EP1796829A1 - Reacteur microcapillaire et procede de melange controle de fluides miscibles de maniere non homogene a l'aide de ce reacteur microcapillaire - Google Patents

Reacteur microcapillaire et procede de melange controle de fluides miscibles de maniere non homogene a l'aide de ce reacteur microcapillaire

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EP1796829A1
EP1796829A1 EP05798042A EP05798042A EP1796829A1 EP 1796829 A1 EP1796829 A1 EP 1796829A1 EP 05798042 A EP05798042 A EP 05798042A EP 05798042 A EP05798042 A EP 05798042A EP 1796829 A1 EP1796829 A1 EP 1796829A1
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Yücel ÖNAL
Martin Lucas
Peter Claus
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  • the present invention relates to a microcapillary reactor comprising at least a first static mixer comprising at least a first capillary feed line for a first liquid fluid, at least one second capillary feed line for a second liquid fluid which is substantially non-homogeneously miscible with the first fluid, wherein the first and second capillary supply lines open in a region which is the starting point for at least one first transport line, the first and second capillary supply lines being dimensioned such that at least the first and second fluids can each be transported under laminar flow conditions and transported in Form alternately successively following discre ⁇ ter liquid phase sections (plugs) are forwarded.
  • plugs discre ⁇ ter liquid phase sections
  • the present invention relates to a process for the controlled mixing of at least two substantially immiscible liquid fluids and at least one gaseous fluid.
  • the invention relates to the use of the microcapillary reactor according to the invention for the hydrogenation, hydroformylation, carbonylation and oxidation of organic compounds.
  • Microcapillary reactors are known, for example, from WO 01/64332 A1.
  • This Mikrokapillarre ⁇ actuator is basically a T-mixer with two leads and a derivative.
  • Two liquids which are essentially immiscible with one another are preferably supplied frontally to one another via the two feed lines, with the result that the liquids mixed with one another are continued in the common discharge of the microcapillary reactor in the form of alternately sequential, miniaturized fluid blocks (plugs).
  • care must be taken to ensure that the diameter of discharge or supply lines is chosen as small as possible and in particular does not exceed the value of 1000 ⁇ m.
  • liquid / gaseous, solid / liquid / liquid and solid / liquid / gaseous reactions can be carried out with the microcapillary reactor found.
  • the solid phase can be provided, for example, as a coating on the inner wall of the discharge.
  • the microcapillary reactor according to WO 01/64332 Al for example, the Ni ⁇ tration of benzene and toluene succeed.
  • microcapillary reactors in the form of plates or plate stacks for carrying out continuous processes, on the surfaces of which there are miniaturized functional spaces or channels in which the liquid phase is at least partially absorbed by gravity and / or by capillary forces a uninterrupted capillary thread flows.
  • chemical reactions and physical processes should be carried out, with resulting liquid or gaseous constituents and reaction products from the liquid phase being able to be continuously removed in a controlled manner.
  • microreactor technology is still very young, it has already been recognized that it is suitable not only for analytical purposes but also for commercial synthesis processes (see O. Wörz, et al., Chemical Engineering Science 56 (2001) 1029- 1033).
  • O. Wörz, et al., Chemical Engineering Science 56 (2001) 1029- 1033 it is advantageous that very large surface / volume ratios can be set in the microreactors mentioned, so that even very fast and very exothermic reactions can be carried out under substantially isothermal conditions.
  • microreactors in particular in microcapillary reactors, would be equally desirable in order to be able to further expand their application potential and make better use of it.
  • a further object of the invention was to make available a process for the controlled mixing of liquid / liquid / gaseous systems, with which multiphase reactions, e.g. catalytically controlled multiphase reactions, can be carried out effectively.
  • a microcapillary reactor characterized by at least one second static mixer, comprising at least one, in particular capillary, third supply line for a gaseous third fluid, which flows downstream into the first capillary transport line to the first mixer.
  • extension lines may also be provided for the first, second and / or third supply line and / or from or in the first transport line.
  • the first and / or second mixers can in each case represent uniform material blocks, for example made of a plastic material or of metal, into which the first, second or third supply lines and first transport lines have been incorporated by means of bores.
  • these static mixers may also be molded plastic or cast metal components.
  • the first and second static mixers are present or coupled in a unitary block of material or directly adjacent to one another.
  • the first and second mixers can also be spatially separated, and the first transport line, optionally with the interposition of an extension line, can connect both mixers.
  • first, second and third extension lines which are sealingly connected to the first, second and third supply lines, respectively.
  • the extension lines have substantially the same inner diameter as the leads to which they are connected.
