Porous material has been playing an important role in global issues such as environmental pollution, energy crisis and global warming. Mesoporous silica has been applied in adsorption and separation for harmful material, including heavy metals and dyes. Recently, metal-organic framework (MOF) has been capturing more and more attention in gas separation and catalysis. Process improvement by means of well-designed, stable porous material is becoming a new trend in industry. Therefore, new routine of porous material preparation is desired.

Process intensification with microreactor has been studied for more than a decay. It is an interdisciplinary technology that has been widely studied for material preparation. Nevertheless, very few works have been done on porous material due to t...[ Read more ]

Porous material has been playing an important role in global issues such as environmental pollution, energy crisis and global warming. Mesoporous silica has been applied in adsorption and separation for harmful material, including heavy metals and dyes. Recently, metal-organic framework (MOF) has been capturing more and more attention in gas separation and catalysis. Process improvement by means of well-designed, stable porous material is becoming a new trend in industry. Therefore, new routine of porous material preparation is desired.

Process intensification with microreactor has been studied for more than a decay. It is an interdisciplinary technology that has been widely studied for material preparation. Nevertheless, very few works have been done on porous material due to the complicated reaction mechanism. This work started with preparation of mesoporous silica and metal organic frameworks in the microreactor. Porous material in powder form allows a fast characterization and testing, but is hard to handle in real application. Hence, an innovative way of MOF membrane preparation in microreactor was demonstrated by establishing parallel streams in a microreactor. The MOF membrane was successfully applied in catalysis and gas separations.