Laboratory for Chemical Reaction Engineering of Dispersions

prof.dr.ir. B. Drinkenburg

Department of Chemical Process Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology

Gas/solid dispersions; fluidisation

• Flow and circulation
• Heat and mass transfer in large scale fluidised bed reactors
• Particle agglomeration in fluidized beds

Stirred tanks

• Turbulent flow in stirred tanks; focused on mixing of feed streams with the bulk liquid
  Application: selectivity of fast chemical reactions, precipitation, fast (organic) reactions in solution

Preparation of monodisperse particles

• emulsifier free emulsion polymerization; particle size adjustable between 0.10 and 5 mm
• suspension polymerization
• dispersion polymerization, particle size can be controlled with the choice of the solvent
• precipitation reactions

Polymerization reactors

• Mixing and reaction in high viscosity liquids
  hydrodynamics, segregation, mass transfer and chemical reaction
  Application: solution polymerization

• Reactors for emulsion polymerization
  Emulsion Polymerization of Styrene;
  Experiments in laboratory and pilot scale reactors, reactor modelling
  Intelligent Manufacturing of Polymers (IntelPol)

Chemical Reactor Development

• Chemical Reactor Development
  This book describes the design and development of chemical reactors from laboratory scale to industrial scale.

Chemical Process Equipment

• The manufacture of modern detergent powders.
  This book describes the manufacture of concentrated washing powders for fabrics.