  • the first transport line can also be connected after exiting the second mixer with a fourth extension line ver ⁇ . It is also possible to interpose a fifth extension line between the first transport line which carries out the first mixer and the first transport line leading into the second mixer. Again, it is advantageous if the inner diameter of these fourth and fifth extension lines substantially coincide with the inner diameter of the first transport line.
  • the first mixer of the microcapillary reactor according to the invention is based on the functional principle of the static mixer described in WO 01/64332 A1.
  • the immiscible liquids are accordingly transferred in the first and second capillary Zuleitun ⁇ gene in the manner in a common transport line, that alternate, non-homogeneously mogenbare fluid blocks while maintaining or training a coherent fluid flow_result Schl.
  • alternate plug-flow system is used.
  • a gas bubble is generally present in each case.
  • this gas bubble oscillates within a fluid block between the phase interfaces of adjacent immiscible fluid blocks.
  • the first transport line is at least partially equipped with a polarity or are, which has a greater affinity to the first or the second fluid. It has surprisingly been found that if the polarity of at least the inner wall of the first transport line of that of one of the used, not mixed Baren fluid is adapted, the gaseous third fluid is particularly controlled and selectively introduced into those fluid blocks / plugs having an identical or similar polarity as the inner wall of the transport line.
  • the result according to the invention of the controlled, selective entry of the gas phase into fluid blocks of uniform polarity also sets in if at least the inner wall of the section of the first transport line adjoining the second mixer and / or or the fourth extension line is or are at least partially equipped with a polarity that has a greater affinity for the first or the second fluid, for example, based on or consisting of a plastic such as Teflon.
  • microcapillary reactors in which the inner wall of the first transport line is partially or completely, e.g. in which adjoining the second mixer section, at least partially equipped non-polar.
  • Unpolar or a non-polar surface in the sense of the present invention should be understood to mean one which, with water as the test liquid, has a contact angle, e.g. determined by the sessile drop method, of> 90 °.
  • Preferred nonpolar surfaces have a contact angle> 90 °.
  • At least the first transport line in particular its inner wall, at least partially a preferably non-polar plastic, in particular Teflon comprises.
  • polystyrene-co-polymers for example ABS, ASA or SAN
  • polyphenylene ethers or polyesters for example PET or PBT are also used , considering.
  • microcapillary reactor according to the invention With a non-polar polymer material, such as Teflon, it is readily possible to introduce hydrogen as the third fluid via the second static mixer of the microcapillary reactor according to the invention into the organic, non-polar fluid plugs.
  • a non-polar polymer material such as Teflon
  • One particular advantage of the microcapillary reactor according to the invention is, inter alia, that, preferably in coordination of the polarity of the inner wall of the first transport line with the polarity of the first or second fluid, the gaseous fluid is controlled even with continuous feed and reproducible only in the fluid plugs only first or second fluid passes.
  • the gaseous third fluid represents, for example, a reaction gas such as hydrogen, oxygen or carbon monoxide or a hydrogen / carbon monoxide mixture
  • this can be introduced selectively into nonpolar organic solvent plugs, in which the educt component can then also be present in solution.
  • a reaction generally takes place along the phase boundary surfaces of the liquid / liquid system, for example if a homogeneously dissolved hydrogenation catalyst is present in the aqueous phase.
  • the first transport line in particular the inner wall, at least partially metal and / or glass.
  • the first transport line before and in particular behind the mouth of the third supply line is thermostatable.
  • the first transport line in the context of the present invention is understood to mean a line in which not only one fluid component but at least one two-phase mixture and after entry of the third fluid component a three-phase mixture are transported.
  • this first transport line or in an extension line of this transport line after addition of the third fluid component in the second static mixer, the chemical reaction takes place at the phase boundary surfaces of the liquid fluid segments.
  • the reaction time can be controlled as a function of the flow rate.
  • the length of the portion of the first transport line, with or without extension line, which begins behind the junction of the third supply line of the second mixer in the range of 0.1 to 50 m.
  • the first, second and / or third supply line and / or the first transport line and / or at least one extension line, at least in sections has a diameter of not more than 1000 ⁇ m, in particular in the range of 50 to 1000 ⁇ m, or aurwei ⁇ sen. Suitable cross-sectional sizes are for example in the range of 400, 500 or 750 microns.
  • the flow in capillaries with small channel diameters of ⁇ 1000 microns is usually different from normal flow profiles in conventional tubular reactors.
