Manufactured chemistry: Rethinking unit operation design in the age of additive manufacturing
Abstract
Advanced manufacturing enables new approaches to chemical reactor design due to the ability to build complex geometries and topologies unaccessible to traditional manufacturing technologies. These benefits have been demonstrated in the design and manufacture of novel heat exchangers and fluidic devices. However, due to prevailing heuristics in chemical reactor design, many of the benefits of advanced manufacturing have yet to be realized by the chemical engineer. As such, in order to reap these benefits, a formalized design methodology such as topology optimization should be employed for the development of high-efficiency small scale modular reactors capable of being manufactured at large volumes. In this way we may be able to start to descend fast manufacturing learning curves and unleash a new wave of innovation in the chemical engineering sciences.
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- US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States). Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
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- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
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- 1464214
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- AIChE Journal
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- Journal Volume: 64; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0001-1541
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- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; chemical reactor design; computational design methods; additive manufacturing; multiphysics modeling; topology optimization; manufacturability
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Stark, Addison K. Manufactured chemistry: Rethinking unit operation design in the age of additive manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2018.
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title = {Manufactured chemistry: Rethinking unit operation design in the age of additive manufacturing},
author = {Stark, Addison K.},
abstractNote = {Advanced manufacturing enables new approaches to chemical reactor design due to the ability to build complex geometries and topologies unaccessible to traditional manufacturing technologies. These benefits have been demonstrated in the design and manufacture of novel heat exchangers and fluidic devices. However, due to prevailing heuristics in chemical reactor design, many of the benefits of advanced manufacturing have yet to be realized by the chemical engineer. As such, in order to reap these benefits, a formalized design methodology such as topology optimization should be employed for the development of high-efficiency small scale modular reactors capable of being manufactured at large volumes. In this way we may be able to start to descend fast manufacturing learning curves and unleash a new wave of innovation in the chemical engineering sciences.},
doi = {10.1002/aic.16118},
journal = {AIChE Journal},
number = 4,
volume = 64,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018}
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