Flow chemistry

Our flow chemistry service offers enhanced operational safety and efficiency whilst driving down costs and increasing value. 

We utilise flow reactors to run processes in a continuous manner, contrary to the conventional batch mode of operation. Two or more streams of fluids are metered via pumps into the tube reactor. Upon completion of the reaction, the final product stream including byproducts is transferred downstream for additional processing and work up.

Advantages include faster and safer reactions, cleaner products and easy scale-up.

Furthermore, we have equipment in which downstream processes of extraction, distillation, filtration and drying can be run in a continuous mode. This helps in realizing end-to-end benefits. These reactors are of a small scale in our research lab and large scale in our pilot plant. They can be used effectively for “proof-of-concept” and “optimization” studies.

Photo chemistry

Photo chemistry is one of the green technologies Bellen is exploring and practicing. Photo chemistry is the study of light-induced chemical reactions and physical processes. A photochemical event involves the absorption of light to create an excited species that may subsequently undergo a number of different reactions. These include unimolecular reactions such as dissociation, ionization, and isomerization; bimolecular reactions, which involve a reaction with a second molecule or atom to form a new compound; and reactions producing an emission of light, or luminescence. A photochemical reaction differs notably from a thermally, or heat, induced reaction in that the rate of a photochemical reaction is frequently greatly accelerated, and the products of the photochemical reaction may be impossible to produce otherwise.

Contact us now to get more information about our photo chemistry capabilities.