services required to run the various reactor types. It includes; a hot water re-circulator used to control the temperature of the reactions, glass feed vessels for the reactants, two peristaltic pumps to pump the reagents to the reactors, computer software for data logging, sensors and instrumentation.
This fully computer controlled, supplied with software to allow the user to; vary the feed pump speeds and flow rates, vary the heater power in the hot water, implement a PID control loop ensuring stable temperatures, switch on and off the hot water pump and to control the speed of the stirrers used on some of the reactors.
Features:
- Computer control and data logging as standard
- Remote control using the supplied software
- Compact benchtop equipment
- Real-time reaction monitoring instrumentation eliminating the inconvenience and inaccuracy of multiple iterations
- Safe and student friendly
- Transparent reactors enabling the student to see what is happening
- Colour tracer experiments possible for some reactor types
- Cost effective. Up to five reactors share the same service unit
- Five different reactor types available:
- Continuous stirred tank reactor
- Tubular reactor
- Batch reactor
- Laminar flow reactor
- Plug flow reactor
Technical Specifications:
- A self-contained benchtop service unit designed to provide services for up to five different chemical reactors:- Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor – Tubular Reactor Transparent Batch Reactor – Laminar Flow Reactor – Plug Flow Reactor –
- Fully computer controlled and supplied with educational software specific to each reactor type. Simple interfacing to the (user supplied) computer by a USB interface
- Two peristaltic feed pumps with individually variable flow rates 0-140 ml/min
- Provides PID temperature-controlled hot water in order to maintail reactor temperature
- Complete with two thermocouples, an input for a third (user) thermocouple and a dual-range conductivity sensor
- A comprehensive instruction manual is included which details installation and operating procedures
