Patent ID: 7122156

Claim:
A parallel flow reaction system for effecting four or more simultaneous reactions in a parallel flow reactor, the reaction system comprising a parallel flow reactor comprising four or more reactors, each of the four or more reactors comprising a surface defining a reaction cavity for carrying out a chemical reaction, an inlet port in fluid communication with the reaction cavity, and an outlet port in fluid communication with the reaction cavity, and a fluid distribution system for simultaneously supplying a feed composition comprising at least two feed components in varying relative amounts to the reaction cavity of each of the four or more reactors, and for discharging a reactor effluent from the outlet port of each reaction cavity to one or more effluent sinks, the fluid distribution system comprising a feed-composition subsystem that comprises four or more mixing zones, each of the four or more mixing zones being in fluid communication with one of the four or more reactors, a first feed component source in fluid communication with each of the four or more mixing zones, a set of four or more first-feed-component flow restrictors, each of the four or more first-feed-component flow restrictors providing fluid communication between the first feed component source and one of the four or more mixing zones, each of the four or more first-feed-component flow restrictors having a flow resistance that varies relative to other first-feed-component flow restrictors in the set, and a second feed component source in fluid communication with each of the four or more mixing zones.