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Influence of Flow Regime on Mass Transfer in Different Types of Microchannels

N. Kashid, Madhvanand
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Renken, Albert  
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Kiwi-Minsker, Lioubov  
2011
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

The performance of microstructured reactors (or microchannels) for mass-transfer-controlled liquid-liquid reactions depends on flow regimes that define the specific interfacial area for the mass transfer. In the present work, experiments were carried out to investigate the two phase-flow regimes and the mass transfer at relatively high throughput for a single microchannel (of 1-18 mL/min) in five generic microchannel designs (with and without structured internal surfaces), using a nonreacting water-acetone-toluene system. When the flow results were analyzed collectively in all microchannels, six different flow regimes such as slug, slug-drop, deformed interface, parallel/annular, slug-dispersed, and dispersed flow were observed. The mass-transfer comparison shows that the microchannel with structured internal surfaces shows better performance, because it creates a very fine dispersion, providing high interfacial area, compared to other microchannels. Finally, the mass-transfer data were correlated, which can be used for a priori predictions of mass-transfer rates in microchannels.

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review article
DOI
10.1021/ie102200j
Web of Science ID

WOS:000290843900041

Author(s)
N. Kashid, Madhvanand
•
Renken, Albert  
•
Kiwi-Minsker, Lioubov  
Date Issued

2011

Published in
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Volume

50

Issue

11

Start page

6906

End page

6914

Subjects

Liquid Slug Flow

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Of-The-Art

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T-Junction

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Microstructured Reactors

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Capillary-Microreactor

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Pressure-Drop

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Intensification

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Channels

Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LGRC  
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May 24, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/67769
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