Issue 1, 2018

3D printing in chemical engineering and catalytic technology: structured catalysts, mixers and reactors

Abstract

Computer-aided fabrication technologies combined with simulation and data processing approaches are changing our way of manufacturing and designing functional objects. Also in the field of catalytic technology and chemical engineering the impact of additive manufacturing, also referred to as 3D printing, is steadily increasing thanks to a rapidly decreasing equipment threshold. Although still in an early stage, the rapid and seamless transition between digital data and physical objects enabled by these fabrication tools will benefit both research and manufacture of reactors and structured catalysts. Additive manufacturing closes the gap between theory and experiment, by enabling accurate fabrication of geometries optimized through computational fluid dynamics and the experimental evaluation of their properties. This review highlights the research using 3D printing and computational modeling as digital tools for the design and fabrication of reactors and structured catalysts. The goal of this contribution is to stimulate interactions at the crossroads of chemistry and materials science on the one hand and digital fabrication and computational modeling on the other.

Graphical abstract: 3D printing in chemical engineering and catalytic technology: structured catalysts, mixers and reactors

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
25 Aug 2017
First published
13 Nov 2017

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018,47, 209-230

3D printing in chemical engineering and catalytic technology: structured catalysts, mixers and reactors

C. Parra-Cabrera, C. Achille, S. Kuhn and R. Ameloot, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 209 DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00631D

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