About this Research Topic
Process intensification is a technological strategy based on innovative process and equipment design that results in substantial benefits in industrial manufacturing processes, including reduced energy consumption, higher product quality, fewer waste and improved safety. It typically deploys novel equipment and/or methods that result in more compact and efficient processes. Process intensifying equipment includes devices that significantly improve the efficiency of mixing, mass and heat transfer. Process intensifying methods offers novel means to perform chemical engineering operations by combining operations (e.g. reaction and separation, or reaction and heat transfer) or by employing alternative energy sources and unconventional process control methods.
Process intensification in chemical engineering processes has been a topic of significant scientific interest for about 20 years and its interest in the process industries for diverse applications is prevailing. A wide variety of process-intensifying equipment has been developed over this time and are currently used in industrial applications. This Research Topic focuses on the use of specific equipment for process intensification. It aims covering recent and novel research on process-intensifying equipment, ranging from the fundamental physical understanding of process improvement, performance characterization and design guidelines for such devices to applications of industrial interest.
This Research Topic focuses on ‘Fundamentals, design and applications in process-intensifying equipment’. Original manuscripts involving novel equipment or conventional continuous flow equipment with new potentials for process intensification by improving the efficiency of mixing, mass and heat transfer will be welcomed. Process-intensifying equipment may include, but is not limited to spinning disks, rotating packed beds, static mixers, inline rotor/stator mixers, monoliths, microreactors, compact heat exchangers, heat-exchange reactors, impinging jets, oscillatory flow reactors.
Contributors may address various themes including:
• Fundamental scientific understanding of process improvement in process-intensifying devices;
• Performance characterization and design guidelines;
• Applications in process-intensifying devices
Manuscripts presenting high quality experimental and/or numerical studies, as well as critical reviews of the state of the art will be considered
Keywords: Process-Intensifying Devices, Process Improvement, Efficiency, Heat and Mass Transfer
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