Manufactured chemistry: Rethinking unit operation design in the age of additive manufacturing

Stark, Addison K.

doi:10.1002/aic.16118

Cited by 11 publications

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“…114 Research is needed to develop better heat exchanger designs for low-grade heat management that increase heat transfer characteristics while minimizing the amount of materials required in their fabrication. Additive manufacturing has been identified as a promising technology to enable new design spaces for heat exchanger manufacturing for applications in thermal and chemical device design for low 115 and high-temperature applications, 116 and further work is required to develop these methods for manufacturing cheaper heat exchangers at industrial scales.…”

Section: Waste Heat Upgradingmentioning

confidence: 99%

To decarbonize industry, we must decarbonize heat

Thiel

Stark

2021

Joule

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Industry is often termed ''hard to decarbonize'' because a vast, inhomogeneous array of processes comprise the sector. But developing new, decarbonized process heating technologies represents a single, broadly applicable pathway to eliminating a large portion of sectoral emissions-and approximately one-fifth of global CO 2 emissions, overall. We begin this perspective with a brief review of the demand for and cost of industrial heat. Then, we highlight key challenges and R&D needs in developing zero-carbon industrial heating technologies. Technologies in four pathways are discussed:(1) zero-carbon fuels, (2) zero-carbon heat sources, (3) electrification of heat, and (4) better heat management. Finally, we identify crosscutting challenges to the development and adoption of zero-carbon industrial heat technologies, the solution to any of which would constitute a significant breakthrough on the path to industrial decarbonization.

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Section: Waste Heat Upgradingmentioning

confidence: 99%

To decarbonize industry, we must decarbonize heat

Thiel

Stark

2021

Joule

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“…Traditionally, reactor design has followed heuristic rules [16], one of them is the two-thirds law for economic of scale based on simple topology and geometry that follows a predictable scaling law. The individual reactor scale follows a scaling law of cylinder using the reaction zone defined at the resident time.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The importance of a kinetic reaction is that the rate and selectivity of a reaction determine the size of the catalytic reactor for a given overall production rate [6]. Strive for intrinsic kinetics rather than apparent kinetics where the transport effects and intrinsic kinetics are lumped is needed to improve the efficiency accuracy of kinetic modeling [16], and also improves the reliability and accuracy of the model when extrapolated to the following scaling-up phases into catalytic reactor design.…”

Section: Solid Porousmentioning

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Implication on Fixed-Bed-Catalytic-Reactor Design When Considering Intraparticle Material Balance at Microscale

Serny¹,

Pacheco²

2020

JESR

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The integration between catalytic chemistry and reaction engineering fields generate more efficient catalytic reactor designs whereby the conventional design strategies should be changed. This work evaluated the implications on preliminary fixed bed catalytic reactor design and its associated basic cost from bench-scale when it is considered the material balance at microscale under a deterministic model accompanied with heuristic considerations on equipment design showing that understanding chemical reaction engineering is key to design of more efficient and economical industrial processes (decrease in 50 % of equipment sizing and 40 % of the equipment cost for this study).

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“…In this way, this perspective paper is different from other recently published perspective papers that are directly or indirectly related to PI. For example, Baldea et al focused on modular manufacturing processes where PI has a role; Szydlowska et al highlighted the practical challenges associated with a class of chemical reactors; Stark proposed a rethinking of unit operations related to additive manufacturing; and, Jensen highlighted developments in microreaction technology. Also, this paper is not a review paper and readers interested in a review of PI are directed to the following recent review papers (to list a few): Tian et al gives an exhaustive overview on PI with 890 useful references related to PI; Sitter reviews PI related to PSE, Skiborowski reviews process synthesis and design related to PI, and, Jiang and Agrawal reviews PI related to multicomponent distillation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%