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The intensification of rapid reactions in multiphase systems using slug flow in capillaries

Lookup NU author(s): Dr John Burns, Professor Colin Ramshaw

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Abstract

A multiphase microreactor based upon the use of slug flow through a narrow channel has been developed. The internal circulation, which is stimulated within the slugs by their passage along the channel, is responsible for a large enhancement in the interfacial mass transfer and the reaction rate. Mass transfer performance data has been obtained for a glass chip-based reactor in a 380 mum wide channel by monitoring the extraction of acetic acid from kerosene slugs as they moved along the reactor channel. Finally, the data was compared with that provided from other inter-phase contacting techniques.

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Author(s): Ramshaw C; Burns JR

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Lab on a Chip

Year: 2001

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Pages: 10-15

Print publication date: 01/01/2001

ISSN (print): 1473-0197

ISSN (electronic): 1473-0189

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b102818a

DOI: 10.1039/b102818a

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