FlowCAT | A Bench-Top, High Pressure Flow Catalysis Platform

The FlowCAT is an automated high-pressure flow catalysis bench-top platform, designed for the development of continuous flow chemical processes. It supports both gas and liquid feeds, and so can facilitate the scale-up of both homogenous and heterogenous chemistries. It typically finds use in chemistries such as:

• Hydrogenation
• Oxidation
• Carbonylation
• Bio-fuel research
• Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
• Petrochemical processes

Control of the chemical process is configurable, and it can be tailored to automatically cover a range of process conditions – the latter of which can also be edited during operation if required. The temperature, pressure, and feed rates of the liquid and gas are all automatically controlled, as is the sampling at the end of each run and the initiation of the next. This delivers a high throughput operation, making the FlowCAT well-suited to a range of applications, including:

• Rapid screening of new chemistries
• Yield optimization studies
• Identification of new catalysts
• Small-scale production