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.