DEG thermo-plate reactors are a new type of catalytic reactor with interior cooling, whereby thermo-plates are used as heat exchangers. This kind of heat exchanger has already been manufactured several hundred times and has proven itself in particular in situations in which insensitivity to fouling and tightness was required.
Reactors with thermo-plates as developed by DEG are ideally suited to catalytic reactions that are strongly exothermic, e.g.
- Selective or non-selective hydrogenation, like hydrogenation from acetylene to ethylene
- Selective or non-selective oxidation like oxidation from ethylene to ethylene oxide
- Syntheses, e.g. methanol synthesis