Industrial Reactor Photos

There are a wide variety of reactors in use in the chemical processing industry. The list of photos (below) is just a small sampling of these reactors, and we have received permission from the respective companies to show them to you here.

Reactor System [BP, formally Amoco]

Spherical Ultraforming Unit [BP, formally Amoco]

Three Spherical Ultraforming Units [BP, formally Amoco]

Spherical Ultraforming Unit in Series [BP, formally Amoco]

Hydrotreating Unit [BP, formally Amoco]

CSTR (cutaway view) [Pfaudler, Inc.]

Batch Reactor [Pfaudler, Inc.]

Batch Reactor Stirring Apparatus [Pfaudler, Inc.]

We have received a number of photos from SASOL, Ltd. and British Petroleum (BP), so we made separate pages for them.

SASOL Reactors

BP Reactors

Reactor System Used at BP, formally Amoco

 

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Spherical Reactor

 

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Three Spherical Reactors

 

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Spherical Reactors Connected in Series

 

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Hydrotreating Unit

 

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Cutaway View of CSTR

 

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Batch Reactor

 

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Batch Reactor Stirring Apparatus