Asynt announces that Rapid Powders Ltd has been using a PressureSyn High Pressure Reactor to undertake series of process experiments using small amounts of precious materials to produce optimally functionalised polymers.
Rapid Powders Limited specialises in producing polymers with dispersions of functional materials such as metals, ceramics and carbons. Applications for these specialist materials include packaging, electrically conducting polymers, thermally conducting polymers and pigments.
To enable them to rapidly make small batches of these functionalised polymers, Rapid Polymers Ltd evaluated various commercial small volume high pressure reactors for safety, temperature control and the ability to operate over different process times before purchasing a PressureSyn reactor from Asynt.
With customer safety paramount all PressureSyn reactors feature a bursting disk and pressure relief valve. Each precision engineered SS316 stainless steel PressureSyn reactor is tested and certified to 170bar, and is rated for use up to a maximum pressure of 200bar and temperature of 200°C. A bracket and key operated locking system ensuring easy assembly.
Beneficially this novel clamping arrangement also prevents the clasp from being disassembled whilst the reactor is still under pressure. Designed by chemists and engineers at the internationally renowned University of Nottingham, PressureSyn reactors provide an ideal tool for stirred, or non-stirred, high pressure applications including hydrogenations, carbonylations, catalyst screening and polymerisations.
