Packed MicroChannel Contactors

Figure 8.4 Packed microchannel contactor with microfabricated columns. From [56].

Owing to the complex and often dedicated equipment required to perform gas-liquid phase reactions within research laboratories, this area of synthetic chemistry is somewhat underutilized. Over the past decade, however, numerous research groups have developed an array of continuous flow reactors capable of conducting such reactions in a safe and efficient manner, including microchannel contactors, falling film micro reactors, and packed-bed reactors [68, 69]. 

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