DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR

Micro-reactor systems are a promising progress in chemical engineering. The challenge is to design continuous processes enable to develop products with uniform quality and high quantity,it might be provided by using the microreactors, the industrially important production of fine chemicals is freque...

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Main Authors: ELHAM M. EL ZANATI, GYLAN M. ELNAHAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor's University 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
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Online Access:http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/Vol%2013%20issue%208%20August%202018/13_8_15.pdf
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GYLAN M. ELNAHAS
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description Micro-reactor systems are a promising progress in chemical engineering. The challenge is to design continuous processes enable to develop products with uniform quality and high quantity,it might be provided by using the microreactors, the industrially important production of fine chemicals is frequently characterized by low conversions and yields, while the reaction conversion using the microreactors approaches +99%, which reduces the load in the separation step. The small volume of the micro-reactor issaving the material of construction, it isalso, enhanced the mass and heat management. Microreactors were locally designed and fabricated to develop a comprehensive study of micro-reactors performance. The aim of this article is the increasing of micro-reactor productivity through a numbering-up of the number of channels and micro-reactors. Multi-channel micro-reactors consist of ten and twenty Yshaped channels areemployed. Esterification reaction of ethanol/2-ethyl hexanoic acid was taken as an example to test the developed micro-reactors, itcarried out using different designs of micro-reactors.The reactions were completed at temperature 25°C and molar ratio 1:1. The product flow rate is significantly increased (0.00028-2.5E-6 m3s-1 ). A battery of 3-parallel microreactors of twenty channels was used to produce Ethyl Hexanoate, an economic feasibility study is developed.
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spelling doaj.art-2072f4f01f1c4d9c8d57ebab71501a182022-12-22T01:18:13ZengTaylor's UniversityJournal of Engineering Science and Technology1823-46902018-08-0113824812494DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTORELHAM M. EL ZANATI0GYLAN M. ELNAHAS1Chemical Engineering and Pilot Plant Department, Engineering Research Division, National Research Centre, 33 Bohouth St. (Former El Tahrir St.), Dokki, Giza, Egypt Chemical Engineering and Pilot Plant Department, Engineering Research Division, National Research Centre, 33 Bohouth St. (Former El Tahrir St.), Dokki, Giza, Egypt Micro-reactor systems are a promising progress in chemical engineering. The challenge is to design continuous processes enable to develop products with uniform quality and high quantity,it might be provided by using the microreactors, the industrially important production of fine chemicals is frequently characterized by low conversions and yields, while the reaction conversion using the microreactors approaches +99%, which reduces the load in the separation step. The small volume of the micro-reactor issaving the material of construction, it isalso, enhanced the mass and heat management. Microreactors were locally designed and fabricated to develop a comprehensive study of micro-reactors performance. The aim of this article is the increasing of micro-reactor productivity through a numbering-up of the number of channels and micro-reactors. Multi-channel micro-reactors consist of ten and twenty Yshaped channels areemployed. Esterification reaction of ethanol/2-ethyl hexanoic acid was taken as an example to test the developed micro-reactors, itcarried out using different designs of micro-reactors.The reactions were completed at temperature 25°C and molar ratio 1:1. The product flow rate is significantly increased (0.00028-2.5E-6 m3s-1 ). A battery of 3-parallel microreactors of twenty channels was used to produce Ethyl Hexanoate, an economic feasibility study is developed.http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/Vol%2013%20issue%208%20August%202018/13_8_15.pdfFeasibilityFine chemicalMicro-reactorMulti channelsScaling-up
spellingShingle ELHAM M. EL ZANATI
GYLAN M. ELNAHAS
DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR
Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
Feasibility
Fine chemical
Micro-reactor
Multi channels
Scaling-up
title DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR
title_full DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR
title_fullStr DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR
title_full_unstemmed DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR
title_short DESIGN AND SCALE-UP OF CONTINUOUS FLOW MICRO-REACTOR
title_sort design and scale up of continuous flow micro reactor
topic Feasibility
Fine chemical
Micro-reactor
Multi channels
Scaling-up
url http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/Vol%2013%20issue%208%20August%202018/13_8_15.pdf
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