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The Spinning Disk Reactor for Polymers and Nanoparticles
Author(s) -
Pask Stephen D.,
Cai Zhizhong,
Mack Helmut,
Marc Laurent,
Nuyken Oskar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
macromolecular reaction engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1862-8338
pISSN - 1862-832X
DOI - 10.1002/mren.201200040
Subject(s) - materials science , copolymer , nanoparticle , yield (engineering) , polymer , spinning , precipitation , emulsion , emulsion polymerization , chemical engineering , photopolymer , process engineering , nanotechnology , polymerization , polymer chemistry , composite material , physics , engineering , meteorology
The preparation of reactive polyurethanes, the photopolymerization, and copolymerization of acrylates in emulsion as well as solution and the precipitation and reactive precipitation to prepare BaSO 4 and silver nanoparticles, respectively, employing a spinning disk reactor (SDR) are summarized. The advantages of an SDR (excellent mass and heat transfer, minimal energy, and material usage, easy scale up as well as flexibility) are discussed. Where experiments are described comparing the SDR with traditional batch processes, known, optimized industrial batch processes are chosen. In all cases, the SDR could be shown to yield equivalent product quality while having procedural advantages.