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FloWorks’s state-of-the-art flow chemistry laboratories have the reactors and ancillary chemical process equipment needed to address all stages of the R&D pipeline; including discovery, process development, and scale-up (pilot and industrial).
Lab Scale R&D Reactor Equipment
- Vapourtec Automated Flow Chemistry System
- Chip-based & Tubular Reactor Modules
- Zaiput L-L Separators
- Catalytic Static Mixers (CSMs)
- Cambridge Reactor Design Shell & Tube Reactors
Pilot scale
- Kilogram+ quantities
- 1L, 1.5L & 2L tubular reactors:
- for general purpose, liquid, and liquid-gas phase, -40 to 200 °C
- 11 mm ID
- 316 SS
- up to 35 kg/8 hour shift (for continuous MOF production)
- CSIRO workshop
- 1L & 2L shell & tube reactors:
- with static mixers, for general purpose, liquid, liquid-gas and emulsion processing, -40 to 200 °C
- 6 or 10 mm ID
- Hastelloy C276
- up to 2L/min throughput
- Cambridge Reactor Design.
- Gram+ quantities
- 100 ml Chemtrix BV plate-type reactors:
- for general purpose, liquid, liquid-gas and emulsion processing, ideal for fast and exothermic reactions, -40 to 220 °C 2 mm channel depth
- silicon carbide
- excellent heat transfer & temperature control
- 100 ml shell & tube reactors:
- for general purpose, liquid, liquid-gas and emulsion processing, -40 to 220 °C
- Vapourtec R2/R4 automated flow reactors:
- for general purpose, liquid, liquid-gas, emulsion and liquid-solid processing, ideal for screening and reaction optimisation, -70 to 220 °C
- 2 – 40 ml reactor volume
- 40 ml Catalytic Static Mixer (CSM) reactor:
- for liquid-solid heterogeneous catalysis incl. hydrogenations, using Pd, Ni, Pt and other catalysts, ambient to 200 °C
- 100 ml Chemtrix BV plate-type reactors:
- 1L, 1.5L & 2L tubular reactors:
Specialised reagent pumps
- a wide range of dual piston pumps, max 10 mL/min to max 300 mL/min, for organic solvents and corrosives
- gear pumps max 200 mL/min for organic solvents and viscous media
- dual syringe pumps, max 50 mL/min, for accurate dosing of organic solvents and corrosives
Downstream processing equipment:
- rotary evaporators (2L and 20L)
- 6L centrifuge
- 12” wiped film evaporator
- spray dryer
