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I’m still a bit confused on this. You’re describing fluidization with a flow of gas, and he was talking about fluidization with ultrasonic cleaners.

Oh, of course - I’ve been treating this as a conversation with experts and less of a public thread. Safety is important. My apologizes. The experimental reactors in the facility I research at undergo a process safety assessment before commissioning - typically Layer of Protection Analysis...

There is always concern of an explosion, but precautions are taken. The entire system has a sufficient barrier, is flushed with nitrogen and no more than 200g of feedstock is entered at a time. The volitiles are removed and condensed constantly, and any new input iron-material is going to be...

Currently, the shaker reactor is not designed to hold pressure, and pyrolysis vapours flash off as depolymerization occurs. In part of making this new design where the container is non-conductive and the contents are, I am hoping to puzzle out a material that is checks all the boxes for this...

My apologizes, I didn't know what kind of help I would receive so I kept it brief. I will be more descriptive in the future. The current setup is a modified paint shaker, strapped with a reactor containing high temperature flex hoses for outputs, filled with sand and input materials, heated by...

I’m researching plastic recycling and the aim of my process is depolymerization with iron oxide in various forms as the catalyst. The reactor is shaken to mimic fluidization, and I would love to target fuels, but unfortunately my government wouldn’t like that. With the current proposal, I also...

Thank you for clarifying. I don’t believe dielectric heating can work in this application, since I intend for the contents to be iron and flammable hydrocarbons. I need to do some more research on high temperature materials that are non-conductive - but now I have some better direction.

Thank you for the response. Electrical engineering is not my field, and I appreciate all the help I can get. If I am understanding you, there is no way to heat the contents within the container through induction, only indirectly by induction heating the inner wall of the container. Is this...

Hi! I have been working with home-made reactor to do ambiant pressure, high temperature pyrolysis experiments that use an induction heating coil wrapped around the outside to heat the entire reactor. The contents are heated indirectly through their contact with the reactor. This worked well for...