APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT CHEMICAL PROCESS USING SET OF SOLVENTS UNDERGOING REVERSIBLE CHANGE BETWEEN MUTUAL DISSOLUTION AND SEPARATION DEPENDING ON TEMPERATURE

摘要

An apparatus for carrying out a chemical process using a set of a first solvent and a second solvent which undergo the reversible change between mutual dissolution and separation depending on their temperature, wherein the temperature distribution of the inside of a reaction vessel is formed so that one (arbitrary) partial region in the inside of the reaction vessel has a temperature not lower than that at which the first and the second solvents are dissolved with each other, and another partial region has a temperature not higher than that at which the two solvents are separated, and wherein a reaction accelerating energy such as light or electricity is supplied to the part being in a dissolved state. The above apparatus allows the resolution of problems of the temporal separation and spatial separation with respect to the dissolution and separation of the two solvents which has been associated with the apparatus for a general purpose chemical process disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No.2002-198242.