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Switchable Reactions for the Investigation of Reactive Mass Transfer Processes
Author(s) -
Tastan Ümit,
Guba Fabian,
Ziegenbalg Dirk
Publication year - 2017
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.201600586
Subject(s) - mass transfer , decoupling (probability) , chemical reaction , toluene , chemistry , mass transport , chemical physics , nanotechnology , computational chemistry , biochemical engineering , materials science , organic chemistry , engineering , chromatography , control engineering
Abstract Gas‐liquid reactions represent an important and popular reaction type in chemical industry. On this account, the understanding of ongoing mass transport processes is of high importance. Nevertheless, there is still insufficient information on the interaction between mass transfer and chemical reaction, mainly due to the problem of decoupling mass transfer and reaction. To tackle this challenge, the possibility of decoupling these processes is introduced by use of photochemical reactions as switchable reactions. The feasibility of this concept is demonstrated by taking the photochlorination of toluene as an example. Experimental results show that the aimed separation of mass transfer and reaction can be achieved, providing an innovative tool for the investigation of mass transfer processes.