We are specialists of continuous flow microwave technology with deployments at lab, pilot, production scale.
Our equipment delivers rapid heating of a reaction to high temperature and pressure with precise temperature control.
C-Wave PRD & C-Wave PLT
Our Background
We recognised the growing interest in microwave chemistry in the laboratory, and saw the need for an effective route to scale-up to pilot and production scale. We developed our patented C-Wave continuous flow microwave chemical reactor design over a period of ten years for exactly this purpose. Our mission is to bring the advantages of continuous flow microwave chemistry to production environments, by supporting clients in process design and development and supply of bespoke equipment.
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The Advantages of Continuous Flow Microwave Heating
Compared to conventionally heated batch reactions, continuous flow microwave heating offers:
- Significantly reduced reaction times for some reactions, from hours to minutes, with corresponding reductions in energy use, and increases in throughput
- Significant increases in yields for some reactions, through reduced side reactions, with corresponding savings in downstream processing requirements
- Improved safety through reduced volumes of material held at temperature and pressure
Our Advantage
We offer reliable scale-up from laboratory to pilot scale to production scale. Our equipment design uses the same construction at pilot and production scales, and a modular approach to scale expansion. At laboratory scale we operate down to ml/minute, at pilot scale at litres/hour and for production at tonnes/hour. Our design is suitable for most process fluids including chemically aggressive and flammable media
Our Goal
To enable continuous flow microwave chemistry in production environments. C-Tech Innovation has developed a scalable continuous flow microwave reactor that is capable of precise temperature control and the rapid heating of reactions at elevated temperatures and pressures from pilot scale through to production.
Our Technology
Our C-Wave continuous flow microwave technology has the following features:
- Non-monomodal microwave heating section with quartz reaction tube
- Wetted parts suitable for all commonly used solvents and reagents
- Automatic control of microwave power to maintain temperature set-point
- Real-time measurement of output temperature
- Rated for 250°C and 30 bar as standard, meaning that reactions can be done under conditions not usually possible with batch reactors
- Optional holding section and heat recovery
- Full safety system including leak detection and temperature and pressure trigger levels
Our Markets
- Pharmaceutical
- Fine/Specialty Chemical
Do you need a new or improved production process?
We work with clients to improve an existing process or design an entirely new process
Our continuous flow microwave technology range
C-Wave Product Range
C-Wave PLT
Do you have promising results on bench top batch microwave reactors? If so then our C-Wave PLT is an ideal continuous flow microwave pilot unit for process scale up.
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C-Wave PRD is a continuous flow microwave reactor for production, offering higher yields, faster processing times and capable of throughput up to 2 tonnes/hour
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