Patent ID: 7651670

Claim:
A Taylor reactor comprising 1) an annular reaction volume which 1.1 widens in a flow direction of a reaction medium and opens into an outlet region and is defined by 1.1.1 an outer reactor wall, 1.1.2 a reactor floor having a seal for a drive shaft, and 1.1.3 a concentrically disposed rotor which at one end is mounted rotatably in the reactor floor and at its other end below the outlet region is unmounted, the rotor having the largest diameter at its mounted end or having the same diameter as at its unmounted end, 2) an inlet region in the narrowest region of the annular reaction volume above the reactor floor, having at least one side feed and/or at least one feed through the reactor floor for reactants and/or process media, 3) the outlet region being dead space free and 3.1 is disposed above the unmounted end of the rotor and above the annular reaction volume, 3.2 widens further or remains constant beyond the annular reaction volume in the flow direction, and 3.3 thereafter tapers to a product offtake, 4) a deadspace-free product offlake which 4.1 at its greatest diameter opens toward the outlet region and 4.2 tapers in the other direction, and 5) at an end of the product offlake opposite the outlet region, a pressure maintenance valve.