Application
Unlock the full potential of your continuous process
Residence time distribution reveals how long fluid elements spend inside your reactor — flow patterns, reaction efficiency and system performance. Measure it with a USB-powered device, with live tracer monitoring and automated RTD plot generation.
By measuring RTD, you can
- Streamline continuous reactor design and scale-up.
- Maximise yield and conversion.
- Minimise unwanted side reactions.
- Enhance product quality.
A validated measurement
A step-input experiment on a coiled tubular reactor with 10 mass% acetone in absolute ethanol, run at 0.4, 0.8 and 1.0 mL·min⁻¹ with both step-up and step-down transitions, produced peak residence times that matched theoretical expectation at every flow rate. The curves consistently captured both primary flow behaviour and the subtler secondary features — bypassing, dispersion and tailing — that a nominal residence-time calculation cannot show.
The same measurement now runs automatically: the RTD tab in the instrument software applies the step-tracer method with a preconfigured ethanol–acetone system and returns the concentration profile, the RTD curve and the mean residence time in one place, with no external chemometric model and no offline post-processing.
