Xiaolei Fan - lecturer in Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester, used our micro-thermocouples to investigate Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation in a Structured Compact Multifunctional Reactor. The results demonstrated that the structured compact multifunctional reactor might be a promising technology to transfer conventional heterogeneous catalysis to flow regime.

Abstract
Selective hydrogenation is an important class of chemical reactions for the production of speciality chemicals, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals. The challenges in this type of reactions are to control selectivity in hydrogenation of poly-functional molecules, and avoid the possible risk of reaction runaway due to the high exothermisity. In this project the fundamentals