Methods and systems or devices for synthesis of dimethyl ether (DME) from carbon dioxide and hydrogen are provided. A high surface area hollow fiber catalytic membrane reactor such as with hollow fibers coated with a water permeable membrane material is used. The reactor also contains a bi-functional methanol synthesis component and dehydration catalyst component such that the two-step reaction takes place on the catalyst surface. Produced water permeates through the membrane, exiting the reactor immediately after it is formed. Unreacted reactants and products flow to the reactor exit.

The invention relates to a process for preparing dimeric and/or trimeric silanes by conversion of monosilane in a plasma and to a plant for performance of the process.

An electrically heated chemical reactor is described for efficiently supplying reaction heat to the endothermic catalytic chemical processes as an alternative to or in combination with conventional heating methods.

Alkaline aerobic depolymerization of lignin in a permeable flowthrough reactor. Methods include flowing an aqueous reaction medium that includes lignin and a base through a lumen of an oxygen-permeable channel in the presence of oxygen gas to depolymerize the lignin to aromatic monomers.

This disclosure relates to a process of converting one or more alkanes to one or more alkenes that includes providing a first stream containing one or more alkanes and oxygen to an oxidative dehydrogenation process which converts at least a portion of the one or more alkanes to one or more alkenes in an oxidative dehydrogenation reactor, a second stream exiting the oxidative dehydrogenation process comprising one or more alkanes, and one or more alkenes; and providing at least a portion of the alkanes in the second stream to a catalytic membrane dehydrogenation process containing a catalyst loaded into a catalytic dehydrogenation membrane reactor which converts at least a portion of the alkanes to the corresponding alkenes and hydrogen.

The invention relates to a process for preparing dimeric and/or trimeric silanes by conversion of monosilane in a plasma and to a plant for performance of the process.

The invention relates to a process for preparing dimeric and/or trimeric silanes by conversion of monosilane in a plasma and to a plant for performance of the process.

Various embodiments disclosed relate to method of forming organosilicon products. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming an organosilicon product that can include contacting a first side of a silicone membrane with a nonvolatile liquid reactant. The method can include contacting a second side of the membrane with a gaseous reactant. The contacting can be sufficient to react the gaseous reactant with the liquid reactant to form an organosilicon product on the first side of the silicone membrane. The silicone membrane can be substantially impermeable to the liquid reactant and substantially permeable to the gaseous reactant.

The invention relates to a device for the continuous homogeneous catalytic reaction of a liquid with a gas and optionally a further fluid, wherein the device comprises at least one jet loop reactor having an external liquid circuit driven by at least one pump, and wherein the device has at least one membrane separation unit, preferably retaining the homogeneous catalyst, which membrane separation unit is arranged in the external liquid circuit of the jet loop reactor. The object thereof is to reduce the costs of the device. This is achieved by providing an additional apparatus, namely a gas separator, which is arranged in the external liquid circuit of the jet loop reactor and is installed for separating off gas from the external liquid circuit and feeding it back into the jet loop reactor.

The present invention provides a low pressure generating plasma reactor closed loop process, comprising: feeding a fresh feed gas flow and a fresh feed absorption liquid flow to a plasma reactor closed loop comprising a condenser, a liquid loop, a recycle gas loop, and a plasma generator; converting feed gas to reactive plasma products in the plasma generator; quenching and absorbing the reactive plasma products into an absorption liquid circulating in the liquid loop where the reactive plasma products react to form liquid reaction products, thereby generating low pressure in the closed loop; monitoring the composition and low pressure of the recycle gas loop and, if the pressure increases, adjusting the composition of the fresh feed gas flow and/or fresh feed absorption liquid flow to bring the composition of the feed gas towards stoichiometric ratio with the absorbed reactive plasma products; extracting circulating absorption liquid, containing the liquid reaction products, from the plasma reactor closed loop as a product flow. The present invention also provides a low pressure generating plasma reactor closed loop system, comprising a plasma generator, a condenser, a recycle gas loop, a liquid loop, and a pump.