The small size of continuous reactors makes higher mixing rates possible.

The output from a continuous reactor can be altered by varying the run time.

Conditions within a continuous reactor change as the product passes along the flow channel.

When classifying continuous reactors, it can be more helpful to look at these design features rather than the whole system.

For example, in a continuous reactor, the Damköhler number is:

Mixing is another important classifying feature for continuous reactors.

In a continuous reactor, the product is continuously pumped through the reactor.

Continuous reactors can be classified in terms of the mixing mechanism as follows:

Some continuous reactors use mechanical agitation for mixing (rather than the product transfer pump).

By contrast, continuous reactors can deliver cooling capacities in excess of 10,000 W/litre.

Continuous reactors are generally smaller than batch reactors and handle the product as a flowing stream.

Continuous reactors may be designed as pipes with or without baffles or a series of interconnected stages.

Continuous reactors are generally able to cope with much higher reactant concentrations due to their superior heat transfer capacities.

A survey of the continuous reactor market will throw up a daunting variety of shapes and types of machine.

Reactors can be divided into two broad categories, batch reactors and continuous reactors.

Continuous reactors are used for a wide variety of chemical and biological processes within the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Continuous reactors (alternatively referred to as flow reactors) carry material as a flowing stream.

Continuous reactors are typically tube like and manufactured from non-reactive materials such as stainless steel, glass and polymers.

It is important to understand that these advantages are more applicable to the decision between using a batch, a semibatch or a continuous reactor in a certain process.

The most familiar form of continuous reactor of this type is the continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR).

In terms of trajectory through the reactor, the ideal flow condition for a continuous reactor is plug flow (since this delivers uniform residence time within the reactor).

A pipe or tubular reactor (laminar flow reactor(LFR)) Both types can be used as continuous reactors or batch reactors.

It is applicable in the areas of free radical and controlled radical homo- and copolymerization, polyelectrolyte synthesis, heterogeneous phase reactions, including emulsion polymerization, adaptation to batch and continuous reactors, and modifications of polymers.

It resulted in preparation of an eight-gram plutonium-239 target and in the first production of macroscopic quantities (0.6 micrograms) of berkelium by Burris B. Cunningham and Stanley G. Thompson in 1958, after a continuous reactor irradiation of this target for six years.