CATR Catalytic Reactor Vocational Education Equipment for School Lab Chemical Engineering
The unit is equipped with two column reactors containing catalyst (ion-exchange resin) of different granulometry and a third column reactor containing an enzymatic catalyst (invertase), enabling the study of the inversion of sucrose in glucose and fructose.
Training program
This unit enables to deepen the following issues:
- Fixed-bed catalytic reactor operation
- Mass balance
- Comparison between chemical and enzymatic catalyst
- Determination of the conversion
Technical specifications
- Bench-top framework of AISI 304 stainless steel
- 2 jacketed column reactors for the chemical catalyst
- Jacketed column reactor for the biological catalyst
- Thermostatic bath
- Peristaltic feeding pump
- Polarimeter to measure the angle of rotation
- Electronic thermostat
- Switchboard of painted carbon steel with ELCB
Power supply 230 Vac 50 Hz single-phase
Supply with
THEORETICAL – EXPERIMENTAL HANDBOOK