Chemical Reactors

In simple words, it is an apparatus for holding substances that are undergoing a chemical reaction. It may be as small as a petri-dish or a test-tube and it may be as big as can contain a 1000 liters of reacting material. They can be broadly segregated as industrial reactors and lab reactors depending upon the quantities they can handle and the purpose.

The reactors provide optimum environment for the particular the chemicals or biochemical reactions to take place. Depending upon the requirement they are further of two types namely batch and continuous. As per the industry, they can be flocculated type, that allow molecules or cells to flocculate or draft tube reactors that allow sufficient passage to oxygen. Others are bubble reactors, stirred tank reactors, pilot scale reactors, shake flask reactors and many more.