Dries Versteyhe, Koen Binnemans, and Tom Van Gerven of the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering have published a new article entitled Recent advancements in centrifugal contactor design for chemical processing. The article is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
Volume 47, March 2025.
This article examines the latest developments of four different centrifugal reactors to improve liquid–liquid and precipitation processes. The mini-review covers recent scientific and technological progress made from February 2019 to July 2024 regarding the spinning disc reactor, rotor-stator spinning disc reactor, Taylor-Couette reactor, and annular centrifugal contactor, focusing on recent design evolutions and potential applications. Additionally, an overview of all the technologies is provided, aiming to highlight each technology’s strengths and weaknesses to enable an easier assessment of their applicability and position in the field of process intensification.
Reference
Dries Versteyhe, Koen Binnemans, Tom Van Gerven, Recent advancements in centrifugal contactor design for chemical processing,, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Volume 47, 2025, 101084, ISSN 2211-3398, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2024.101084.
Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe via project CICERO [Grant number 101137560]
