4.5 Process design for integration of a photo-microreactor and
adsorption for the isomerization of cis-cyclooctene in totrans-cyclooctene
After optimizing each sub process, i.e. photoisomerisation and
adsorption, in this section, the
process configuration for
photoisomerisation of cis into trans -cyclooctene is
presented for three different cases. These three cases were
experimentally tested. The model for the adsorption column that was
presented earlier in this paper, can be used to estimate saturation time
and the operational parameters such as the temperature for the
adsorption of trans -cyclooctene. Later in the text the validity
of the model as described in section 3.3 is confirmed with the
experimental results.