Great value for money high pressure stirred reactors!
Posted by Ben Proudlove on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 @ 10:18 AM
Merrow Scientific are the UK representative for Autoclave Engineers, who have been designing and manufacturing high pressure systems since the 1940s.
Autoclave Engineers, who lead the way in terms of innovation, design quality and custom configuration, also lead in terms of value for money! Sure there are companies who'll offer to make a pressure vessel or stirred reactor for a slightly lower price, but I wonder if these same companies can say they've never had a failure of a vessel in their 70 year history, or that they have customers running stirred reactors still that were supplied in the 1960s?
All Autoclave Engineers systems have serial numbers on all components, metal to metal precision engineered seals used on all VFT components, and all systems supplied since the 60s have detailed drawings in pdf format quickly available. These makes it easy to keep all of our customers, even those with 50 year old systems, supplied with spares when needed.
One benefit of metal to metal engineered seals on the VFT is the fact that this means there are no welded ports (when they break that's it for the reactor), no teflon tape and compression threads (not a high temperature or precision pressure sealing method), so when a customer needs to replace a component they can do that easily and quickly.
So the return on investment when a £10K reactor lasts for over 50 years is pretty impressive!!