  • the flow in these capillaries is in the form of a laminar flow. Basically, such lines are suitable, with which preferably over the entire length of a laminar flow can be maintained. Suitable flow rates for these laminar flows in the lines of the reactor according to the invention are in the range of about 6 to 15,000 ⁇ l / min.
  • the generation of alternating fluid segments is also promoted by the fact that the first and second leads of the first mixer with their respective mouth areas are oriented substantially in opposite directions.
  • the frontally overlapping liquid first and second fluids are passed on in segments, as described above, in a first transport line extending perpendicularly to the first and second supply lines.
  • first and second supply lines meet with their Mün ⁇ training sections substantially at a right angle.
  • first and second supply lines can meet with their respective coin sections at an angle between 90 and 180 ° or at an angle between 0 and 90 °.
  • first and second supply lines and the first transport line can be configured Y-shaped.
  • a preferred embodiment provides that the third supply line and the first transport line present in the second mixer collide in opposite directions at an angle of approximately 180 °. Furthermore, it is possible that the third supply line of the second mixer in its mouth region opens substantially perpendicularly or at an angle between 0 and 90 ° or at an angle between 90 and 180 ° in the first transport line. Regularly, it has proved sufficient to design the lines of the second mixer as T or Y pieces. loading Particularly preferably, the mouth section of the third supply line forms a substantially right angle with the section of the first transport line which leads the alternating two-phase mixture.
  • the first transport line changes its direction in the contact area with the mouth section of the third supply line, in particular by approximately 90 °, so that the section of the first transport line forms an angle of approximately 180 ° behind the contact area and at least the mouth section of the third line ,
  • the first and / or second mixers each represent T-mixers.
  • the microcapillary reactor according to the invention can be used not only for analytical purposes or for product screening, but is also suitable for the commercial production of chemical products, in particular high-quality fine chemicals. It can be provided that the first transport line opens into at least one Fernagebe- ratio.
  • several microcapillary reactors according to the invention can be operated parallel to one another in order to increase the product quantity. If, for example, The first mixer of a microcapillary reactor in a uniform block of material, a multi-Mikrokapillarreaktorverbund invention can be obtained by the fact that not only a first mixer, but at the same time two or more such first mixer are incorporated in this uniform block of material.
  • a plurality of juxtaposed second static mixers may be incorporated in the same or another unitary block of material, e.g. by drilling. At the output of each second mixer is followed by a separate fourth extension line and / or a separa ⁇ ter section of the first transport line.
  • all individual reactors may be run under the same conditions, e.g. in terms of pressure, temperature or flow rate. Alternatively, individual conditions can be set for each reactor.
  • This last-mentioned embodiment of the multi-microcapillary reactor according to the invention makes possible, for example, a very efficient rapid screening, e.g. of different reaction conditions and / or Katalysato ⁇ ren for a particular chemical reaction. Accordingly, the multi-microcapillary reactor according to the invention is suitable for use in combinatorial chemistry.
  • the object underlying this invention is essentially not achieved by a method for the controlled mixing of at least two homogeneously miscible liquid fluids with at least one gaseous fluid solved by bringing together a first liquid fluid via at least a first supply line of a first static mixer and a second liquid fluid via at least one second supply line of the first static mixer in a range, the starting point at least one
  • the first transport line is, wherein the first and second capillary feed lines and the transport line are dimensioned such that the first and second fluids each transported under laminar flow conditions and in the form of successively fol ⁇ gender, discrete liquid phase portions (plugs) happenge ⁇ in the first transport line
  • the gaseous, third fluid is fed via a third, in particular capillary, supply line of a second static mixer into the first transport line downstream of the first mixer.
  • the erf ⁇ ndungshacke method is particularly suitable for the catalytic hydrogenation of reducible organic compounds, the catalytic oxidation of organic compounds, for hydroformylation and carbonylation in liquid / liquid / gas multiphase systems.
  • water-soluble catalysts are preferably used.
  • Suitable starting materials for the hydrogenation reactions according to the invention are, for example, olefins, such as mono- or diolefins, and ⁇ , ⁇ -unsaturated aldehydes.
  • olefins such as mono- or diolefins
  • ⁇ , ⁇ -unsaturated aldehydes Suitable water-soluble cata- talysatorkomplexe for these hydrogenations are well known in the art. In the reactions mentioned, for example, it is possible to work with hydrogen pressures in the range from 1 to 200 bar.
  • the hydroformylation of olefins for example 1-alkenes such as 1-octene, aldehydes can be obtained.
  • Suitable catalysts are also known to the person skilled in the art.
  • a catalyst system which is based on a rhodium complex chelated with biphephos ligands may be mentioned by way of example.
