KILOGRAM-SCALE PRODUCTION OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS IN A REMOTE-CONTROLLED MICROREACTOR PLANT

摘要

Today, microstructured reactors having internal fluidic structures in the sub-millimeter domain are well known to provide far better heat exchange characteristics and mass transport performance than attainable in macroscopic batch or continuous reactors. In the last decade, a large number of studies have impressively demonstrated that the accumulation of strong reaction heats and hot spots, which result in unwanted side, subsequent and decomposition reactions, can be successfully suppressed in microstructured reactors. Hence, the hazardous potential associated with reactions that are strongly exothermic or potentially explosive can be significantly reduced. Greater safety is also attained with handling thermolabile substances due to the small hold-up of microfluidic reactors.