Enhancing Biodiesel Production: A Review of Microchannel Reactor Technologies

K Subramaniam, KY Wong, KH Wong, CT Chong… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The depletion of fossil fuels, along with the environmental damages brought by their usage,
calls for the development of a clean, sustainable and renewable source of energy. Biofuel …

Anionic polymerizations in a microreactor

Z Jin, H Wang, X Hu, Y Liu, Y Hu, S Zhao… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the discovery of living polymers by Szwarc in 1956, anionic polymerization has
contributed many firsts in polymer synthesis. Advanced macromolecules with well-defined …

Scale-up of microreactor: Effects of hydrodynamic diameter on liquid–liquid flow and mass transfer

X Wang, Y Wang, F Li, L Li, X Ge, S Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
To examine the scalability of a microreactor to the milli-scale, the liquid–liquid two-phase
flow and mass transfer in a capillary reactor system were investigated. The flow pattern …

The effect of liquid viscosity and modeling of mass transfer in gas–liquid slug flow in a rectangular microchannel

C Yao, Y Zhao, J Zheng, Q Zhang, G Chen - AIChE Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Both chemical (by adding 0.05 M NaOH) and physical absorption of CO2 into
aqueous glycerol solutions with viscosity up to 45.6 mPa· s in a microchannel are …

Dynamics of a deformable compound droplet under pulsatile flow

S Lanjewar, S Ramji - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The motion of a deformable compound droplet flowing within a confined channel in
response to a pulsatile flow is numerically investigated. Toward this, an in-house solver …

Design strategy of a microchannel device for liquid–liquid extraction based on the relationship between mass transfer rate and two-phase flow pattern

A Matsuoka, K Mae - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the liquid–liquid two-phase flow pattern and mass transfer rate in
microchannels were investigated by an extraction experiment. Slug flow was observed at …

Experimental and theoretical study of thin film formation in a straight mini capillary

R Prakash, S Ghosh - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study involves the experimental and analytical analysis of film formation in
liquid–liquid two-phase flow in a mini capillary tube with different wettability. Four glass …

Numerical modeling of segmented flow in coiled flow inverter: Hydrodynamics and mass transfer studies

MR Gaddem, S Ookawara, KDP Nigam… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel CFD modeling approach was developed to investigate the hydrodynamics and
mass transfer in a gas–liquid slug flowing through microscale coil and coiled flow inverter …

Liquid-liquid flow through micro dimensional reactors: A review on hydrodynamics, mass transfer, and reaction kinetics

P Jaiswal, U Kumar, KG Biswas - Experimental and Computational …, 2021 - Springer
Liquid-liquid flow through compact geometries has been gaining importance in recent time.
It is encountered in the pharmaceutical industry and fine chemicals industry where high …

Characteristics of liquid-liquid two-phase flow in a constructal honeycomb reactor

H Zou, Y Chen, J Zhang, Z Tang, Q Wu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Inspired by the bionic structure, a honeycomb network was designed according to Bejan's
Constructal theory and manufactured via 3D-printing. The flow characteristics of the liquid …