SBIR Phase I: Catalyst Development MicroReactor

SBIR 第一阶段：催化剂开发微反应器

• 批准号: 0945263
• 负责人: Aleksander Franz
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Chemicro Engineering
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0945263&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Catalyst; Development; MicroReactor

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Phase I project proposes to develop a novel microfabricated reactor for catalyst testing applications. The novel reactor will enable substantial intensification in the catalyst discovery process, will improve the quality of the kinetic data obtained during the catalyst characterization phase of the process, and will reduce operating costs associated with the testing. The technology to be developed relies heavily on two micro reactor designs developed at MIT. The proposed project will focus on designing, fabricating and testing a catalyst test reactor that builds on the MIT technology. The resulting highly idealized isobaric, isothermal, differential catalyst test reactor also will be capable of rapid and controlled temperature changes and calorimetric reaction rate monitoring.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is that it provides enabling technology for the process of discovery and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts. Heterogeneous catalysis represents one of the most critical industrial technologies, with extensive applications across the chemical, pharmaceutical, and energy fields. In pure market terms, annual catalyst sales exceed $10 B/year, and leads to trillions of dollars of economic value generation. This new reactor technology will replace the dated conventional tube reactor technology and advances technology in the area of catalyst development, which hasn't seen much progress over the last several decades.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目提出开发一种新型的微型反应器用于催化剂测试应用。该新型反应器将能够显著强化催化剂发现过程，将提高在该过程的催化剂表征阶段期间获得的动力学数据的质量，并将降低与测试相关的操作成本。这项技术的开发在很大程度上依赖于麻省理工学院开发的两种微型反应器设计。拟议项目将侧重于设计、制造和测试基于MIT技术的催化剂测试反应堆。由此产生的高度理想化的等压、等温、微分催化剂试验反应器也将能够快速和受控的温度变化和量热反应速率监测。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于它为多相催化剂的发现和表征过程提供了使能技术。多相催化是最关键的工业技术之一，在化学、制药和能源领域有着广泛的应用。在纯市场方面，催化剂年销售额超过100 B美元/年，并产生数万亿美元的经济价值。这种新的反应器技术将取代过时的传统管式反应器技术，并在催化剂开发领域推进技术，这在过去几十年中没有看到太大的进展。