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An essential way to rapidly test, screen, or research thermal or catalytic reactions on a small scale and qualify or quantify their product distributions, are the use of microbatch reactors.

Coanda operates a high temperature air fluidized bath apparatus to evaluate a variety of reactions commonly found in upgrading and refining processes up to 3000psig (20.7MPag) at 425°C. Example reactions include but are not limited to, visbreaking, thermal cracking, bulk fouling, hydrocracking, and hydrotreating.

The advantage of this fluidized bath is rapid heat transfer that allows the reaction chamber to heat up to 425°C within 5 minutes and instant mass transfer of reactants through agitation of the microreactor itself up to 250rpm. Products may be quantified to assess reaction kinetics while temperature profiles are collected to assess reaction severity.

This procedure is one cost effective methodology to understand or de-risk larger scale operations and collect critical data to evaluate process chemistry at elevated temperatures.