Membrane Reactors

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern received his PhD in 1987 from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Between 1991 and 1992 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In 1994 he finished the Habilitation at the Technical University in Berlin. He has industrial experience with Schering AG (1995) and has consulted for various companies in the areas of separation science and reaction engineering. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Chemical Process Engineering at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. He was appointed to the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg in 2002 where he leads the department "Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering". Among his numerous awards, he received the Max Buchner Award of Dechema in 2000, the Otto von Guericke Research Award of the Magdeburg University in 2002 and in 2008 he received an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Lappeenranta University in Finland. His current research interests include reaction engineering, heterogeneous catalysis, preparative chromatography and Enantioselective crystallization.

• PrefaceBASIC PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING AND POTENTIAL OF MEMBRANE REACTORSChallenges in Chemical Reaction EngineeringConcepts of Membrane ReactorsAvailable MembranesIllustration of the Selectivity ProblemReaction Rate, Conversion, Selectivity and YieldDistributed Dosing in Packed-Bed and Membrane ReactorsKinetic Compatibility in Membrane ReactorsCurrent Status of Membrane Reactors of the Distributor TypeMODELING OF MEMBRANE REACTORSIntroductionMomentum, Mass and Heat BalancesTransport KineticsReduced ModelsSolvability, Discretization Methods and Fast SolutionImplementation in FLUENT, MooNMD, COMSOL and ProMoTConclusionCATALYSIS AND REACTION KINETICS OF A MODEL REACTIONIntroductionThe Reaction Network of the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of EthaneCatalysts and Structure-Activity RelationsDerivation of a Kinetic ModelTRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN POROUS MEMBRANES AND MEMBRANE REACTORSIntroductionAspects of Discretizing Convection-Diffusion EquationsVelocity Fields in Membrane ReactorsDetermination of Transport Coefficients and Validation of ModelsAnalysis of Convective and Diffusive Transport Phenomena in a CMRParametric Study of a CMRConclusionPACKED-BED MEMBRANE REACTORSIntroductionPrinciples and ModelingModel-Based Analysis of a Distributed Dosing via MembranesExperimentalResults for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane to EthyleneResults for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of PropaneSummary and ConclusionsFLUIDIZED-BED MEMBRANE REACTORSIntroductionModeling of the Distributed Reactant Dosage in Fluidized BedsExperimentalConclusionsSOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE REACTORSIntroductionOperational and Material Aspects in Solid Electrolyte Membrane ReactorsModeling of Solid Electrolyte Membrane ReactorsMembrane Reactors Applying Ion-Conducting MaterialsConclusionsNONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF MEMBRANE REACTORSIntroductionLimit of Chemical EquilibriumPattern FormationConclusionsCOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MEMBRANE REACTORSGeneral Aspects Regarding Membrane Reactors of the Distributor TypeOxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane in Different Types of Membrane ReactorsGeneral Conclusion