Authors: prof. dr. sc. Domagoj Vrsaljko; Ivana Ćevid, mag. ing. oecoing.; Ivan Karlo Cingesar, mag. ing. oecoing.; Marijan-Pere Marković, mag. ing. cheming
Faculty: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology
Country: Croatia
e-mail: dvrsal@fkit.hr; icevid@fkit.hr; icingesar@fkit.hr; mmarkovi1@fkit.hr
web: https://www.fkit.unizg.hr/
Millireactors are a potential replacement for conventional reactors, primarily because of better mass and energy transfer, which increases efficiency. The addition of static mixers within reactors leads to an increase in mass and energy transfer, and additional higher productivity of a process. The optimal manufacturing method for the production of such complex geometries is additive manufacturing, which enables the production of reactors with complex internal geometry in the millimetre range.
Our innovation is a 3D printed millireactor with static mixers. Static mixers allow for better mixing of reactants, thus increasing the efficiency of the process and reducing the amount of reaction byproducts released, along with lower energy consumption.