(413b) Two-Phase Microreactor Design for the Reactive Extraction of Biomass Derivatives
AIChE Annual Meeting
2018
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Microreaction Engineering II
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 3:51pm to 4:12pm
In this work, we study and characterize the hydrodynamic and mass transfer properties of two-phase flow patterns in a biphasic microreactor. We conducted experiments for the extraction of HMF with various organic solvents and also performed the reactive extraction using various carbohydrate substrates and catalysts. For this particular case, we will present a study of the reactive extraction of HMF in a water/ethyl acetate capillary biphasic microreactor using fructose as the substrate and an HCl and KCl buffer solution as the catalyst. A hybrid first-principles and data-driven kinetic model of the reaction network in combination with a mass transfer model was also used to evaluate the optimal reaction and operation conditions that maximize HMF yield.