An integrated microchannel reactor and heat exchanger comprising: (a) a waveform sandwiched between opposing shim sheets and mounted to the shim sheets to form a series of microchannels, where each microchannel includes a pair of substantially straight side walls, and a top wall formed by at least one of the opposing shim sheets, and (b) a first set of microchannels in thermal communication with the waveform, where the waveform has an aspect ratio greater than two.

Herein disclosed is a system for producing an organic, the system including at least one high shear mixing device having at least one rotor and at least one stator separated by a shear gap, wherein the shear gap is the minimum distance between the at least one rotor and the at least one stator; a pump configured for delivering a fluid stream comprising liquid medium and light gas to the at least one high shear mixing device, wherein the at least one high shear mixing device is configured to form a dispersion of the light gas in the liquid medium; and a reactor comprising at least one inlet and at least one outlet, wherein the at least one inlet of the reactor is fluidly connected to the at least one high shear mixing device, and wherein the at least one outlet is configured for extracting the organic therefrom.

The present invention relates to a hydrocarbon plant and related process, in which a first feed of methanol, having a water content of less than 10% by weight, is converted in a syngas generation stage (A) into at least a syngas stream. A synthesis stage (B) is arranged to receive the syngas stream and convert it to at least a hydrocarbon product stream and an off-gas stream. The plant and process of the present invention use better-understood process steps compared to known processes/plants and provide the opportunity for a reduction in CO.sub.2 emissions.

A system and method for temperature control in an oxygen transport membrane based reactor is provided. The system and method involves introducing a specific quantity of cooling air or trim air in between stages in a multistage oxygen transport membrane based reactor or furnace to maintain generally consistent surface temperatures of the oxygen transport membrane elements and associated reactors. The associated reactors may include reforming reactors, boilers or process gas heaters.

The present disclosure relates in a broad form to a pseudo-isothermal flow reactor (100) for an exothermal reaction comprising at least two reaction enclosures (108, 114) and a cooling medium enclosure (102) configured to hold a cooling medium under pressure at the boiling point of said cooling medium, said reaction enclosures (108, 114) having an outer surface configured to be in thermal contact with the cooling medium, and each of said reaction enclosures (108, 114) having an inlet and an outlet with the associated benefit of enabling a two-stage pseudo-isothermal operation while only requiring a single cooling medium enclosure (102) and only single cooling medium circuit.

A system and method for utilizing renewable electricity by methanol synthesis via plasma-catalysis CO.sub.2 hydrogenation. Hydrogen produced via water electrolysis and CO.sub.2 captured from industrial processes undergo a reverse water-gas shift reaction, driven efficiently by an atmospheric-pressure plasma jet, yielding a CO/CO.sub.2/H.sub.2 mixed product. This mixture is subsequently pressurized in multi-stage pressurization after passing a buffer storage tank to further efficiently synthesize green methanol in the plasma jet reactor. The present disclosure employs a two-stage methanol synthesis process that powered by renewable electricity: plasma-based CO.sub.2 pre-conversion followed by CO/CO.sub.2 catalytic hydrogenation. This approach addresses the issues of catalyst deactivation and high reaction temperatures associated with traditional thermocatalytic reverse water-gas shift reactions, while overcoming the thermodynamic limitations of direct CO.sub.2 hydrogenation. The plasma jet reactor exhibits high energy efficiency, with rapid start-up and shutdown capabilities, and can operate directly using fluctuating renewable energy.

A separation membrane module includes a tubular housing, a columnar membrane structure housed in the housing and extending in a longitudinal direction, and an annular first flange surrounding a first end portion of the membrane structure. A first end surface of the membrane structure is located outward of an end surface of the first flange in the longitudinal direction.

A liquid fuel production system includes: a liquid fuel-synthesizing portion configured to advance a conversion reaction from a raw material gas containing at least hydrogen and a carbon oxide to a liquid fuel; a raw material gas-supplying portion configured to supply the raw material gas to the liquid fuel-synthesizing portion; and a raw material gas-circulating portion configured to resupply a remaining raw material gas, which contains the hydrogen and the carbon oxide that are unreacted, and an acidic by-product of the conversion reaction, from the liquid fuel-synthesizing portion to the raw material gas-supplying portion, wherein the raw material gas-supplying portion includes a mixing portion configured to mix an amine compound and the remaining raw material gas in the presence of water vapor, and a moisture-removing portion configured to remove a neutralized product of the amine compound and the acidic by-product together with condensed water of the water vapor.

The invention relates to a reactor for dielectric barrier discharge plasma catalysis, comprising a reactor housing (B) able to receive a plurality of DBD cells (C1, C2, C3 . . . ) removably mounted inside this housing.

The invention relates to a reactor for dielectric barrier discharge plasma catalysis, comprising a reactor housing (B) able to receive a plurality of DBD cells (C1, C2, C3 . . . ) removably mounted inside this housing.