Continuous Taylor-flow microreactors

The Taylor-flow microreactor comprised a micromixer for mixing of the precursors for the particle synthesis followed by a gas inlet for separating this continuous mixed liquid stream into segments separated by gas bubbles [328,329]. 

Two classes of gas-liquid microchannel reactors were developed in the past years -continuous-phase contacting falling film, overlapping charmel, mesh, and annular flow approaches, and dispersed-phase contacting by Taylor flow reactors, micromixers for bubble and foam formation, and miniaturized packed bed microreactors, which follow classical trickle-bed operation at smaller scale. Recently integration of operations inside a microdevice has been studied and led to the development of membrane microreactors. 

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