A tubular reactor allows for either upward or downhill single-phase flow. Two-phase flow can be counter-current (liquid down, gas up), co-current up-flow, or, most frequently, co-current down-flow.
A single-walled tubular reactor can be heated by an external burner or it can be jacketed to be heated or cooled by a circulating heat transfer fluid. External furnaces can be flexible mantle heaters or stiff split-tube heaters. Numerous businesses use tubular reactors, including:
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