Mass transfer in a rotating packed bed reactor with a mesh-pin rotor: Modeling and experimental studies

A rotating packed bed (RPB) reactor with full stainless steel wire mesh packing loaded in the rotor has excellent mass transfer performance. However, it has the blockage problem when applied to the reactions with solid generated on the surface of the packing. In this work, a mesh-pin rotor (MPR), combining an inner wire mesh packing zone (IMZ) and an outer resin pin zone (OPZ), was designed with the purpose of anti-blockage for the first time,...