Photocatalytic multiphase micro-droplet reactors based on complex coacervation

Photocatalytic multiphase micro-droplet reactors based on complex coacervation.

We describe the synthesis and characterisation of novel photocatalytic multiphase micro-droplet reactors comprising TiO2 nanosheets dispersed in poly(diallyldimethylammonium) chloride and adenosine 5'-triphosphate or poly(ethylene glycol) 4-nonylphenyl 3-sulfopropyl complex coacervates. We demonstrate significant variations in the degree of equilibrium partitioning of small molecule dyes into t...

Process Intensification in Multiphase Reactors

Introduction Applications of multiphase technology are prevalent in petroleum refining, synthesis gas conversion to fuels and chemicals, bulk commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, conversion of undesired by-products to recyclable products, manufacture of polymers, biotechnology and pollution abatement. In these processes the reactor performance is crucial: it determines the number and size ...

Liquid residence time distribution in micro-reactors with complex geometries

Opaque Multiphase Reactors: Experimentation, Modeling and Troubleshooting

Opaque Multiphase Reactors: Experimentation, Modeling and Troubleshooting — Multiphase reactors are widely used in petroleum, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and metallurgical industries as well as in materials processing and pollution abatement. Most reactors of interest in industrial practice (slurry bubble columns, gas-solid risers and fluidized beds, ebullated beds and stirred tanks...

Droplet-based micro oscillating-flow PCR chip

Polymerase chain reactions (PCR), thermally activated chemical reactions which are widely used for nucleic acid amplification, have recently received much attention in microelectromechanical systems and micro total analysis systems because a wide variety of DNA/RNA molecules can be enriched by PCR for further analyses. In the present work, a droplet-based micro oscillating-flow PCR chip was des...