Back-Pressure Regulation for Catalyst Research

Column:Chemical, Metal and Glass Time:2021-09-01

Catalysts are substances that allow chemical reactions to proceed at lower temperature. Even though, many checmical reactions that involve catalyst still occure under extremen conditions. For example, Fischer-Tropsch reactions, where a gaseous mixture of carbon monixide and hydrogen in converted into (liquid) hydrocarbons at high temperature and pressure over a solid catalyst.

In catalyctic research, high temperatures and pressures are needed to prevent condensation of the chemical compounds, in order to analyse the chemical composition of the exhaust coming from a reactor. To find out under which process conditions  a catalyst will perform optimally for a specific chemical reaction, a large pressure range has to be investigated. To this end, a Bronkhorst pressure controller is used to pressurize an Equilibar dome-load back pressure regulator.

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