TY - GEN
T1 - Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide based on microreactor technology
AU - Inoue, Tomoya
AU - Ohtaki, Kenichiro
AU - Kikutani, Yoshikuni
AU - Sato, Koichi
AU - Nishioka, Masateru
AU - Hamakawa, Satoshi
AU - Mawatari, Kazuma
AU - Hibara, Akihide
AU - Mizukami, Fujio
AU - Kitamori, Takehiko
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Hydrogen peroxide is a basic chemical having a wide variety of applications. It is currently produced by an indirect process. Many efforts have been devoted to commercialize the direct synthetic process from hydrogen and oxygen, which has been challenged by a difficulty in handling an explosive gas mixture with an ignitable catalyst. Here we show that glass microfabricated reactors were quite useful in producing hydrogen peroxide safely and effectively by the direct process, so that more than 10 wt% of aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution was produced. Proper reactor designs (for multiphase reaction from single channel to paralleled channels) as well as a catalyst development were necessary to achieve the productivity.
AB - Hydrogen peroxide is a basic chemical having a wide variety of applications. It is currently produced by an indirect process. Many efforts have been devoted to commercialize the direct synthetic process from hydrogen and oxygen, which has been challenged by a difficulty in handling an explosive gas mixture with an ignitable catalyst. Here we show that glass microfabricated reactors were quite useful in producing hydrogen peroxide safely and effectively by the direct process, so that more than 10 wt% of aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution was produced. Proper reactor designs (for multiphase reaction from single channel to paralleled channels) as well as a catalyst development were necessary to achieve the productivity.
KW - Direct synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen
KW - Glass microfabricated reactor
KW - Hydrogen peroxide
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884309261
SN - 9781618390622
T3 - 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010, MicroTAS 2010
SP - 1694
EP - 1696
BT - 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010, MicroTAS 2010
T2 - 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010, MicroTAS 2010
Y2 - 3 October 2010 through 7 October 2010
ER -