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Monolithic Honeycombs in Loop Reactor Configuration for Intensification of Multiphase Processes
Author(s) -
Güttel Robert,
Eisenbeis Christian,
Knochen Jens,
Turek Thomas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201400727
Subject(s) - honeycomb , materials science , mass transfer , loop (graph theory) , honeycomb structure , ceramic , multiphase flow , flow (mathematics) , sorbitol , degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) , chemical engineering , mechanics , composite material , thermodynamics , chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry , physics , mathematics , combinatorics
Monolithic honeycomb reactors are characterized by small parallel channels, which make them an interesting approach to be applied as microstructured reactors. Besides the established manufacturing of ceramic honeycombs, these structures exhibit excellent mass transfer characteristics for multiphase reactions combined with degrees of freedom in the structural design. The potential of monolithic honeycomb reactors operated in the beneficial slug flow regime is evaluated for heterogeneously catalyzed gas‐liquid reactions. Results of the Fischer‐Tropsch synthesis and hydrogenation of glucose to sorbitol were analyzed in order to obtain a more generalized picture of the interaction between mass transfer and reaction in small channels operated in multiphase flow.