Abstract:

Multi-phase reactors in chemical engineering are mostly complex systems, characterized by non-linearity and non-equilibrium. Scale-up of these reactors has been challenging engineers and scientists for decades, and its solution is not likely with the use of traditional approaches without transdisciplinarity effort. This presentation explores the intrinsic mechanism of the scale-up effect and the role of transdisciplinarity in scaling-up multi-phase chemical reactors by discussing two approaches-the multi-scale approach and the pseudo-particle approach.