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Multi-tube reactor

US4737347A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Metallgesellschaft AG · DE

Inventors

Volker Franz · Frankfurt am Main, DE
Rolg Geissen · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 23, 1986
Grant date	Apr 12, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 23, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB01J2208/00256
WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A multitube reactor for exothermic or endothermic reactions carried out in a multiplicity of tubes, which are surrounded by a liquid, at least part of which is circulated by a circulating pump, which is disposed outside the reactor structure, to flow through heating and cooling means and is the recycled to the reactor structure. The tubes and the surrounding liquid are disposed between a cylindrical inner wall and an outer wall which surrounds and is coaxial to the inner wall. The circulating pump is disposed in the liquid-free space that is surrounded by the inner wall.

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