Catalytic flow devices, advantages

Advantages of using catalytic flow devices for solid catalyzed oxidations and hydrogenations, as well as in applying green chemistry principles and three intensifications fields are recently reviewed [24,144]. [Pg.266]

Monoliths and microchannel reactors (MRs) are two of the different types of structured reactors. A thin layer of catalyst deposited on stiff 3D structures with channels or macro-pores and high lateral surface is characteristic of these catalytic devices. These structures overcome flow maldistribution, high pressure drop, and diffusional limitations in the pores that are frequently associated with the conventional packed-bed reactors (PBRs) commonly used for catalytic reactions. Compared with PBR, structured reactors have unquestionable advantages not only in lowering pressure drop and decreasing flow maldistribution, which... [Pg.81]