Multi-Mode Tandem Micro-Reactor enhances catalyst testing.
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Accelerating catalyst evaluation, characterization, and performance, Rx-3050TR is interfaced to GC/MS System with PC-based control software to setup each mode of operation. Software can be set to control separate temperature zones, cryogenic trapping, and analytical modes, and multiple operational modes allow different experiments to be conducted on same equipment. Flow conditions and gas compositions can be set in range of configurations to alter concentration levels and reaction gases.
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Frontier Laboratories Ltd., Introduces Its New Multi-Mode, Tandem Micro-Reactor System for Catalyst Testing
KORIYAMA, Japan -- Frontier Laboratories Ltd., a leading manufacturer of pyrolysis instrumentation systems, today announced the launch of its new Rx-3050TR multi-mode Tandem micro-Reactor platform, designed for the rapid evaluation, characterization and performance of catalysts.
Frontier’s Tandem micro-Reactor is interfaced to the inlet of a GC/MS System with PC-based control software to setup each mode of operation. The software can be set to control separate temperature zones, cryogenic trapping, and analytical modes.
Multiple modes of operation allow different experiments to be conducted on the same equipment. The GC/MS can operate in real time monitoring mode for continuous analysis of gases from the catalyst bed. Alternatively, the system can operate in several integrated high resolution GC/MS sampling modes with stepwise, linear or isothermal reactor temperature experiments on gases exiting the catalyst bed. A single-shot mode allows the analysis of a gas, liquid or solid sample.
Solids for example, can be pyrolyzed in the upper micro-reactor to generate gases that are fed onto a catalyst bed in the lower micro-reactor with gas composition and temperature conditions controlled independently in both micro-reactors. Flow conditions and gas compositions can be set in a range of configurations to alter concentration levels, and reaction gases. Quick change catalyst beds facilitate rapid screening of different catalysts.
“We are pleased to introduce our new Tandem micro-Reactor which evolved from our long line of scientific pyrolysis instrumentation systems and will have great appeal to process engineers and scientists performing catalyst studies,” said David “Dave” Randle, Frontier’s North American sales director. “There are over 2500 Frontier Lab systems in use globally by companies and academic institutions, with more than fifty-percent of them being used on a daily basis”.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Frontier Laboratories on new pyrolysis and catalysis applications,” said Dr. Robert C. Brown, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University. “I wish each of my graduate students had a Frontier system for their exclusive use, but for now they have to learn to share.”
About Frontier Labs
Founded in 1991 by Dr. Chu Watanabe and based in Koriyama, Japan, Frontier Laboratories is a major manufacturer of scientific pyrolysis instrumentation and systems. Today the 3000 Series of products with its patented fourth generation vertical micro-furnace serves as the cornerstone for the pyrolysis instrument systems developed and marketed worldwide by Frontier.
The company’s main products are the EGA/PY-3030D Multi-functional Pyrolysis System, the PY-3030S Single-Shot Pyrolyzer, F-Search software and MS libraries, a line of Ultra ALLOY® stainless steel capillary columns, and the new 3050 series of Rapid Screening Reactors for catalyst screening
Frontier Lab’s pyrolysis instrumentation and products are compatible with most gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers from major manufacturers such as Agilent, Bruker, JOEL, Perkin Elmer, Shimadzu, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Frontier Lab systems are sold and serviced in North America by Quantum Analytics, an Agilent Technologies Premier Solution Partner, and Shimadzu Scientific Instruments.
About Dr. Robert C. Brown
Dr. Brown is the founding director of the Bioeconomy Institute (BEI) at ISU, a university-wide initiative that coordinates research, educational, and outreach activities related to biobased products and bioenergy. Dr. Brown also helped establish ISU’s Biorenewable Resources and Technology (BRT) graduate program, the first such degree-granting program in the United States. Dr. Brown has published over 120 refereed papers and is PI or co-PI on over $70 million in cumulative research funding. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, a Distinguished Iowa Scientist of the Iowa Academy of Science, and the recipient of the David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award for Research at ISU in 2002. He received an R&D 100 Award from Research and Development Magazine in 1997 and has been one of Biofuels Digest’s “Top 100” researchers every year since 2010. Brown is also the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering, director of the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, and professor of chemical and biological engineering and agricultural and biosystems engineering.
More information on Frontier Labs, can be found at http://www.frontier-lab.com
Frontier Laboratories’ Pittcon Booth number is 1311.
