Additionally, the flat tubes serve as a fin guard to help protect the fins from damage. • Ease of service and repair: Microchannel coils are easily cleaned and can be field repaired using a two-part ...

Microchannel reactors are now a necessary option for intensified chemical plant design, comments Rocky C. Costello, president of R. C. Costello & Associates, an engineering firm based in Redondo ...

The first commercial scale microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor has been successfully started up and is operating as expected at a client’s facility. The reactor, with a nominal capacity of over ...

Testing of Microchannel Cross-Flow Blocks During FTS As displayed in Figure 1, the microchannel blocks present 100 microchannels (0.7 x 0.7 x 20 mm) which are coated with FT catalyst (20% Co to 0.5%Re ...

Velocys, a subsidiary of the Oxford Catalysts Group, has received the Best Innovation by an SME at the 2009 ICIS Innovation award for its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) microchannel reactor. The group’s FT ...

More information: Hamza Asmat et al, Electrified reformer for syngas production – Additive manufacturing of coated microchannel monolithic reactor, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy ...

The Korean research team has successfully developed a highly efficient microchannel reactor which reduces the required catalyst amount to 30 percent for electrofuel production, yet offers a ...

The microchannel coil, which is made of aluminum, has many design advantages over the copper-aluminum coil. First, its construction eliminates many of the manual or auto braze joints of a ...

Faster and cheaper ethanol-to-jet-fuel on the horizon New catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost Date: August 19, 2021 Source: ...