Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
Chem Soc Rev. 2018 Jan 2;47(1):209-230. doi: 10.1039/c7cs00631d.
Computer-aided fabrication technologies combined with simulation and data processing approaches are changing our way of manufacturing and designing functional objects. Also in the field of catalytic technology and chemical engineering the impact of additive manufacturing, also referred to as 3D printing, is steadily increasing thanks to a rapidly decreasing equipment threshold. Although still in an early stage, the rapid and seamless transition between digital data and physical objects enabled by these fabrication tools will benefit both research and manufacture of reactors and structured catalysts. Additive manufacturing closes the gap between theory and experiment, by enabling accurate fabrication of geometries optimized through computational fluid dynamics and the experimental evaluation of their properties. This review highlights the research using 3D printing and computational modeling as digital tools for the design and fabrication of reactors and structured catalysts. The goal of this contribution is to stimulate interactions at the crossroads of chemistry and materials science on the one hand and digital fabrication and computational modeling on the other.
计算机辅助制造技术与模拟和数据处理方法相结合，正在改变我们制造和设计功能物体的方式。在催化技术和化学工程领域，由于设备门槛的迅速降低，增材制造（也称为 3D 打印）的影响也在稳步增加。尽管仍处于早期阶段，但这些制造工具实现的数字数据与物理对象之间的快速无缝转换将使反应器和结构化催化剂的研究和制造受益。增材制造通过实现通过计算流体动力学优化的几何形状的精确制造以及对其性能的实验评估，缩小了理论与实验之间的差距。这篇综述强调了使用 3D 打印和计算建模作为反应器和结构化催化剂设计和制造的数字工具的研究。这一贡献的目的是激发化学和材料科学一方面与数字制造和计算建模另一方面相互交叉的研究。
