Monday, February 9, 2009

A recommendation for biomass pretreatment reactor

The most widely used lab pressurized reactors for biomass pretreatment are autoclaves, steam guns, etc, which is hard to scale up.

A reactor like M&K lab digester has been widely used for lab study on pulping. The rapid liquor circulation provides excellent chemical/biomass interactions or mixing. The two-vessel design allow us to use steam for rapid heat-up and the cooling pipe line allows us to cool down fast after treatment. Such a kind of design has been scaled up for pulp and paper industry and should be easily done for the biorefinery.

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