Abstract

Microreaction Technologies for Engineering and Functional Materials

Guangsheng Luo, Professor, Tsinghua University

Microchemical process technologies have high promising prospects for the development of green and low-carbon chemical industries. The new technologies are also expected to make some great changes in the preparation of engineering and functional polymer materials. The microreaction processes with high viscosity polymer solutions as reactants are very hard to control for the poor mixing, high pressure drop, and complex phase change performances. In our recent work, controllable preparation of polymer materials in microreactors have been carried out. For the preparation of bromobutyl rubber (BIIR), we have developed a PTFE-lined microreactor platform and obtained high quality BIIR based on excellent mixing ability. We developed a highly efficient method for the synthesis of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) in a microchemical system. In this presentation, we will present the details of the development.