Multiphase Reactor Engineering II - Design Project

Multiphase reactor types: Fixed beds, trickle beds, fluidized beds, bubble columns, slurry reactors, microreactors, structured (monolith) reactors, electrocatalytic reactors.

Engineering aspects: Flow regimes, mass transfer, conversion models. Thiele modulus, Hatta number, reaction enhancement. Residence time distribution. Catalytic reactors structured in time and space. Unifying concepts.

Design aspects: reactor selection, decoupling of kinetics and transport phenomena, combination of reaction and separation, reaction coupling, separating catalytic steps, controlled energy input, circularity of materials.

The design project will be graded on a number aspects; more details will be given via Brightspace.