Fast chemical reactions involved in nanomaterials synthesis, polymerization, special chemicals production, reactive absorption, etc., are often difficult to control in terms of product quality, process efficiency and ...Fast chemical reactions involved in nanomaterials synthesis, polymerization, special chemicals production, reactive absorption, etc., are often difficult to control in terms of product quality, process efficiency and production consistency. After a theoretical analysis on such processes based on chemical reaction engineering fundamentals, an idea to intensify micromixing (mixing on the molecular scale) and mass transfer and therefore to control the process ideally was proposed. By experimental investigations of mass transfer and micromixing characteristics in the Rotating Packed Bed (RPB, or 'HIGEE' device), we achieved unique intense micromixing. This led us to the invention of using RPB as a reactor for the fabrication of nanoparticles (Chen et al., 2000).展开更多
Catalytic properties of polymer-stabilized colloidal metal nanoparticles synthesized by microwave irradiationwere studied in the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes,o-chloronitrobenzene and the hydrogenat...Catalytic properties of polymer-stabilized colloidal metal nanoparticles synthesized by microwave irradiationwere studied in the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes,o-chloronitrobenzene and the hydrogenationof alkenes.The results show that nanosized metal particles synthesized by microwave irradiation have similar catalyticperformance in selective hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes,better selectivity to o-chloroaniline in hydrogenation ofo-chloronitrobenzene and higher catalytic activities in hydrogenation of alkenes,compared with metal clusters prepared byconventional heating.The same apparent activation energy(E_a=29 kJ mol^(-(?)) for hydrogenation of (?)-heptene catalyzed withplatinum nanoparticles prepared by both heating modes implied that the reaction followed the same mechanism.展开更多
文摘Fast chemical reactions involved in nanomaterials synthesis, polymerization, special chemicals production, reactive absorption, etc., are often difficult to control in terms of product quality, process efficiency and production consistency. After a theoretical analysis on such processes based on chemical reaction engineering fundamentals, an idea to intensify micromixing (mixing on the molecular scale) and mass transfer and therefore to control the process ideally was proposed. By experimental investigations of mass transfer and micromixing characteristics in the Rotating Packed Bed (RPB, or 'HIGEE' device), we achieved unique intense micromixing. This led us to the invention of using RPB as a reactor for the fabrication of nanoparticles (Chen et al., 2000).
基金The Project is partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(Contract No.2003ABA072).
文摘Catalytic properties of polymer-stabilized colloidal metal nanoparticles synthesized by microwave irradiationwere studied in the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes,o-chloronitrobenzene and the hydrogenationof alkenes.The results show that nanosized metal particles synthesized by microwave irradiation have similar catalyticperformance in selective hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes,better selectivity to o-chloroaniline in hydrogenation ofo-chloronitrobenzene and higher catalytic activities in hydrogenation of alkenes,compared with metal clusters prepared byconventional heating.The same apparent activation energy(E_a=29 kJ mol^(-(?)) for hydrogenation of (?)-heptene catalyzed withplatinum nanoparticles prepared by both heating modes implied that the reaction followed the same mechanism.
