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 ...

The Fischer-Tropsch microchannel reactor developed by Velocys was named as the Green Innovation of the Year at the annual TechColumbus Innovation Awards ceremony, held earlier this month in Columbus, ...

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 ...

Microchannel coils were long used in the automotive industry before they crossed over to HVAC equipment in the mid-2000s. Since then, they’ve become increasingly popular, particularly in residential ...

Thermo King, a manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for mobile applications and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, now offers sustainable microchannel coils as a standard feature on its ...

Researchers from Shihezi University synthesized Zn-MOF and bimetallic ZnCe-MOF using a microchannel reactor for enhanced CO2 adsorption. ZnCe-MOF showed higher adsorption capacity due to Ce doping ...