Abstract
Rapid progress in the development of additive manufacturing technology enables the production of structured reactor internals of complex geometry. To address mass transport limitations structured internals can be used in trickle bed reactors (TBRs) as the most frequently used reactor for heterogeneously catalyzed multiphase reactions. However, reactions in TBRs are frequently limited by gas–liquid mass transfer.As periodic open cellular structures (POCS) as reactor internals were not addressed regarding g–l mass transfer yet, this contribution provides first data on gas–liquid mass transfer for different types of POCS. Therefore, desorption of dissolved oxygen in water with nitrogen gas and the two-phase pressure drop were measured. Strut-based Kelvin and diamond unit cell POCS were compared to a sphere random packed bed as a benchmark. A novel sheet-based unit cell was developed realizing meandering channels demonstrating a fivefold increase in volumetric mass transfer coefficient compared to the benchmark. To compare the performance of the setup with literature data, state of the art neural network correlations were used for comparison. This proof of concept highlights the potential of additively manufactured POCS for intensified processes in trickle bed reactors, and demonstrates their versatility in application.
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