Multifunctional reactors and materials for clean energy

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"Process intensification" is witnessing a return in strength as an emerging chemical engineering concept whose priority is to impart "a quantum leap in process and plant efficiency with respect to space/time/energy/raw-materials/environment" and in essence "concerns the design of novel equipment and new production methods using either multifunctional reactors, new operating modes, or micro-technology for chemical production". Our long term objectives in the discovery grant (DG) aim at devising micro/ multifunctional processes and materials in the energy and environmental sectors with a focus on the upgrading/conversion of fossil fuel/biomass residues, the GHG mitigation through CO2 capture/storage (CCS), and evaluating the "artificial gravity" using magnetic fields. The short term objectives concerned by the present DG proposal target three problems related to the development of future sustainable technologies: 1) a biomimetic CO2 capture reactor using nanomagnetic-enzyme carriers & inhibitor-scavenging resins, 2) artificial gravity in multiphase catalytic reactors using a superconducting magnet, 3) microTrickle beds as heat & mass transfer intensive devices for the chemistry of small molecules.