Patent ID: 8592220

Claim:
A method of screening a plurality of materials, the method comprising: confining the plurality of materials in a plurality of vessels, each material of the plurality of materials being confined in a separate vessel of the plurality of vessels; enclosing the plurality of vessels in a chamber, the chamber further enclosing a flow splitting device; supplying a gas into the chamber to pressurize the chamber to a first pressure above an atmospheric pressure, wherein the flow splitting device and each of the plurality of vessels are subjected to the first pressure; contacting each of the plurality of materials with a test fluid by flowing the test fluid from the flow splitting device and into each of the vessels under reaction conditions comprising a second pressure above the atmospheric pressure in each of the vessels during the contacting step, the second pressure being different from the first pressure, the test fluid being different from the gas used to pressurize the chamber; detecting changes in the test fluid following contact with each of the plurality of materials; and relating changes in the test fluid to a property of each of the plurality of materials.