@inproceedings{980d1e3d7d514d88bb1bf802bf18f405,
title = "Microfluidics to control selectivity of oxidation of naphthenic-aromatic hydrocarbons",
abstract = "Liquid phase oxidation of a simple naphthenic-aromatic hydrocarbon was studied in a microreactor in the absence of any catalysts. The goal was to investigate how local oxygen availability could be controlled during oxidation and how it affected both oxidation rate and product selectivity. A microfluidic reactor in Taylor flow region was employed to exactly manipulate local oxygen availability by changing hydrodynamics of the reactor. It was observed that ketone-to-alcohol selectivity in microreactor was increased by an order of magnitude by increasing the gas-liquid interfacial area while keeping all the other parameters constant.",
keywords = "Mass transfer, Microfluidic reactor, Oxidation, Selectivity",
author = "M. Siddiquee and \{De Klerk\}, A. and N. Nazemifard",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2016",
publisher = "Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society",
pages = "1485--1486",
booktitle = "20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2016",
}