Multifunctional reactors and materials for clean energy

“过程强化”作为一种新兴的化学工程概念，其重点是“在空间/时间/能源/原材料/环境方面实现工艺和工厂效率的巨大飞跃”，其实质是“使用多功能反应器、新的操作模式或用于化学生产的微技术设计新的设备和新的生产方法”。我们在发现赠款(DG)中的长期目标旨在设计能源和环境部门的微型/多功能工艺和材料，重点是化石燃料/生物质残留物的升级/转化、通过二氧化碳捕获/储存(CCS)来缓解温室气体，以及评估使用磁场的“人造重力”。目前DG提案所关注的短期目标针对与未来可持续技术的发展有关的三个问题：1)使用纳米磁性酶载体和抑制剂清除树脂的仿生二氧化碳捕获反应器，2)使用超导磁体的多相催化反应器中的人工重力，3)微旋转床作为小分子化学的热质传递强化装置。

"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.