Development of a tubular continuous flow reactor for the investigation of improved gas-solid interaction in photocatalytic CO2 reduction on TiO2

Abstract

A self-made, low-cost tubular reactor for the gas-phase photocatalytic CO2 reduction was developed. The resulting flow conditions cause an intensive interaction between the reactants in the gas-phase and the fixed bed photocatalyst. This approach is used to test the scalability of tubular reactors for the photocatalytic CO2 reduction.