It is the aim of the Noël group to understand the fundamental phenomena associated with flow chemistry. It is our firm belief that the engineering behind these phenomena can help to exploit the technology’s full potential. This includes e.g. a fundamental investigation towards the energy efficiency of photomicroreactors and an elucidation of reaction kinetics to study reaction mechanisms. Also, scaling effects are investigated which allow us to gradually scale the chemistry from a lab to a pilot scale.
Representative publications:
- Gas bubbles have controversial effects on Taylor flow electrochemistry Cao, Y.; Soares, C.; Padoin, N. and Noel, T. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2020, 406, 126811.
- Process Intensification of Photochemical Oxidations Using a High Throughput Rotor-Stator Spinning Disk Reactor: A Strategy for Scale Up. Chaudhuri, A.; Kuijpers, K. P. L.; Hendrix, R.; Hacking, J.; Shivaprasad, P.; Emanuelsson, E. A. C.; Noel, T. and Schaaf, J. van der. Chemical Engineering Journal 2020, 400, 125875
- Real-time Reaction Control for Solar Production of Chemicals under Fluctuating Irradiance Zhao, F.; Cambié, D.; Hessel, V.; Debije M.G. and Noël, T. Green Chemistry 2018, 20, 2459-2464
- A Convenient Numbering-up Strategy for the Scale-up of Gas-liquid Photoredox Catalysis in Flow. Su, Y.; Kuijpers, K.; Hessel, V. and Noël, T. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 2016, 1, 73-81.
- A Compact Photomicroreactor Design for Kinetic Studies of Gas-liquid Photocatalytic Transformations. Su, Y.; Hessel, V. and Noël, T. AIChE Journal 2016, 1, 73-81.