Sodium methoxide is required in the production process. Is it better to add solid sodium methoxide directly to the reaction vessel, or should sodium methoxide in methanol form be used?
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Sodium methoxide is required in the production process. Is it better to add solid sodium methoxide directly to the reaction vessel, or is a sodium methoxide solution more appropriate?
It must be the liquid that’s causing the problem; I’m using solid feed here: lol
If there’s no risk, it’s better to use solid feed; to turn it into a liquid, an additional feeding system is needed
How do you add it? Do people manually pour it into the reactor bag by bag?
It is extremely dangerous; it can easily explode and cause burns
Regarding the safety of liquids, we have already switched to using liquids. Adding solids is tedious and not safe either
It depends on the process requirements; solids are relatively dangerous, and they release a large amount of heat when dissolved
Does your company transfer liquid sodium methoxide from the storage tank to a metering tank, and then from there to the reaction vessel? Over time, many white solids accumulate in the metering tank – how do you deal with that? Thank you!
Reactions between liquid and solid phases are difficult to control, while liquid-liquid reactions allow for precise stoichiometry; the intensity of the reaction can be freely adjusted. As it is a homogeneous reaction, it proceeds under mild conditions.
Our device doesn’t seem to have the problem you mentioned
Thank you. Have you used nitrogen sealing for your metering tanks?