Heat exchanger/reactors (HEX reactors): Concepts, technologies: State-of-the-art

Zoé Anxionnaz-Minvielle (1) , Michel Cabassud (1) , Christophe Gourdon (1) , Patrice Tochon

1 LGC - Laboratoire de Génie Chimique

Process intensification is a chemical engineering field which has truly emerged in the past few years and is currently rapidly growing. It consists in looking for safer operating conditions, lower waste in terms of costs and energy and higher productivity; and away to reach such objectives is to develop multifunctional devices such as heat exchanger/reactors for instance. This review is focused on the latter and makes a point on heat exchanger/reactors. After a brief presentation of requirements due to transposition from batch to continuous apparatuses, heat exchangers/reactors at industrial or pilot scales and their applications are described.

Mots clés: Process intensification; Heat exchanger reactor; State-of-the-art; Technology; Continuous reactor

Domaines: Génie chimique

Zoé Anxionnaz-Minvielle, Michel Cabassud, Christophe Gourdon, Patrice Tochon. Heat exchanger/reactors (HEX reactors): Concepts, technologies: State-of-the-art. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 2008, 47 (12), pp.2029 -2050. ⟨10.1016/j.cep.2008.06.012⟩. ⟨hal-03580590⟩