Dissolved Gas reactor

将能源气体(氢、氧、二氧化碳)更有效地利用到化学制造中，将需要开发对地球有益的催化过程。该PHD项目的目标是使用高压溶解气体反应器的概念，通过将气液传质和反应步骤分离为两个独立的单元操作来促进能量气体的使用：(I)死端气体溶解(没有通风口或循环)，在高压下产生气体溶液，以及(Ii)溶解气体反应器，其中溶液以提供流体动力学精确控制的方式持续流过一个或多个催化剂颗粒。这将增强控制和优化气体输送到催化剂表面的能力。候选人将有机会接触到现有的处理设备，并有机会发明、建造和展示下一代气液设备，这些设备可以更容易地在气体和能源技术中实施(例如，药物化学反应，二氧化碳转化为甲烷)。该项目建立在穆勒小组最近的工作基础上，并作为催化剂制造商强生马泰(JM)支持的工业案例奖获得资助。

More efficient utilisation of energy gases (hydrogen, oxygen, CO2) into chemical manufacturing will require development of catalytic processes beneficial to the planet. This PhD project objective is to use a high pressure dissolved gas reactor concept to facilitate the use of energy gasses by separation of the Gas-Liquid mass transfer and the reaction step into two separate unit operations: (i) dead end gas dissolution (no vent or recycle), generating a solution of gas at high pressure and (ii) a dissolved gas reactor in which the solution continuously flows over one or more catalyst pellets in a manner that affords precise control of the hydrodynamics. This gives greater ability to control and optimise gas transport to the surface of the catalyst.The candidate will have access to existing processing equipment and will have the opportunity to invent, build and demonstrate the next generation of gas-liquid equipment that can be more easily implemented in gas and energy technology (e.g. pharmaceutical chemical reactions, CO2 Conversion to methane).The project builds on recent work in the Muller group and is funded as an industrial Case award supported by catalyst manufacturer Johnson Matthey (JM).