(544e) Liquid-Liquid Microfluidic Flows for the Reactive Extraction of HMF
AIChE Annual Meeting
2018
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Poster Session: Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
In this work, we study and characterize the hydrodynamic and mass transfer properties of two-phase flow patterns in a biphasic microreactor. We conducted experiments for the extraction of HMF with various organic solvents and also performed the reactive extraction using various carbohydrate substrates and catalysts. For this particular case, we will present a study of the reactive extraction of HMF in a water/ethyl acetate capillary biphasic microreactor using fructose as the substrate and an HCl and KCl buffer solution as the catalyst. A hybrid first-principles and data-driven kinetic model of the reaction network in combination with a mass transfer model was also used to evaluate the optimal reaction and operation conditions that maximize HMF yield.