A new Reacnostics Compact Profile Reactor (CPR) has been successfully installed at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center, in the laboratory of Dr. Rosanna Viscardi. This installation marks the first Reacnostics CPR system in Italy, representing a significant milestone for advanced catalytic reactor diagnostics in the country.
The Compact Profile Reactor is a precision fixed-bed reactor system designed to provide direct optical access to the catalyst bed, enabling spatially resolved measurements of temperature and concentration profiles under realistic reaction conditions. With an isothermal reaction zone of 60 mm, the system can operate at temperatures up to 700 °C and pressures up to 20 bar, making it ideally suited for the study of heterogeneous catalytic reactions under demanding, industrially relevant environments.
At ENEA, the new reactor will be used primarily for CO₂ reduction research, supporting efforts to develop and optimize catalysts for carbon utilization and sustainable fuel synthesis. The ability to directly observe and correlate reaction parameters within the catalyst bed will provide key mechanistic insights into catalyst dynamics, deactivation, and regeneration.
A special thank you to Michael Schmidt of Reacnostics GmbH for his invaluable support during installation and commissioning of the system.
The Compact Profile Reactor was supplied by AC Scientific, the official distributor of Reacnostics instrumentation in Italy and South Africa.
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