Use of 'smart interfaces' to improve the liquid-sided mass transport in a falling film microreactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3557-3566

  Ziegenbalg, Dirk ^a   Löb, Patrick ^b   Al Rawashdeh, Ma'moun ^c   Kralisch, Dana ^a   Hessel, Volker ^b,c   Schönfeld, Friedhelm ^d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Hochschule RheinMain   (Germany)

Author keywords

Falling film reactor; Microreactor; Multiphase reaction; Optimization; Simulation; Staggered herringbone groove micromixer

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ABSORPTION; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; CHANNEL WALL; CHANNEL WIDTHS; CONVENTIONAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSIVE MASS TRANSPORT; FALLING FILM; FALLING FILM REACTOR; FALLING-FILM MICROREACTORS; GAS/LIQUID INTERFACE; LIQUID PHASE; MASS TRANSPORT; MICRO MIXERS; MICRO-REACTOR; MULTIPHASE REACTIONS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; REACTOR DESIGNS; SMART INTERFACE; STAGGERED HERRINGBONE MIXER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTORS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIQUIDS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); OPTIMIZATION; PHASE INTERFACES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 77951123799     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.02.039     Document Type: Article

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