Progress on Porous Ceramic Membrane Reactors for Heterogeneous Catalysis over Ultrafine and Nano-sized Catalysts

作     者：JIANG Hong MENG Lie CHEN Rizhi JIN Wanqin XING Weihong XU Nanping 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University of Technology Nanjing 210009 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering》 (中国化学工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第21卷第2期

页      面：205-215页

核心收录：

学科分类：081704[工学-应用化学] 081705[工学-工业催化] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 080502[工学-材料学] 081701[工学-化学工程] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20990222  21106061)  the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB623406)  the National Key Science and Technology Program of China (2011BAE07B05) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province  China (BK2010549  BK2009021) 

主　　题：porous ceramic membrane membrane reactor heterogeneous catalysis 

摘      要：Heterogeneous catalysts with ultrafine or nano particle size have currently attracted considerable attentions in the chemical and petrochemical production processes, but their large-scale applications remain challenging because of difficulties associated with their efficient separation from the reaction slurry. A porous ceramic membrane reactor has emerged as a promising method to solve the problem concerning catalysts separation in situ from the reaction mixture and make the production process continuous in heterogeneous catalysis. This article presents a review of the present progress on porous ceramic membrane reactors for heterogeneous catalysis, which covers classification of configurations of porous ceramic membrane reactor, major considerations and some important industrial applications. A special emphasis is paid to major considerations in term of application-oriented ceramic membrane design, optimization of ceramic membrane reactor performance and membrane fouling mechanism. Finally, brief concluding remarks on porous ceramic membrane reactors are given and possible future research interests are also outlined.