Eccentrically-rotating reactor

US8602636B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jörg Kauling
• Helmut Brod · Cologne, DE
• Sebastian Schmidt · Weisendorf, DE
• Martin Poggel · Cologne, DE
• Björn Frahm · Erkrath, DE
• Reinhold Rose · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 2007
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2013
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2219/192
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a reactor driven in an oscillatory-rotary manner about its fixed, preferably vertical, axis, for preferably biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications. By means of its process-intensifying properties for mixing, suspension, gaseous material transport, heat transfer, irradiation and particle retention, the applicability on the industrial scale is ensured. The reactor which succeeds without a shaft seal permits particularly robust production with respect to sterile technique with avoidance of cleaning and cleaning validation required when the reactor is constructed as a single-use reactor.