Flow Conditions in Small-sized Reactors

Micro structured reactors will not only increase reactor compactness and reduce the size of sometimes expensive samples but will also allow a thorough fluidic description of the flow in the reactor. The mechanism, which assists here, is the laminar-flow regime, which develops owing to the small reactor dimensions. 

Ideal plug-flow conditions can also be established in so-called nano-flow reactors with catalyst particle sizes from 50 to 200 pm. These reactors were operated in 16-and 64-barrel mode at Avantium for the regression of intrinsic kinetics [4], 

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