  • a catalyst can be obtained, for example, from [Rh (acac) (CO) 2 ] and biphephos ligands in propylene carbonate as solvent.
  • the hydrogen / carbon monoxide mixture used for the hydroformylation reaction is also known by the term synthesis gas.
  • Carbonylation reactions of alkenes and alkynes in the presence of carbon monoxide for example in the sense of a repeat carbonylation, can furthermore be carried out in the microcapillary reactor according to the invention.
  • the present invention was thus based on the surprising finding that gaseous products can be introduced in a controlled manner into already mixed liquid / liquid systems.
  • the gaseous reactant component can be deliberately introduced into the first or the second liquid phase by selective selection of the capillary material.
  • the catalytic chemoselective hydrogenation of ⁇ , ⁇ -unsaturated aldehydes by means of hydrogen with very high chemoselectivities and surprisingly good conversions succeeds in this way. Even with reaction times of only about two to three minutes, which can be set, for example, with first transport lines having lengths of 3 to 12 m, the conversion is already above 10%.
  • microcapillary reactors according to the invention By combining several microcapillary reactors according to the invention into reactor clusters or multi-microcapillary reactor systems, product quantities which permit commercial production of, for example, high-quality fine chemicals can also be obtained, in particular in continuous operation. Advantageous in this case also has the effect that the safety measures can be reduced to a minimum and that can also be dispensed with complex cooling systems in the case of exothermic reactions.
  • a defined flow behavior of a three-phase mixture (liquid / liquid / gaseous) can be controlled and reproducibly produced with the microcapillary reactor according to the invention.
  • the microcapillary reactor according to the invention provides an excellent In ⁇ instrument to the influence of mass transfer on the reaction rate and the Selek ⁇ tivity to investigate and model.
  • FIG. 1 shows a circuit diagram for a microcapillary reactor according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows an alternative circuit diagram for a microcapillary reactor according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic longitudinal section through the transport line of the microcapillary reactor according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows a flow chart of a microcapillary reactor system according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a microcapillary reactor 1 according to the invention, comprising a first mixer 2 and a second mixer 4, which are arranged in series.
  • the first mixer 2 comprises a first supply line 6 and a second supply line 8, which converge towards one another at an angle of 180 ° and which both open into the first transport line 10 or pass over.
  • the inner diameter of the lines 6, 8 and 10 is in the illustrated embodiment at about 0.75 mm.
  • the first transport line 10 is eben ⁇ if part of the second mixer 4 and essentially represents the first supply line of this second mixer.
  • a gaseous component is introduced into the transport line 10 via the third supply line 12.
  • the angle between the third supply line and the first transport line 10 present in the second mixer 4 is 180 °, so that the gaseous component hits the liquid / liquid volume flow head-on.
  • the first transport line 10 is then continued in the second mixer 4 at a right angle.
  • the first, second, and third leads may be connected to first, second, and third extension leads 14, 16, and 18, respectively.
  • the first, second and third supply line in each case essentially in the first or second mixer before and are connected via suitable coupling pieces 30 a, b and 32 c with the extension lines ver ⁇ .
  • a fourth extension line 20 are inserted.
  • extension line 20 of the first transport line 10 the section adjoining the second mixer can also be considered.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an alternative circuit diagram for a microcapillary reactor 1 according to the invention.
  • the two T-shaped first and second mixers 2 and 4 are arranged substantially mirror-inverted.
  • the configuration and the flow paths of the first mixer are identical to the first mixer according to FIG. 1.
  • the arrangement of the first transport line 10 with that of the second mixer 4 according to FIG. gur 1 match.
  • the mouth section of the third supply line 18 for the gaseous third fluid is brought perpendicularly to the first transport line 10 entering the second mixer 4. This type of feeding of the gaseous fluid component is preferred in many cases.
  • FIG. 3 shows a longitudinal section through a section of the first transport line 10, after which the gaseous component has been introduced into the second mixer 4 via the third supply line 12.
  • FIUID blocks or plugs 34 and 36 of aqueous or organic phase occur alternately in the first transport line 10.
  • the individual plugs have a length of about 1.3 mm at a capillary inner diameter of 0.75 mm.
  • the generation of such a flow pattern is already described in WO 01/64332 A1.
  • hydrogen is continuously introduced into the two-phase volume flow of the first transport line 10 in the second mixer 4, it is possible with the device according to the invention to produce the gaseous phase 38, e.g.
  • FIG. 4 shows the structure of a microcapillary reaction system 100 according to the invention in a schematic representation.
