Development of intensified reactors: A process intensification methodology perspective

Process Intensification in Multiphase Reactors

Introduction Applications of multiphase technology are prevalent in petroleum refining, synthesis gas conversion to fuels and chemicals, bulk commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, conversion of undesired by-products to recyclable products, manufacture of polymers, biotechnology and pollution abatement. In these processes the reactor performance is crucial: it determines the number and size ...

Process Intensification via Membrane Reactors, the DEMCAMER Project

This paper reports the findings of a FP7 project (DEMCAMER) that developed materials (catalysts and membranes) and new processes for four industrially relevant reaction processes. In this project, active, stable, and selective catalysts were developed for the reaction systems of interest and their production scaled up to kg scale (TRL5 (TRL: Technology Readiness Level)). Simultaneously, new mem...

Carbon Dioxide Methanation for [4] Intensified Reactors

High-fidelity DEM-CFD modeling of packed bed reactors for process intensification

A high-fidelity DEM-CFD model is newly proposed for process intensification of packed bed reactors. The discrete element method (DEM) is employed for simulating random packing under gravity with hundreds of spheres in a cylindrical tube. It is verified that the DEM is capable of constituting a packed bed whose voidage well agrees with the literature according to particle-to-tube diameter ratio....

Diels–Alder reactions of myrcene using intensified continuous-flow reactors

This work describes the Diels-Alder reaction of the naturally occurring substituted butadiene, myrcene, with a range of different naturally occurring and synthetic dienophiles. The synthesis of the Diels-Alder adduct from myrcene and acrylic acid, containing surfactant properties, was scaled-up in a plate-type continuous-flow reactor with a volume of 105 mL to a throughput of 2.79 kg of the fin...