Laurent E. Prat

TL;DR: In this paper, the main challenges linked to photochemical (micro)reactor engineering are discussed and the significance of chemical engineering frameworks is demonstrated using several examples concerning the understanding of the coupling between the different phenomena involved, the predictions of the performances obtained, the acquisition of kinetics data and elaboration of strategies for photochemical process intensification and smart scale-up.

TL;DR: An easy assembling-disassembling co-axial capillaries microfluidic device was built up for the production of double droplets and uniform and predictable non-spherical polymer objects were also prepared without adding shape-formation procedures in the experimental device.

TL;DR: This mini-review focuses on two different miniaturizing approaches: the first one describes the generation and use of droplets flowing within a millifluidic tool as individual batch microreactors, and the second reports the use of high pressure microflows in chemistry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 2D direct numerical simulation of liquid-liquid slug flow in microchannels is presented, which reveals that mass transfer is strongly influenced by the flow structure inside the droplet and that the confinement of the droplets due to the channel size leads to an enhancement of mass transfer compared to cases where the droppers are not constrained by the walls.

TL;DR: In this article, numerical simulations of the hydrodynamics inside droplets in rectangular micro-channels are performed thanks to a finite-volume/front-capturing method, which leads to important results about droplet deformation and inner streamlines for mass and heat transfer studies.