DEG Reactors

Thermo-plate reactors are a new type of internally cooled catalytic reactor using thermo-plates as the heat exchanger. This type of heat exchanger has been built already several hundred times and proved out especially where its resistance to fouling was required. Thermo-plate exchangers can be built of modules which allows to set up the required exchanger surface by adding more modules, if necessary on site.

This feature differentiates thermo-plates from tubular exchangers. With this option reactors of any size can be built, independent of the dimensional transport limits. So far reactors have been applied for liquid reactions with suspended catalyst, fixed bed arrangements and in sizes ranging from appr 1.5 m diameter to 6 m diameter. The reaction chemistry in all applications so far is proprietary know-how of the operating companies so that detailed process parameters must not be revealed.