Liquid fuel synthesis in microreactors

Microreactors - Portable Factories for Biodiesel Fuel Production

Nowadays, when fossil fuel recourses are decreasing rapidly, biodiesel fuels are becoming more and more interesting. Being environmentally beneficial, biodegradable, non-toxic and with low pollution emission makes biodiesel interesting for consumption. Various methods have been reported for biodiesel production such as microemulsification, pyrolysis and transesterification. Main problems of thi...

Nanoparticle Synthesis in Vesicle Microreactors

Investigation of Liquid–Liquid Two-Phase Flow Pattern in Microreactors for Biodiesel Production

"> In the present study, transesterification of soybean oil to Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) was carried out in the microreactor. The system performance was <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; ...

Microreactors in Organic Synthesis and Catalysis

Fuel processing microreactors for hydrogen production in micro fuel cell applications

The use of microreactors for in-situ and on-demand chemical processing and analysis is gaining increasing importance as the field of microreaction engineering matures from the stage of being regarded as a theoretical concept to a technology with significant industrial applications [1,2,3]. The objective of this work is to demonstrate a working microreaction system for use as a sustained source ...