Syrris Asia Heater – flow chemistry 1000x faster

May 17, 2012 - PRLog -- Syrris, the world’s longest established provider of laboratory scale flow chemistry systems, has developed the fast, flexible and accurate Asia Heater to give its customers access to the many advantages of high temperature flow synthesis. The Asia flow reactor range has been designed by chemists, for chemists, combining the widest variety of chemical reactions and ultimate ease of use with proprietary technology to allow automation of experiments with or without a PC. The Asia Heater is designed to take advantage of the system’s exceptional chemical resistance, permitting an extensive range of temperatures, pressures and reaction times to be exploited for experiments on mg to kg scales.

The Asia Heater’s novel design can accommodate a wide range of flow reactor sizes, types and materials – such as glass, metal and fluoropolymer – using quick clip on/off adaptors. It allows reactions using heterogeneous catalysts or solid supported reagents and scavengers to be heated to 150 °C, with tube reactors and microreactors able operate at temperatures as high as 250 °C. High power heaters and active air cooling provide rapid transfer of heat into and out of reactors for excellent temperature control, improving the yield and consistency of exothermic or endothermic reactions. For even greater efficiency, the Asia Heater can be used in conjunction with an Asia Pressure Controller, enabling solvents to be superheated within a pressurized system and allowing processes to be performed thousands of times faster than at atmospheric pressure for more efficient, cleaner reactions.

Syrris Limited

Syrris is world renowned for excellence in chemical reactor systems and is a world leader in flow chemistry systems. Established in 2001, Syrris employs over 30 scientists and engineers at its facility in Royston (near Cambridge, UK) and has offices in the US, Japan, India and Brazil plus over 30 distributors worldwide.

Syrris develops laboratory automation products for research and development chemists in industries such as pharma, petrochem, agrochem, fine chemical synthesis etc. as well as academia. Syrris products are used in a wide variety of applications and laboratories including process, discovery, crystallization, process safety, scale-up and many more.

Syrris products include the innovative range of fully automated batch reactor products (Atlas), a manually operated jacketed reactor platform (Globe) and flow chemistry systems (Asia and Africa). In recognition of its technological achievements, Syrris has been awarded the “Eastern Region’s UKTI Best Established Exporter” and the “Most Outstanding Export Achievement” at the Global Opportunity Conference on International Trade.