Hi all,
I am doing a LCA analysis of an electrochemical reaction process, and I am having some difficulties in the process scale-up. Does anyone have information or references which I can use?
Thanks in advance,
António Martins
The most important thing in scale-up of an electrochemical reactor is the current and potential distribution similarity in scale-up especially in a fixed bed type.
Electrochemical technology can provide valuable cost efficient and environmentally friendly contributions to industrial process development with a minimum of waste production and toxic material. This depends very heavily on the type of the electrochemical reactor that you are scaling up and the reaction regime you are operating in. Many electrochemical reactions that are scaled up will operate in the mass transfer limited regime. Mass transfer may not scale linearly and will be different for many modes of transport (e.g. along flow path, into catalyst particles, in boundary layers at the electrode surface, etc).
https://www.intechopen.com/books/electrolysis/scale-up-of-electrochemical-reactors
Prem, thanks for your reply and articles, there are very valuable to me.
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