Avantium International B.v.

Cambridge Reactor Design Limited

Avantium International A.b.

Bashir Husein Harji

Peter John Van Den Brink

Maarten Bracht

Gerardus Johannes Maria Gruter

Christopher Mitchelmore

Malcolm Withers

Rene De Ruiter

Anton John Nagy

René De Ruiter

A heating/cooling plate device for heating and/or cooling an object through a range of operating temperatures extending both above and below ambient. The device having a heating element to heat the plate, and a vapor compression refrigeration system through which refrigerant flows to cool the plate. Greater control of the heating and cooling of the plate is achieved by positioning the heater element substantially at the exit of an expansion valve of the evaporation compression system as this provides thermal energy to the refrigerant as it enters the evaporator.

Heating and cooling apparatus

An improved valve assembly having an integral single piece housing () having an inlet (), an outlet and defining an inwardly extending wall forming a valve seat (); a valve member () moveable within the housing () between a closed position and an open position and a seal () to form a fluid tight seal between the valve member () and the valve seat () when the valve member is in the closed position. The seal () also acting to retain the valve member () within the housing () and in which the housing defining end portions which extend axially away from the valve member () at any position of the valve member between the open and closed positions.

Assembling a check valve having a seal

A reactor assembly for analysing the effluent stream from at least one flow-through reactor, The reactor includes a flow-through reactor for performing at least one chemical reaction. The flow-through reactor includes a reaction chamber including a reaction zone, the reaction chamber being connected to a reactor inlet for a reactant, upstream of the reaction zone and a reactor outlet for the effluent stream from the reaction zone, downstream of the reaction zone; and an analyser for subjecting the effluent stream to an analysing procedure, each reactor outlet being connected to an analyser by an effluent conduit. The reactor assembly further includes a dilution fluid supply member for adding a dilution fluid to the effluent stream, downstream of the reaction zone.

Reactor assembly

The system comprises a tubular vessel allowing a flow of fluid through said vessel and an assembly for housing said vessel. The assembly comprises a base block having a first channel formed therein for removably housing the vessel, said first channel having first and second channel openings allowing introduction and/or discharge of a fluid into and from said first channel. The assembly also comprises a cover element having a bottom surface being releasably attachable to the first face of the base block. A first sealing element is provided between the first face of the base block and the bottom surface of the cover element, the first sealing element surrounding the first channel opening completely, and thereby sealing gastight around said first channel opening between the cover element and the base block. The system further comprises a second sealing element located in the first channel, said second sealing element sealing gastight against the inside of the first channel and the outside of the vessel.

System for performing experiments, in particular for high throughput experimentation

A batch reaction system for simultaneously conducting reactions in at least two separate reactors (CSTR reactors), is provided wherein the at least two batch reactors, containing mixing means and a fluid inlet, a fluid feed common conduit is present for feed fluid to the reactors, which is connected to the inlet of each reactor of a fluid inlet conduits, and further includes a fluid discharge common conduit which is connected to the outlet of each reactor wherein in each fluid inlet conduit and/or in each fluid outlet conduit a non-return valve is arranged to prevent contamination but can provide simultaneous reactions wherein the reactors can be easily isolated from one another during reaction.

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Cottenham, United Kingdom

Bashir Husein Harji