A system and method for processing a treated feed slurry produced by a slurry reactor. The method and system include mixing a chemical separation feed with the treated feed slurry produced by the slurry reactor to chemically separate solid catalyst particles in the treated feed slurry by dissolving the solid catalyst particles using an acid or base in the chemical separation feed. A heavy oil upgrading process that includes the system and method is also described.

A method of forming a liquid-liquid mixing phase channel group, which has the steps of: ejecting the first liquid as droplets into the phase of the second liquid in a two-liquid phase system in which two immiscible liquids oppose each other at an interface; incorporating the droplets of the first liquid into the phase of the first liquid, accompanied by the second liquid around the first liquid by allowing to collide the jet of the droplets with the interface; and forming a continuously connected microfluidic channel group in which the space between the layered droplets of the first liquid are filled with the second liquid in the liquid-liquid mixing phase that grows from the interface as a starting point.

A process for performing a continuous gas/liquid biphasic high-pressure reaction, wherein a gas and a liquid are introduced into a backmixed zone of a reactor and in the backmixed zone the gas is dispersed in the liquid by stirring, injection of gas and/or a liquid jet, a reaction mixture consecutively traverses the backmixed zone and a zone of limited backmixing, and a liquid reaction product is withdrawn at a reaction product outlet of the zone of limited backmixing, wherein the reactor comprises: an interior formed by a cylindrical vertically oriented elongate shell, a bottom and a cap, wherein the interior is divided by means of internals into the backmixed zone, the zone of limited backmixing and a cavity, a first cylindrical internal element which in the interior extends in the longitudinal direction of the reactor and which delimits the zone of limited backmixing from the backmixed zone, backmixing-preventing second internal elements in the form of random packings, structured packings or liquid-permeable trays arranged in the zone of limited backmixing and a third internal element which in the interior extends in the longitudinal direction of the reactor and is open at the bottom, wherein the third internal element forms the cavity in which gas bubbles collect and do not escape upwards, thus preventing the volume of the cavity from being occupied by liquid and reducing the reaction volume. The reaction volume of the reactor used in the process can be reversibly reduced in simple fashion. The invention further relates to a process for adapting the reaction volume of a reactor suitable for performing a gas/liquid biphasic high-pressure reaction having an outlet for a liquid reaction product in which an internal element is arranged so as to form a cavity open at the bottom in which gas bubbles collect and do not escape upwards, thus preventing the volume of the cavity from being occupied by liquid and reducing the reaction volume.

The present invention relates to an oligomerization process implemented in a gas/liquid reactor comprising a headspace recycle loop. The process more particularly relates to the oligomerization of ethylene to linear alpha-olefins such as 1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene or a mixture of linear alpha-olefins.

Bubble column reactor assemblies are provided, an assembly (100) comprising: a reactor vessel (102) comprising a bottom end and a top end. A pre-distributor plate (114) having a bottom surface and a top surface, disposed in the 5 reactor vessel (102) such that the bottom surface faces the bottom end of the reactor vessel (102). A gas distributor (106) is disposed below the pre-distributor plate (114) to receive and inject gas into a liquid prior to distribution of gas and liquid by the pre-distributor plate (114). The gas distributor (106) comprises: a common manifold (108) and a plurality of ring-shaped pipes disposed along a length of the 10 common manifold (108); and a plurality of nozzles disposed along an outer circumference of each ring-shaped pipe of the plurality of ring-shaped pipes to inject gas and create vortexes for uniform distribution of the gas in the liquid.

A nitration reactor (10) incorporating sections of downward flow for use in preparing nitrated organic compounds. It comprises a first vertically-oriented reactor section (12), a second vertically-oriented reactor section (14), a connecting section (16) between the two reactor sections, one or more inlets (20, 22) for introducing nitration reactants into the reactor, an outlet (24) for the removal of nitration reaction products, a vertically-downward flowpath (26) for the nitration reactants in one of the reactor sections or the connecting section, and operating conditions that produce a flow regime in the vertically-downward flowpath that is a dispersed flow regime or a bubbly flow regime. The invention overcomes the limitations of prior art nitration reactors of the type in which fluids flow largely in a vertically upward direction, with respect to hydrostatic demands and plant layout considerations.

A process for producing a metal oxide powder by flame spray pyrolysis where a) a stream of a solution containing at least one oxidizable or hydrolysable metal compound is atomized to afford an aerosol by means of an atomizer gas, b) this aerosol is brought to reaction in the reaction space of the reactor with a flame obtained by ignition of a mixture of fuel gas and air, c) the reaction stream is cooled and d) the solid product is subsequently removed from the reaction stream, wherein e) the reaction space comprises one or more successive double-walled internals, wherein the wall of the double-walled internal facing the flame-conducting region of the reaction space comprises at least one slot through which a gas or vapour is introduced into the reaction space in which the flame is burning and f) the slot is arranged such that this gas or vapour brings about a rotation of the flame.

The present invention relates to an oligomerization process implemented in a gas/liquid reactor comprising a headspace recycle loop. The process more particularly relates to the oligomerization of ethylene to linear alpha-olefins such as 1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene or a mixture of linear alpha-olefins.

Disclosed herein is a very efficient method to make 5-(alkoxycarbonyl)furan-2-carboxylic acids (ACFC) from feedstocks comprised of furoates. When a feedstock comprised of methyl 5-methylfuran-2-carboxylate (MMFC) is used a product comprised of (5-(methoxycarbonyl)furan-2-carboxylic acid (MCFC) is obtained in high yield.

This disclosure relates generally relates to methods and systems useful for continuous synthesis of materials in super-critical carbon dioxide (sCO.sub.2). More particularly, this disclosure relates to methods and systems useful for continuous synthesis of coordination polymers, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and/or covalent organic frameworks (COFs), in sCO.sub.2.