  • the core of this plant is the microcapillary reactor 1 according to the invention, comprising a first mixer 2 and a second mixer 4, which are connected to one another via the first transport line 10.
  • the liquid organic phase containing educt material in dissolved form is introduced from a storage container 42 into the first supply line 6 of the first mixer 2 by means of an HPLC pump 22.
  • the aqueous phase containing, for example, a homogeneously dissolved catalyst is fed from a storage container 24 via an extension line 16 into the second supply line 8 of the first mixer 2 with the aid of a piston or syringe pump.
  • a controlled mixing of the immiscible organic and aqueous phases is carried out to form an alternating plug-flow system.
  • the gas shaped component in the second mixer 4 fed into the first transport line 10.
  • This may be, for example, pure hydrogen from a hydrogen storage container 44 or an H 2 / Ar mixture.
  • Argon is added via a separate storage container 46 via a mixing station 48.
  • argon is used to remove oxygen from the first and second fluids by repeated gasification with argon prior to pressurization with hydrogen.
  • the first transport line 10 is led out of the second mixer 4 and can then extend over a longer section which, as shown, can be kept at a constant temperature by means of a heater 40.
  • the multiphase mixture is preferably randomly supplied to a sample analysis 26, for example in the form of a gas chromatograph.
  • the first transport line opens into the product collection container 28.
  • the reaction mixture obtained can then be processed and the desired reaction product isolated.
  • a pressure is set in the Rescueam ⁇ mei consentnis which corresponds substantially to the pressure in the transport line.
  • microcapillary reactor according to the invention will be discussed in detail by way of example with reference to the chemoselective hydrogenation of the ⁇ , ⁇ -unsaturated aldehydes citral and prenal.
  • a microcapillary reaction plant as shown in FIG. 4 was essentially used.
  • the first transport line 10 is a PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) capillary with an inner diameter of 750 ⁇ m.
  • the organic phase was fed via a first Zulei ⁇ device with the same inner diameter using a HPLC pump Gynkotek M480 at a flow rate of 250 ul / min, while the metered addition of the aqueous phase via the second supply line of the first mixer via a piston pump with a För ⁇ amount ⁇ 600 ul / min was carried out.
  • the two liquid phases mixed in the first transport line after leaving the first mixer were brought into contact with hydrogen in the second mixer in the form of a T-piece from Valco.
  • the continuous hydrogen stream was regulated by a conventional mass flow controller (MFC) and the hydrogen partial pressure was set to 2.0 MPa.
  • MFC mass flow controller
  • the adjoining the second mixer section of the first transport line was adjusted by means of a water heater to a constant 60 0 C.
  • the organic solvent was n-hexane or toluene resorted.
  • the hydrogenation catalyst used was a Ru (II) -TPPTS complex (TPPTS: triphenylphosphine trisulfonate).
  • H 2 P 2.0 MPa
  • a pH of 7.0 was ensured with the aid of a buffer.
  • Prenal (3-methyl crotonaldehyde) was used as a 0.5 M solution in n-hexane and citral as a 0.25 M solution in toluene. These solutions were degassed in the ultrasonic bath for about 15 minutes before use in the microcapillary reactor in order to minimize the proportion of oxygen dissolved in the mixture.

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L'invention concerne un réacteur microcapillaire (1) comprenant au moins un premier mélangeur statique (2) comportant au moins une première conduite capillaire (4) destinée à un premier fluide, au moins une deuxième conduite capillaire destinée à un deuxième fluide qui peut être mélangé de manière sensiblement homogène au premier fluide. La première et la deuxième conduite capillaire aboutissent dans une zone dont le point de sortie est au moins une première conduite de transport. La première (6) et la deuxième (8) conduite capillaire sont dimensionnées de telle façon que le premier et le deuxième fluide puissent être respectivement transportés dans des conditions d'écoulement laminaire et retransmis sous la forme de sections de phases (charrue) fluides discrètes et se succédant par alternance. L'invention concerne au moins un deuxième mélangeur statique (1) comprenant au moins une troisième conduite (12) notamment capillaire qui est destinée à un troisième fluide gazeux et débouche dans la première conduite de transport capillaire (10) en aval du premier mélangeur (2). L'invention concerne également un réacteur microcapillaire. L'invention concerne enfin un procédé de mélange contrôlé d'au moins deux fluides liquides miscibles de manière sensiblement non homogène et au moins un fluide gazeux à l'aide du réacteur microcapillaire. Ce procédé permet l'hydratation catalytique, par exemple, d'aldéhydes insaturés, l'hydroformulation d'oléfines et l'oxydation homogéno-catalytique de composés organiques.
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